Sentences with phrase «computer games at the time»

I was designing educational computer games at the time, and was struggling to find good guidance to choose between interface (and learning) alternatives.

Not exact matches

Not long ago, Google spent more than $ 400 million to buy industry - leading startup DeepMind, and scored a major tech and marketing coup when the computer AlphaGo defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol at the possibility - lush game of Go — an achievement hundreds of times more complex than when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess.

Next week Merkel will for the first time speak at Gamescom, Europe's biggest computer games trade show that's expected to draw about 350,000 visitors, many of them teenagers who attend dressed like their favorite digital heroes — from Star Wars stormtroopers to Manga heroines and fantasy game sorcerers.

Nvidia's first product, a multimedia card for personal computers called NV1, arrived in 1995 at a time when three - dimensional games began to gain traction.

Still, the angst gets cranked up every time computers do something impressive, like when Google's AlphaGo recently beat South Korean champion Lee Sedol at the ancient game of Go.

You don't get to play for Real Madrid for 6 years unless you are top quality, comparing stats is a childs way of assessing players at the best of times (fit for computer games only), let alone comparing stats from two completely different leagues!

Meanwhile, there are families who thrive on the meaningfulness of spending time reading and working together at home and could care less about workbooks or computer games... if that's your kind of family, then your daily schedule would certainly be affected by the lifestyle you've chosen.

Ages: Preschool and up If you have a computer or tablet available to your kids during work hours, educational computer games impart a little learning and some fun at the same time.

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

Another reason computers have a hard time with Go, explains Jonathan Schaeffer, a computer scientist at the University of Alberta, is that Go players need a large pool of knowledge — past experiences with the game — to draw from.

«For me, the game was to minimize the computer support effort and carve out as much time as I could for my own projects,» says Sliz, now associate professor of Pediatrics and in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.

Texting friends, playing computer games, or just watching TV stimulates our brains and bodies at a time when we should be winding down, and the extra light we expose ourselves to when we peer at a screen could be throwing off our body clocks.

Our youth today sit all day at school, and then when not at practice sit on their butt watching TV, texting, at the computer, or playing video games in all their free time.

The game has done a nice job of improving its speed control a bit and the computer AI has been tweaked to make the game a little more balanced at times.

Here, once again, is the bald, barcoded, and entirely conspicuous video game protagonist who shoots his way through a nonsense plot, his near - invincibility inciting surprisingly chintzy special effects along the way, in between the ample time this movie spends on scenes of people staring at computer screens as face - recognition programs run.

The LA Times just landed this year's, as ever put together by Franklin Leonard, a VP at Overbrook Entertainment, and, as was widely expected, it's been topped by first - timer Graham Moore «s «The Imitation Game,» the widely - liked biopic of Alan Turing, the mathemetician and computer pioneer who helped to crack codes during World War Two, but found himself ostracized afterwards for his homosexuality.

Finally Ed and Molly Grimble play one computer game too many... The tales are performed «cartoon» fashion by an ensemble cast, with the use of many props, costumes creative settings, and, if you like, you could fit in a handful of puppets somewhere (the original production used puppets at times to link the tales).

The Grimbles» Last Game - a sketch for teenage drama students Great to explore ensemble cast work with a number of speaking roles Mask work and «games» are included Physical theatre Challenging and creative A dark, surreal and comic tale For the PERILOUS TALES collection of surreal and slightly dark cautionary tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley An excellent opportunity to use bizarre costumes and masks A dance number is required at the end - anything you like... Dark, surreal and completely off the wall Ed and Molly Grimble play computer games all the time - in fact, they do little else.

«This is increasingly true at a time when children are bombarded by video games, television, videos, and computer games.

EW: Will the kids» version pop up during video games and other activities that tend to induce kids to spend long periods of time at the computer?

Distraction free writing can easily be achieved by using a free software program that blocks you from accessing all of the time - sucking distractions on your computer from «doing research» on Google (translation: hour losing rabbit holes), Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, games on your machine, looking at photos, or an old document, et al. that can distract -LSB-...]

I had a cover stunt before, back in the year 1999 or so when we were finalizing a computer game called «Planescape: Torment» that I was producing for Interplay at the time.

Having been, at various times and under different names, a minister's daughter, a computer programmer, the author of paranormal mysteries, a game designer, an organic farmer, an avid hiker, and a profound sleeper, Eli is happily embarking on yet another incarnation as a m / m romance author.

This may include things like a long hot bath and home facial, visiting your local free museum or art gallery, having a picnic in the park, a movie marathon at home, taking time out to play a board game or computer game, reading your favourite book, trying a new recipe, or allowing yourself to sleep in.

