Watson, HAL, and Deep Blue

Usage examples of computers.

Crypto City is home to the largest collection of hyperpowerful computers, advanced mathematicians, and language experts on the planet.

Sophisticated computers located signals that in any way varied from the norm, and highlighted them.

There, computers and cryptanalysts could immediately begin attacking them.

If the system recorded a specific frequency for a short period of time, computers could plot the precise position of the transmitter on the ground within approximately one half mile, at a distance of three hundred miles from the SR-71.

Explorer, the system involved preprogrammed computers and receivers that would quickly scan for targeted and unusual frequencies carrying voice and coded communications.

There, translators, codebreakers, computers, and traffic analysts could dissect the signals.

He pointed out that in 1960, only about 35 percent of NSA office space was occupied by computers and other equipment but that now the figure had almost doubled, to 65 percent.

Wobensmith passed on the computers to North but failed to have him sign a receipt for them, a fact that would later come back to haunt him.

Sigint database was loaded on IBM 370 mainframes, and obsolete PDP-8 and PDP-11 computers were used for linguistic analysis.

It does this much as computers use search engines such as Alta Vista to locate keywords and phone numbers almost instantly in the vast Internet.

INTELSATs, and likewise the power and speed of the NSA computers that sift through the sea of information are enormous.

But because he was not, his name made its way into the computers and possibly onto the watch lists of intelligence agencies, customs bureaus, and other secret and law enforcement organizations around the world.

This was far less time-consuming than attempting to break the codes at NSA using computers, a method known as brute force.

NSA, it was midnight deep within the computers, which operate on Greenwich Mean Time.

But as a result of a crash program, computer programmers managed to bring 94 percent of the computers into compliance by July 1999.