For example, one of the reasons some high-technology manufacturing has lately been moving back to the United States is that these days the most valuable piece of a computer, the motherboard, is basically made by robots, so cheap Asian labor is no longer a reason to produce them abroad.
In the investigation of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the authorities pursued thousands of fruitless tips from the public before linking what seemed like an inconsequential piece of evidence from the crash scene -- a piece of a computer chip -- to Libyan terrorists, said William Baker, a former senior official at the F.B.I. who ran the investigation.
In b (upper plot), we show a small piece of a computer program for playing chess.
Ms Mori has connected the LED lights of the piece to a computer at the cosmic-ray research station of the University of Tokyo which monitors the presence of neutrinos in the Earth's atmosphere, the result of cosmological events.
With shisheh, you could lock-in for hours to a piece of music, a computer game, a deal, sex, studying, whatever was your primary fix.
The FBI determined the piece of equipment, a computer monitor, to be acting normally, and reopened the airport.
In Duolingo, a large piece of text is broken into easy and difficult pieces — by a computer, of course — then parceled out to students at varying levels and put back together, again by a machine.
They then plugged each of those pieces into a computer model that calculated all of the energy losses by noting points where mirrors were not optimally oriented to the sun and places where they hindered one another by blocking incoming or reflected rays.
Although Spector is mostly known for her wood-based sculptures, she has also worked in textiles, and found herself drawn to one piece of equipment: a computer-guided embroidery machine, which she nicknamed "Gwen".
Get pieces of paper (or a computer), a pencil, pen, (unless you're going to use the computer...) and your imagination.
