Caldeira decided to prove his point by running a computer simulation of Wood's approach.
Attendees were shown a computer simulation of what a cyberattack on the Eastern Seaboard's electrical supply might look like.
While the team may have achieved a computer simulation of something, critics say, it was not a brain slice.
Writing in The Geophysical Journal International, they describe a computer simulation of an impact in the Atlantic about 370 miles off the East Coast.
Scientists studying the effect of extreme winds on deep waters created a computer simulation of how wind could have parted the Red Sea.
He collaborated with researchers at the University of Hull in England to create a computer simulation of the tuatara's chewing motions.
Before the robot is deployed, it uses a computer simulation of its own body to create a detailed map of the types of movements it can make – something the researchers describe as the robot's "simulated childhood".
He also showed off the kind of intellectual firepower the institute would bring to the investigation, displaying a computer simulation of one of the fireballs fed by jet fuel from the planes that ignited in the collisions.
One approach is to build a computer simulation of what happened in the blackout, and then tinker with the settings, to determine what would have happened if various parts had been set to act later, or, perhaps, earlier.
At a security symposium last August, Mr. Staniford and two co-authors presented "How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time," which described a computer simulation of a worm attack.
Dr. Chatterjee and colleagues have answered that question by creating a computer simulation of the bird's aerodynamic characteristics, using measurements from fossils at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
