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Forecasting is the process of making predictions based on past and present data. Later these can be compared with what actually happens. For example, a company might estimate their revenue in the next year, then compare it against the actual results creating a variance actual analysis.
The job titles that include programming tasks have differing connotations across the computer industry and to different individuals. The following are notable descriptions.
Alan Kay holding the mockup of his Dynabook concept in 2008. The history of the laptop follows closely behind the development of the personal computer itself. A "personal, portable information manipulator" was imagined by Alan Kay at Xerox PARC in 1968, [7] and described in his 1972 paper as the "Dynabook". [8]