network computer

[net-wurk kuhm-pyoo-ter]

noun

1. a relatively inexpensive computer with minimal processing power, designed primarily to provide access to computer networks, as corporate intranets or the internet. NC

Word History and Origins

Origin of network computer¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

To analyse the data, the team created a neural network computer algorithm called SpecATNet.

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Delta canceled more than 2,100 flights through Wednesday after the network computer failure, which lasted from around 2:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

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Last year, the company showed off its vision for the connected future of the car — complete with "deep neural network" computer vision — in a presentation so wild it seemed plausible.

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At CES this year, Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang announced his company's Drive PX, a "supercomputer" for your car that incorporated "deep neural network computer vision."

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Comments posted at that site say that Zhang’s model is no different from a remote desktop—a software tool that allows users to access another device on a network with the local device serving as a desktop of the remote computer—or from a network computer, a diskless device made by some U.S. companies in the late 1990s that depends on other devices on a network to store software and data.

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