Sentences with phrase «on uses of computer»

Project Tomorrow: A report on uses of computer technology in education.

A University of Rochester project on the use of computers for health research has won $ 5 million in state economic development funds — one of 11 state investments totaling $ 22 million announced by Cuomo yesterday.

The paper was featured in the journal's 60th anniversary collection and was among the papers celebrated at the 50th anniversary of the International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiotherapy.

«A year ago, our entire faculty attended a one - day seminar on the use of computers in the classroom,» Wagner added.

Officials from industry, government, and education testified at the two - day hearings on the use of computers in schools.

In a review of research on computer simulations and science education and other closely related science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM) fields, Rutten et al. (2012) examined 48 empirical studies that focused on the use of computer simulations aimed at changing knowledge or skills of high school and undergraduate students.

Steve knows that I am not well up on the use of computers and consequently I have not made his job easy for him.

Since the late 1980s, both video and animation have become dependent on the use of computer software to manipulate and control images.

The new book presents «an overall attack on the use of computer programs to model nature,» according to a February 20, 2007 New York Times book review.

He also gives seminars on the use of computers in the practice of law.

Not exact matches

Though Kashkari begins with a broad attack on monetary rules, it quickly devolves into a focused attack on the Taylor Rule which he argues «effectively turn [s] monetary policy over to a computer, rather than continue to let Fed policy makers use their best judgment to consider a wide range of data and economic trends.»

Making it easier for employees to purchase computers for their personal use increases the technical productivity of employees on the job.

WLES underpins other, more complex skills, so if you organize formal or informal higher levels of training — such as quality - assurance systems or computer use — you could be missing out on the full value of those programs if your employees don't have foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

Laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and Blackberries (wireless cell phone and PDA units) use wireless data transfer technologies to provide users with almost instant access to information stored on a company's computer networks and servers from just about anywhere within reach of a cell phone tower or wireless Internet transmitter.

For instance, if you and your team need to do a lot of data entry, or work on spreadsheets and documents, a full - size computer or large laptop with standard - size keyboard is much faster to use.

At first, Berners - Lee was faced with the problem of only being able to use his creations on his own personal computer.

Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.

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Although Hadoop is a free and open - source project for storing large amounts of data on inexpensive computer servers, the free version of Hadoop is not easy to use.

As our research found, 30 percent of holiday shoppers said they always use their desktop / laptop computers to research on - sale items before heading to stores.

If the accessories you're using require a lot of power, you have the option of plugging this hub into an outlet; otherwise, you can rely on the power it draws from your computer.

Bitcoin investors are on alert to see whether Beijing will take further action against cryptocurrencies, such as shutting down bitcoin «mines», the energy - hungry operations that create bitcoin by solving mathematical problems using vast banks of computers.

The company — comprising a team of neuroscientists, computer scientists, astrophysicists, artists and entrepreneurs — says it uses a new type of «neural - network algorithm» to analyze millions of reviews and descriptions, and then recommends restaurants based on the data you have entered into the site, according to a report from Forbes.

We may all have some nostalgia over an app that was always a backup of a backup (something you use on a Windows computer when you are too lazy to download anything else or can't remember your login to the Adobe suite of apps).

April 16 - The United States and Britain on Monday accused Russia of launching cyber attacks on computer routers, firewalls and other networking equipment used by government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators around the globe.

«Important issues can be things like the employee's ability to use cell phones at work or while driving; dealing with the appropriate way (or inappropriate way) that employees discuss the employer in chat rooms or on blogs after hours; or even the ability of the employer to address issues created by the ways the employees use their computers, e-mail, and voice mail,» Cooper says.

Scott E. Fahlman, along with other members of CMU's computer science community, used online «bulletin boards» to share information, make announcements, and chat, Fahlman recalled in a post on Carnegie Mellon's website.

Try recording each and every purchase you make for a couple of months by keeping a spreadsheet on your computer or using an app such as Mint, Personal Capital or Level Money.

Mozilla unveiled a new version of its popular Firefox web browser today, but instead of being on your computer or mobile phone it's designed to be used with a virtual reality headset.

For example, Waze may record the frequency and scope of your use of the Services, the duration of your sessions, the web pages that you visit, information that you read, content that you use or create, advertisements that you view or click on, your communications with other users and third parties, the Internet protocol (IP) address and the name of the domain that serve you to access the Services, and the geographic location of the computer system that you are using to log - in.

If he's been looking for a way to relieve his eyes from the everyday stress brought on by his workday in front of the computer, a pair of Felix Gray's computer glasses is a practical gift he'll actually use.

When the research team used a specially designed computer program to evaluate the «brain age» of 50 meditators versus 50 non-meditators, it found «experienced meditators have brains that appear 7.5 years younger, on average, than non-meditators,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog.

Until this study, the first of its kind to use in - person and computer - assisted observation to measure the commercial - watching habits of 376 adults, no valid research had been done on the topic.

Since using your USB drive on an unknown computer exposes the drive to additional risks, be sure to install antispyware and antivirus software as part of your set of portable applications.

Once a page has been written using HTML, the page must be placed on the host computer, or server, of an Internet provider.

Instead of using the regular Gmail interface on your computer or mobile device, give this intuitive alternative a shot.

«Using machine learning to find a needle in a haystack is where computers can help us transcend our limitations,» says Professor Adam Pah from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern's Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).

So far, it's been wireless carriers giving customers discounts on the devices in exchange for multiyear data - plan commitments, but with most people using their tablets at home and on the couch as a sort of second TV or computer screen, it might make more sense for television or Internet service providers to offer the contracts.

But as the company captured a sizeable portion of the computer market, it became more focused on products that looked good and made people look good while using them.

The team did this by developing a memory system that accurately transfers between light and sound waves on a photonic microchip — the kind of chip that will be used in light - based computers.

Forget those dorky glasses — new types of 3 - D displays use other tricks, like placing hundreds of tiny vertical ridges on a computer screen.

This put Canadian assemblers of computers at a disadvantage, because they had to pay tariffs on the parts they used, whereas companies importing whole machines did not.

Finally, there's Google's Chrome OS, which is a little more targeted to those with basic computer needs who like the idea of being able to use some Android apps on their computer and are plugged into Google's ecosystem and web apps.

It currently uses such technologies to allow shoppers to customize products on their phone or computer and then visualize them in their own home with a headset, and to offer in - game purchases of physical products.

You'll get more than 10 hours of use from the computer, which is more than many other computers on the market.

And Google is holding on to most of Motorola's more than 20,000 mobile patents, providing Google with legal protection for its widely used Android software for smartphones and tablet computers.

When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine switched jobs to work for President Petro Poroshenko [in 2014], he found that everyone in the [president's] office used the same login password... Sometimes pressing the spacebar was enough to open a PC... Most computers run on pirated software, and even when licensed programs are used, they can be years out of date and lack security patches to help keep the hackers at bay.

For example, when you use Nvidia's technology on a blank space where there is supposed to be a nose, instead of filling the space with its surrounding, the software adds a computer - generated nose.

In a world increasingly dominated by streaming media on mobile devices, new DirecTV subscribers will be offered «immediate access to programming... at the point of sale,» AT&T said, adding that the deal will «offer customers the freedom to watch hit TV shows anytime virtually anywhere, using a TV, computer, tablet or smartphone.»

Cloud security uses the internet and the security company's computers (data centers) to shoulder security technologies instead of relying on your PC's storage space.