First recorded in 1960–65
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Then think of “business ontology” as a digital, machine-readable version of the company, like the New York & Erie Railroad’s signaling tree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
Claude Code Security focuses on securing code bases, while JFrog helps companies manage and secure software binaries—the conversion of plain-text code into machine-readable language.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
The first security watermark was added in 1972 and machine-readable passports were introduced in 1988.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
The company then proceeded to strip the books’ bindings, cut their pages and scan them into digital and machine-readable forms, according to the decision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
The TEI is an international project to develop and disseminate guidelines for the encoding and interchange of machine-readable text.
From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress
If you are a permanent resident, you must have a machine readable permanent resident card.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
A White House directive in 2022 requires that papers produced with federal funding be machine readable, but agencies have yet to propose details.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
DNS is a service that translates readable domain names to machine readable IP addresses, connecting it to a server and delivering the requested page on the user’s phone or laptop.
From Reuters ● Jul. 22, 2021
Since the ballot would be both human readable and machine readable, there would be no question at to the vote.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2018
However, as the product is machine readable, search is easier than working from an index, and I tried to support the use of such facilities.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
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