He also has a nice computer with two flat-panel monitors on his desk, which sits in the middle of the small trading floor where he and his team of 20 analysts work.
In November Ovshinsky dropped another doozy: He told an audience in Japan that he has made possible a cognitive computer, one that can mimic the human brain by busting through the limitations of conventional computing's binary system.
He is 80 years old, visually impaired, has never used a computer nor does he expect to learn to use one.
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He has a day job designing strategy computer games for Big Huge Games of Hunt Valley, Md.
My teenage son has been staying up until one and two in the morning to finish his homework , and then falling asleep in class the next day.. Thank goodness he recently came up with a possible fix: SelfControl, a free app he has installed on his computer.
Kevin Bong, a Wisconsin-based security researcher and penetration tester, has developed what he calls the Mini Pwner, a spy computer smaller than a smartphone designed to be inconspicuously plugged into an ethernet port to gain access to a corporate network, feeding information back to a nearby hacker over its wifi signal.
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He has five, including an animal photography business, a computer consulting business as well as a web design firm.
He has written several books and, on a Panasonic Toughbook computer that rarely leaves his side, produces a constant stream of poems, essays, and blog postings.
He broods in front of the computer most of the day, scanning chemical databases and holding his fire until he has a really good idea.
He has no computer at his desk, just an Etch A Sketch on which co-workers can leave friendly messages.
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He has since returned to academia, and is a professor in computer science at the Athens University of Economics and Business.
The trial heard that the computer analysis system he uses has never been used in a UK Court.
By running repeated computer simulations, he has worked out what would happen if a red-dwarf star were to pass through the solar system.
Judge Kelly ordered the 48-year-old, who also faces four charges of taking part in an unnotified public procession and encouraging or assisting offences, to hand over any and all of his mobile phones, any computer he has in his home and not to go within a kilometre of any parade, protest or procession.
The test, which he outlined in 1950, basically has humans hold conversations with another person and with a computer.
PCs are another thing: the advance of networked-computer systems in business has already led, he argues, to a new surge of organisational innovation.
Another device, available to him since 1992, is image-enhancement by computer, which he has used for what many take as almost a trademark: recognisable scenes from impossible perspectives.
And while Laporte gently suggests that what Google needs is less computer scientists and more social scientists, Russell laughs and admits he has a Ph.
In a March 2010 interview with state-run China National Radio, Mr. Rong said his school has offered computer courses for 15 years and has a large computer classroom with over 1, 300 computers, which he called a world record.
He's got a crush on his computer operating system, named Tammy, and has the great misfortune of getting stuck in a time loop.
However, rather than have part of the proof done by hand, and part by computer, he has automated the entire proof, and done so in such a manner that it is a formal proof.
He has explored crystal growth, and developed, with a specialist in nature-related algorithms, a 3-D program mimicking the way crystals actually grow over millions of years (with this particular program, he and the scientists he has been working with made virtual crystals grow directly on a ring-like structure on their computer, almost instantly, then manufactured them with a 3-D printer).
The 43-year-old is a wanted man in the US, where he has been accused of "the biggest military computer hack of all time".
He has shrunk the electronics dramatically, from a cart the size of a washing machine to just a computer and something the size of a DVD player.
He has also come under fire for switching contracts for the Meteorological Department's purchase of a weather forecasting computer.
He says that Visa has a great brand, a huge network and one of the most powerful, reliable computer systems on the planet.
He says that with so many devices around, the value of having a powerful computer on a single chip has diminished.
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