Sentences with phrase «more conventional computer»

Working, whether it's on a presentation for your boss or a paper for your professor, is very different on a tablet than it is on a more conventional computer.

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A team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that can not be taken with one or more conventional cameras.

Senior author Jelena Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, has been working for years to develop various nanoscale lasers and quantum technologies that might help conventional computers communicate faster and more efficiently using light instead of electricity.

In the race to build large - scale quantum computers, two contrasting strategies — one based on trapping ions, the other on more conventional technology — have drawn neck - and - neck.

By storing information using both spins and electrical charge, spintronic devices should have greater storage capacity and process data more quickly — although researchers still have years to go to figure out how to connect and process spintronically stored information in futuristic computers, conventional and quantum.

But because electron spins offer one of the most promising models for quantum bitsphysical states that can store far more information than conventional computer bitsscientists have sought ways around the coherence problem.

Storing information — and storing light for longer intervals — will be essential for the advancement of quantum computing, which could process light - stored data far more efficiently than current conventional computers.

Being able to study quantum systems with a large number of components — or «qubits,» as they are often called — also has important implications for future quantum technologies, as Carleo points out: «If we want to test quantum computers with more than a handful of qubits, that won't be possible with conventional means because of the exponential scaling.

It turns out that this quantum - mechanical way of manipulating information gives quantum computers the ability to solve certain problems far more efficiently than any conceivable conventional computer.

The new chips have the potential to be orders of magnitude more efficient than a conventional computer, according to Rajit Manohar, an electrical and computer engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and member of the DARPA collaboration.

The trade - offs that have evolved in humans could not be more different from those that engineers made in designing conventional computers, however.

The idea is that the film, when applied to different surfaces such as glass or brick, can produce solar energy more efficiently than conventional silicon wafer — based solar cells — which are made of materials similar to those used to fabricate computer chips.

A more conventional setup consists of a long rectangular sensor bar containing lights and cameras placed in front of — or embedded in — a computer monitor that measures where and how long a person gazes at the screen.

It was only slightly more accurate than a conventional computer would have been at the same problem.

Quantum computers, which have yet to be built, would be able to do many more calculations simultaneously than conventional computers can.

Loosely based on Walter Isaacson's best - selling biography with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network»), Danny Boyle's («127 Hours») Steve Jobs is not a conventional biopic of the famous co-founder of Apple Computers but is more like an impressionist painting — short strokes of paint that capture the essence of the subject rather than...

isn't quite as other - worldly gorgeous as those two earlier films (they're the only two other features I've seen from Shinkai), its combination of hand - drawn, computer and rotoscoped animation is a little more conventional, just as its plot and approach to narrative is a little more familiar.

From a Kindle, a Kindle App on iOS or on Android, or from a more conventional personal computer, the customer's library is available any time / anywhere.

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This broad definition also embraces more conventional art forms that utilize computers, such as: computer - controlled animation or kinetic art, or computer - generated painting - as well as those forms that are based on computer software, like Deconstructivist architecture.

It is more like a desktop computer than a conventional car.

I doubt that a disclosure of further particulars of the 1 - click (epi) phenomenon will reveal anything more than a perfectly conventional (albeit original for copyright purposes) use of ordinary computers, but that remains to be seen.

That means that as time goes on, each individual mining for them has to work harder and harder (in a figurative sense — it's the computer that's working harder and using more electricity, and thus, costing more conventional money).

While her upcoming promotion to manager seemed to fit in the conventional sense of getting ahead, the CPA job meant that she worked long hours, spent more time with her computer than with people, and was stuck in the office for 12 hours at a time.

What's more, your computer's built - in spell check often misses numerous errors anyway, even in a conventional document.

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