Sentences with phrase «purpose computer»

And the modern general purpose computer is the smartphone.

As mobile platforms have made small, high - performance computing devices extremely cheap, we will have more and more dedicated - purpose computers in our homes.

What happens when you give a general - purpose computer chip a high - resolution view of its environment and the ability to react to what it sees?

It is an appliance not a general purpose computer.

The ESI phone system we use (essentially a small special purpose computer) now has it's own UPS.

Because they are an embedded device running general purpose code, they can be exploited just like any other general purpose computer running potentially buggy code.

l Mechanical: In 1837, Charles Babbage published designs for the Analytical Engine, a general - purpose computer based on rotating gears, but he died before he was able to build it.

Researchers turn to the Open Computing Language as a way to get graphics and general - purpose computer processors on the same page for more powerful number crunching

But what I can't forgive is that the tiff handed the market to Apple, forever sealing the tablet space as a closed consumer product, which in turn has jump - started the demise of the open general purpose computer platform.

Java is a general - purpose computer programming language which is concurrent, class - based, object - oriented, and specifically designed to have a few implementation dependencies.

Yet, the system runs Windows Vista Home Premium 64 - bit, so it is a general purpose computer as well.

Equihash is a memory - hard problem, more suited to general - purpose computers with lots of memory than to special hardware chips.

l Vacuum tubes: The US army's Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), which contained more than 17,000 tubes, became the first fully electronic general - purpose computer in 1946.

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.

He knew that in order to make it a true general - purpose computer, it would need to inspire programmers who could coax various tasks out of the hardware.

Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general - purpose computer were women: «Despite our coming of age in an era when women's career opportunities were generally quite confined, we helped initiate the era of the computer.»

Data gathered by all 28 of the 82 - foot -(25 - meter --RRB- diameter dish antennas are brought to a correlator — a central, special - purpose computer — which merges the input into a form that allows scientists to produce detailed, high - quality images of the astronomical objects under investigation.

The explanation of this apparent paradox follows from the fact that the human brain, in its entirety, is not a true programmable, general - purpose computer (what computer scientists refer to as a universal machine; almost all computers nowadays are examples of such machines).

The challenge facing roboticists is to take general - purpose computers and program them to match the largely special - purpose human brain, with its ultraoptimized perceptual inheritance and other peculiar evolutionary traits.

l Optical, DNA and more: Transistors using laser light, DNA molecules and other exotic materials all exist, but have yet to spawn general - purpose computers.

Second, physicists are working with so - called analog quantum simulators — machines that can't act like a general - purpose computer, but rather are designed to explore specific problems in quantum physics.

In Socorro, astronomers and computer scientists used a special - purpose computer to digitally combine the signals from the satellite and the ground telescopes to make them all work together as a single, giant radio telescope.

A belief in a single intelligence assumes that we have one central, all - purpose computer — and it determines how well we perform in every sector of life.

It's quite an experience to sample the different ways in which teachers, administrators, museum directors, neurologists, and others have made use of what is essentially a simple claim: rather than the mind / brain having a single all - purpose computer (which yields a single IQ score), it is better described as consisting of a number of relatively independent computers of information, which we call the «multiple intelligences.»

A full - fledged tablet can be a better choice than an e-ink reader if you plan to watch videos or play games a lot, or if you need more general - purpose computer - like functionality such as email and web browsing.

It's more of an all - purpose computer than an e-reader.

Gaming, as a business, can not be sustained as a platform independent of a general purpose computer.

Jurisprudence there has established that a general purpose computer, when programmed to perform a particular task, is indeed considered a «particular» machine.

«Neither party disputes that the claims recite the use of general purpose computers that carry out the abstract idea,» wrote Judge Lourie.

The goal has been to keep the cryptocurrency industry as decentralized as possible, enabling everyone with a general - purpose computer to play a role in the mining process.

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.

But in the mid-1990s, the Federal Circuit (the court that hears patent appeals) first held that an algorithm implemented in a general - purpose computer could be patentable.