Sentences with phrase «as the decades advanced»

As the decades advanced, telescopes got bigger and better able to spot small, faint objects.

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Current AI, therefore, isn't so much «artificial» intelligence as it is «augmented» intelligence — despite decades of advances, computers are still merely doing what we're programming them to do.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

The company operating at Big Bar was mining for gravel, a non-renewable commodity that over the next decade, as British Columbia advances towards ambitious commitments to complete Olympic infrastructure, the Gateway Project and the Canada (RAV) Line, will become dramatically more valuable and contentious.

As the S&P 500 index has advanced this year mostly through multiple expansion, the index is no longer cheap, particularly considering that we are now almost half a decade into an economic expansion and earnings growth is unexciting.

As GFI has pointed out, however, many animal charities are already working to shift public attitudes; some have been working in that area for decades.94 In fact, advancing technology elegantly complements all the work that is being done to shift attitudes.

Territories that includes creating new social interaction models, new roles as members of a social ecosystem, and advancing social business models that may very well alter the structure and business operations they have been wedded to for decades — in ways they could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago.

I am glad that blacks and women and Latin Americans have, throughout the decade been demanding that theology be so formulated as to call for and advance human liberation.

Significant convergences on doctrinal issues have not ceased, as in, for example, the Lutheran — Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (1999), but these convergences tend to be the outcome of discussions already well advanced in earlier decades and are to be attributed more to institutional inertia than to continuing enthusiasm.

As specialists in the Food and Beverage industry for decades, the Restaurant Industry Group at Anchin has the unique combination of professional accounting experience and food and beverage industry knowledge that can help you develop advanced financial reporting systems and accomplish your business goals.

Pirlo's performances over the last decade have seen him become widely regarded as one of the finest midfielders of his generation, and is still a highly rated talent even in the advancing years of his career, and his manager has described him as a player who is «hard to find».

But as the decades passed, lawmakers increasingly passed bills to raise their salary as far in advance of the next election as possible to reduce the likelihood of voter backlash.

The trend is seen as the result of advances in treatment and medication, and the decades - old mandate against needlessly confining people with mental illnesses.

«He has spent the past two decades building the nano facility as the most advanced research complex of its kind at any university in the world,» according to the Albany Times Union

For decades, they have invested in campaigns on the local, state and national levels, as well as think tanks, legislative development, and media outlets, building a unified front to advance their self - serving agenda.

«Thanks to the newest NASA missions, such as Oceans Melting Greenland and Operation IceBridge, we have been able to make great advances in understanding the evolution of this very dynamic sector of Greenland and its impact on sea level rise now and in decades to come,» he said.

Mukamel, who has collaborated with the Rabitz lab but was not involved in the current work, said that the Rabitz group has had a prominent role in this field for decades, advancing technology such as quantum computing and using light to drive artificial chemical reactivity.

The new advance is much bigger, artificial intelligence (AI) researchers say, as Go is such a computationally demanding game that even a decade ago some researchers thought a computer would never defeat a human expert.

The techniques will become more important as bigger solar observatories come online, such as the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope to be built in Hawaii later this decade, and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, due to be launched in 2017.

However, substantial technological advances of the past decade, such as synthetic vaccinology and platform manufacturing, can expedite the process and shorten manufacturing time, allowing clinical evaluation to begin sooner, according to the authors.

After decades trying to directly detect the waves, the recently upgraded Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, now known as Advanced LIGO, appears to have succeeded, ushering in a new era of astronomy.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

«For decades, women have been treated with a combination of treatment options, resulting in poor prognosis for most women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer, but there are many survivors as well,» said Dr. Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute.

It's important to develop strategies, like NEIL's learning algorithms, that allow computers to recognize, categorize and respond to images as the machines become more incorporated into our lives, Gupta says: «Over the past decade, AI researchers have made tremendous advances in the field of computer vision.

The report, «Advancing Astronomy in the Coming Decade: Opportunities and Challenges,» has been controversial: both the NSF's National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the NANOGrav Collaboration (which uses GBT as one of its telescopes to observe pulsars to detect gravitational waves) issued responses, and a public comment forum filled with debate over the telescope's future.

