Sentences with phrase «of electronic computers»

The patterns he identified using early versions of electronic computers are now called Rossby waves.
However, the bandwidth of these electronic computers is limited by the signal delay of time constants important to electronic logic operations.
Reporting on the event, the New York Times wrote, «The Navy revealed the embryo of an electronic computer today that it expects will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence.»
«If the ENIAC's administrators had known how crucial programming would be to the functioning of the electronic computer and how complex it would prove to be, they might have been more hesitant to give such an important role to women.»
There was more room for them in new, expanding sciences such as x-ray crystallography, particularly with the tiresome work required before the advent of the electronic computer and automatic methods.

Not exact matches

Shorn of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.
Systems that allow instantaneous or «real time» transfer of information (i.e., online conversations via computer or audio exchange with video capture) are considered electronic sharing systems.
Electronic mail uses computer - based storage and a common set of network communication protocols to forward electronic messages from one user tElectronic mail uses computer - based storage and a common set of network communication protocols to forward electronic messages from one user telectronic messages from one user to another.
This business is similar to the computer repair business, but you will take on all sorts of electronic equipment besides just computers.
At the close of the day, an electronic message is sent to Leff's computers, along with all the other transactions of the day.
The unveiling of ENIAC made the front page of the New York Times under the headline ELECTRONIC COMPUTER FLASHES ANSWERS, MAY SPEED ENGINEERING.
To create digital photography for the iPhone, Jobs drew on existing categories, namely «his experience with consumer electronic domains, his experience with mobile wireless, and his experience with building really great user interfaces for computer devices» to produce what, when all the parts were combined, added up to be a device that was so much larger than the sum of its parts, Sculley says.
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.
Of course, semiconductors are vital to the electronic devices that have become such an important part of our everyday lives, whether it be your desktop computer or cellphone; all of these devices are dependent on semiconductor technologOf course, semiconductors are vital to the electronic devices that have become such an important part of our everyday lives, whether it be your desktop computer or cellphone; all of these devices are dependent on semiconductor technologof our everyday lives, whether it be your desktop computer or cellphone; all of these devices are dependent on semiconductor technologof these devices are dependent on semiconductor technology.
This means that computers could have the benefits of data delivered by light — high speeds, no heat caused by electronic resistance, and no interference from electromagnetic radiation — but would also be able to slow that data down enough so that computers chips could do something useful with it.
The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT, which measures computers against a list of 27 sustainability criteria — including the use of mercury - free materials — gives this model its highest mark, a gold rating.
The Bird - Erving match - up is an exam ple of a new type of computer game being developed by Electronic Arts and other innovative game - and - educational - software companies.
With interactive real - time FOD, a derivative of computer - to - computer electronic data interchange (EDI), an off - site caller with a fax machine can retrieve details from a business's database even while that database is in rapid flux.
Breakthrough: IBM has simulated the electronic structure of a small molecule, using a seven - qubit quantum computer.
Holly Hartz, director of PR at Electronic Arts, says her objectives are closely linked to the sales goals of the San Mateo, Calif., computer and video - game company for which she works.
Computer veteran Speake calls electronic spreadsheets perfect for «quick and dirty» solutions, systems analyst jargon for programs that can be easily thrown together although they may lack sophisticated error - detecting features of custom - written software.
Despite the fact that most of us have some form of electronic calendar on our phones or computers, many people still rely on their paper planning agenda to keep their lives running smoothly.
If you have a personal computer on your desk, you are more than likely familiar with VisiCalc or one of the other «electronic spreadsheets.»
The first part of the law targeting programs that can send electronic messages from a user's computer will allow the CRTC to go after malware or spyware makers that use infected computers to surreptitiously distribute spam.
Once the trade is confirmed through the computer network or electronic communication network (ECN), it is routed back to your account via your online brokerage and you see a confirmation of the trade.
It also leads in processed foods (earning it the status of a snack food mecca), followed by the manufacture of computers and electronic equipment.
It covers an automated food service ordering system comprising non-transitory computer - readable media storing executable instructions to obtain historical context data indicating past statuses associated with one or more customers; obtain historical menu item ordering data indicating past times during which customers ordered menu items from each of multiple food services; obtain context data from a personal electronic device that indicates current, recent or scheduled statuses of a user, including caloric intake or exercise activity; determining a future time for delivery of a menu item based on the obtained data; selecting a future food service from the multiple food services; determining a lead time for an order for the menu item; and initiating the order for the future food service by at least the lead time.
