Rudolph W. Giuliani has been credited with renewing people's faith that New York City is governable -- it was on his watch that the Police Department began using Compstat, a computer mapping system to detect crime patterns and deploy officers -- but it is safe to say that before Sept. 11 he was best known by both fans and foes for his outsize personality and his sense of political theater.
The chief, who pioneered the "Broken Windows" theory of policing in New York City as police commissioner from 1994 to 1996, used a computer system called CompStat to map crimes and to allocate police accordingly.
Starting with a recorded sound her own shallow breathing, for instance, or a cellist's trill she uses a computer to map out its overtones, the many pitches contained within.
To correct the sense of perspective, the villagers asked a teacher here to use a computer to map out where to plant stalks so the pictures would have proper proportions when viewed from atop village hall.
Meanwhile there is another cardiologist an electrophysiologist waiting to do a study that will use a computer to map "stimulation points" in my heart.
We quantified the number of hu-α-syn positive cells in structures positive for hu-α-syn (diaminobenzidine staining) using a computer-assisted mapping and cell quantification program (Stereo Investigator, MBF Bioscience, Williston, USA) coupled to a Zeiss Imager M2 microscope (Carl Zeiss Microimaging, Göttingen, Germany).
That information is used to draw a computer map of the contours of the field, and the map is overlaid onto the camera's view of the actual field.
Do you plan on hand-drawing your map, using a computer program to draw it, or creating your map using an online interactive map creator?
Using an advanced computer mapping system, Benimoff had shown that thousands of homes had materialized over the decades in flood zones designated dangerous by the New York State Office of Emergency Management.
They can also use a computer to call up a street map of any city in the United States.
