Then, he needed two hours of computer time to calculate a single cell's activity during a fraction of a millisecond.
Now, he can get one of his virtual cells to perform for ten minutes using that same amount of computer time.
Anything below a 90 will merit restrictions on discretionary computer time, including a girl losing the privilege of working in her bedroom.
It is a really long time in computer time.
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Like most monitoring programs, it also allows Mr. Daniels to see whether all his employees, including 16 office workers and 24 who work from home, are using their computer time in productive ways.
Considering that, a few years ago, it was rare to get the computer time needed to do even a single geoengineering simulation with a state-of-the-art climate model, this investment of time and effort marks a big step forward.
The big, smart brand has figured out a way to pool the idle computer time of the thousands of members of its People for a Smarter Planet campaign on Facebook and use it to fight childhood cancer, find treatments for AIDS, research clean energy solutions, and many other things that will benefit humanity.
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Organizers also added an additional computer test for the semifinals, imposed time limits on computer-based spelling and vocabulary tests and added a rule that resulted in automatic elimination for any participant who misspelled a word on stage in the second or third rounds.
Scientists are working on a number of ways to allow for real-time computer translation of spoken languages.
Consider the fact that every day, there are first time computer buyers (like students) about to start college.
Software that turns a Raspberry Pi computer into a time-lapse camera has won a contest for teenage programmers.
Acer projects sales will increase by more than 50.0% as first-time computer users in developing markets snap up the small, cheap laptops.
Forbes recently put Thrun, a German-born Google vice president and part-time computer science professor at Stanford, on the cover of the magazine.
According to Forrester, today's computers use more technologies common to the Whirlwind than any other computer of its time, including parallel data transmission.
Jon Simpson, a technician from Sundance Computers, a small-time computer store in northern California, said he was impressed by the vast array of fresh products on display.
"He was very, very hurt, and was on the computer all the time looking and trying to find anything that had to do with Hailey, " she said Friday.
The trackpad, for instance, will be made to respond less sensitively, by software adjustments Google will make upstream that then show up in the computer the next time you sign on.
Many were first time computer users.
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The VAX remains the single most influential computer of all time--not just because of its pre-eminence among minis in the 1970s and 1980s, but because Ted Hoff so admired it that he used its architecture as the basis of the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor.
The songwriter was just adhering to that old adage of "writing what you know, " having worked as a full-time computer programmer prior to giving the music world a go -- though, as he readily admits, he still keeps it real by coding for his own site.
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For example, the act of remembering is a bit like a computer reading a location and rewriting the information at the same time, but a computer can rewrite the exact data that was there whereas humans alter it a bit each time they remember.
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The study, out of the University College London, confirms that time spent at a computer is as damaging to the heart as time spent lounging in front of a television screen.
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In the 1970s he built the largest computer network at the time for florist network FTD.
It is the first piece of good news for the floundering computer maker for some time.
The home projects class, elegance--and a time before computer chips and fiber-optic cables ruled the local land.
With the player program installed on the computer, it is time to get some songs to play.
Then it copies itself into the Windows directory as an executable file, and is launched the next time the computer is booted.
We have over 900 students and everybody is excited as majority of the students are seeing a computer for the first time.
Wozniak was definitively one of the best computer engineers of his time.
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The 43-year-old is a wanted man in the US, where he has been accused of "the biggest military computer hack of all time".
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