(computing) A form of computing in which the computer resources are consumed like a traditional utility (water, electricity, gas).

(informal, computing) Computing services provided over the Internet (or "cloud"), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.

plural of digital computer

plural of analog computer

(computing) A computing device that processes signals that change in discrete, quantized, steps; as opposed to an analog computer.

(computing) A computer (mechanical, electrical or other) that processes using continuously varying signals rather than digital, quantized, values.

A branch of information security applied to both theoretical and actual computer systems and networks.

plural of computer virus

(artificial intelligence) The science and technology of machines that see, concerned with the theory for building artificial systems that obtain information from images, such as a video sequence, views from multiple cameras, or multi-dimensional data from a medical scanner.

(linguistics, computer science) An interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.