Sentences with phrase «before modern computer»

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View slideshow Designed nearly 150 years ago but never actually built until recently, the Difference Engine No. 2 designed by Charles Babbage (1791 to 1871) is a piece of Victorian technology meant to tussle with logarithms and trigonometry long before the first modern computer.

Computer - animated worlds sometimes act as a transitioning map, a location and day number occassionally remind us where we are (always in a different font), and fast - paced editing and zooms given this «Before the Turn of the Century» (though the century is not specified) piece a much modern look than its setting would merit.

There are a number of reasons: 1) student achievement probably wasn't used as the measure of teacher effectiveness; 2) before the advent of the modern computer, in the mid-1960s, some of the more sophisticated analyses were not feasible; 3) the structure and makeup of schools change, making the findings less applicable to the current situation; 4) most important, older studies may not control for critical variables, such as students» backgrounds or past achievement.

It's tempting for dealers to resent the power of modern consumers sitting in front of computer screens and arming themselves with automotive data before visiting dealerships, Koblenz says.

So we have two competing climate history stories - one developed over a lifetime of academic research mostly before the computer era, and the other derived from a scientist using modern statistical techniques and the extensive use of novel proxies interpreted in a highly sophisticated manner using computers.