Sentences with phrase «stories about computers»

Lauren Ipsum: A Story about Computer Science and Other Improbable Things.

In the Classroom: Bueno's Lauren Ipsum: A Story about Computer Science and Other Improbably Things is full of puzzles, wordplay, and metaphors.

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As Rubin attempted to tell a story about the problems she was having obtaining a new credit card, Orkin repeatedly cut her off, until a discreet slide - in notification appeared on his computer screen: «Frequent overlaps.»

Journalist Robert Zimmer with The Atlantic says, «An increasingly familiar and seductive story has been circulating about young people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs and computer giants, consider dropping out of college a fast track to business success.»

Now cross reference this with the assertions in the Bloomberg story about the various American companies, which run the gamut from banks to ISPs and computer hardware / software makers:

An increasingly familiar and seductive story has been circulating about young people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs and computer giants, consider dropping out of college a fast track to business success.

I thought of that this morning when I sat down at the computer to blog about the past week or two because I don't have any manifestos or soapbox rants right now, I don't have any thing worth «sharing» with your Facebook friends or pinning on Pinterest, it's a little story of our family's days the past while here.

Y» all are just sad, little people, who spend all your time on a computer looking for inspirational and spiritual stories to be negative about.

I get where you're coming from, but there's literally nothing I can do from my computer on my couch to further verify what is being said, and it would be pretty disingenuous to ignore the story everyone in the entire league was talking about.

There isn't a television in our house, and no one cares much about the computer (besides Mama)... but these little typing machines are in daily use with all the newspapers and stories and notes that are written around these parts.

It honestly feels like moments ago that I was sat at this computer writing Alex's birth story and it just feels completely crazy that I am now about to write his one year update!

How many times had my eyes strayed back to my computer screen in the middle of one of her stories about how terribly painful the invisible scratch on her pinky toe was or how pretty the light looked as it danced through the dust motes in front of the window?

Minsky, who was heavily influenced by Jack Williamson's The Humanoids, and Isaac Asimov's robot stories in his youth, tried to program Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics into the primitive computers of the 1960s at MIT; he failed, but learned a lot about hierarchical programming in the process.

They said they had been led to believe that the interviews were for a straight documentary about «developmental evolutionary» science rather than a video promoting a computer game (see the news story in Science's 24 October issue).

In this episode, Scientific American senior writer Wayt Gibbs talks about what he learned at a major computer security conference, the RSA Conference 2006; physicist Mark Shegelski reveals some of the science secrets about the Olympic sport of curling; and frequent Scientific American contributor JR Minkel discusses a number of stories he picked up at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• We mistakenly illustrated a story about «pointillist graphics» for computers (3 April, p 18) with a standard polygon image;...

The book's strength lies in specific examples — detailed stories about 3M, Pixar, Bob Dylan and Don Lee, the computer programmer who became a master mixer of quirky cocktails.

Asimov's stories about the relationship between people and robots were only a few years old when the phrase «artificial intelligence» (AI) was used for the first time in a 1955 proposal for a study on using computers to ``... solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans.»

If you follow me on Instagram and you watch my IG stories, you've probably seen / heard me talk about my computer glasses from Clearly before.

I knew about the computer games, but I thought that stories about a Broadway musical and a Christmas special called Shrek the Halls were slightly heavy - handed jokes, but I should have known better.

«The Iron Giant» is a story about a friendship between a (2 - D) boy and a (computer - animated) robot.

Good: Starscream is a lot cooler in this movie, Best computer - graphics for any movie to date, Original Optimus voice, Bumblebee vs. Barricade scene was awesome, Decent story, but the Unicron story is a million times better Bad: No Hot Rod or Soundwave, Shia LeBeouf, Ending, Futile attempts to connect to classic scenes, lines and concepts, No Stan Bush soundtrack, Some immature humor ruined a lot of the movie for me, Poor dialogue I really expected a lot from this movie and am very critical about my feelings towards it - Overall Michael Bay made a good movie, but he made it appeal to the masses (immature jokes and a lot of action) and it gave up a lot of other crucial aspects to the story and quality of the Transformers franchise.

In addition to the films favorably mentioned in my preamble, I would also recommend: «The Square,» «Room 237,» «Much Ado About Nothing,» «We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks,» «Computer Chess,» «Tim's Vermeer,» «From Up on Poppy Hill,» «Inequality For All,» «Dirty Wars,» «Wadjda,» and «Gim me the Loot.»

