In order for Romania to get those computers it needed, it would buy, say, one computer from IBM (IBM) and then set its computer scientists to work reverse engineering the computer and building similar ones for internal use.
Because in the world I was in, building computer systems, determinism was the name of the game.
Other options, including building computer centers, teaching the basics of web functionality and running broadband awareness campaigns were much less popular, garnering the approval of 5% or fewer respondents.
These architects are engaging what and how we build in terms of the achievements of the 20th-century revolution in aesthetics and technology and the equally revolutionary opportunities provided by incredibly rapid developments in materials and computer-aided building technologies.
Proposals typically focus on building public computer centers and educating people about the value of broadband.
Building a computer into a table that several users can gather around is one way that researchers are tackling that challenge.
To take advantage of this Brad Norman, of Murdoch University in Perth, is building a computer database of pictures of individual sharks.
Who decides what a reasonable wage is, and where God stands in the choice between leaving a field under wheat and building a computer plant on it?
My dad was an engineer and I spent countless hours tinkering with him on the DIY projects he had going on around our house, from using an oscilloscope and hand tools, to being allowed to drive the tractor, learning how to set spark plugs and change a timing belt, swapping out alternators, building a computer and soldering circuit paths on to an early motherboard .
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Not that building a tablet computer to attack the college textbook business is a terrible idea.
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McLelland and Hasse both participated in last year's prosecution of Williams on charges that he stole three computer monitors from an office building.
Figuring she wasn't alone, she approached friend and computer whiz Garrett Berg about building an algorithm to convert apparel sizes from one retailer to another.
"Although we are still some way off actually building a quantum computer, the possibilities are extraordinary, " says Professor Neil Johnson of the University of Miami's Department of Physics.
Lastly, Nvidia announced it is building super-computer processors as well.
The Travelstar Z7K500 is geared to notebook computer manufacturers, particularly those building ultrabooks where the 7-mm HDD height is needed to fit into the slim form factor of these computers.
It was in the summer of the Bicentennial, when Steve Wozniak, wanting to impress his friends at the homebrew computer club, set about building the Apple I and set the PC revolution in motion.
Among its innovations: a sensor that warns firefighters of an impending building collapse, lighter breathing apparatus and a computer chip that monitors firefighters' vital signs inside a burning building.
Essentially it requires building a whole new computer from the ground up.
As such, the iWatch becomes very secure and could have more applications such as secured-building entry, secure computer or device access, or even secure car or home entry.
That was an unfortunate loss, not only for him, but for science as well because progress on building a smarter chess computer effectively ended after that, he said.
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Nanotechnology techniques such as self-assembling promise researchers an intriguing alternative to continuing to refine the most commonly used technique for building transistors on silicon computer chips, namely, optical lithography.
Dell's sales of servers, for example, the building blocks of corporate computer networks, rose just 9% between the September and December 1998 quarters, compared with 32% sequential growth for the industry as a whole.
Motorola's news follows similar announcements by Chinese computer maker Lenovo, which is building a manufacturing plant in North Carolina, and Apple, which has said it will begin manufacturing a Mac computer in the U.S. this year.
This week, a team of Finnish researchers did what we would have thought was impossible, building an electricity-free computer that's powered by water droplets.
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Jobs and Steve Wozniak famously created the Apple computer in Jobs' family garage, building the device by hand and financing the company through the sale of Wozniak's fancy calculator and Jobs' VW camper van.
Eventually, Swartz broke into a closet in the basement of building at MIT and connected his computer directly to the network.
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Superposition is, nevertheless, crucial to the idea of building what is known as a quantum computer.
Last summer the computer flashed a "buy" signal for home building stocks, whose earnings were growing at 10% to 20%.
Expansions in the field of computer science have offered a glut of attempts at building such monsters, but machine intelligence has remained a holy grail.
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One afternoon, Lauren's class was building cardboard and construction-paper models of New York landmarks, a lesson that leads up to the challenge of building 3-D models in the computer.
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