Sentence examples for computer a kind of from inspiring English sources

In "Abstracting Craft," McCullough identifies a problem of definition: to what extent can one consider "working on a computer," or, better, "making work on a computer," a kind of craft?

Bill Gates showed off "what he called a tablet computer, a kind of electronic sketchpad which turns ordinary handwriting into digital ink".

Goodman and his students have developed a programming language, called Webppl, that can be used to give computers a kind of probabilistic common sense, which turns out to be pretty useful in a conversation.

"We could then have had a position where it could have been assessed in a British context – after all, he was sitting in his bedroom by a computer, as a kind of computer geek zapping the American defence system and therefore he was committing an offence on British soil".

It is in this way that a computer reflects a kind of "intelligence" similar to that of humans.

After 33 years at Lucent Technologies and its corporate predecessors, Kathy Fionte felt at home enough to treat her office computer as a kind of personal file cabinet.

Although he was fascinated by the project, Mr Young didn't want to end up looking like a sci-fi "killing machine" or becoming a walking, talking advertisement for a computer game – a kind of cyborg billboard.

Even more remote is the science-fiction fantasy that, one day, a human being's connectome could be simulated and "uploaded" onto a computer, conferring a kind of electronic immortality.

Yet, we continue to treat the personal computer as a kind of magnificent novelty.

Then I read that "women" wear "sexually suggestive" garments and now I feel like I'm sitting at my computer wearing a kind of allegorical fedora just from reading it.

Only recently, he argues, did computers hit a kind of critical mass; workers had so much digital power on their desks that it muscled its way into the statistics.