After a third presentation, a demonstration of an inexpensive computer, capable of reading brain waves, that had arisen from a DARPA program to fund D.I.Y. neuroscience, audience members stood and offered some casual general announcements, which suggested the uses to which the night's demos might be put.
His 1995 novel, "Galatea 2.2," for example, was about a scientist who tries to build a computer capable of full human consciousness, including an ability to read — and understand — literature.
The German-American scientist Joseph Weizenbaum builds ELIZA, a computer capable of having a human conversation in English and inspired by Turing's idea of computer intelligence.
Five years before the appearance of the first personal computer, they were presented with a computer capable of word processing and spreadsheets.
In 1963, at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Max Vernon Mathews and his coworkers devised a computer capable of synthesizing sound directly.
Rapid progress in computer science prompted many, including Turing, to contemplate whether we could build a computer capable of thought.
"Kudu Studio is thus responsible for creating a computer capable of reproducing the movement of the moon with the sun".
Before consumers move their dealings with a company into cyberspace, they will be sent a test e-mail and a document to confirm that their computer is capable of reading the format that the company uses to store and send its records.
A computer vision system is capable of reading not just the size and shape of a room, but also all of the items in the room and treating them as discrete objects.
The researchers will develop a device capable of reading the messages inscribed in the cards.
Turing proved that this minimalist design is a "universal" computer, capable of performing any calculation.
