Sentences with phrase «by building a computer»

The scientists, in collaboration with IBM, are launching the effort by building a computer model of the neocortical column of a rat, a single circuit of about 10,000 cells, each of which is capable of thousands of connections.

In 2015, one group proposed testing data for potential bias by building a computer program that uses people's nonsensitive features to predict their sensitive ones, like race or sex.

Not exact matches

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

Less heralded by history was a group of six women who worked in wartime secrecy at the University of Pennsylvania, where John Mauchly and Presper Eckert led a team that was building ENIAC, the world's first programmable, all - electronic, general - purpose computer.

By making little machines that are often updated, Mr. Gillmore said, «we're building satellites with computers that are six months old.

She said Intel's plan was to build a pipeline of underrepresented engineers and computers sciences by funding programs to teach STEM skills to young people in underserved areas.

The average GM car has 30 computers, all built by different partners and suppliers.

But by simply using the iPhone's camera and its built - in sensors, programmers without extensive experience in computer vision or other complicated difficult technologies can make augmented - reality tape - measuring apps.

But more important, by building out the infrastructure for cloud computing, Google is spearheading a future when using software stored on a computer will seem as archaic as twenties stuffed under a mattress.

In reality, that gets thrown off by everything: sun - drenched picture windows, drafty stairwells, even computer servers create problematic microclimates, confesses Samantha Gal, a harried central dispatcher who works for a major building manager in downtown Vancouver.

A computer model built by Reuters used historic trends and other data to predict that a Republican will take the White House when Obama's term ends.

After the two designed their breakthrough invention — a router that connects computer networks — and spent six years building the company, Lerner was fired by its board of directors in 1990, the same year Cisco went public.

By time he got around to building computer software and starting Microsoft with Paul Allen at Harvard, Bill had already accrued nearly 10 years of experience writing software.

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company backed by Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, is building out a new kind of free training «gym» for computer programmers.

An 18 - year - old takes the science world by storm, a teenager develops a computer algorithm to diagnose leukemia and another teenager wins a fellowship to skip college and build a crowdfunding platform.

According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the effort to build «a cryptologically useful quantum computer» — a machine exponentially faster than classical computers — is part of a $ 79.7 million research program titled «Penetrating Hard Targets.»

Over the past year, capital spending rose by more than 17 per cent, with the main categories of investment — machinery and equipment investment (abstracting from civil aircraft deliveries), buildings and structures, and spending on computer software — all recording robust growth in the quarter and over the year.

The Myo armband's proprietary EMG sensors, built in - house by Thalmic Labs, are being used in combination with a highly sensitive motion sensor to translate American Sign Language on a computer screen.

If there is any problem in the organization of a computer, it is the unlikely constraints which, so to speak, harness these laws to perform highly specific and directive functions which have of course been built into the machine by the expertise of the designer.

But mechanisation also tends to spread into the cognitive hierarchy, and force the stream of consciousness into fixed riverbeds — Bergson's homme automate programmed by a computer with built - in prejudices.

Please point to the section of the bible that explains the * MECHANISM * by which the universe was created, such that we can build a computer model based on scientific principles derived from the bible that will model the creation of the universe.

Custom built computer shelf made by Algis from old barn wood.

We are actively doing our part as FT partners in the Breedekloof, having not only build two after - school computer and day care centers for the laborers» children but also by recently acquiring a nearby farm which is 100 % FT (all shares belong to the FT partners / laborers).

My three older kids are technology inclined but rather than sit behind the computer all day, they like to build inventions with Legos, experiment with electricity by using their Snap Circuits, and draw pictures of things they want to build.

Again, another way to show how a game is just some computer code and you can influence it by passing different parameters as you «build» it makes the kano learning journey fun and relevant to our young explorers.

So instead I just wrote it down, amongst my sewing pattern instruction notes: ~ Isabela flipping through the museum book of the Victoria & Albert fashion collection (sprawled on the floor) ~ Juliana cross-legged on the couch with her laptop ~ Joseph tracing a favorite cartoon character on the light table over by the window ~ Nicolas using my computer to build his Minecraft world ~ Eleni trying to catch a spider ~ Such a wonderful, welcome invasion.

