Sentences with phrase «many early computers»

Even Apple, one of the most valuable companies ever, started out with a small, devoted fan base of early computer lovers in the 1970s before anyone had a computer in their home.

Canine compared the easier accessibility of the robots to the advancements that were made with early computers.

In the course of the fascinating discussion, which ranges from Houston's early computer obsession to his ideas about building a successful startup culture, Houston boils down his advice for ambitious young people into an incredibly simple if slightly quirky three - part formula: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000.

Gates and Allen were kindred spirits from the start, but if both were driven to get under the hood of the earliest computers, Gates was the more strategic thinker, while the title of this memoir best describes Allen's role in the partnership.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson noted the glitch causing the trading halt and an earlier computer problem that grounded United Airlines flights appear unrelated.

Programmable textile machinery provided inspiration for the player piano and the early computer

Early computer models showed that more than half of the debris blasted into space by the impact would fall into the atmosphere within eight hours.

In earlier computer models, freshwater flowed from the Southern Ocean into the Atlantic Ocean.

Their finished product resembled the earlier computer simulations and revealed a vast web of dark matter stretching across space and mixing with the normal matter we've known about for centuries.

[167][168] The longest running and most successful early computer dating business, both in terms of numbers of users and in terms of profits, was Dateline, which was started in the UK in 1965 by John Patterson.

His early computer designs reflect that interest in typography, providing a large font selection and allowing the masses to experiment with typographic design in ways that had previously been reserved for industry professionals.

Early computer programs were written to conserve memory space — the early computers, even mainframes, had little memory — especially compared to the computers of today.

Many of those models and processes, originally invented for the 50 year old classroom, were used for early computer based training design and much of what we call elearning courses today.

These early computer - based courses included database functionality to track and report learner engagement.

In 1971, Buick introduced MaxTrac, which used an early computer system to detect rear wheel spin and modulate engine power to those wheels to provide the most traction.

Like many of my boomer peers, in the late 70s & 80s I insisted that typewriters & early computers would never eclipse the power of the pen — something about a pen / cil on paper lubricated the right side of the brain & helped us create those imaginative first drafts.

I admit a potential addiction to the early computer games, where a relatively harmless PacMan gobbled up dots or the player blasted asteroids before they could strike the earth — these were relatively non-violent challenges of eye - hand coordination — sort of like tennis in a chair.

Notables include algorithm whiz Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852), daughter of Lord Byron and creator of code for an early computer, and inventor Margaret E. Knight (1838 - 1914), designer of — among other devices — a machine that mass - produced flat - bottomed paper sacks.

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

This entry in the Major Women in Science series profiles nine women who became movers and shakers in the field of engineering, including Grace Hopper, an early computer engineer who also created computer languages.

Waterstones can't lock its shoppers into doing business with them, any more than those early computer companies could stop users building networks with their competitors.

It was a near ‑ direct copy of a device called the Dynabook that the early computer pioneer Alan Kay sketched and cardboard ‑ prototyped in 1968.

Hudson Soft Chapter 070 Detailed origins of the company, its bee mascot, its early computer games, birth of the Japanese computer market, and Hudson's attempt to enter the British computer market.

Sega's early computer division, CSK Group and its Research Institute, the making of Sky Odyssey and Mister Mosquito (PS2), examination of CAProduction (including mini-interview with journalist and game developer Tim ROGERS), plus the pre-release ICO for the original PlayStation.

[30] Like most early computer gaming developers, Broderbund began as an Apple II - focused company and began expanding to other platforms as time went along.

Lode Runner is a game that's managed to avoid the retro arcade craze for a while, probably because it began as an early computer game and only later made a rare and brief appearance in arcades.

He was recruited as a composer and sound designer at Nihon Falcom in 1986 and subsequently offered landmark melodic scores to Xanadu Scenario II, Romancia, Legacy of the Wizard, Ys I, Ys II, and Sorcerian for early computers.

Nevertheless, this is the magnum opus of early computer role - playing games, and if you're of a mind to spend months in a digital world slowly acclimating yourself to its mechanical quirks and control idiosyncrasies, Ultima IV is an excellent history lesson.

Gaming on early computers was often an exercise in technical troubleshooting.

Perry, who started out in the games industry sending game code to magazines to be printed for others to copy into early computers, received his first royalty cheque when he was so young he didn't have a bank account.

Somewhat ironically, considering how often arcade games would be translated to PCs, the first coin - operated video game was based on an early computer game.

Crafted from the dust of early computer role playing games — the original open world designs — the goal isn't to tightly control the player experience, but rather to build a world and turn the player loose in it.

A solid half of the artists in Grupo Ruptura were European immigrants, including the Austrian - born Lothar Charoux, who made whispering compositions of orthogonal and diagonal lines, and Waldemar Cordeiro, from Rome, whose intriguing paintings of interconnected circles give a tiny hint of his future as an early computer artist.

Hammersley used early computer technology to make these drawings, a process that became pivotal to his artistic development.

The image above, produced by Rawls in the Summer of 2017 at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, is an initiatory form of a digital cursor from early computers — noted for being square, instead of the thin lines in current use.

Presented on the third and fourth floors of the Museum, this comprehensive survey will bring together over 115 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, wallpapers and prints, early computer - based art, videos, and 16 mm films.

This comprehensive survey will bring together over 115 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, wallpapers and prints, early computer - based art, videos, and films.

It includes some of the earliest computer - generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK before.

A majority of the works in the show are hard - edge geometric abstractions, many of their forms and their relation to pictorial space arrived at with the help of early computer programming and projection techniques.

Knowlton had developed BEFLIX, perhaps the earliest computer animation language, which they used to write the scripts for the Poemfield films.

This comprehensive survey will bring together over 115 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, wallpapers and prints, early computer - based art, videos, and 16 mm films.

They combine poetic texts and abstract graphics designed with an early computer language.

Continuing his investigation of the artifice of image making and the processes of visual perception, Lochore's new work marks a radical departure from the earlier computer generated shadows of window grids which recently have become more fractured and distorted, placing...

In post production, the crane cables were removed, finishing the work with a surrealist tone which recalls René Magritte, the Monty Python animations of Terry Gilliam and the aesthetic of some early computer games.

The video of the launch performance and these early computer - based artworks are a testament to Warhol's engagement with and embrace of new technology.

The artist's series of computer - generated films, Poemfields (1966 - 1969), exploring early computer graphics and image - processing systems, are included as four multiple screen projections, along with Variations V (1966), VanDerBeek's multi-media collaboration with Merce Cunningham, John Cage, David Tudor, and Nam June Paik.

A section of the exhibition will present a selection of experimental films and videos realized with early computer technology.

The Museum of Modern Art has added to its pioneering collection of early computer and video game designs: the New York museum has paired up with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) to acquire Susan Kare's sketches for the very first Macintosh computer icons from the early 1980s.

Uncanny both in its subject matter (a singular domestic space with objects pulled from reality and art history), and aesthetics (early computer - generated imagery and computer - appropriated images), flat objects appear to have depth through the use of a colour gradient.

These early computers or Quipus served to pass descriptions of social events, commerce and ideas on to following generations.