By plotting a ship's course and comparing it to patterns of movement where the ship's purpose is known, computers are able to "recognize" what a ship is doing.
Although all medical schools in South Africa require students to use computers in their studies, little is known about computer use by doctors and nurses in South Africa.
It is known that computer games are motivating for children, but there is limited direct evidence of their effects on classroom learning.
This last condition linked to electronic gadget use is known as computer vision syndrome, and Dr. Gardiner is seeing it more often.
"This is an incredible opportunity for the college," said Gail O. Mellow, new president of the school, which is known for computer science.
Patrick Howneraniel, ofner of Build Your CNC, creates kits for machines that use what is known as computer numerical control, for small to midsize companies.
But the Y2K problem, as it is known in computer jargon, is already draining hundreds of billions of dollars from companies and governments struggling to tame what some call the millennium bug.
"This is known as computer tampering.
Exploiting characteristic quantities, called features, for automatically determining categories is known in computer science as unsupervised learning [21] [23].
This proved to be a much more reliable test of whether a visitor to a website was human or not (something that is known, in computer-science terminology, as a Turing test, in honour of Alan Turing, a British computer scientist).
