This means that atoms in different traps could be brought together, made to perform a computation and then separated.
For example, Zynga has created a computation that follows average daily users and average daily bookings (or revenue) per daily user.
In a later calculation, the Grid's software could then automatically detect whether a computation had to be started from scratch, or could take a short cut using a previous result stored somewhere in the system.
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They completed the initial book last December and recompiled the book using a different computation method this past April.
Money is a form of computation: As money is transferred from one eager owner to another, it computes the value of goods and services.
In an interview, the boss was particularly high on the company's imaging and printing business, not just as a cash-spewing consumer business, but as a sophisticated, computation-driven resource for big companies, much like the plans Cisco Systems has for intelligent routers and EMC is planning for storage systems that actively manage how documents are used.
In an interview, the boss was particularly high on the company's imaging and printing business, not just as a cash-spewing consumer business, but as a sophisticated, computation-driven resource for big companies, much like the plans Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) has for intelligent routers and EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ) is planning for storage systems that actively manage how documents are used.
"A kid in Africa with a smartphone is walking around with a trillion dollars of computation circa 1970, " he says.
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"A kid in Africa with a smartphone is walking around with a trillion dollars of computation circa 1970s, " he says.
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She is a scientist at the Argonne National Lab and a fellow of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago.
If a participant shuts down his PC during a crucial bit of computation to vacation for two weeks, it must be reassigned.
Google sees television much as it sees phones, and most other devices we use: They will all be nodes to a system of immense computation.
Your income tax expense under GAAP is a make-believe computation.
Even with the computation occurring at a data center, a Watson smartphone application would still consume too much power to be practical today.
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Most recently, a team from Stanford took the helm of Sequoia to run computational fluid dynamics simulations -- a process that requires a finely tuned balance of computation, memory and communication components -- in order to better understand engine noise from supersonic jets.
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Called Rapyuta, the online "brain" describes objects robots have met and can also carry out complicated computation on behalf of a robot.
In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.
This benchmark was developed for solving a system of linear equations using matrix computation.
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The microconsole plugs into a TV, like a games console, but almost no computation is being done at the client side.
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Meanwhile, Dr Forrest's group has constructed an experimental set-up, described in a paper recently submitted to the Evolutionary Computation Journal, that mimics the way real immune systems identify invading pathogens.
Now a slew of new firms are racing to enlist thousands of individual PC owners to join their "grids, " aiming to rent out this parallel power to computation-hungry clients for a fee.
This computation, which is known as a time-weighted return, assumes something, however: a hypothetical investor who started five years ago and stayed put.
"We were motivated by a desire to design a system for anyone to both build with fabric in a way similar to playing with Lego and create objects that are rich with relevant context-aware computation without having to program, " said Nanda, who devised the patches for a project towards a Media Arts and Sciences masters degree.
"We are going to extend the grid, bring in more computers, " said Charles Catlett , a researcher at the University of Chicago's Computation Institute and the director of the TeraGrid project.
The computer robot would then suggest the most logical output based on mathematical computation that yielded the best results within a given time period, taking into account potential statistical probabilities for failures and unpredicted consequences.
That will almost certainly happen as the Internet reaches its full potential as a means of anywhere, always, continuous communication and computation.
And still out there waiting to be created is that most elusive of breakthroughs--a nanoscale "universal computer" that can do any kind of computation.
Microsoft Research architect Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality and visual computing, is starting a new lab in San Francisco dedicated to developing new kinds of computation, based on tactile and motor experiences.
Yet I believe that taking principles from one domain and applying them to a new context -- in this case mixing traditional visual aesthetics with advanced computation and algorithms -- is where the practice of design tends to make its biggest marks.
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