Back in the ancient past of computing, the 1950's through the 1970's, when the dreaded monopolist of the industry resided in suburban New York instead of suburban Seattle, I.B.M. was a magnet for antitrust suits.
Just five years ago (ancient times for computing), a 14.4-kilobit modem used with a normal telephone line represented the cutting edge in digital communication; now Internet users with cable or broadband modems can surf more than 100 times faster.
LAUREL GRAEBER ABACUS AFTERNOONS (Saturday) Today's children may have grown up on calculators, but these workshops, part of the "Living Arts" program at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, will introduce them to the fun of a far more ancient means of computing.
LAUREL GRAEBER ABACUS AFTERNOONS (Tomorrow Todayy's children may have grown up on calculators, but these workshops, part of the "Living Arts" program at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, will introduce them to the fun of a far more ancient means of computing.
In this respect, Gmail has been a retro service, resembling the text-only computing of ancient times, before mice and touch pads.
Since the 19th century, numerous scholars have sought to use archaeoastronomical calculations to demonstrate the antiquity of Ancient Indian Vedic culture, computing the dates of astronomical observations ambiguously described in ancient poetry to as early as 4000 BCE.
To test the hypothesis of an ancient population expansion, we computed Tajima's D in sliding windows along the genome of A. baumannii (see Materials and Methods) (Tajima 1989).
The exact value of π=3.14159... has fascinated people since ancient times, and mathematicians have computed trillions of digits.
Stress suppresses the immune system, lowers the good cholesterol, increases the bad, and leaves decision making up to a hysterical corner of your ancient brain that can't compute the social stressors of the modern world.
