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The new process is called Computation Scaling (CS) and is "a process that enables the production of complex, powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors at 22 nm and beyond."
TG Daily - All News 2008
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"Computation" is pretty much the same word as "computer," so we like the metaphor.
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"Computation" is pretty much the same word as "computer," so we like the metaphor.
Josh Clark: How Does Multitasking Affect Memory? Josh Clark 2010
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Maybe I'm not using it like I'm supposed to, but I don't see much Web 2.0 "Computation" going around.
And Far Away 2009
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VAN HEEMST H.D.J. and STARING G.J. - Computation of the absolute maximum food production of the world.
Futurology, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Computation is an abstract formal process, like addition.
Watson Doesn't Know It Won on 'Jeopardy!' John Searle 2011
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Computation emerged not from processors or data buses, but out of the components and practices of vacuum-tube electronics in the 1940s.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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Computation or digital technology is a collection—an extremely large vocabulary—of pieces and parts: hardware, software, transmission networks, protocols, languages, very large scale integrated circuits, algorithms, and all components and practices that belong to these.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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Computation works well as long as you can reduce something to a numerical description for mathematical manipulation.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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Computation of income in Japanese income taxation: A study in the adjustment of theory to reality by Morio Uematsu
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Delusional and Stupid Tax Deniers 2009
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