When philosophers of science write about computer simulation, and make claims about what epistemological or methodological properties "computer simulations" have, they usually mean the term to be understood in this broad sense of a computer simulation study.
It was at the Labs, as they are known colloquially, that the transistor was invented in 1947, making possible solid-state computing and paving the way for the microchip.But the Labs were not only the birthplace, in this sense, of modern computer hardware.
"The only way that we can make sense of a computer as executing a program is by understanding its processor as responding to the program prescriptions as meaningful" (385).
At London's Whitechapel Gallery, over 100 artworks are currently being shown in Electronic Superhighway, an exhibition which aims to get a sense of how computer and Internet technology have influenced artists from the mid-60s to the present.
You'll need to be really good at judging, and being dispassionate, and you'll have to have a sense of what computers can and cannot do.
For the human race it might be the moment to concede that even when it comes to the kind of questions that seem to require an intuitive sense of meaning, computers have us licked.
Yet what results is a wall-to-wall sense of adequacy, of computer-graphic fabric cut to fit and cover the surfaces, a sense of design that shines at the eye without pulling it in.
As described on the Microsoft blog haptic technology "[does] for the sense of touch what computer graphics does for vision".
The meeting gained an extra sense of urgency after computer hackers temporarily shut down several major Internet sites last week.
A California company that holds numerous patents for adding the sense of touch to computer mice and other interface devices like joysticks and game pads has won a new patent for adding similar tactile sensation to knobs in automobiles.
