Today, the pocket calculator is a dying product, a casualty of digitization, which has been relegated to the role of a graphic icon on phone and computer screens rather than an object in its own right, but back in the early 1970s, it was at the forefront of consumer technology.
The participant plays the role of a customer service associate, and the evaluator plays the role of an angry customer who had purchased a computer that broke down.
The setup of the trial nodes include a server, located at FORTH's premises, playing the role of an Internet server and a client computer located at the node K3 of the metropolitan mesh network.
The role of computers and of computer-aided design tools for the creation of geometrical shapes that will be judged primarily by aesthetic considerations is reviewed.
Back in the late 1950s, the then head of IBM, Thomas J Watson, was rumoured to have predicted a potential world market for "maybe five computers", an estimate that illustrates how radically the role of the computer has changed.
Understanding these makes clear the role of computer simulation as a step in the design of radiation treatment.
In this scenario, we, by our conscious and unconscious actions, are playing the role of that computer's programmers.
The role of the computer in selecting — at random — blocks of prose that correspond to each function undermines meaning, as well as the notion of authorship.
