Data were collected and analyzed by complementary computer software.
Horvitz is engaged in what he calls "complementary computing, where the computer understands human limitations and fills in the gaps," he told me in his office, in Redmond.
With the arrival this week of Windows 7 and a host of complementary, slick computers, Microsoft intends to undermine those Apple ads that mock PCs and their users as stumbling bores.
These types of tasks are not only difficult to be replaced by machines, but they are also complementary to computer technologies.
As a complementary tool, computer simulations, particularly the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and the associated theoretical calculations, can overcome such deficiencies and have therefore become essential tools in the investigation of a wide range of chemical and biological systems (Karplus and Petsko, 1990; Karplus and McCammon, 2002).
Before the start of the pilot, the study selected participants had to fill in a questionnaire regarding their own computer literacy and skills: this provided a snapshot of participants' past and present use of technology and guided later the development of complementary introductory computer trainings.
When he and Brin met, at Stanford, they had complementary interests in computers.
So maybe office workers will soon be wondering whether their skills are complementary with the computer's, or whether it would actually do better on its own.
A former research engineer at M.I.T., Mr. Montgomery, who is 44, sees his music as complementary to the computer-based calculations he uses to pick stocks for the $42 million Bridgeway Ultra-Small Company Portfolio.
Another complementary technique is "computer vision" - the use of software to make sense of 360-degree images captured by cameras attached to the vehicle, which can warn of pedestrians, cyclists, roadworks and other objects that might be in the vehicle's path.
