The award recognizes outstanding inventors who create new solutions to real-world problems.

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But for those of you who decide to go on in computer science realize there is a whole interesting world that uses details like these in the world of networking, in hardware, to actually solve some real world problems.

而对于你们中想要在计算机科学,方面有所发展的人，将会遇到一个非常有趣的领域,在那个世界里，会有许多像网络世界，硬件界,这样或那样的小细节，但又往往是这些小细节才解决了许多真实世界里的问题。

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So let's not put him only on the spot; there's a whole bunch of us in this room and we can actually apply this same idea not to these phone books but actually to other real world problems, there's a whole bunch of people in this room.

所以我们不要只让他一个人体验,教室里还有一大帮人,其实这种方法不仅可以用来查找电话簿,还可以应用到现实生活当中,教室里有这么多人。

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The study of scientific psychology has a lot of insights of real world relevance to real problems that we face in our everyday lives.

科学的心理学研究,能让你们更多地了解,与我们日常面对的真实问题有关的,真实的世界

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