Sentences with phrase «first working computer»

So far no one has completed Babbage's tour de force: the first working computer.

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Before the first employee shows up for work in the morning, office computers are already under attack.

He earned an undergraduate degree in computer engineering, and one of his first jobs was working as a tech consultant for Accenture.

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.

«When I was 15, I bought my first Apple computer and thought, «One day I want to work for Steve Jobs,»» he recalls.

This isn't up there with the fact that, until recently, most coders probably did not know that the very first computer programmer was in fact a woman, Ada Lovelace; or that Rosalind Franklin's work on the structure of DNA has been largely overlooked.

Molecular biology's famous «Central Dogma» states that DNA, the living computer code that makes up our genes, is first transcribed into RNA, which is then translated into specific proteins, which ultimately do the 24/7 work of the body and form its many structures.

The way it works in Israel, you're supposed to go into the Army first, and they have a computer science division, I would have done that.

The duo fixed and sold old computers in high school, ran a web development company out of their dorm rooms in college, and worked together at O'Kelley's first advertising startup Right Media post-grad.

At first Shallenberger, whose only computer experience was with Macs, was nervous about working with Etessami's program, which was originally written to run on DOS - based PCs.

When Bill Gates created Microsoft Research (MSR) 25 years ago, some of the very first work focused on AI, including speech, natural language and computer vision.

While you might think their spending is flat, I think it's better utilized,» said Mark Dean, who worked in R&D for 34 years at IBM and was a member of the team that created the first personal computer in 1981.

Nardin has worked in sales in the Valley since the 1980s — she even sold the world's first laptop computer.

Prior to his investment career, Bill was a design engineer at Compaq Computer, where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq's first multi-processor server.

First, you sound a little unsure about how a computer works, and secondly nuclear energy has nothing to do with evolution, unless you are looking into creating mutant humans and animals.

If you think that level of effort correlates to level of pay, I'd suggest first trying to work some labor - intensive job for minimum wage, and then spend a few weeks in, say, a law office or computer firm.

Even if you did Tom Tom, why aren't you at work this morning and why is it that the first thing you did when you woke up was to turn your computer on and come to this place babbling your big mouth again this morning?

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Whether that first twinge was triggered by pregnancy, holding your nursing baby, working at the computer, or ferrying a heavy toddler, the advent of parenthood is when many women suddenly start saying «ouch.»

The 1987 campaign, working for Andrew Neil's Sunday Times, was my first using a computer, which we used to call «new technology» in those days.

He helped us work with the Fire Department to get our computers recovered from the fire wreckage, which was the key to everything for us as a first step.

Upon returning to her Ph.D. lab after her first child was born, she took advantage of the university's child care center and sometimes took her newborn with her to the office, doing computer work «while my little one was asleep in the pram,» she says.

«This work is the first attempt to develop computer models for fully evaluating and predicting carbon dioxide absorption properties of amine solutions,» Fourches says.

This exposed me to real bench work for the first time and forced me to use a computer for more than just e-mail.

The first describes Operation Reboot, a $ 2.5 million, federally funded program to train middle - aged, out - of - work computer professionals for jobs as high school computer teachers.

Announcing the work earlier this month at the First International Conference on Computer Science and Technology in Bangalore, India, Sen claimed the technique is so good that it has not made a mistake yet.

Researchers said the work, done at the University's Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory, is the first to demonstrate that a brain - computer interface can promote and enhance cortical involvement during walking.

The first breakthrough in his work with Sigmund happened when Nowak returned to Vienna for a vacation, toting his computer with him.

She was still at Langley when the first electronic computers were installed, and when West Computing was disbanded, she partnered with an engineer working on the mechanics of space docking manoeuvres.

The work suggests that black holes could one day be used as incredibly accurate quantum computers — if enormous theoretical and practical hurdles can first be overcome.

Although lunar - resonant orbits were first discussed in the early 1990s, TESS's particular trajectory was based on the original work of Goddard contractors Daniel McGiffin and Michael Matthews, both from the Computer Sciences Corporation in Lanham - Seabrook, Md., and Goddard engineer Steven Cooley.

For the new study, first author Dustin Winslow, a UCSC Ph.D. candidate who graduated this month, developed the first three - dimensional computer models showing how the process works.

Researchers from QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, worked with UK industry to demonstrate for the first time a practical cloaking device that allows curved surfaces to appear flat to electromagnetic waves.

First, the Cotton Candy can launch a virtual desktop when plugged into any PC or Mac while the Rikomagic device is only made to work as a standalone computer, something the Cotton Candy can also do.

In the meantime, even as NASA's CFD experts work down a path toward their long - range future goals of 2030 — advancements made possible only because of vast leaps in computer processing speed and power — their first step is to meet a set of more immediate technical challenges as soon as 2017.

But in an age where many films owe more to CGI wizardry than sharp camera work, requests for realistic simulations of melting, freezing, crystal growth and so on come up «more often than you might at first expect», says Christopher Batty, who researches computer graphics at Columbia University in New York City.

The prototype Erik first worked with in 2003 was bulky, comprising a webcam with a fixed field of view and a shoe box full of hardware that drove a basic 144 - electrode array, all connected and run through a laptop computer.

In the first basic - physics attempt to study the impact, PPPL physicist Daren Stotler, working under PPPL's C.S. Chang, used an extreme - scale computer code to model how the recycled neutral atoms tend to increase turbulence in detail that had never before been possible.

Usually their first reaction is trying to find warmer clothing,» said Hedge, who has conducted studies that found that office workers perform more computer work in warmer temperatures.

First, it may set up a Pavlovian response, in which you crave food whenever you're working, points out Dr. May: «If I eat while I'm answering email, for example, simply being in front of my computer can make me want to eat.»

In my first few weeks of working from home I was able to get away with sitting in my home office with the doors closed and tap tap tapping away on my computer for another hour or so after Niko came home from daycare.

Contrary to popular belief, an hour - long session on an exercise machine first thing in the morning or after work will not necessarily undo all the damage of sitting the rest of the day (in front of the computer, commuting, watching TV).

First of all I need to say a big thanks to two people who sort of made or helped make this happen for me, one is my dear friend Zoraida who unfortunately wasn't able to come along to Chicago with us but was the person who alerted me about SJP's shoe tour in which I had absolutely no idea was happening (go figure since I work most days on my computer, really Karina?!)

My name is Denise Single 2 years now, i am 5» 7 tall, I work as a computer programmer for HP, I AM A SWEET LOVING CARING easy going, Love to Travel Etc, I am looking for someone to settle down and grow old with, but you wont have to rush me i think it very important to get to know someone first

I was a professional ballet dancer in my first career but now i currently work in the computer industry.

I love how, in the opening moments of Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World — his stream - of - consciousness documentary look at the Internet, what it hath wrought, and what it may yet bring — he chooses to describe as «repulsive» the university corridor that leads to the room where the very first computer on the Internet still stands today.

But their inventor (Dev Patel) has greater ambitions: he's working on the world's first true artificial intelligence, a computer that can not only think, but create.

Touted as the first picture to feature a completely computer - generated character and featuring a post-end credits epilogue that we found out about however it was that dorks found out about stuff like that before the Internet, the picture came to me the winter after the summer I'd spent reading the collected works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and the entire experience left me thoroughly enchanted.

But the supernatural element of the storyline means the introduction of computer - generated images for some of the fighting sequences — a first for Chan, who is renowned for doing his own stunt work (see http://jc-news.net/news.php?id=70).