Sentences with phrase «by computer»

Researchers at Columbia Engineering, led by Computer Science Professor Peter Belhumeur, have taken bird - watching to a new level.

The technique uses an ultraviolet laser controlled by a computer - aided design system to trace patterns across the surface of a photoactive polymer solution.

This composite image also includes the inspiral phase of the neutron star merger (upper left) generated by a computer simulation.

In January, the Bluestar, one of the hotels built to attract affluent tourists to Kathmandu, opened its doors to Nepal's first computer exhibition and conference, organised by the Computer Association of Nepal to show the Nepalese population, and the newly elected United Marxist - Leninist Party government, that software development could be as important as tourism to the Nepalese economy.

He begins by highlighting the evidence of North Carolina's salt marshes because they are a storyline from the past — a period that state lawmakers seem to be emphasizing over future predictions developed by computer models.

This was followed by a computer - assisted telephone interview (CATI) using a standardized questionnaire and the assessment of diseases and health problems after 2.5 years.

Another promising technology is a camless engine, which opens and closes its valves by computer signals instead of connecting them mechanically, via cams and camshafts, to the crankshaft.

Electrodes conduct the brain signals, which are then processed by a computer program and fed into the game.

An interdisciplinary junior research group at the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks - BrainTools at the University of Freiburg (led by computer scientist Dr. Michael Tangermann) has developed a self - learning algorithm that allows predictions concerning the precision of an action.

New research by computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified numerous browser functionalities rarely used or needed by websites, but which pose substantial security and privacy risks to web surfers.

A goal shared by computer chip makers is to keep shrinking the transistor: squeeze ever more onto a single chip and you increase its computational power.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is, in simple terms, the science of doing by computer the things that people can do.

The trees, Glossopteris seed ferns, had annual growth rings up to 11.38 millimetres thick which show no signs of hard freezes during the growing period or of the extreme temperatures — averaging between -30 °C and -40 °C in winter and 0 °C in summer — predicted by computer (Science, vol 257, p 1675).

Supplying papers by computer could change the papers themselves.

He has used a menu controlled by a computer system to speak since about 1986.

More worryingly, the actual increase in rain, snow and sleet were larger than predicted by the computer models.

His study assesses the implications of regional changes in climate predicted by computer models run by Britain's Meteorological Office and NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in the US.

It would travel at a tenth of the speed of light, protect itself against impacts with dust particles and be piloted by a computer capable of controlling the craft without help from Earth.

A good example is the four - color map problem, which was finally solved by a computer.»

Because seismic evidence allows both possibilities, he says, «We decided to model mantle convection by computer to investigate whether their shapes and positions can answer the question.»

Still, the increase is about what's predicted by computer models of global climate.

As part of this research, «we identified highly conserved unique protein sequences that were predicted by computer modeling to assume structures characteristic of natural antibacterial peptides.

Such superhuman performance by a computer is an extremely rare accomplishment in any field of audio or visual perception.

«This allows high - resolution 3 - D printed components to be designed by computer simulation, 3 - D printed, and then directly and rapidly transformed into new permanent configurations by simply heating.»

The electric fields used to shape the liquid are created by a computer, meaning that the position and shape of the liquid metal can be programmed and controlled dynamically.

As the protons realign, they produce a signal that can be picked up and processed into an image by a computer.

These were reproduced by computer simulations of the spreading gas cloud.

The signals are stored and analysed by a computer.

The program, written by computer scientist Jonathan Schaeffer of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, used rules of thumb to guess the best available move, a method that imitates how people play.

An analysis of the worm by computer security company Symantec makes it abundantly clear that a few lines of malicious computer code can trip electricity grids, burn out power - station generators, pollute water supplies and sabotage gas...

The algorithm used by a computer model called the Boltzmann machine, invented by Geoffrey Hinton and Terry Sejnowski in 1983, appears particularly promising as a simple theoretical explanation of a number of brain processes, including development, memory formation, object and sound recognition, and the sleep - wake cycle.

It turns out that one of the most common goals in physics — finding an equation that describes how a system changes over time — is defined as «hard» by computer theory.

«We create the virtual avatars in a format that is also used by the computer games industry,» says Thomas Waltemate, who, like Achenbach, works in Botsch's research group.

As for the shifting braids, the researchers conclude that they result from the motion of as - yet - identified moonlets through the ring — a hypothesis confirmed by computer models — and the occasional influence of Prometheus, a potato - shaped moon that orbits in the gap between the F ring and Saturn's much bigger A ring.

Instead bioinformatician Firas Khatib of the University of Washington used the collective skills of thousands of people playing an online game called Foldit, created by computer scientists Seth Cooper and Zoran Popovic.

A framework for understanding these effects is presented, and the contributions of the different factors, as illustrated by specific enzymes, are identified and quantified by computer simulations.

At Cornell University, an algorithm developed by computer scientists Hod Lipson and Michael Schmidt deduced fundamental physical laws based on data from devices such as a pendulum and a mass on a spring.

The researchers say their results prove that national security interviews can be conducted by a computer - generated agent.

Listeners rated each for its appeal on a scale from 1 to 5, and the «winners» were randomly mixed with one another by the computer to create a second generation of tunes, with the «losers» dropping out.

This legend — apocryphal but illustrative, and oft - related by computer science teachers — dates from machine learning's early days in the 1980s.

After a free registration and 15 questions to test your abilities, you are directed to the Galaxy Analysis page, where you categorize images that are tough to identify by computer.

CMOS is the technology used by the computer industry to make integrated circuits, and because the techniques are so well optimized, CMOS - compatible chips are potentially very low cost.

They wrote some code to change the number and wavelength of the photons emitted by their computer screens as a day progressed.

The U-M team, led by computer scientists Zahi Karam, Ph.D. and Emily Mower Provost, Ph.D., and psychiatrist Melvin McInnis, M.D., presented its first findings today at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in Italy, and published details simultaneously in the conference proceedings.

These countries have both large proportions of their populations living in absolute poverty and good survey data to ground truth any predictions made by the computer.

The site began by offering listeners a selection of raw sounds generated at random by a computer.

A new analysis tool developed by KIT researchers serves to automatically order the commands in the way they are to be executed by the computer.

Two patients with the specific resistance mutation analyzed achieved partial remissions when treated with a regimen that included the EGFR antibody cetuximab, as predicted by the computer - based structural modeling.

When Rao gave the command to «fire» through thought alone, his brain waves were picked up by a computer that then transmitted a pulse to Stocco.

This infographic was developed by a computer science doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a Lutheran pastor in Germany.