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Can Computers Understand?
Number of Words: 371 / Number of Pages: 2
... This example serves well to explain how although a computer can
look like it understands a story, it can do no more than "go through the
motions."
Of course such a definitive standpoint on an issue as controversial as
the capacity of an AI to understand will draw many critics. The criticism of
his theory that I find to be the most credible is The Other Mind Reply offered
by Yale University. This line of thinking asks: if behavior is what we can
determine the presence of cognition through, and an AI passes a behavioral test,
why don't we attribute cognition to it?
I myself do not belie ...
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How A Car Motor Works
Number of Words: 2728 / Number of Pages: 10
... parts work, you first need to obtain a basic understanding of how an engine works! Next we will dig into the guts of an engine to see what makes it tick. Many of you will find this stupefyingly simple but some of you readers will be glad we took the time to really explain it to you!
Cars, for the most part with the exception being the rotary Mazda, are powered by what is called a 4 Stroke engine. A 4 Stroke is called that because there are basically 4 strokes to the power cycle, the intake stroke, the compression stroke, the power stroke and the exhaust stroke. We will explain those in a minute. T ...
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Smart Car Technology
Number of Words: 1119 / Number of Pages: 5
... the loudspeaker.
c: The TravTek guides the driver through the traffic. The computer always knows
where you are, and the navigation system makes it impossible to get lost in the
traffic, unless you really want to, and deliberately make the wrong turns. It
also guides you past traffic jams and problems who might crop up around an
accident. In a town where you have never been, you will quickly be able to find
your way to hotels, restaurants, sports arenas, shops and much more, just by
looking through the various menus of the TravTek.
d: The text definitely prefers the accuracy of the computer to the in ...
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Aeronautics: Aviation Powerplants
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... aircraft as the Sopwith Camel and Moth. A variation of the rotary engine was used in the most famous aircraft of the war: The Fokker Dr.1 Triplane flown by Baron Von Richtofen. A unique feature of these engines is that they had no throttle, but ran at a constant speed. Also the cylinders were not fixed in place as one might expect. They instead rotated around a fixed crankshaft. The propeller was attached to the cylinders. The advantage of this configuration was lowered production time and elimination of a costly and vulnerable cooling system. Speed control was gained by cutting the fuel supply and t ...
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History Of The Internet
Number of Words: 279 / Number of Pages: 2
... important for the american army who was connected to
Internetwork.
Resons of security made Internetwork anarchistic.It wasen`t supose
to be any cental computer wich controlled Internetwork and the
computertrafic was supose to direct it self so if a thought road suddenly
wasen`t accessible the trafic should find a new way by it self. Because of
this the enemy couldent in war strike out Intenetwork by bombing individual
servers and main computers.
In the end of the 1970`s was almost all american Universities and
majority connected to it so called protocol TCP/IP wich to day is the main ...
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The Internet: How It Works And How It Effects The World
Number of Words: 1646 / Number of Pages: 6
... however, thanks to a
technical scheme called IP (Internet Protocol), which enabled traffic to be
routed from one net to another as needed. All the networks connected by IP
in the Internet speak IP, so they can all exchange messages." (Levine 12)
Even though there were only two networks at that time, IP was made to allow
thousands of networks. The IP is designed so that every computer on an IP
network is compatible. That means any machine can communicate with any
other machine.
The Internet, also called the Net, is the world's largest computer network.
The Internet is the "network of all ...
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"Computer Security" By Time Life Books
Number of Words: 528 / Number of Pages: 2
... pocket. This digital screen receives
an encrypted message and displays numbers that change every few minutes. These
numbers make the password one needs for the next few minutes in order to access
the computer. This password method is somewhat new. It is also better, for the
previous password method is not totally fool proof. This is because the
passwords are stored in the computer and if a computer literate person was to
access this information, they could get into a computer and enter it looking as
if they were someone else for they have obtained someone else's password. In
the future when techn ...
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Airbags - Pop Em' Or Keep Em'
Number of Words: 1314 / Number of Pages: 5
... Small women and the
elderly have also been killed as a result of airbags. The time has come to
ask ourselves, "Do airbags really work?"
First off, most people feel that airbags are a great safety device.
They let people walk away from an accident without a scratch, right? They
protect everybody, right? People don't need seatbelts if their car has an
airbag, right? Wrong. Airbags cause injuries, airbags kill, and airbags
don't work unless seatbelts are worn. In a rollover accident, people still
have a chance of being thrown from the car even if their car has airbags.
Not only are the airbag ...
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Virtual Reality
Number of Words: 551 / Number of Pages: 3
... way for students to
spend money. Most students do not have access to expensive flight simulators.
Most have to travel hundreds of miles to take advantage of these amazing
simulators. Flight simulators are much better than an airplane for the simple
reason that in a simulator the learning environment is much safer. Students
are able to avoid the overriding need to keep the airplane flying and out of
harm's way. In a simulator a student is constantly busy, practicing what he is
supposed to be learning, and once he's flown a given maneuver, he is able to go
back and do it over again, without was ...
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Holograms
Number of Words: 1070 / Number of Pages: 4
... -if the
apple is blocking the view of an orange behind it, you can just move your
head to one side. The apple seems to "move" out of the way so you can
see the orange or even the back of the apple. If that seems a bit
obvious, just try looking behind something in a regular photograph!
You can't, because the photograph can't reproduce the infinitely complicated
waves of light reflected by objects; the lens of a camera can only focus those
waves into a flat, 2-D image. But a hologram can capture a 3-D image so
lifelike that you can look around the image of the apple t ...
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