"Multitasking [is] from the mid-1960s meaning, the concurrent performance of several jobs by a computer," said Sokolowski. "So, the fact is it started with computers and kind of loosened and became ...

Multicore processing is a good thing because it increases your computer's multitasking abilities. The same goes for having another machine. If you are running a task on your primary machine ...

In other words, as Carr observed, we’ll become more like computers ourselves: quick, efficient task executers. In fact, the word multitasking was initially a computer word, not a human word.

Prior surveys have shown 59 percent of Americans say they now use their computer and television at the same time. In addition, youths under 18 report this type of media multitasking is now the ...

(AP) -- The amount of time people spend on the computer while watching TV is going up sharply. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that people who multitask this way spent an average of three and a half ...

With multitasking, it was possible with a single computer for many people to have the illusion of having their own machine. The engineers who designed time-sharing and multitasking probably never ...