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Its computer can display custom-tailored coupon offers, trigger TV ads beamed on plasma-screen monitors as you pass by and chart a path to items you cannot find.

And backers of the new technology are taking concrete steps to put it in place, starting with computer chips that could eventually replace today's bar codes on every item in a store.

But one of the keys to making the investment profitable requires that suppliers embed the tiny RFID computer chips in products, pallets and cases so they can be tracked from factory to customer.

Critics say the chip attached to a package of Gillete Mach III razors could keep beaming its location all the way to the buyer's home, paired with his name and address that's in the store's computer database.

Still, to assuage such privacy fears, Metro added an extra computer terminal at the store exit.

"We've had some resistance from suppliers, but it's really no different than when we got them to buy computers so they could monitor their day-to-day sales trends in our stores for the first time," he said.

This may include a spinal tap (insertion of a needle into the lower back to sample the fluid around the spinal cord), tests of muscle and nerve function and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) to show the atrophy of the brainstem and cerebellum.

At the same time, scientific research in the nation's private sector took off, drawing into computers and medicine many of the best students who otherwise might have gone to NASA or the space programs of other federal agencies, including the Defense Department.

An important part of the initiative, he said, should be for the human spaceflight program to shed its historic aversion to computers and robotic technology and to integrate them into the heart of the new work, cutting costs and empowering bold technologies for opening new frontiers.

"On earth, humans and computers are developing an enormous symbiosis," Dr. Murray noted.

You have to have all sorts of training in how to work computers and graphics systems and all the rest of it.

The dog’s job is to keep the man from touching the computer.Color Doppler — Similar to the Doppler ultrasound, this display uses a computer to track blood flow through your heart.

But the computerized, "high-temperature-short-time" pasteurizer is new.

Andrew Desch prefers to type short assignments on a computer.

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