Cuyahoga County technicians clustered around the computer, debating what to do.
For example, at the end of the journalist John Markoff's above-the-fold, front-page article in The New York Times, ("Software Subs for Professors on Essay Test, Grading by Computers Debated on Campus" -- as it appeared in the paper), he quotes a University of Akron professor, Mark D. Shermis, who "supervised" a contest on automated essay scoring and came away excited about its possibilities.
As we who are blessed enough to be reading this article sit comfortably at our computers debating whether or not women really can have it all, millions of girls around the world confront a far more fundamental question each day: Will I survive?
He has played a key role in the computer privacy debate.
He also has been a long-time contributor to the computer privacy debate, starting with the issue of DES key size in 1975 and continuing with service (1994-96) on the National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptographic Policy, whose main recommendations were implemented soon afterward.
On Friday, computer experts debated whether Stuxnet was responsible for the surprising development.
Thanks to snowballing computer power, a debate now rages among engineers over whether algorithms that "evolve" new programs, systems and machines could one day displace conventional design.
It took another 40 years of data gathering, computer simulations and debate before an international panel of climate experts concluded in 2001 that "most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations".
The concept of monitoring umpires by camera and computer has been debated since QuesTec made its debut as part of baseball's taking more control over umpires.
Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society's workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone.
