After their parents have died in sleepers, apparently due to a malfunction, the children are raised by a ship's computer known as Mother.
In other words, an utter jerk helped change society by making computers known for their niceness.
She developed the first ever compiler for an electronic computer, known as A-0.
Clicks coming from a computer known to be that of a publisher also look suspicious to those watching for click fraud.
Of the estimated 188,000 computers known to be infected, the company reported, nearly half - 48 percent - have been in the United States.
Rendering for movies often takes place on a network of tightly connected computers known as a render farm.
Sales of mainframes and other big computers known as servers fell 30 percent, to $2 billion.
The company makes computers known as mini-supercomputers, which are less powerful but far less expensive.
And computers, now known for their cold logic, will use their faces to convey emotions.
One explanation is that people attribute human characteristics to computers, also known as anthropomorphism.