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41 Sturgeon, William
SUBJECT AREA: Electricity[br]b. 22 May 1783 Whittington, Lancashire, Englandd. 4 December 1850 Prestwich, Manchester, England[br]English inventor and lecturer, discoverer of the electromagnet, and inventor of the first electric motor put to practical use.[br]After leaving an apprenticeship as a shoemaker, Sturgeon enlisted in the militia. Self-educated during service as a private in the Royal Artillery, he began to construct scientific apparatus. When he left the army in 1820 Sturgeon became an industrious writer, contributing papers to the Philosophical Magazine. In 1823 he was appointed Lecturer in Natural Science at the East India Company's Military College in Addiscombe. His invention in 1823 of an electromagnet with a horseshoe-shaped, soft iron core provided a much more concentrated magnetic field than previously obtained. An electric motor he designed in 1832 embodied his invention of the first metallic commutator. This was used to rotate a meat-roasting jack. Over an extended period he conducted researches into atmospheric electricity and also introduced the practice of amalgamating zinc in primary cells to prevent local action.Sturgeon became Lecturer at the Adelaide Gallery, London, in 1832, an appointment of short duration, terminating when the gallery closed. In 1836 he established a monthly publication, The Annals of Electricity, Magnetism and Chemistry; and Guardian of Experimental Science, the first journal in England to be devoted to the subject. It was to this journal that James Prescot Joule contributed the results of his own researches in electromagnetism. Due to lack of financial support the publication ceased in 1843 after ten volumes had been issued. At the age of 57 Sturgeon became Superintendent of the Victoria Gallery of Practical Science in Manchester; after this gallery closed, the last five years of his life were spent in considerable poverty.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsSociety of Arts Silver Medal 1825.Bibliography1836, Annals of Electricity 1:75–8 (describes his motor).All his published papers were collected in Scientific Researches, Experimental and Theoretical in Electricity, Magnetism and Electro-Chemistry, 1850, Bury; 1852, London.Further ReadingJ.P.Joule, 1857, biography, in Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society 14, Manchester: 53–8.Biography, 1895, Electrician 35:632–5 (includes a list of Sturgeon's published work). P.Dunsheath, 1957, A History of Electrical Engineering, London: Faber \& Faber.GW -
42 Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside
[br]b. 26 November 1810 Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, Englandd. 27 December 1900 Cragside, Northumbria, England[br]English inventor, engineer and entrepreneur in hydraulic engineering, shipbuilding and the production of artillery.[br]The only son of a corn merchant, Alderman William Armstrong, he was educated at private schools in Newcastle and at Bishop Auckland Grammar School. He then became an articled clerk in the office of Armorer Donkin, a solicitor and a friend of his father. During a fishing trip he saw a water-wheel driven by an open stream to work a marble-cutting machine. He felt that its efficiency would be improved by introducing the water to the wheel in a pipe. He developed an interest in hydraulics and in electricity, and became a popular lecturer on these subjects. From 1838 he became friendly with Henry Watson of the High Bridge Works, Newcastle, and for six years he visited the Works almost daily, studying turret clocks, telescopes, papermaking machinery, surveying instruments and other equipment being produced. There he had built his first hydraulic machine, which generated 5 hp when run off the Newcastle town water-mains. He then designed and made a working model of a hydraulic crane, but it created little interest. In 1845, after he had served this rather unconventional apprenticeship at High Bridge Works, he was appointed Secretary of the newly formed Whittle Dene Water Company. The same year he proposed to the town council of Newcastle the conversion of one of the quayside cranes to his hydraulic operation which, if successful, should also be applied to a further four cranes. This was done by the Newcastle Cranage Company at High Bridge Works. In 1847 he gave up law and formed W.G.Armstrong \& Co. to manufacture hydraulic machinery in a works at Elswick. Orders for cranes, hoists, dock gates and bridges were obtained from mines; docks and railways.Early in the Crimean War, the War Office asked him to design and make submarine mines to blow up ships that were sunk by the Russians to block the entrance to Sevastopol harbour. The mines were never used, but this set him thinking about military affairs and brought him many useful contacts at the War Office. Learning that two eighteen-pounder British guns had silenced a whole Russian battery but were too heavy to move over rough ground, he carried out a thorough investigation and proposed light field guns with rifled barrels to fire elongated lead projectiles rather than cast-iron balls. He delivered his first gun in 1855; it was built of a steel core and wound-iron wire jacket. The barrel was multi-grooved and the gun weighed a quarter of a ton and could fire a 3 lb (1.4 kg) projectile. This was considered too light and was sent back to the factory to be rebored to take a 5 lb (2.3 kg) shot. The gun was a complete success and Armstrong was then asked to design and produce an equally successful eighteen-pounder. In 1859 he was appointed Engineer of Rifled Ordnance and was knighted. However, there was considerable opposition from the notably conservative officers of the Army who resented the intrusion of this civilian engineer in their affairs. In 1862, contracts with the Elswick Ordnance Company were terminated, and the Government rejected breech-loading and went back to muzzle-loading. Armstrong resigned