Sentence examples for instance computer from inspiring English sources

Over the last two decades, for instance, computer simulations have lent increasing support for the idea of cold dark matter.

For instance, computer and fax modems often communicate by sending eight-bit blocks, with one of the bits reserved as a parity bit.

For instance, computer users who visited blogs late Tuesday and early Wednesday were greeted with banner ads from the Service Employees International Union that proclaimed: "You voted for Obama.

For instance, computer users would be able to take out mortgages, buy insurance, even enter a binding contract with their roofer without ever leaving their home, signing a piece of paper or waiting for the back-and-forth of mailed paperwork.

At Stanford University, for instance, computer scientists are developing a robot that can use a hammer and a screwdriver to assemble an Ikea bookcase (a project beyond the reach of many humans) as well as tidy up after a party, load a dishwasher or take out the trash.

In 2010, for instance, computer trading algorithms contributed to the "flash crash" that briefly wiped $1 trillion off stock market valuations.

"We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women who have had years of education, to know nothing about the world, to have read nothing, knowing only some specialty or other, for instance, computers," she said in her speech.

In her acceptance speech for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing lamented a "fragmenting culture" in which "it is common for young men and women who have had years of education to know nothing about the world, to have read nothing, knowing only some specialty or other, for instance computers".

We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women, who have had years of education, to know nothing of the world, to have read nothing, knowing only some speciality or other, for instance, computers.

For instance, computers support the creation of new alternative item types and innovative item formats (Sireci and Zenisky 2006); items on computer-based tests can be scored immediately to offer immediate feedback to the examinees (Drasgow and Mattern 2006); and computers also allow on-demand testing (van der Linden and Glas 2010).

Scientists might be able to develop, for instance, computer-based games designed to help people with a history of depression to reduce their biases towards negative facial expressions and stimuli.