(computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory

Usage examples of software.

Their origins are a matter of record, in the merger nineteen years ago of the depraved Temple of Abraxas with a discredited house of surgical software, Frewin Maisang Tobermory.

I knew if he sold his algorithm to a Japanese software company, we were sunk, so I tried to think of any way I could stop him.

And the Sharyan religious police were as popular in interrogation software as Angin Chandra had been in pilot porn.

Distributed Sequence Annotation System, DAS for short, borrows an approach from Napster, the controversial software that allows people to swap music files over the Internet.

Our people can use commercial software to do stand alone jobs or pull down the apps from our servers, or they can tap into our database, or into the huge databases on the Internet to pull in reference data.

To prevent these attempts from succeeding, customer service software must be designed so that representatives can only type in the authentication information provided by the caller, and receive a response from the system indicating whether the password is correct or not.

Some bioinformatics companies cater to large users, aiming their products and services at genomics, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies by creating custom software and offering consulting services.

The microarray slides are read automatically by laser scanners, and the results, thanks to Bioinformatics, are fed directly into computers armed with appropriate software such that risk and hence cost can be predicted with rapidly advancing speed and accuracy.

He plays the master-class game, backing smugglers like me, leveraged buyouts, corrupting politicians, software piracy, design piracyI bought the Sony flatscreen templates Event Horizon uses from him.

There was nothing in the system except the functional cogitative software and his own data, loaded from slivers.

GoBop explained, pulling sheets of software fiche from zippered vest pockets like some comp magician.

I told an Exhibitionist I would comment only on the role of software and hardware, because they had been my responsibility.

He gestured to a short stack of software fiches sealed in NetSec evidence envelopes.

Trojan Horse, firewall, or other security-related software without prior approval from the information technology department.

If I could only raise my head from the pillow, metaphorically I must take off my woolly hat to whatever acned racist geck superhacker was using the stolen computer, and what software he must have written in anticipation.