and concentrated on foreign sales, which were successful worldwide.The search for a suitable proving ground for a 12-ton gun led to an interest in shipbuilding at Elswick from 1868. This necessitated the replacement of an earlier stone bridge with the hydraulically operated Tyne Swing Bridge, which weighed some 1450 tons and allowed a clear passage for shipping. Hydraulic equipment on warships became more complex and increasing quantities of it were made at the Elswick works, which also flourished with the reintroduction of the breech-loader in 1878. In 1884 an open-hearth acid steelworks was added to the Elswick facilities. In 1897 the firm merged with Sir Joseph Whitworth \& Co. to become Sir W.G.Armstrong Whitworth \& Co. After Armstrong's death a further merger with Vickers Ltd formed Vickers Armstrong Ltd.In 1879 Armstrong took a great interest in Joseph Swan's invention of the incandescent electric light-bulb. He was one of those who formed the Swan Electric Light Company, opening a factory at South Benwell to make the bulbs. At Cragside, his mansion at Roth bury, he installed a water turbine and generator, making it one of the first houses in England to be lit by electricity.Armstrong was a noted philanthropist, building houses for his workforce, and endowing schools, hospitals and parks. His last act of charity was to purchase Bamburgh Castle, Northumbria, in 1894, intending to turn it into a hospital or a convalescent home, but he did not live long enough to complete the work.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1859. FRS 1846. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Institution of Civil Engineers; British Association for the Advancement of Science 1863. Baron Armstrong of Cragside 1887.Further ReadingE.R.Jones, 1886, Heroes of Industry', London: Low.D.J.Scott, 1962, A History of Vickers, London: Weidenfeld \& Nicolson.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside
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43 Bell, Thomas
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]fl. 1770–1785 Scotland[br]Scottish inventor of a calico printing machine with the design engraved on rollers.[br]In November 1770, John Mackenzie, owner of a bleaching mill, took his millwright Thomas Bell to Glasgow to consult with James Watt about problems they were having with the calico printing machine invented by Bell some years previously. Bell rolled sheets of copper one eighth of an inch (3 mm) thick into cyliders, and filled them with cement which was held in place by cast iron ends. After being turned true and polished, the cylinders were engraved; they cost about £10 each. The printing machines were driven by a water-wheel, but Bell and Mackenzie appeared to have had problems with the doctor blades which scraped off excess colour, and this may have been why they visited Watt.They had, presumably, solved the technical problems when Bell took out a patent in 1783 which describes him as "the Elder", but there are no further details about the man himself. The machine is described as having six printing rollers arranged around the top of the circumference of a large central bowl. In later machines, the printing rollers were placed all round a smaller cylinder. All of the printing rollers, each printing a different colour, were driven by gearing to keep them in register. The patent includes steel doctor blades which would have scraped excess colour off the printing rollers. Another patent, taken out in 1784, shows a smaller three-colour machine. The printing rollers had an iron core covered with copper, which could be taken off at pleasure so that fresh patterns could be cut as desired. Bell's machine was used at Masney, near Preston, England, by Messrs Livesey, Hargreaves, Hall \& Co in 1786. Although copper cylinders were difficult to make and engrave, and the soldered seams often burst, these machines were able to increase the output of the cheaper types of printed cloth.[br]Bibliography1783, patent no. 1,378 (calico printing machine with engraved copper rollers). 1784, patent no. 1,443 (three-colour calico printing machine).Further ReadingW.E.A.Axon, 1886, Annals of Manchester, Manchester (provides an account of the invention).R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (provides a brief description of the development of calico printing).RLH -
44 Bickford, William
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 1774 Devonshire, Englandd. 1834 Tuckingmill, Cornwall, England[br]English leather merchant, inventor of the safety fuse.[br]Having tried in vain to make his living as a currier in Truro, Cornwall, he set up as a leather merchant in Tuckingmill and became aware of the high casualty rates suffered by local tin-miners in shot-firing accidents. He therefore started attempts to discover a safe means of igniting charges, and came up with a form of safety fuse that made the operation of blasting much less hazardous. It was patented in 1831 and consisted of a cable of jute and string containing a thin core of powder; it provided a dependable means for conveying the flame to the charge so that the danger of hang fires was almost eliminated. Its accurate and consistent timing allowed the firing of several holes at a time without the fusing of the last being destroyed by the blast from the first. By 1840, a gutta-percha fuse had been developed which could be used in wet conditions and was an improvement until the use of dynamite for shot-firing.Accounts of the invention, after it had been described in the Report from the Select Committee on Accidents in Mines (1835, London) were widespread in various foreign mining journals, and in the 1840s factories were set up in different mining areas on the European continent, in America and in Australia. Bickford himself founded a firm at Tuckingmill in the year that he came up with his invention which was later controlled by his descendants until it finally merged with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) after the First World War.[br]Further ReadingF.Heise, 1904, Sprengstoffe und Zündung der Sprengschüsse, Berlin (provides a detailed description of the development).W.J.Reader, 1970, Imperial Chemical Industries. A History, Vol. I, London: Oxford University Press (throws light on the tight international connections of Bickford's firm with Nobel industries).WK -
