Someday, such a machine could be sent to explore a distant planet, where it could clone itself.
If, on the other hand, you've never set eyes or hands on such a machine, here's the deal.
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And such a machine could be pitted against a human opponent, giving a clear measure of the machine's ability in this kind of reasoning.
The other type would be network-based intrusion-detectors such as a machine running Marcus J.
The logic of protectionism would demand that such a miraculous machine be dismantled and the blueprint destroyed, in order to save jobs.
But there are three major problems which have been true of all of the various attempts from PDAs onwards to produce just such a one stop machine.
On a lark, Mr. Minsky spent some time "inventing useless things, " he says, such as a "gravity machine, " a device that would ring a bell if the force of gravity changed.
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And as they improve, the machine-based tutoring technologies will become good enough for those who could or would have paid full price or changed up their schedule to connect with a human tutor, such that machine-based tutoring may well be the norm for many of us as a prime mode of learning in the future.
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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 such machine might be a dedicated loghost to which the syslog daemons on your other machines report their operations.
The intelligence in the ThingShapes can monitor for relevant business events, compare them to past results, and notify the industrial social network of people and other things about important events such as a quality problem, a machine failure, or a late order.
Besides the inevitable headaches that would come from trying to obtain permits to install a 25-story machine with blades that stretch 250 feet, such a turbine would generate more electricity than a typical store needs, Pool says.
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This program is then fed into a second piece of software called a compiler, which translates it into a sequence of machine instructions for a specific kind of microprocessor, such as Intel's x86 family, which can then run the original program.
In fact, the world champion complained that IBM had cheated, that no machine could play with such a deft human touch.
With two piston-like windows on its eastern flank, this building looks a lot like a giant garment worker's sewing machine -- an appropriate image for a company such as Wacoal.
Yes, adding a touch display would add weight to the already-substantial machine, but given that Windows 8 sports such a finger-friendly interface, the UX51Vz might feel like an incomplete version of the W8 experience.
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Music scholar and composer David Cope has built a machine which creates music of such profound artistic quality that it can even fool the experts.
Of course this is part rumour but the thing is that the iPad, like the iPhone, has become such a huge product, selling so many units, that preparation for even a change in the machine, let alone preparation for a new model, simply cannot be kept quiet.
Clearly, for apps developers there is an interest in developing for a machine that is likely to have such a wide market.
The company is involved in a European Union programme to develop technology, such as machine vision, to make robots cleverer.
The remarkable amusement park is the brainchild of La Machine, a street theater company famous for such creations as the 15-meter spider that crawled through Liverpool, in Britain, as part of the city's Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008.
Some of these customers are to be found just up the road, part of the dense engineering conglomeration of this most industrious of towns, but others, such as Boeing Aerospace, for which Pietro Carnaghi has built a machine to shape the top of Delta-4 rockets, are in America.
In manufacturing, innovations such as programmable machine tools make capital equipment more flexible, creating a demand for more flexible human capital, too.
But it also suggested that not all gun control was unconstitutional, particularly a ban on "dangerous and unusual weapons", such as machine guns.
Several departments emblematic of old-style central planning, such as coal and machine-building, have been subsumed under a new "super-ministry, " the State Economic and Trade Commission.
Once teams of hard-working Japanese salesmen had prised open American and European markets in the 1970s, Western consumers were quickly won over by Japanese quality, design and price, whether in fuel-efficient cars or snazzy electronic gizmos, such as the Sony Walkman (for readers under 30: a portable machine that played music from tapes) or the Nintendo DS (for readers over 30: a gadget for playing video games).
Expect a major battle between the Redmond machine and traditional security vendors such as McAfee and Symantec.
Mr. Ordas suggests performing exercises such as a seated or standing row with dumbbells or on a seated row machine to work the back muscles.
"It may be easier for criminals to tamper with a machine that is in a non-bank location, such as a grocery store, deli or shopping mall, " the New York state banking department advises.
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