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computation

kompyuhtay shuhn

  • n  the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
  • n  problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
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  • Steven Chu in UPI.com
    Computation and supercomputing are critical to solving some of our greatest scientific challenges,said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "This year's INCITE awards reflect the enormous growth in demand for complex modeling and simulation...
  • Ray Kurzweil in VNUNet.com
    The paradigm shift rate is now doubling every decade, so the next half century will see 32 times more technical progress than the past half century,said Dr Kurzweil. "Computation, communication, biological technologies such as DNA...
  • Mark Dean in CNET News.com
    The problems we're looking at aren't computationally driven per se, but more information management problems,said Mark Dean, an IBM fellow and director of the Almaden Research Center. "Computation is not the hard part anymore."

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