The information-processing abilities of DNA are a form of natural molecular computing, and computer viruses leap from machine to machine in ways reminiscent of their disease-causing namesakes.
But leaps in machine learning, by which artificial intelligences are programmed to teach themselves, have started pushing at that premise.
"During a recent investigation we turned up at the offices of a private investigation agency and while we were there the fax machine leapt into life.
MOTHER KÜSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN Rainer Werner Fassbinder's satirical melodrama, from 1975, is set in motion by the offscreen outburst of Hermann Küsters, an elderly factory worker who kills his boss and commits suicide by leaping into a machine.
As its wholesome perpetual-motion machines leap, tumble and whipsaw through the halls and playgrounds of East High, you want to leave the world behind and be one of them now and forever.
"As its wholesome perpetual-motion machines leap, tumble and whipsaw through the halls and playgrounds of East High, you want to leave the world behind and be one of them now and forever," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times in October.
One particularly limber cop jumped up onto the stalled bulldozer, climbed into the cab, grabbed White, and leapt off the machine with him bringing him to the ground with what looked sort of like a top-rope pile driver.
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Created by Diego martinez Plasencia, Edward Joyce, and Sriram Subramanian, MisTable integrates a Kinect, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) tabletop (typically used to visualize an infrared spectrum of gas, or in this case, vapor), a Leap controller, fog machines, and projectors to bring this next-gen interface to life.
That was a huge technological leap from the fax machine.
