A set of instructions that directs a computer's hardware to perform a task is called a program, or software program.
"The hardest class I took was an advanced writing class on American musical theater," said Betty Campbell, 82, a mathematician who directed a computer facility for the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at M.I.T. before she retired in 1982.
In the most common type of laser eye surgery, which takes 10 to 15 minutes, a surgeon slices the eyeball, lifts a hinged flap and directs a computer-programmed laser to change the curvature of the eye.
Directing a conventional computer, in those days, meant typing in a command on the keyboard.
Reduce overheating the video card by directing a fan at your computer.
I have spent much of the year running for San Francisco Board of Education while also directing a young nonprofit offering free computer science coding courses to high school students and young adults called Mission Bit.
INDIANAPOLIS — The video of Dana Altman's most embarrassing professional moment is on YouTube, shot by a hand-held camera directed at a computer screen, viewed nearly 18,000 times.
More advanced and more critical applications of control concern large and complex systems the very existence of which depends on coordinated operation using numerous individual control devices (usually directed by a computer).
The PA signals, which were received by the ultrasonic transducers, were spirally distributed on the surface of the bowl and then directed to a computer.
We previously demonstrated the feasibility of safe and effective bihormonal therapy with subcutaneous insulin and glucagon directed by a computer algorithm using frequently sampled venous plasma glucose (PG) in sedentary subjects over the course of 27 h (6).
