Dr Bilham and Vinod Gaur, from the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bangalore, writing late last year in Current Science, said that until recently Indian seismological research has neglected a technique known as geodesy, which measures the strains accumulating in, and distorting the surfaces of, plates.
As a professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he's using a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation and behavioral experiments to explain how people learn new things.
Silicon Valley is built on computers, which are made up of mathematical algorithms and logic created by computer scientists.
But first the benefits will accrue to high-end uses, the kinds of applications IBM itself is targeting in which intuitive computing will change the game as much as mathematical computing did for banks and computer games.
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By lining up thousands of these bits, a computer can perform complicated mathematical calculations, and even use that ability to do tasks like downloading a Web page and displaying it on a screen.
This used the life of Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul of the homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.
Instead bitcoins are "mined" by people getting their computer to perform a complicated and time-consuming mathematical problem.
Two weeks ago a team led by Isaac Chuang at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) disclosed that it had built a 5-qubit quantum computer and used it to solve a relatively simple mathematical problem.
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