A mode of operating a computer in which a single computer instruction or part of a computer instruction is executed in response to an external signal.

操作计算机的一种方式，按照这种方式，响应一个外部信号只执行一条计算机指令，或执行一条计算机指令的一部分。

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An area in which the computer has made considerable strides in recent years is in playing chess.

近年来计算机取得重大进展的一个领域是国际象棋。

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The technology relies on a tiny computer chip, embedded in each cell phone, which communicates with a reader-device at stores, train stations and vending machines for cashless payments.

这项技术依赖于嵌入在每个手机中的微型计算机芯片，它可以与商店、火车站和自动售货机中的读取器进行无现金支付。

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"Some of our projects have looked at what we call situational impairments, which are challenges to accessibility that are caused more by the situation or context that the computer user is in instead of maybe as we usually think of accessibility as having to do with someone's own physical or cognitive state."

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So there are also an increasing number of women in computer science and particular this course which we are thrilled about.

所有有越来越多的女生对计算机,尤其是对我们这门课程感兴趣,我们很高兴看到这一情况。

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Which are actually things that take in a value and ask the computer to do something with it.

这其实也就是让计算机,对某个值进行某种操作。

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Each participant was told that he or she would compete against an unseen opponent in a 25-trial computer game in which the object was to be the first to respond to a visual cue on the computer screen.

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We have then written computer programs in which these pessimistic speculations and predictions are core assumptions that govern the outcome of the computer models.

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Instead, they remember the pathway to find it again, like the computer folder in which it was saved.

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