The technical challenges of advanced
computing and big-data analytics are
shaped by other elements of the broader
computing landscape. In particular,
powerful smartphones and cloud computing
services are rapidly displacing
the PC and local servers as the computing
standard. This shift has also triggered
international competition for industrial
and business advantage, with
countries and regions investing in new
technologies and system deployments.
Computing ecosystem shifts. The
Internet and Web-services revolution
is global, and U.S. influence, though