Indeed, although my own computer is above the recommended specifications even smaller games struggled to maintain a steady framerate at times, and thus I actually turned down the graphical settings in order to keep things smooth.

I'm 30, been gaming since 1984 when my legs could barely reach the floor when I sat in the computer chair at school at that time, I tend to play any genre and game as long as it's good fun and I've played so many games over the years that I lost count in the 90s.

My computer at the time was not very good and could only run games at low specs.

Available at the same time, Dead Island Definitive Edition, and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive is available separately and as a digital download for Xbox One, the all - in - one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation ® 4 computer entertainment system and PC for $ 19.99.

Save games can not be transferred to a memory card, or your computer, in fact there is no way for you to access your own save games at this time.

A native of Montreal who studied computer science at McGill University (and whose favorite video game character is Donkey Kong), the 38 - year - old manager of Ubisoft's Toronto office is headed to her first SXSW, and her timing is impeccable.

Introduced in 1967, Computer Quiz had a very different look from other arcade games at the time.

Computer science researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique to determine which strategies give players an edge at winning in multi-player (action) real - time strategy (ARTS) games, such as Defense of the Ancients (DotA), Warcraft III and Starcraft II.

Available at the same time, Dead Island Definitive Edition, and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition will each be available separately and as digital downloads for Xbox One, the all - in - one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system for $ 19.99.

It's time to sit at our computers, wrap ourselves up in a blanket burrito and try not to let the visual medium of video games frighten the absolute piss out of us.

While there is a limit to the number of computers you can use Alpha Protocol on at any one time Sega isn't restricting the number of computers you can install the game on over the life of the product.

Save points are handled as being little rooms with computers and ammo caches so you can go to the computer and save your game and then reload or switch out your weapons as you only carry one gun and one pistol at a time.

At one point in time, one of the hottest games around was 1977's Colossal Cave Adventure, a text adventure that could be found in just about any computer lab across America and beyond.

Unfortunately the beating on this game will continue as the computer AI in this game can be laughable at times.

No, the place where the game breaks is Chance Time, also known as «Now the Computer Decides to Win Time» where coins and stars could be traded to characters seemingly at random.

With 25 years of games industry and development experience, Harrison is best known for being a long - time leader at Sony Computer Entertainment, where he held various senior executive positions within the company, most recently as president of Worldwide Studios.

Also, you can always win the single - player game by switching control to the leading computer character at any time, so knowing you can cheat takes away from the enjoyment many solo gamers will have.

Co-produced by the ESA and AIAS, the 2014 ITP collection will be shown for the first time at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the world's premier trade show for computer and video games and related products, from June 10 - 12, 2014, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

You can not only make Pip evolve by defeating special enemies, but you can devolve him at any time by holding down the Circle button (I mention the Circle button as I was using a DualShock 4 controller plugged into one of my computer's USB ports to play the game).

This is a game meant to be played with a group of at least two other players, mostly because the computer AI is pitifully brain - dead when on your team, whereas the enemy AI yo - yos from «faceroll» to «rolfrape» pretty much any time the computer feels like switching its game up.

Back in 1987, a top - down cops and robbers game called APB was released on the home computer systems at the time, and was great fun.

You've been in cryogenic storage in embryonic fluid for 30 years (eww) and you get awoken by a computer named Riley, who gives you a very brief spiel that pretty much amounts to «no time to explain, just run» at the start of the game.

«At the same time, I had my first Amstrad computer, and I was playing Elite — I could go outside and see these amazing night skies, then I would play this game and see thousands of stars that I could actually visit — and I wanted to visit every one of them.»

They were all in their 20s at the time, but there was something so mesmerizing about a video computer game.

Me and my younger brother went over to our cousin's house and he was playing it on his computer, I believe he was at the train graveyard after escaping from Don Corneo, and the first thing that hit me was the graphics and the track «Those Who Fight» from the random encounters in that area, and since it was the first time that 3D graphics has hit the PC, he didn't have a 3D card installed, and at that time you needed something known as the 3dfx Voodoo graphics card, so he was running on software renderer and there were some slowdowns when the famous battle twill loaded in, but it still looked and ran great, and even though the music was in MIDI format, that was the first time I've ever fallen in love with music from a game just from the regular battle track.

It was presumably to appeal to computer owners who wanted to enjoy what their console - owning friends were playing, so the utterly absurd and at times surreal design changes would have alienated anyone expecting a true Mario game.