In 65 short years, the humble transistor evolved into an artificial life form called Watson, a computer system that recognizes natural language and, in 2011, handily defeated two former champions on the TV quiz show Jeopardy.
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Examine the sound-wave form of the album on a computer screen, and you will see a solid bar, free of any dynamic spikes or divots.
The exhibit takes the form of a multi-player computer game in which visitors are invited to explore a particular subject, such as the possibility of male pregnancy.
The chip relied on a form of memory that would have made putting the processor in a computer too expensive to compete on price with older Pentiums.
Have you ever been in the middle of filling out a form on a web page and you got called away from your computer, only to come back and discover the session had timed out and you had to fill out the form all over again from the beginning?
They translate analog signals that move through a cable or over the air into digital bits, which form the binary code that's comprehensible to a computer.
Frank Gehry, a godfather of contemporary American design if there is one, is shown crumpling paper or aluminium foil into a form, and then scanning the shape by computer in order to reduce it to two dimensions or make it into a model, so that a design can be refined or manufactured.
There, a DNA-sequencing machine fired lasers at the fragments and read their genetic code, yielding a computer file in the form of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
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Dr. Atzmon's vision and breakthrough technology led him to form Smartfish Technologies and launch a line of computer peripherals based on the company's ErgoMotion technologies, beginning with the Whirl Mouse, to promote a healthy PC lifestyle for work and play.
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But when shareholders don't have the documents in hand, they seem to have a hard time walking the form and its special code to the computer, despite an envelope that was redesigned last year to add a large "vote" logo.
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The software includes an auto-recognition feature that identifies any device plugged into a laptop, from an electrocardiogram machine to an electron microscope, and translates the signals into a form that can be received by hospital computer systems at the other end.
In fact, Surface Pro will basically be a touch-screen version of an Ultrabook computer, the lightweight laptop form factor that Intel has been touting for the past year as a Macbook Air competitor.
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So what's the future now that anyone almost can own a synthesizer in the form of some of the computer programs, KaBoom?
So Fastcase and others are paying Indian data-entry firms 40 to 60 cents per 1, 000 characters to "triple-key" the books into digital form, with three typists entering the text and a computer picking the version at least two agree upon.
This helps to reduce the number of interface ports needed on a Personal Computer, which is desirable as form factors shrink.
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Additionally, it will draw in many people who have never owned a computer at all, because it has a compelling form factor and fantastic, intuitive interface.
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Khatib decided to share a longstanding problem in AIDS research in the form of Foldit, a program that reframes scientific challenges as a competitive multiplayer computer game.
To take one example, an ObamaCare-mandated update to a major computer network called the System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing, which governs insurance approvals, has been delayed by months.
Gamification is in fact already gaining a foothold in education, and some would argue that it has always played a prominent role in one form or another, even in the pre-computer era.
The millennium bug is a computer glitch which results from dates being stored in two-digit form on older computers.
AMD's real answer came in the form of a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses Intel of a litany of abuses, including using rebates to bribe computer makers into limiting their AMD purchases and threatening uncooperative customers with delayed shipments.
Of course the goal of advertising has always been to present the right message to the right consumers but the current form of television advertising that was ushered in during the Mad Men era is a blunt instrument in an age of computer controlled laser surgery.
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