Sentences with phrase «powerful computer technologies»

But now the convergence of powerful computer technologies and important developments in cognitive science holds out the prospect of a new generation of student testing — one that could significantly improve teaching and learning.

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Once a powerful technology trade publisher, Ziff Davis went through bankruptcy of its own in 2008 and now produces consumer technology websites, including AskMen, Computer Shopper and Geek.com.

We are now at a tipping point where the power of computer chips, sensors, Internet broadband and cloud storage is creating a platform for powerful work technologies that will make the traditional office obsolete.

New technologies centered around the increasingly more powerful personal computer are enabling smaller entrepreneurs and public interest groups to publish newsletters and produce radio and video cassettes of an «alternative» provenance that criticizes the mainstream.

Those efforts will target the most cutting - edge areas of nanoelectronics, including advanced lithography, 3D packaging, and metrology technologies that are critical to enabling the smaller, faster, and more powerful computer chips driving nearly every industry.

«We now have extremely powerful computers, lifelike game engines, high - resolution displays and high - precision motion tracking technology.»

Fifteen years ago, Peter Shor, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, predicted that quantum computers could beat even the most powerful supercomputers and crack the widely used RSA encryption algorithm.

NdFeB magnets are the most powerful on earth, and used in everything from computer hard drives and head phones to clean energy technologies such as electric vehicles and wind turbines.

Encoding information in quantum particles such as photons, the quanta of light, could lead to powerful new technologies, such as ultrafast quantum computers and unbreakable quantum cryptography.

New radar technology will allow forecasters to better «see» extreme weather, as will potential improvements to satellite technology, as well as computer models that run on more powerful supercomputers.

Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a new research paper on «topological insulators,» an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies, is shown here inspecting devices made from topological insulators under a microscope before electrical measurements.

Researches have uncovered «smoking - gun» evidence to confirm the workings of an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies.

According to David Hughes of SGI, which is providing the computer technology for the virtual reality theatre, «it will be an amazingly powerful tool for communicating complex science principals and findings to the public... as well as providing a powerful resource in Glasgow for business and research institutions for special events.»

Lead author, Dr. Stephan Lautenschlager of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences said: «With modern computer technology, such as CT scanning and digital visualisation, we now have powerful tools at our disposal, with which we can get a step closer to restore fossil animals to their life - like condition.»

In addition to secure storage, the University Technology Center houses powerful computers and data storage devices for analyzing information.

Faster and more powerful computers: CeNTech Prof. Wolfram Pernice from the Physical Institute of the University of Münster, together with scientists from Belgium, France, Great Britain and Switzerland, want to develop an intelligently networked computer technology that works in a similar way to a brain.

If the computer re-designed receptors could be adapted in plants so that their highly specific and sensitive detection abilities are functionally linked to such a plant response, a powerful and inexpensive detection technology would result.

Virtual reality (VR) is a computer technology that uses virtual reality headsets or multi-projected environments, sometimes in combination with physical Stable and powerful free email, fun, dating, photo, groupware portal with more than 10 year experience and millions of trusted users.

He must ask Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to launch a major campaign (as part of the I - 3 initiative, perhaps) to give schools incentives to take advantage of new technologies that are rapidly coming on line — broadband, powerful computers, 3 - dimensional presentation of material (ala Avatar), and open - source curricular development (ala Wikipedia).

If that's the kind of article you are looking for, keep looking, because this article on computer - simulation technology is, rather, about how and why yet another technology that could be enormously powerful for our kids» learning is getting short shrift in our educational system — despite the successes we can, in fact, find and cite.

From the earliest years we teach our children that if they have a problem, we have an external tool that will fix it (computers are not the only tools; Ritalin, for example, is a powerful technology that has been scandalously overprescribed to «fix» behavior problems).

Mean scores for the survey item, «Using computer technologies as a tool to reflect upon my teaching practices is a powerful way to improve them,» were also incorporated into the analysis for the fourth research question.

Results of the survey item, «Using computer technologies as a tool to reflect upon my teaching practices is a powerful way to improve them,» can be found in Figure 4.

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But the compression ratio has risen from 9.5 - to - 1 to 9.9 - to - 1, and combined with a new 32 - bit engine control computer and more powerful ignition, that has knocked output up from 295 to 320 horsepower while adding GM's «Active Fuel Management» cylinder deactivation technology (formerly called «Displacement on Demand»).

But incredibly powerful technologies, such as ultrafast portable computers and near - ubiquitous communications, have made it easier than ever (and perhaps more tempting) to illegally copy someone else's work.

For more than 30 years, Hershman Leeson has employed innovative technology to probe issues of identity, embodiment and expression in newly engaging ways, producing complex works of computer engineering as well as powerful documentaries and feature films.

He says he shares his year of birth — 1946 — with ENIAC, the world's first electronic general - purpose computer (a.k.a. «the Great Brain»), and proceeds to mark off life's milestones not with new bicycles, marriage proposals or children's births but with the advent of ever more powerful technology.

Research some famous people and how their vision changed the world; Martin Luther King's «I have a dream» speech, President Kennedy's vision of sending man to the moon, Bill Gates» vision of putting a computer in every home and Steve Job's vision of turning powerful technology into easy to use every day tools.