The centerpiece of the system is an ultra-small Mac minicomputer safely housed under the rear shelf in an electrically deployed drawer whose design mirrors the design of the computer itself.
Such growth has been fuelled by the expansion of digital-media work, like the design of computer games, in which Britain is a world leader.
Cookson believes the sintering process, "puts the power in terms of the computer-aided design rather than the bench skills".
Dr Swade, agreed that this was the correct approach and said a virtual recreation of the machine could solve "95% of problems" and allow them to use computer to design the thousands of individual parts needed to make the behemoth.
In these days of CAD (computer-aided design) the structures of Constantin Brancusi, Georges Vantongerloo, El Lissitsky and Vladimir Tatlin may feel quaint.
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But it was the era of flower power and free living, and entrepreneurship and computer design were not always at the forefront of his mind.
Robin Kyte believes mastering the use of 3D printing and computer aided design, is just the latest addition to the skills jewellers should learn, and it won't, in his view, replace traditional craftsmanship.
The GD300's sleek ergonomic design was the result of input and feedback from wearable-computer users from the military, government and emergency first responders.
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The design of cyberwar-fighting rules is complicated by the extent to which computer networks are globally interconnected.
The version of the computer that reached the market was substantially different than the design you worked on?
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These printers use something like a toothpaste tube of plastic or other material held vertically in an X-Y plotter that squirts out thin layers of tiny dots of material that build up, layer by layer, to produce a 3D replica of the computer-generated design.
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In the early 1990s, my work focused on combining the rigid vocabulary of computer programming with the playful possibilities of art and design.
When people talk about reducing the energy and carbon impact of air travel, they almost always focus on improving the design of engines, wings and fuselages, or on using computer systems to shorten flight paths and eliminate delays.
Another student, named Yushi Wang, applied the principles of quantum physics to design a faster computer chip.
The design of the movement itself would be impossible without three-dimensional computer imaging.
Luke Weber taught himself how to design computer games in high school and became one of the most popular contributors to Roblox Corp.
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With the help of advanced computer technology used to design fighter planes, he has been able to calculate structure, curvature, material and cost so accurately that forms impossible to create and build through traditional methods can now be brought in on budget and on time.
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The Stanford team's work was featured recently as an invited paper at the prestigious International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) as well as a "keynote paper" in the highly regarded IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
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Once a design is set, different bits of the manufacturing process are tried out on computer: a virtual pipe-bending machine, for instance, makes sure that the fuel lines which snake their way through the airframe can be created without wrapping themselves around the machine and bringing it to a halt.
The independent inquiry board set up to investigate the first explosive failure said the flight control system failed because of errors in computer software design.
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Provo, the home of Brigham Young University, is a high-tech hub, the home of Novell and hundreds of other computer and graphic-design companies.
But just like televisions, computer-aided design and manufacturing has changed the abilities and durability of the cars, bringing them into line with other, much more expensive automobiles.
What computer aided design and manufacturing have done visibly for architecture in the work of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, they can now do for the unseen working of jet engines.
But computer manufacturers need to know all about the innards of new chips to design their machines.
In June, a team of federal investigators announced that a botched computer analysis resulted in design flaws that are largely to blame for the unusual tube wear.
Or you can fire up the computer and surf over to online furniture outlet Design Within Reach, and shop for one of the graceful chairs designed by the Finnish genius Eero Saarinen--he died in 1961--that are crudely echoed on the Jetsons.
Software now covers a maze of different industries, including applications software, operating systems, databases, the Internet, computer-aided design and networking.
Instead of trying to revamp JIMS with brand-new technology, Harris County has stuck to its grand-design architecture by migrating its legacy database to the more current Model 204 Database Management System, made by Computer Corporation of America, and rewriting Cobol applications in the Model 204 language.
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