Sentences with phrase «for by computer programs»

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The North Korean malware program WannaCry did serious damage to computers around the world last year, but it would have been much worse if not for the rapid discovery of a flaw in the attack found by young British security researcher Marcus Hutchins.

For the uninitiated, source code — which can be generated by many different computer programming / scripting languages and is accessible under the «View» menu of most web browsers — is what makes your website operational.

Years after a national task force recommended enacting anti-spam legislation, the Canadian bill finally established strict rules for electronic marketing and safeguards against the installation of unwanted software programs on personal computers, all backed by tough multi-million dollar penalties.

A number of Canadian universities deliver programs with Asian counterparts, for example Simon Fraser University's partnership with Zhejiang University in Computer Science (a full dual - degree graduate program) and UBC's international MBA program that is offered jointly by Jiaotong University.

Aside from the limitations imposed by the halting problem, there are two basic reasons that computers can not accomplish certain things today — for example, be programmed to act with human common sense.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

The nutritional guidelines are far easier for schools to understand and follow, without being restricted by stringent computer program analysis.

«By providing free resources such as downloadable eBooks and music, WiFi, public computers, technology classes, materials and lessons for English - language learners, health fairs and programs for job seekers, libraries and librarians are transforming our community each and every day.»

The more than 16,500 people who daily use any of the libraries throughout the County can save their hard - earned cash by taking out books, DVDs, or CDs, using our public computers or attending one of many programs for free.

But when she developed hand problems — probably from using a poorly positioned Braille keyboard for 12 hours a day, she says — she switched to the speech - recognition program Dragon NaturallySpeaking to compose e-mails and other documents, using the voice - output capability of a screen reader (Hal, made by U.K. company Dolphin Computer Access Ltd.) to check her work.

Kepler has collected too much data for anyone to go through it all by hand, so humans or computer programs typically only verify the most promising signals of the bunch.

• Informed Consent Technology can help individuals make better decisions about whether to undergo an invasive medical procedure, by using interactive computer programs that automatically check for comprehension and promote discussion between doctors and patients.

The security researchers who dissect computer programs for weaknesses are seen by some as the counterbalance to lax technology companies that sell vulnerable products and by others as opportunists who promote their work so they can sell products and services designed to fix the problems that they find.

The program combines the intensity data in the splotchy diffraction pattern with random phase information generated by the computer to churn out an approximate image of the target responsible for the diffraction.

When a person looks at an object, for example, the brain immediately estimates its distance by analyzing the subtle differences between the two images on his retinas (computers programmed to do this require extreme memory and speed).

On one hand, it was a victory for integration: Vaughan took a position working side - by - side with men and women of all races, programming the new electronic computers.

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.

Tarter's curiosity about life on other worlds erupted in the 1970s, fueled by a serendipitous merging of her ability to program a very old computer (a PDP - 8 / S — «I always thought the «S» stood for «stupid,»» she says), with a forward - looking proposal to find out whether other communicating civilizations exist in the galaxy.

By running the software on a computer with a graphics card optimized for gaming and donning a set of 3 - D gaming glasses, the program can take scientists inside the microscopic cross section.

Bowling et al. now report that they have developed a computer program that can do just that for the heads - up variant of poker known as Limit Texas Hold»em (see the Perspective by Sandholm).

In the years after World War II, on the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, mathematician John von Neumann assembled a group of eccentric engineers to build and program a «universal machine» — the modern computer's direct ancestor, which was first envisioned by logician Alan Turing.

Xiaoice, an artificially intelligent computer program developed by Microsoft, has become a trainee weather anchor for Dragon TV, one of the country's largest news broadcasting channels.

You might even consider tracking this information by using a commercial financial planning program for your computer.

Michael Grey and Randolph Huff, artists based in New York whose work is now on display at the Lisson Gallery in London, construct their unique works of art by writing computer programs for neural networks.

In the UW study, Zagheni and his colleagues developed a computer program for extracting data from Facebook Ads Manager about expats from more than 50 countries to every U.S. state, disaggregated by age and sex.

The team suggests that even ecologists without computer programming savvy can now set up more sophisticated surveillance for species threatened by climate change and habitat loss.

The world's leading manufacturers of parallel computers have moved to protect the embryonic market for their machines by agreeing standards that will allow programs to run on all parallel computers.

THE MOMENT A program developed by computer scientists at the Texas Advanced Computing Center for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) visualizes the status of 12,000 files in a test data set.

