Climate scientists will use the findings to fine-tune computer models that attempt to predict future warming.
The parameter identification process has an important role in servo systems tuning on computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools.
Most agree that the individual sound of a handmade piano, as opposed to one made by machine and tuned by computer, is one of its glories.
Critics say the burgeoning industry is creating millions of zombified addicts who are turning on and tuning into computer games, and dropping out of school and traditional group activities, becoming uncommunicative and even violent because of the electronic games they play.
The data that Ebbesmeyer's beachcombers had gathered also allowed NOAA's James Ingraham to fine-tune the computer model, adjusting for such coefficients as "windage" (an object with a tall profile will sail before the wind as well as drift on a current).
Simple settings in Mac OS X allow anyone to tune into a computer, and then watch everything that the person sat at it does.
One question, then, is whether it is possible to tune a cluster computer so that more of its processing power is used more of the time.
Specifically, he believes data scientists are bring together generalist skills in the fields of business intelligence (with some product sense), mathematics and statistics (in order to construct and tune algorithms) and computer science (to write the actual code) to form a "Voltron" of data science.
In the year before my assistant, Jim Altieri, and I moved into the Museum of the North to install "The Place Where You Go to Listen," I spent innumerable hours here in the studio, fine-tuning the computer-generated sounds of "The Place" — listening to them in every season and time of day, in all kinds of weather and light — to test whether they had what I call "the ring of truth".
That makes it easy, if you're near a computer, to tune in to whatever radio show happens to strike your fancy.
Then later, if you tune your wireless (or computer, or app) to BBC Radio 5 live this evening at 21 00 GMT, there's a Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show when they'll be chewing the fat over all matters in the world of cricket.