In this week's Entertainment Weekly cover story, Joss Whedon says that, yes, the casting of Paul Bettany, who has voiced the computer JARVIS, as the android Vision isn't a coincidence, but that he's «not going to tell you any more about The Vision.»

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Telling a story about people wanting to make computers isn't exactly inspiring.

Yet, for a silly story aimed at children, the film (which mixes live action and computer animation) does offer positive messages about teamwork, cooperation, and taking control of one's life — with an ample helping of history appreciation on the side.

Films like Moonlight and Dirty Computer delve into the inner lives of queer people and tell important stories about what it means to be a marginalized minority.

The big Audience Award winners are: Burden, a story about a former Klansman being taken in by a Reverend starring Garrett Hedlund & Forest Whitaker, from director Andrew Heckler; The Sentence, a documentary by Rudy Valdez; and Search, the computer screen film (read my review) directed by Aneesh Chaganty.

Strip away the computer effects, however, and he's stuck in a very ordinary story about young love.

«Spike Jonze's quirky love story about a lonely man and his warmhearted computer operating system, was named best picture of 2013 on Wednesday by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

Barry Levinson, director of HBO's The Wizard of Lies, talks about the Madoff story and how he set a room full of computers on fire (not really).

After that, each class read different books about the Orphan Train and students used original computer - generated artwork to create slide shows about the stories.

A story in the Sept. 3, 2003, issue of Education Week about the American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence («Essays on New Teachers» Test to Be Graded by Computers») misstated the requirements for veteran teachers seeking the board's approval.

We heard many stories about SBAC testing that are common to high - stakes, standardized tests: the tests dramatically disrupted the educational process, deprived students of hours of instructional time, reduced stressed out students to tears, and monopolized the computer labs and libraries in service of test administration for weeks at a time.

In a language arts application, teachers might ask students to use the computer in teams, solve a case, then write a creative story about their adventure.

In related work she explores how art making can be a point of departure for student stories about the emotional experience of learning computer programming.

In considering the process of planning, developing, creating, and reviewing a computer game, educators thought about how pupils could develop a digital story using the same tools and process.

Just as Wired magazine published a headline - grabbing story about hackers taking control of a new Jeep Cherokee with UConnect, engineers, computer programmers, professors, and lawyers were meeting in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to discuss evolution of the autonomous, connected automobile.

I have written several books, none published as yet as for me, when I began writing it was all about getting the ideas out of my head and onto the paper, (later computer), story written and the end finally reached.

In this story — about a Pulitzer - nominated author who turns to Twitter for promotion, then finds romance — Medeiros «demonstrates the ways in which courting via computer can expedite seduction — but also trick the heart and muddle the mind.»

From Sarah Hoyt, who was accused of racism and «internalized misogyny» for her association with the Sad Puppies campaign to reform the Hugo Awards, to Nick Cole, who lost a publishing contract for daring to write a story about an artificially intelligent computer who is troubled by abortion, these authors have faced smear campaigns, boycotts and blacklisting for the sin of having unpopular opinions.

I find if I should get stuck in my writing walking away from the computer and doing anything but NOT thinking about my story helps free my thoughts.

Although the specifics about the Minneapolis Police Department's operation were conveniently fictionalized for the sake of the story, the bravery and decency of the officers depicted in the book certainly mirrors reality The novel features a very inventive and shocking computer game.

I am not very savy about computers like John is so I don't know how to put a link in here to my stories but my name is Bill Russo and the title of my flashes is «In a land where you can not flip a coin.»

I've lately been on a short story binge, as there are a lot of them offered for free in the Amazon Kindle store — if you missed yesterday's post about the number of free short stories in the Kindle store, that's okay: if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/mSX6o4 into your computer's web browser, you can surf and click away and grab as many of the 92 I told you about as you want.

For example, describe your first computer, try to recall the emotions you experienced when your parents bought it for you, make a story about the role of computer in your academic and social life, etc..

From Sarah Hoyt, who was accused of racism and «internalized misogyny» for her association with the Sad Puppies campaign to reform the Hugo Awards, to Nick Cole, who lost a publishing contract for daring to write a story about an artificially intelligent computer who is troubled by abortion, these authors have faced smear -LSB-...]

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We all have stories about hateful copiers and hellish computers that drove our productivity levels down the drain.