For his part, Mr. Denton spends a lot more time reading computer code than blogs.
For example, he favored one model of a disk drive — for reading computer programs stored on small, removable so-called floppy disks — while other members of the team championed another design.
All events will take place in the Heimbold Family Children's Learning Center, which has a reading nook, computers, a prop-filled stage set and "a full-size Viking made of Lego pieces," Ms. Carter said.
Purchasers pay to download the file(s) as a "read only" computer file.
A man, mid-sixties, competently dressed for the cold weather in a well-cut coat and a hat, reads a computer printout, in Russian, of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road".
She peers approvingly over the shoulder of a young male outpatient as he studiously reads a computer screen, pen at hand.
"I've definitely become more courageous over the years," said Ann Kilhoffer-Reichert, 41, a marketing consultant in San Diego who has never read a computer manual.
In 1999, Dr. Blum and his group were working on ways to help aging eyes read a computer screen.
All participants were required to be fluent in written and spoken English and able to read a computer screen.
To evaluate the accuracy of the assignment of such short Illumina reads, a computer simulation experiment was conducted.
Janie has brought Lulu into bed to feed her; Vince is reading a computer magazine.
