Word: computerizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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The Giant is one of a new class of faster, higher and wilder roller coasters roaring onto the amusement-park scene this summer. Far more terrifying than rides of old, the megacoasters, with names like Viper, Iron Wolf and Georgia Cyclone, employ computer technology, ultramodern materials and aerobatics to deliver...
To achieve these extremes, designers create computer-simulation models that show the effects of high speed and sudden force on the riders, the cars and the structure. This enables engineers to build roller coasters with the steepest possible inclines and most sharply banked curves to create the illusion of breakneck...
They are born. They live their brief life. The fittest of them survive long enough to produce offspring. Over time their descendants evolve, adapting to changes in their environment. Or they fail to adapt and become extinct. They behave, in short, just like living things -- except that they are not...
Can something that "lives" inside a computer really be alive? That is the bizarre question at the heart of artificial-life research, a fast-growing scientific field that seeks to illuminate the nature of life by recreating lifelike behavior in nonliving systems. In laboratories around the world, scientists tapping at...
The most notorious computer life-forms are the electronic viruses that have been injected, inadvertently or maliciously, into computer networks. Like real viruses, these programs are strings of instructional code that have the ability to infect a host computer and reproduce without restraint, sometimes causing considerable damage. But computer viruses...