Or the lunch kids pick could be set up by computer with a built - in menu analysis program that helps managers conform to USDA standards.

For instance, some of the students in the computer science lab did the brick for the building by printing sheets of brick design that was glued to the boards for the walls.

The announcement is not expected to be related to efforts by the state to replace ams AG, the Austrian computer chip manufacturer that backed out of a $ 600 million deal to build a chip factory at the Marcy NanoCenter, which is located next to the SUNY Poly campus.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a solar farm developer looking to build the largest in the Capital Region, Scenic Hudson extends its reach in preserving farmland, and telemedicine's promise to let patients talk to medical experts by smart phone or computer.

Now, he and university colleague Dénes Száz have built on those studies by incorporating the data into computer simulations of voyages between Bergen, Norway, and the Viking settlement of Hvarf, on Greenland's southeastern coast.

«Their expertise was in low - temperature liquid helium physics, so they were trying to build a quantum computer by floating single electrons on top of a bath of liquid helium and manipulating those single electrons,» O'Connell says.

While there are only 70 embroidery designs initially on the machine, you can always import more to its built - in memory by connecting the PE525 to a computer via USB cable.

Using documents leaked by Edward Snowden, researchers have built simple but effective tools that can be attached to parts of a computer to gather private information in a host of intrusive ways.

Using documents leaked by Edward Snowden, hackers have built bugs that can be attached to computers to steal information in a host of intrusive ways

Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention built computer models, which predicted that, if a massive intervention failed to materialize, by January 2015 up to 1.4 million people could be infected.

The research, which was supported by the National Science Foundation and reported October 11th in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, involved building a computer model to simulate the interaction between the two facets of a folded sheet, including how easily and how far the folds would bend and how much the flat planes would deform during movement.

The team also used a separate computer model developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to estimate the costs: more than $ 250 million in building and crop damage in the flooded area.

To show how information builds up and flows among scientific disciplines, Columbia University computer scientist W. Bradford Paley, along with colleagues Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans, categorized about 800,000 scholarly papers into 776 areas of scientific study (shown as colored circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by other papers.

Watson is the IBM computer built by David Ferrucci and his team of 25 research scientists tasked with designing an artificial - intelligence (AI) system that can rival human champions at the game of Jeopardy.

3D printing — also known as «rapid prototyping» — transforms a blueprint on a computer into a real object by building up a succession of layers.

Designed by Chong - Chan Kim and his colleagues at Seoul National University in South Korea, the wearable computer interface could be fitted as a second skin or built into clothing.

Computer simulations built by the scientists suggest that this has already happened in the Amazon about 20,000 years ago, in accordance with evidence from the Earth's past.

The UNSW team has struck a A$ 83 million deal between UNSW, Telstra, Commonwealth Bank and the Australian and New South Wales governments to develop, by 2022, a 10 - qubit prototype silicon quantum integrated circuit — the first step in building the world's first quantum computer in silicon.

A new method for cooling down the elements of quantum devices such as qubits, the tiny building blocks of quantum computers, was now theoretically proven to work by a group of physicists.

The Dawn framing cameras were developed and built under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany, with significant contributions by German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, and in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Braunschweig.

Traditional botnets are built over time by taking control of ordinary people's computers without their knowledge, but a cloud botnet — or botcloud — can be put together in a couple of minutes just by purchasing space in the cloud with stolen credit card details.

The computers built by commercial firm D - Wave of Burnaby in British Columbia, Canada, have many more qubits — about 500 — but use a method known as adiabatic quantum computing, which, unlike the traditional method, has not yet been proved to give a quantum power boost.

The laboratory spun off a company, Spirae, and built a futuristic, computer - driven test bed that could simulate the operations of a large power grid and instantly adjust for power fluctuations caused by the often fickle nature of renewable energy.

So why did this year's prize go to work that «at most is an application of some open - source software,» Liu Yang, «a computer engineer who builds and hosts websites,» wrote in a blog post that was later deleted by government censors.