Sentences with phrase «using computer labs»

Through financial modeling, we've come up with many ways in which schools can get better results without spending more, including by paying their best teachers more, delivering electives in new ways and using computer labs to deliver personalized instruction.

On a weekday morning last year, the only people using the computer lab, equipped with 100 new PCs, were two teenage boys playing video games.

It is also important to communicate with the media specialist, librarian or computer lab teacher in your building if you are using resources located in the school library or intend to use the computer lab.

«Math and English teachers are required to use the computer lab at least three days every six weeks.

Still others borrow computers, use the computer lab, ask if a student can work quietly on an unused computer in another teacher's room, or provide alternate times during which students can access the computer — before school, at lunch, during recess, or after school.

It was an opportunity to use the computer lab once in a while and look for books to help support research.

The time block set aside for the children to use the computer lab is sometimes not long enough for them to reply, and some students lack the keyboarding skills to respond quickly.

If your own printer won't do the job, use a computer lab or professional print service.

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Brivo Labs, a U.S. firm, used the kit to integrate the Nymi Band into an office security system, meaning that employees wearing the device can seamlessly log in to any computer and enter any room for which they have permission.

The film describes how Jobs and Wozniak used key concepts from a Xerox computer lab to develop their product while still keeping the appearance of counter-cultural businessmen.

About 20 years ago when he was working at Bell Labs (now AT&T's Image Processing Research Department), he happened upon a way of thinking about teaching computers to see that wasn't really used outside of academia until about three years ago.

The Myo armband's proprietary EMG sensors, built in - house by Thalmic Labs, are being used in combination with a highly sensitive motion sensor to translate American Sign Language on a computer screen.

Congregations are using computer technology primarily in these areas: administration and finance, communications, learning labs, and multimedia presentations for worship and education.

It is not uncommon for a church computer lab to be used in the mornings by elderly people who are learning to e-mail their grandchildren and in the evenings by a youth group playing Bible software games.

7.1 Nutritional analysis information provided by FOOD LAB is based on the estimated database analysis using available standard USDA ingredients or specific brand name ingredients that are contained within FOOD LAB's computer database programs.

«The case centered on alleged use of a Trojan horse spy program in late 2006 to poke into the lab's computers to extract information about Landis» file — months after he tested positive — to use in his defense.»

Instead of heading to the crowded computer lab like I had to do in college when I needed to use a computer, students now need their own laptop so that they can work comfortably in their dorm room or wherever they are.

Instruments in Music and the keyboards in the computer lab need to be cleaned before child uses them.

They will be able to log in using the same username and password they use at school and will see the same desktop that they see in most of our computer labs, libraries and classrooms.

But then computer use became more common and larger institutions developed a LIMS to provide a simplified data management system within the lab.

HP Labs is developing a prototype for a flexible screen that could be used in products from computers to smart phones to e-books.

I had zero computer experience; in fact, I could barely type, but a postdoc in the lab helped me do a BLAST search using my gene's protein sequence as a query.

Such use of computers to enhance the quality of low - resolution images is familiar to fans of CSI and other TV police procedurals, where law enforcement lab technicians often crack a case by magnifying some small detail of a digital image pulled from grainy surveillance footage.

Using the new methods of micromachining, which borrow technology for making computer chips to carve out and build up microscopic structures on silicon wafers, Peter Gammel and his colleagues at Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies reduced three of the critical devices of a cell phone to Lilliputian size that will allow all the components of a phone to be constructed on a single chip.

Having used some of the tools computer scientists developed in the lab gives him a respect for both the research and its applicability, he says.

In the new study, Lu and his coworkers used a computer program, developed in the Baker lab and called Rosetta, that can predict the structure a protein will fold into after it has been synthesized.

If they were, gaming computers worldwide might well be consuming billions of dollars less in electricity use annually, with no loss in performance, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

First author Tim M. Jacobs, PhD, a former graduate student in the Kuhlman lab, used this method to map out 50,000 of these stitched together proteins on the computer.

What they call «Plan 9» started as a potential successor to the Unix computer operating system, but Bell Labs have lately adapted it for use in set - top boxes to connect television sets with video networks.

Chiu's lab has been using cryo - EM and computer reconstruction techniques to build 3 - D molecular structures for almost 30 years.

To use his hand, Burkhart must travel to the lab, where he is hooked up to a tabletop full of bulky equipment, such as the computer that runs the algorithm.

«The data from these games will help us better understand how to use multi-robot systems with massive populations to perform coordinated, complex tasks,» said lab director James McLurkin, assistant professor of computer science at Rice.

In what he termed «a poor man's supercomputer,» Carlisle used about a dozen desktop computers in the Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center lab that ran simultaneously 24/7 for about a month during one summer.

The Grieneisen lab uses the reference plant Arabidopsis and computer models to focus on the misshapen misfits called pavement cells that make up the surface of plant leaves.

Second Life, the creation of Linden Lab in San Francisco, provides its active - user base of one million with a real - time experience on their personal computer, in which they use digital characters called avatars to wander around castles, deserted islands and other fantastic 3 - D environments.

To resolve the picture of the chemosensory array, Schulten and his colleagues used molecular dynamic flexible fitting, a computer modeling approach Schulten's lab developed at Illinois.

They have developed a set of tools that can be used to make accurate, rapid assessments of proposed materials, using a series of relatively simple lab tests combined with computer modeling of the physical properties of the material itself, as well as additional modeling based on a statistical method known as Bayesian inference.

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And, Kurchin says, making use of the computational tools to screen possible materials will be increasingly useful because «lab equipment has gotten more expensive, and computers have gotten cheaper.

Back in the lab, using a wind tunnel and computer - controlled odor - stimulus system, the moths in free flight were tested to see just how finely they could discern different frequencies of Sacred Datura odor as well as mixes of background odors from creosote bushes.

«Using computers is no substitute for doing hands - on stuff in the lab.

It wasn't until the 1990s that Allan Wilks and Colin Mallows of AT&T Labs finally found that final piece of the puzzle, and they had to use computers to do it.

«If we can show that quantum effects survive for a long time in biological molecules and work out how that happens, then we can use that information to design better quantum computers in the lab,» he says.

And finally, Martin Leach, a self - confessed «genome hacker,» tells us how he used his lifelong interest in computers to propel himself away from the lab bench and into senior management at Curagen Corp..

With funding from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), he's working with a far - flung team at five universities and four IBM labs to create a new computer chip that can mimic the cortex using far less power than a computer.

Computer resources at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) were used to locate the September 2014 star explosion.

These researchers conduct lab experiments, investigate animal skeletons, study soils and streams, or use computer simulations to visualize how particles can form and attach.

Specifically, Lindstrom will investigate how novel data compression techniques can be used to more accurately and efficiently solve partial differential equations and other numerical computations that underlie the Lab's many physics - based computer simulation codes.

Breaking the supermassive black hole speed limit — Using computer codes for modeling the interaction of matter and radiation related to the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission, scientists simulated collapsing stars that resulted in supermassive black holes forming in less time than expected, cosmologically speaking — in the first billion years of the universe.

In our lab we use a combination of quantitative single cell experiments and computer / in silico models to better understand miRNA regulation.