Researchers at IBM are also using scanning tunnelling microscopy to probe the limits of magnetic data storage.
As in Ashbery's "The System", however, beneath the ubiquitous semblance of order the poet is busy probing the limits of reality and social control.
Postmodern gymnastics aside, the book is entertaining and often poignant, probing the limits of technology, consciousness, and language in the face of grief.
She is constantly probing the limits of acceptable social discourse, seeking ways to incite laughter (or gasps) without bringing the language police down on her head.
It is a matter of probing the limits of the new freedoms, knowing that the battle for a free media still has a long way to go.
Not one to shy away from controversy or from probing the limits of sexual embarrassment, Mary McCarthy wasn't a likely writer for Harold Ross's New Yorker, much less for any "old lady in Dubuque".
But behind every outbreak are individuals probing the limits of self-expression, flirting, often perilously, with the blurry line between the permissible and the punishable.
And in the last election it was already probing the limits of the court's rulings with commercials like one in New Hampshire denouncing Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, as "a taxing machine".
OVER the last week, scattered groups of protesters, probing the limits of dissent through seemingly innocuous actions like singing or silently walking in a group, have faced arrest and near-constant police surveillance.
