Word: contoured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Binnig and Rohrer, records the position of a needle that rises and dips to keep constant height while moving across the tiny irregularities on the surface of a specimen. The ups correspond to the bumps of individual atoms, and the downs to spaces between them, producing an atomic-scale contour...
...knotty problems that would have tied up an ordinary computer for hours. It scanned three months of Reuters news stories--16,000 articles in all --in / of a second. In two seconds, it transformed a stereoscopic image transmitted by a pair of television cameras into a detailed, two-dimensional contour map. In three minutes, it laid out the circuitry for a computer chip containing 4,000 transistors. Says Daniel Hillis, the computer's 29-year-old designer and co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass.: "The conventional computer is to the Connection Machine what the bicycle...
That is the beauty of analog. Because -- like its linguistic companion, the analogy -- it tries to reproduce the contour of reality. It lives in context. There is a before and an after. The digital watch gives you precision, but leaves you wondering where you are. Analog is a return to a certain harmony that the digital world chops away. Thus analog is able to capture qualities that digital never will. Only the LP, concludes Rothstein after truly heroic experimentation, can convey, say, the piano's quality of "attack and decay...
...Strauch committee, which began work in the fall, contour the first draft of its report at a meeting Saturday...
...architectural firm Roy P. Harrover & Associates. Fifty-acre Mud Island, just off the center of downtown, is now attracting national attention. It offers riverside recreation, marinas, a 4,300-seat auditorium and audiovisual displays. Kids love to hop, skip and splash down a 2,000-ft.-long contour model of the Mississippi River as they study historical and geographical markers...