Then they re-created these turbulent events using a computer simulation that models the atmosphere.
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While a skydiving coach in the 1990s, he rigged up a primitive computer simulation of dives and dive formations.
He argues that economists should abandon blackboard deduction in favour of computer simulation.
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So he ended up in New York, working for a struggling computer consulting firm, writing computer simulation models for DuPont.
But in an agent-based model you simply run a computer simulation to see what emerges, free from any top-down assumptions.
The computer simulation showing the time-stamp effect in the study is novel and original, said Joe Manns, assistant professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Results of a computer simulation released Thursday show oil leaking from the Gulf of Mexico could reach up the Altantic coast and far out into the ocean by early summer.
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Now, Markram is announcing a collaboration with IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) to create a computer simulation of these fundamental neurological units, called neocortical columns.
There are Singulatarians and Transhumanists actively working towards, and arguing for, a future in which people can upload their consciousness into an elaborate computer simulation, where they can basically live forever.
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Now a new computer simulation confirms what some long suspected: The H5N1 virus already has spread from human to human--or at least it did in one case cluster last year in Indonesia.
The researchers used a computer simulation model to estimate how many lives the screening programme could save, using data on death rates and the numbers of people affected by cancer from between 1975 and 2004.
The new computer simulation allows doctors and physicists to model the faulty heart beats (arrhythmias) that can cause cardiac arrest, and run episodes of arrhythmia time and again, looking for the best way of treating it.
As a professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he's using a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation and behavioral experiments to explain how people learn new things.
However, because of a late admission by the defence that Dr White would be using a new computer simulation to illustrate his theory, Judge Michael Pastor has given prosecutors the weekend to analyse the data before cross-examining the defence's expert.
Dr Bilham and Vinod Gaur, from the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bangalore, writing late last year in Current Science, said that until recently Indian seismological research has neglected a technique known as geodesy, which measures the strains accumulating in, and distorting the surfaces of, plates.
The computer sends its simulation to a pair of augmented reality viewing glasses users wear.
He created a computer-based simulation of patients in need of diagnosis, called Immex.
The experts who engineered the computer marvel call it urban simulation.
Since 1992, in the place of testing, the United States has relied for "stockpile stewardship" on a host of computer-modeling, other simulation techniques and non-nuclear explosive tests that have provided insights into the performance of an aging arsenal.
Rather than discussing the already worn (and to me irrelevant) debate of digital book versus analog book, I talked about future technologies like brain computer interface, real-time simulation and programmable material, and how these will change the face of literature far beyond the Kindle, perhaps eventually eliminating text altogether.
To find out which team, the American League or National League, will come out on top, Sony Computer Entertainment America has tapped into its own gaming simulation with MLB 12 The Show.
Considering that, a few years ago, it was rare to get the computer time needed to do even a single geoengineering simulation with a state-of-the-art climate model, this investment of time and effort marks a big step forward.
In a stock investment simulation, 101 traders rated their feelings via a computer website over 20 business days while actively trading.
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To do this, you could run a "Monte Carlo simulation" in which you plug historical weather data into a computer and then roll a pair of virtual dice 10, 000 times.
Another example of the closing gap between the worlds of gaming and grown-up simulation is the decision in May by Digital Sandbox, a supplier of simulation software to America's defence department, to set up a consumer division to make computer games.
Inside the computer, software that lab members developed visualizes the spiders and determines the physics of spider interactions, creating a simulation of how virtual spiders should behave in the real world, Clark explained.
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