In conceiving the exhibition, the curators were especially inspired by Mr. Hamilton's work and his belief that human and machine share a "dream-like life, " having come to act as a single entity.
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But this scale-out architecture represents a new design center, and there is much work still left to harness this machine and make it usable for the enterprise.
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Though the SESAME Centre has been in existence since 2004 and has been functioning since then both as regards work on the upgrading of the machine and the training of a users community, it is today, with the building in place and the microtron installed, that the true beginnings of the laboratory are seen.
Inside, in a space not much bigger than a three-car garage, was a single shaft-painting machine, a work station where clubs were cut to size and grips attached, and racks containing 40, 000 to 50, 000 shafts and 5, 000 clubheads.
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It also holds a work table by an Amish carpenter, a sewing machine and racks of fabrics.
With the advent of the machine age, and the influx of workers into cities to work in factories, people gradually lost control over their own destinies.
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Inspired by trips to the Paris museum of science, Vincent has been fascinated by the machine world since his youth and incorporates it into most of his work.
In 1892 two brothers opened a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio and soon turned their minds to how a flying machine might work.
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Although there are no moving parts to go wrong, the law of averages seems to dictate that some of the myriad components will occasionally fail, and scientists who work regularly on computors rely on the machine being available for at best only 80 per cent of its theoretical working time.
Happy ones work like a well-oiled machine, phones are answered, deadlines met and everyone goes home whistling to dinner shortly after five.
Nope, he gave a few hundred people jobs, and by creating a machine, that is doing all the real work, for serving the needs of all the Facebook uses.
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The old machine shops, tool and dye makers and myriad parts manufacturers were decimated as that work often went offshore to cheaper manufacturers.
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Work on the machine was carried out by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in the US, and Seoul National University in South Korea.
This past weekend, I saw a story with a photo of an elderly woman sitting at a sewing machine working on prom dresses and the article went on to say that she has to work in order to supplement her Social Security.
Back in October, we heard that Sean Anders and John Morris -- the comedy screenwriting duo behind "Hot Tub Time Machine" and "Mr. Popper's Penguins" -- were hard at work on a script.
The detector allows the machine's operators to work out which particles have been created by the electron-positron collisions, and to follow their patterns of decay.
"As well as explaining how the machine worked, we're also going to explain how the rebuild process took place and all the work that Tony did to do that, " said Mr Murrell.
Both parties have to register their fingerprints using a biometric scanner that's plugged into the washing machine, which will only work if it scans a different finger than the one used before (you could also trick the machine and use two of your own fingers when you first set things up, but you'd only be fooling yourself right?).
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Mine went from shipping container to functional machine in under four minutes, including fitting a loaded battery for eight-plus hours of work, initial registration, and access to an online word processing site.
Ironically, the wood inlays are so impeccably finished they look artificial and both the hand-stitched upholstery and leather-trimmed dashboard are finished so precisely it looks as if the work were done by machine.
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