In the last few decades, the use of DNA as a template for the arrangement of functional elements like organic dyes into precise arrays has undergone rapid advance.

TKF: Over the last decade, there have been advances in technology, such as DNA sequencing, that have allowed scientists to delve into the microbiome.

Patients with advanced or metastatic melanoma have been able to live longer cancer - free lives because of several new therapies approved over the last decade, such as BRAF and MEK inhibitors.

NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan also said that she believed in alien life and with the advances in science and technology, she thinks that proof of alien life forms will finally be found in as early as about a decade.

Although ALS (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) was first described more than 140 years ago, most major advances in understanding the disease have come only during the past decade or so.

Much of the research to be presented is focused on immunotherapy, which is seen as the most promising advance in cancer treatment in decades.

But in recent decades, scientific advances — such as the ability to manipulate genes and turn them on and off in developing embryos — have provided us with a plethora of new information, and insights into how organisms develop and change.

While there are more than 90 advanced nuclear technology and small modular reactor designs under various stages of development, GEH and ARC Nuclear view sodium fast reactors as being the most mature advanced reactor technology with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous reactors.

His research led to the discovery of a liquid crystalline thiophene polymer which has served for over a decade as a benchmark semiconductor, employed in fundamental studies of the properties of organic field effect transistors, demonstrating the feasibility of solution processed organic polymers, and provided the impetus for advances in the field.

As a donor who cares about the environment, your gift will leave a lasting impact: it will enable the Cary Institute to advance the science supporting environmental solutions for decades to come.

In the last two decades, advances in medical research seem to suggest that EFT has a basis in Western medicine as well as Eastern.

She went on to reattend the AFMCP program three additional times over the decade, then joined as an educator on the Detox Advanced Practice Module.

He joined the Beaverton, Oregon - based company in 1992 at age 31 as a regional marketing manager and a decade later had advanced to president of global brand management.

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Now, as well as these social trends, over the last couple of decades, the march of technology has been rapidly advancing.

«I would like to be very clear,» Brown wrote on Facebook, «That despite over a decade of work as the director of international programming at Fantastic Fest, I had no advance knowledge of this decision nor knowledge that Devin was contributing to the program guide.

Trump, by contrast, appointed a secretary of education who had spent decades working to advance education choice for families, and his administration has attempted to advance school choice through federal policy as appropriate.

As Stanford University professor Larry Cuban writes in Oversold and Underused, «There have been no advances (measured by higher academic achievement of urban, suburban, or rural students) over the past decade that can be confidently attributed to broader access to computers....

Because «STE (A) M job creation will grow 17 % over the next decade as opposed to just 9.8 % for non-STE (A) M positions,» a STEAM - based curriculum will help develop creative capacity among learners to advance the 21st century economy.

This includes offering a new vision of structuring public education, based largely on the portfolio model Hill and his successor at CRPE, Robin Lake, have advanced for the past decade, as well as crafting a new approach for financing education that expands high - quality school options for children and their families.

Although video has been a part of teacher education for decades, recent research on advanced video activities, such as video annotation and video clubs, promises a new level of video use in preparing preservice teachers to become reflective practitioners.

Many in conservative circles see her primary role as using the bully pulpit to advance school choice policies, but government - backed school vouchers for private schools, which is something she's vigorously supported for decades, have really taken a beating recently.

In the hysterically titled «GOP War On Learning Continues In Senate Tax Plan, State Funding Cuts,» he writes, «As the Republican - controlled Congress continues to advance tax plans that slash funding from public education, a new report reveals how state and local government officials, especially where GOP leadership dominates, have continued a decade - long campaign to keep school funding below levels that preceded the Great Recession.»

Design proposals for the new five - door liftback, which is planned to crown the Porsche SUV lineup toward the end of the decade, are described as being at an advanced state.

The engineer who defined engine development at BMW for almost four decades, whose ideas led to legendary triumphs on the race track as well as definitively advancing production engine technology, celebrates his 80th birthday today.