The U.S. computer industry has responded by adopting a voluntary program called Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) that is designed to provide standards for greener computers as well as to keep discarded electronics out of landfills, where the majority end up.

Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting with a human instructor.

Dr Marcus Neumann, author of the computer program GRACE for crystal structure prediction, which predicted eight out of nine targets correctly in this blind test and eight out of ten targets in the previous two blind tests, said: «Obviously, we are delighted with these results, in particular because unlike in earlier blind tests they have been obtained by a fully automated procedure that can be used as a black box in industrial working environments.»

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program promotes transformational advances in science and technology for computationally and / or data intensive, large - scale research projects through large allocations of computer time and supporting resources at the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) centers, operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

Along with Dr. Littman, the study was led by first authors Maria Pokrovskii and Mo Xu, along with Carolina Galan and Christy Au, of the Molecular Pathogenesis Program at the Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at NYU Langone's Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine; as well as by Ren Yi and Richard Bonneau of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at NYU.

All novel computer programs must be made publicly available by the time that the manuscript is published, and a URL for the website must be included in the Web Resources section of the manuscript.

Dr. Mullikin is a computational biologist, with mastery of developing computer programs for analyzing large data sets generated by systematic genome - analysis projects.

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) and my way to understand biological phenomena is by mixing knowledge from the areas of biology, statistics, and computer programming.

Why it matters: By facilitating the writing of computational software and providing a «shared - memory» programming interface that greatly simplifies the development of programs for unconventional architectures on distributed - memory computers, the GA helps scientists conducting scientific studies on alternative fuels, nuclear safety, and environmental remediation.

Diet records were analyzed using a computer program (ESHA Food Processor SQL, version 10.1.1) based on US Department of Agriculture data22 and international GI tables23 using the bread scale (for glucose scale, multiply values by 0.71) 24 with additional GI measurements made on local foods (Glycemic Index Laboratories).

Not valid on merchandise offered by EVINE Live's paid programming partners of for the following types of EVINE Live merchandise: computers or electronics.

Our dating site doesn't do any of so called «matchmaking», where mails, EOI's or chat requests are sent to users automatically by a computer program, which is typical for PPL dating sites.

Another scam that they pull on their members is by hiring computer programmers to build software programs for their fake dating service.

If you don't know what a computer bot is it's an abbreviation for a computer robot which is a software program that is created by computer software engineers.

Chen notices that part of the computer code used in the attacks was co-written by him as a student at MIT, so he convinces the U.S. government to make a deal with the program's lead architect, imprisoned hacker Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth), in exchange for his help.

Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) is a computer programming genius recruited out of Stanford by MAD MAGAZINE - style Bill Gates caricature Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), because Milo is the only person who can complete an interface program for Winston's whatzit that links all communications devices in the world to a series of satellites.

Professor Plummer was killed over a piece of software named G.H.O.S.T. (though not in the pantry with a candlestick) now believed to have been stashed somewhere in his home; when the snot - nosed kids — vain Zoe (Brittany Snow), surly Seth (Max Thieriot), precocious Lulu (Morgan York, also one of the Cheaper by the Dozen brats), and reaction - shot fodder Peter (Keegan & Logan Hoover) and Baby Tyler (Bo & Luke Vink (and with «The Dukes of Hazzard»'s impending renaissance, boy are those two in for a rude awakening at the start of school)-RRB--- grease the stairwell to take out Shane, they end up driving away their German nanny (a typically misused Carol Kane) instead, forcing Shane into a more maternal role and leaving him little time to search for the computer program.

Director / co-writer Oliver Stone's SNOWDEN comes with a careful central performance by Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Edward Snowden, computer wiz and infrastructure analyst for the National Security Agency who discovers a top secret surveillance program employed by the US government to spy on, well, everyone.

Computers outfitted with the filtering programs checked about 650 Web sites of candidates for the House and the Senate from a list provided by NetElection.org, which is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

This guide provides step by step instructions on how to download a YouTube video to your computer for use in a presentation or other programs.

This computer science program is sponsored by Google and offers free materials for helping students learn to code using Scratch in a fun, supportive club atmosphere.

Such programs are no longer appropriate or compatible with current skills expectations: automotive repair courses in high school where practice continued on components that had been replaced by sophisticated computers in current cars; cosmetology courses whose graduates didn't have the math skills to pass licensing requirements for hairdressers and ended up as hair shampooers; distributive education courses that taught «selling» but not the computer, computation, and communication skills needed for any but the lowest - level sales jobs.