Cunningham and Cunningham, et al. v. Electronic Data Systems Corporation is a purported collective action filed on May 10, 2006 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York claiming that current and former EDS employees allegedly involved in installing and / or maintaining computer software and hardware were misclassified as exempt employees.
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.
The list includes some of the areas of strength evident in the western US such as finished foods, chemicals and industrial machinery, but also includes computer and electronic items, paper goods, chemical products and primary metal exports.»
Upon separation from employment with the Company or on demand by the Company during my employment, I will immediately deliver to the Company, and will not keep in my possession, recreate, or deliver to anyone else, any and all Company property, including, but not limited to, Company Confidential Information, Associated Third Party Confidential Information, as well as all devices and equipment belonging to the Company (including computers, handheld electronic devices, telephone equipment, and other electronic devices), Company credit cards, records, data, notes, notebooks, reports, files, proposals, lists, correspondence, specifications, drawings, blueprints, sketches, materials, photographs, charts, any other documents and property, and reproductions of any and all of the aforementioned items that were developed by me pursuant to my employment with the Company, obtained by me in connection with my employment with the Company, or otherwise belonging to the Company, its successors, or assigns, including, without limitation, those records maintained pursuant to Section 3.C.
Additionally, motor vehicles and parts dealers as well as computer and electronic products — both much larger product categories — are among the notable losers in terms of the immediate impact of the reform.2 On the other hand, sectors such as other transportation equipment (including aircraft) and chemicals would benefit.
Blockchain systems use a public database distributed among multiple computer servers to continuously maintain and verify an electronic ledger of transactions.
SCHNEIDER: Yes, it actually, you know, it actually isn't as complicated now as it probably once was simply because the magic of computers and electronic money so to speak, but effectively what you're doing is effectuating monetary reserves, excess reserves in multiple ways.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lookout have uncovered Dark Caracal, a global spying operation that has compromised thousands of Android smartphones and Windows computers in 21 countries.
(In lieu of normative definitions here is an incomplete list of new developments which have emerged in the last 20 years: news satellites, color television, cable relay television, cassettes, videotape, videotape recorders, video - phones, stereophony, laser techniques, electrostatic reproduction processes, electronic high - speed printing, composing and learning machines, microfiches with electronic access, printing by radio, time - sharing computers, data banks.
And it's also cresting a wave of enhanced electronic books as one of the most high - profile literary works to take advantage of the new abilities of readers such as Apple's iPad and other tablet computers.
This definition is especially appropriate when one reflects upon the bulletin - board and electronic messaging capacity of computers.
We know too that the memory, without which man could have no sense of continuity, is dependent upon the storage capacity of the unbelievably large number of brain cells, so that to the lay mind the brain is as close to an electronic computer as anything could be.
Electronic re-processing of reality, and the creation of virtual reality presents us not only with instrumental questions of how we use computers and keep up, but also with questions about what is reality and what reality do we address theologically.
Whatever the Word may be, it is not an automatic answer that comes through the Bible as the solution of a complex problem in mathematics today comes through a giant electronic computer.
2 a system or set of principles underlying the arrangements of elements in a computer or electronic device so as to perform a specified task.
I recently listened to a distinguished academic computer scientist who told us joyfully how electronic data bases piped into homes through fiber - optic cables are about to put newspapers out of business.
Some visionaries foresee a laboratory in which disembodied human brains sit in glass - covered saucers connected by electronic gadgetry with a series of computers to produce a super cyborg brain with godlike intelligence.
One of the twentieth century inventions with an impact reaching far into the future is the electronic computer, which has the capacity to speed up many forms of written communication.
Examining such a machine through its table, or as it is operating on its table, would be like examining only the electronic activity of a running computer, or of an operating brain, and trying to decide what the computer is accomplishing or the brain is thinking.
Flows of data, like in electronic data exchange, electronic funds transfers, remote resource satellite sensing, electronic mail and database searches, are carried by worldwide computer networks such as the Internet, or such inter-firm networks as the largest interbank network SWIFT *.
It requires interrupting our worship of the golden calf whose face is an electronic computer.
If theology merely consisted of summarizing the affirmations and thoughts of the Christians of past ages, an electronic computer could be designed to do it better.
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