Adaptive learning software is quickly replacing the role of textbooks in the classrooms and students are tackling subjects with the aid of tailor -
made computer programs that assist their needs.
It is still not as good as it should be — most application developers never consider taking the generally small steps necessary to make their programs accessible — but the technology has reached a point that
makes computer programming feasible.
Scratch Tutorial: Scratch is a free programming language developed by MIT to
make computer programming more accessible to children.
«The main concept we wanted to introduce to them was that artificial intelligence is not a mysterious, difficult concept — it is really about
making computer programs that can mimic human behaviour, making robots pretend to have human behaviour.
Computers today are like books in 500 BC — if someone goes to the trouble of
making a computer program about something, then it must be truth, right?
human judgment, which
makes a computer program a perfect home for such a tool.
Can
I make a computer program and give it to someone who ripped me off so I can find their IP address or username?
When
making a computer program, what's the difference between having a EULA (end user license agreement) and a contract with the person who's buying it?
Not exact matches
In an effort to capture personal and business details, hackers have developed malicious
programs that can infect a
computer that can record every keystroke the person
makes on the keyboard.
Neural nets offered the prospect of
computers» learning the way children do — from experience — rather than through laborious instruction by
programs tailor -
made by humans.
From mobile flip phones to
computer tablets, many products
made their first appearance in
programs like Star Trek, inspiring later product developers to actually create them.
The migration of original
programming online has been among the biggest themes in entertainment over the last few months, with House of Cards
making cable operators stand up and take notice as audiences adjust to watching entertainment on
computers and mobile devices.
Then, when Vogt was an undergrad studying electrical engineering and
computer science at MIT, a friend found an abandoned safe in the basement of a campus building, and Vogt persuaded that friend to collaborate with him in
making a one - armed bot
programmed to turn the dial repeatedly, to crack its combination.
Another Google - led
program, CS First,
makes it possible for teachers and community volunteers to form
computer science clubs for young kids.
Although the plain - English BASIC
programming language was designed to
make it easy for anyone to use a
computer, access to
computers was limited back then.
A dashboard - style interface
makes sure that any
computer user will feel comfortable with the
program and not have to face a steep learning curve to get the most out it.
Recent insights into learning - oriented brain cells called mirror neurons even hold out the possibility that someday we will have pills that will impart particular types of skills, such as
computer programming or business decision
making.
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.
In the rush to create the
programs to
make this great equalization possible,
computer specialists often came up with software that was error - prone, limited in scope, and difficult to use.
«The question will be whether some distributors of
computer programs will ultimately decide to geofence Canada and preclude the download of products in Canada because they haven't
made the investments that would be necessary to change the interfaces.
You can
make your life easier by remaining organized throughout the year and keeping all relevant records in one location — that includes no longer throwing business receipts into a shoebox — and using
computer programs, software, or spreadsheets.
This fragmentation was accompanied and encouraged by the rise of high - frequency trading, a term that describes the use of high - powered
computer programs to
make hundreds or thousands of trades per minute in an attempt to exploit miniscule inefficiencies in the markets.
Algorithmic - based robots — This is where a
computer program does all the market analysis and then
makes trades based on the preferences of its users.
Computers use
programs, we have the ability (well some do) to have free thought and
make their own decisions.
Many laypeople are doctors, lawyers, teachers, executives — but even those who repair cars or raise corn use complex
computer programs and have to
make judgments about the state of the economy.
A
computer program language or any human language can not be just occurred naturally unless it is
made or designed, in my opinion.
The FBO can
make it clear to government and to potential participants that its
program contains these three elements and competes for a contract to underwrite the
computer class and the job placement work.
If we created an artificial simulated world inside a
computer, and
made sure we
programmed it such that the intelligent life we created within was unable to access the «real world», they would not be able to fathom anything but what they saw / heard / smelled in that artificial world.
It can not do any «
programming», it is
made to be
programmed, just as much as any
computer is.
You may not use any
computer program tools including, but not limited to, web spiders, bots, indexers, robots, crawlers, harvesters, or any other automatic device,
program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process («Tools») to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any content, to obtain or attempt to obtain materials, documents or information through any means not purposely
made available through the Site.
Make sure the parental controls and filtering systems, if you have any, are
programmed for the Internet on your
computer and on your TV.
The free
program will offer the opportunity to
make crafts, play euchre, learn basic
computer skills and learn more about gardening and home repair, said Jack O'Leary, committee chairman.
In addition, Daniel spent time designing a poster on Corel Draw for the youth group, who are having a Tear Fund supper, both did some
programming, both helped
make some fudge and peppermint creams, both did some playing with midi on a keyboard we had been able to borrow; both helped to reinstal Windows on their
computer, which had crashed.
«Every day we provide the community with tailor -
made resources,
computer and online services and
programs for people of diverse backgrounds, language abilities and technological skills.»
Typically,
programming a
computer is a fairly arduous process, involving hours of coding work, not to mention the laborious work of debugging, testing and documentation to
make sure it works properly.
Writing a
computer program made him a 1974 Westinghouse finalist.
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.
A
computer program decides which modifications are to be
made in the chemical or light environment according to the cells» observed behaviour and the objective of the experiment.
Drag - and - drop
programming, enabled when Sparki is hooked up to a
computer,
makes it easy for kids to learn the basics of how human commands translate into robot actions.
• 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.
Implicit in my assertion that
computers will eventually be capable of the same kind of perception, cognition and thought as humans is the idea that a sufciently advanced and sophisticated articial system — for example, an electronic one — can be
made and
programmed to do the same thing as the human nervous system, including the brain.
This was
made possible by a new
computer program, the first of its kind in the world.
People with Ph.D. s in physics, engineering, or
computer science can, however,
make that switch and become medical physics practitioners via 1 - year
programs that prepare doctorate holders to enter residencies.
Stuxnet first
made headlines when it burrowed into
computers that controlled uranium centrifuges in Iran's renegade nuclear
program.
But while machine learning theorists have
made progress in teaching
computers to perform specific tasks within a strict set of parameters — such as how to parallel park a car or plumb encyclopedias for answers to trivia questions — their
programs don't enable
computers to generalize in an open - ended way.
Unless it is specifically
programmed for that purpose, a
computer analyzing the scene would not know whether, amid the usual clutter on your desk, your iMac
computer on the left and your iPad on the right
make sense together.
But anyone who reads Foundations of
Computer Science will realise that using C + + to
make a large
program work reliably after it has developed problems is a desperate measure; reading Interactive System Design would instead
make sure you
programmed the right thing sooner, and hence relied a lot less on reusing other programmers» possibly bodged efforts.
Updated flood insurance maps,
made with LiDAR, laser radar or new
computer programs, are increasingly important with global warming
Using improvised
computer programs, she had started to figure out Huygens's orientation at the time of each snapshot, which
made it much easier to construct large panoramas of Titan's surface.
An effective training
program, for instance, can
make adjusting to a new
computer system easier.