This concept is truly profound, and it will define the next major revolution in computing technology.

这个概念意义深远，它会决定计算机技术的下一场重大革命。

IBM did say Google's experiment was an excellent demonstration of the progress in quantum computing technology.

不过IBM确实承认，谷歌的实验是量子计算技术所取得进步的" 绝佳示例" 。

Not only was computing technology extremely expensive, but it also didn't have the kind of capabilities that we are accustomed to today.

不仅计算技术极其昂贵，而且它也不具备我们今天所习惯的那种功能。

Government funding like the United States provided during the Cold War enabled early adoption of many nascent computing technologies.

美国等政府在冷战期间提供的资金使许多新兴计算技术得以早期采用。

One of the most dramatic changes enabled by computing technology has been the creation and widespread availability of information.

计算机带来的最大改变之一是信息的创造和传播能力。

A survey by a business technology company called Avenade has found that 88% of executives said employees were using their own personal computing technologies for business purposes.

一家叫做Avenade的技术公司调查发现88%的高管表示，员工经常使用自己的电脑办公。

But the new millennium brought advances in materials, manufacturing, and computing technology, including systems which could manage fuel injection with incredible precision.

但新千年带来了材料、制造和计算技术的进步，包括可以以令人难以置信的精度管理燃油喷射的系统。

" This refreshing and pragmatic approach to artificial-intelligence hardware that is highly energy efficient makes the most out of both electronic and photonic computing technologies, " it said.

“这种令人耳目一新的、务实的人工智能硬件方法，高效节能，充分利用了电子和光子计算技术，”它说。

But, experts argue that AI, robots and computing technologies in general, are going to be even more disruptive than these historical examples.

但是，专家们认为，人工智能、机器人和一般计算技术将比这些历史例子更具破坏性。

Nobody has yet built an artificial network with 86 billion neurons, but as computing technology improves, it may be possible to keep track of such massive data sets.

尚没有人构建具有860亿个神经元的人工网络，但是随着计算技术的改进，跟踪如此大量的数据集是有可能的。

Michelle and her team are at the cutting edge of quantum computing technology today, but manipulating quantum states at the subatomic level is hard.

米歇尔和她的团队处于当今量子计算技术的前沿，但在亚原子水平上操纵量子态非常困难。

With this data and new computing technology, engineers could model how stiff the soil was, the tower's trajectory, and the exact amount of excavation needed for the tower to remain standing.

有了这些数据和新的计算技术，工程师可以模拟土壤的硬度、塔的轨迹，以及保持塔所需的确切挖掘数量。

And computing technology is doing the same right now – from automated farming and medical equipment, to global telecommunications and educational opportunities, and new frontiers like Virtual Reality and Self Driving Cars.

计算机这种科技如今也做着同样的事情 从自动化农业和医疗设备到全球的电子通信和教育机会以及虚拟现实和自动驾驶汽车等新领域。

It used to be that volatile memory was fast and non-volatile storage was slow, but as computing technologies have improved, this distinction is becoming less true, and the terms have started to blend together.

过去，易失性存储器速度快，非易失性存储速度慢，但随着计算技术的进步，这种区别变得不那么真实，并且这些术语已经开始融合在一起。

In 1953, there were only around 100 computers on the entire planet and at this point, the USSR was only a few years behind the West in computing technology, completing their first programmable electronic computer in 1950.

1953 年，整个地球上只有大约 100 台计算机，此时，苏联在计算技术上仅落后西方几年，并于 1950 年完成了他们的第一台可编程电子计算机。