But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

A cow is released from the station if the computer decides it should not be milked.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

He says one of the more popular items is a portable computer from nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

Metheny says he worked with inventors and technicians from around the country to build the robotic instruments used on Orchestrion. He programs and controls every sound from his computer, guitar or keyboard.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

"We are here today to announce the first synthetic cell -- a cell made by starting with the digital code in the computer, building the chromosome from four bottles of chemicals, assembling that chromosome in yeast, transplanting it into a recipient bacterial cell and transforming that cell into a new bacterial species."

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The events of May 6 triggered an investigation as to whether the feverish sell-off stemmed from a computer glitch or market manipulation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

Many Americans can access the Internet on everything from a desktop computer to a handheld phone.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

"We've also learned a lot about the virus from mathematical and computer modeling.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

The computer program continuously takes in data from a glucose monitor inserted into a patient's vein and calculates the dose of artificial insulin that needs to be infused through an insulin pump.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

But climate change skeptics have seized on the recent theft of thousands of private e-mail messages from computer servers at a British climate research center to cast doubt on whether global warming is as serious as it has been made out to be.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Although we run it on a laptop so that we can monitor its operation, the algorithm itself doesn't require a lot of computer power and could easily be run from a chip that has the capabilities of one that's already in insulin pumps or in cell phones."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15