An existing computational model was able to predict whether gas prices would go up or down about 40% of the time.

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The 11- year-old company, which was founded by a research scientist, spent years constructing a computational model of hearing, then decided to apply its technology to voice enhancement.

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But, with the advancement in computational power, scientists and engineers are able to model the sonic boom itself.

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Doshi has recruited engineers from Miami and Atlanta for his venture, but he got some key technology nearby: To perfect the design of a filter, he got computational engineers at the SimCenter at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to model thousands of air- and liquid-flow variables.

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