Sentence examples for computer provokes from inspiring English sources

Writing with the computer provokes and enables pupils to engage with aspects of multimodal design [Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures, Routledge, London, 2000].

The excitement surrounding the reporting in 1949 of what was the first recognisably modern computer provoked a reaction unexpected by its developers; Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Manchester, on being asked to deliver the Lister Oration on 9 June 1949 chose "The Mind of Mechanical Man" as his subject.

And Alloway of Motte & Bailey says he's able to outwit the megalisters' computers, provoking price wars and then buying up books at below market value, holding them until prices readjust.

In a world where we're already peering at screens all day long, pecked at by alerts, the prospect of an eyeball computer can provoke a shudder.

The plan to bundle the software into every new computer in China had provoked an unprecedented wave of online opposition, protests by foreign governments and calls by prominent bloggers for Chinese netizens to climb, attack and demonstrate against the "Great Firewall".

But the match promoter Brain Games Network decided instead to hold a qualifying event to which many of the world's strongest programs were not invited, provoking outrage in computer chess forums on the internet.

[C3.] The arrest and arraignment of Mr. Sklyarov have provoked outrage in Russia's computer programming industry.

"I think it's not wise to provoke either side," said a computer scientist, Min Wang, who came to Jersey City five years ago from mainland China.

The protesters' automated "clickings," simultaneously enacted from multiple computers around the world, provoke such an excess of traffic that the targeted site's server is unable to handle it.

Computers and computer games provide the framework for this thought-provoking memoir.

The arrest and arraignment of a Russian programmer in the United States have provoked outrage in this country's computer programming industry.