It enables the user to control the speed and sound levels of orchestral music playing on a computer.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

The process to control it is intriguing and interesting but the heart of the computer is simply this notion that we build our descriptions, our recipes, on a sequence of primitive instructions.

这个控制它的过程很耐人寻味，很有意思,但是计算机的核心仅仅只是,我们在初始指令序列上，建造描述、方法的一个概念罢了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

> Computer our input, memory control, arithmetic, and logic and output.

>，【记录的演示】计算我们的输入，内存控制，算法，逻辑和输出。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One hundred forty meters from the surface, the astronauts took control of the lander from the computer.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

One other piece that goes into this computer John I never remember where to put the PC, John, control? ALU? Separate? I'll put it separate you have a thing called a program counter.

另外可以进入这台计算机的是,我老是记不住在哪儿放电脑，控制？ALU？分开？我会把它分开放,你们有一个叫做程序计数器的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Cooper and Conrad turned off the radar,radio, computer and even some environmental control systems.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

It turns out that in a lot of languages, C included, you the programmer knowing a bit about how the computer works and the language works, can exercise more fine-grained control.

结果在包括C语言的很多语言当中，你作为一个程序员懂得了一些计算机的工作方式,和语言的处理方式，可以更精确地控制运用它。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Raduege says one of his biggest concerns in Houston is the computer-run electronic control system that is vital to energy sector operations the country depends on.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11