Scientists are working on a number of ways to allow for real-time computer translation of spoken languages.
Consider the fact that every day, there are first time computer buyers (like students) about to start college.
Acer projects sales will increase by more than 50.0% as first-time computer users in developing markets snap up the small, cheap laptops.
Forbes recently put Thrun, a German-born Google vice president and part-time computer science professor at Stanford, on the cover of the magazine.
Jon Simpson, a technician from Sundance Computers, a small-time computer store in northern California, said he was impressed by the vast array of fresh products on display.
Many were first time computer users.
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The songwriter was just adhering to that old adage of "writing what you know, " having worked as a full-time computer programmer prior to giving the music world a go -- though, as he readily admits, he still keeps it real by coding for his own site.
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It is a really long time in computer time.
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The home projects class, elegance--and a time before computer chips and fiber-optic cables ruled the local land.
Then it copies itself into the Windows directory as an executable file, and is launched the next time the computer is booted.
At the time a computer-generated Max would have been so expensive that the creators hired a human actor and faked the computer effects.
In other words, by the time the computer has worked out how the fire will spread, the forecast is already long out of date.
But he's learning that he can no longer play the same role that he did in the early days, when he spent most of his time writing computer code.
At the same time, computer makers such as Dell and HP have been exploiting clauses in the licensing terms that let them rollback machines with Vista pre-installed to the older operating system.
In the last year, MOOCs have been growing fast, with several start-ups, including Udacity, founded by Sebastian Thrun, a German-born Google vice president and part-time Stanford computer science professor, edX, a collaboration between Harvard and M.
Sport and stars notwithstanding, ratings are likely to go on falling, not just because of new television services, but also because television viewing is falling as children and teenagers increasingly spend time on computer games and the Internet.
" Teachers typically allot class time for computer use when they require kids to get online, but Mr. Adams acknowledges that those students who have home Internet have the advantage of "unlimited time to pull in more information and fine-tune their digital projects.
Organizers also added an additional computer test for the semifinals, imposed time limits on computer-based spelling and vocabulary tests and added a rule that resulted in automatic elimination for any participant who misspelled a word on stage in the second or third rounds.
For example, the act of remembering is a bit like a computer reading a location and rewriting the information at the same time, but a computer can rewrite the exact data that was there whereas humans alter it a bit each time they remember.
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The study, out of the University College London, confirms that time spent at a computer is as damaging to the heart as time spent lounging in front of a television screen.
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She said he became distant and spent an inordinate amount of time on the computer.
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Steve Jobs had by that time started Apple Computer, and gave Apple's twelfth machine for use in Nepal.
As Ternovskiy spent more and more time on the computer, his grades tumbled.
Iomega now boasts an installed base of 13 million drives, many purchased at the same time as the computer itself.
Then, he needed two hours of computer time to calculate a single cell's activity during a fraction of a millisecond.
Now, he can get one of his virtual cells to perform for ten minutes using that same amount of computer time.
Anything below a 90 will merit restrictions on discretionary computer time, including a girl losing the privilege of working in her bedroom.
That amount of time without a computer may be fine for some.
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Users also have the ability to remote access from anywhere at any time via desktop computer or using a free app available for Android and iOS devices.
For extreme overclocking enthusiasts, they can use their mobile phone to monitor frequency, temperature and voltage parameters in real time while their computer is running full-screen testing software.
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