Sentences with phrase «early computer scientists»

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Along with Mark Weiser (who passed away in 1999), computer scientist John Seely Brown wrote some of the earliest papers on the subject while working at Xeroc PARC.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

When the headhunter contacted him months before, he wouldn't tell Eckert much except that the company had been founded by famed scientist Rodney Brooks, who, until a few years earlier, had led MIT's computer - science and artificial - intelligence lab.

In the early days of the Internet, MIT Media Lab alumna, Engineer and Computer Scientist, Cristina Dolan, co-founded OneMain.com, which grew to be the tenth largest ISP after a successful...

Finnur Eiriksson, a computer scientist living in Reykjavik, said, «The exorbitant prices in the housing market, so early after the collapse of the Icelandic economy, are quite shocking.»

The party raised concerns over the inclusion of Dr Nii Narku Quaynor, a renowned computer scientist, Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Board of Directors, who's a known member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and His Lordship Justice VCRAC Crabbe, a former Justice of the Supreme Court who had earlier publicly stated that there was no need for a new voters register to be compiled.

Mercer is a brilliant computer scientist, a pioneer in early artificial intelligence, and the co-owner of one of the most successful hedge funds on the planet (with a gravity - defying 71.8 % annual return).

New opportunities for early career scientists to work at the interface of computer science and other scientific disciplines are expected to open up in Europe in the coming years as Microsoft plans to invest big money in European science.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

Scientists at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre in Smolheimsviken, Norway, say recent computer simulations have confirmed earlier fears that unusual local currents could carry these flakes to shallow waters, where they might be eaten by commercial species of fish.

Erich Strohmaier, a computer scientist also at LBL and an overseer of the «Top500» list of supercomputers, likens NEC's announcement to IBM's earlier claim that Blue Gene would be capable of 360 teraflops.

Venus may have had a shallow liquid - water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet's ancient climate by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

Via a program called Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI), BWF encourages early - career physical scientists to apply principles from physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and engineering to the biological sciences.

And that meant creating an unprecedented participatory experiment on China's blogs, microblogs, and forums — one that «probes much deeper than earlier studies,» says Noah Smith, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was not involved with the study.

The idea of the quantum computer emerged in the early 1980s, when scientists were pondering the fundamental limits of computing.

The Institute: brings together a wide range of scientists, including physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists as well as HMS clinicians to address fundamental questions about the behavior and functioning of biological systems; allows biologists, engineers, and clinicians to potentially use such knowledge to foster applications and new technologies; and provides a way for the tool - developers (physicists, engineers, computer scientists) to work with the tool - users (biologists, chemists, clinicians) in the early stages of scientific inquiry and encourage scientific collaboration at the innovation stage of tool development.

«We had specialists in enzymes and mimics, scientists who were established in their fields and early in their careers, experimental researchers and computer modelers, all from around the world.»

He is the recipient of the Ontario Early Researcher Award and the Sloan Fellowship, as well as the Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Scientist Award.

Computer scientists combined the new tech with earlier visionary theories, and soon, they developed the first ever computer - based training sComputer scientists combined the new tech with earlier visionary theories, and soon, they developed the first ever computer - based training scomputer - based training software.

That scientists are able to pack the computing ability of an early Cray super computer into a chip smaller than a fingernail is nothing short of a technological marvel.

This engaging biography introduces nineteenth - century scientist Ada Lovelace, who developed the first algorithm used by the world's early computers.

Formed in 1984, Dumb Type, in its early stages, was made up of about fifteen Kyoto City Art College students from different fields: visual artists, video artists, choreographers and performers, as well as architects, graphic designers, sound engineers and computer scientists who combined to invent a new, fundamentally pluridisciplinary type of performing art.

(I was invited earlier this week to join two climate scientists in a segment focusing on the value and limits of computer - generated climate simulations.)

A recurring theme in the InsideClimate News reporting on what Exxon knew is that its scientists understood early on what their computer models were saying about the risks of global warming.

Earlier still, scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina were developing «organ printing» technology, which they defined as being a «computer - aided, jet - based 3 - D tissue - engineering of living human organs.»

The term «knowledge market» traces back as early as 1970 when Doug Englebart, a visionary computer scientist, talked about the concept of a Knowledge Market as a consequence of computer networks.

The fork has long attracted criticism from some of Bitcoin's earliest proponents, with computer scientist Nick Szabo calling the network «centralized sock puppetry» last year.