45 Crælius, Per Anton
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 2 November 1854 Stockholm, Swedend. 7 August 1905 Stockholm, Sweden[br]Swedish mining engineer, inventor of the core drilling technique for prospecting purposes.[br]Having completed his studies at the Technological Institute in Stockholm and the Mining School at Falun, Crælius was awarded a grant by the Swedish Jernkontoret and in 1879 he travelled to Germany, France and Belgium in order to study technological aspects of the mining, iron and steel industries. In the same year he went to the United States, where he worked with an iron works in Colorado and a mining company in Nevada. In 1884, having returned to Sweden, he obtained an appointment in the Norberg mines; two years later, he took up employment at the Ängelsberg oilmill.His mining experience had shown him the demand for a reliable, handy and cheap method of drilling, particularly for prospecting purposes. He had become acquainted with modern drilling methods in America, possibly including Albert Fauck's drilling jar. In 1886, Crælius designed his first small-diameter drill, which was assembled in one unit. Its rotating boring rod, smooth on the outside, was fixed inside a hollow mandrel which could be turned in any direction. This first drill was hand-driven, but the hydraulic version of it became the prototype for all near-surface prospecting drills in use worldwide in the late twentieth century.Between 1890 and 1900 Crælius was managing director of the Morgårdshammar mechanical workshops, where he was able to continue the development of his drilling apparatus. He successfully applied diesel engines in the 1890s, and in 1895 he added diamond crowns to the drill. The commercial exploitation of the invention was carried out by Svenska Diamantbergborrings AB, of which Crælius was a director from its establishment in 1886.[br]Further ReadingG.Glockemeier, 1913, Diamantbohrungen für Schürf-und Aufschlußarbeiten über und unter Tage, Berlin (examines the technological aspects of Crælius's drilling method).A.Nachmanson and K.Sundberg, 1936, Svenska Diamantbergborrings Aktiebolaget 1886–1936, Uppsala (outlines extensively the merits of Crælius's invention).See also: Fauvelle, Pierre-PascalWK -
46 Fauvelle, Pierre-Pascal
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 4 June 1797 Rethel, Ardennes, Franced. 19 December 1867 Perpignan, France[br]French inventor of hydraulic boring.[br]While attending the drilling of artesian wells in southern France in 1833, Fauvelle noticed that the debris from the borehole was carried out by the ascending water. This observation caused him to conceive the idea that the boring process need not necessarily be interrupted in order to clear the hole with an auger. It took him eleven years to develop his idea and to find financial backing to carry out his project in practice. In 1844, within a period of fifty-four days, he secretly bored an artesian well 219 m (718 ft) deep in Perpignan. One year later he secured his invention with a patent in France, and with another the following year in Spain.Fauvelle's process involved water being forced by a pressure pump through hollow rods to the bottom of the drill, whence it ascended through the annular space between the rod and the wall of the borehole, thus flushing the mud up to the surface. This method was similar to that of Robert Beart who had secured a patent in Britain but had not put it into practice. Although Fauvelle was not primarily concerned with the rotating action of the drill, his hydraulic boring method and its subsequent developments by his stepson, Alphonse de Basterot, formed an important step towards modern rotary drilling, which began with the work of Anthony F. Lucas near Beaumont, Texas, at the turn of the twentieth century. In the 1870s Albert Fauck, who also contributed important developments to the structure of boring rigs, had combined Fauvelle's hydraulic system with core-boring in the United States.[br]Bibliography1846, "Sur un nouveau système de forage", Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, pp. 438–40; also printed in 1847 in Le Technologiste 8, pp. 87–8.Further ReadingA.Birembeaut, 1968, "Pierre-Pascal Fauvelle", Dictionnaire de biographie française, vol. 13, pp. 808–10; also in L'Indépendant, Perpignan, 5–10 February (biography).A.de Basterot, 1868, Puits artésiens, sondages de mines, sondages d'études, systèmeFauvelle et de Basterot, Brussels (a detailed description of Fauvelle's methods and de Basterot's developments).See also: Crælius, Per AntonWKBiographical history of technology > Fauvelle, Pierre-Pascal
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47 Gongshu Pan (Kungshu Phan)
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering[br]b. c.470 BC Chinad. c.380 BC China[br]Chinese inventor of rampart-scaling ladders and flying automata.[br]Some traditions give Gongshu Pan's birth date as c.570 BC. Much of what is said of him is legendary, but this must derive from a hard core of fact. He was a noted artisan and engineer to the state of Lu. The invention of rampart-scaling ladders (used in siege operations) and of flying automata is attributed to him. He also devised a hook fender to grapple ships in combat. Yun Shi is traditionally regarded as Gongshu's wife and is credited with the invention of the collapsible umbrella. Gongshu is also credited with the invention of the kite (see vols. IV. 1, p. 143, IV.3, p. 576 in the reference below).[br]Further ReadingJ.Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965, 1971, vols. IV. 2, pp. 43, 44, 96, 189, 192, 313, 573 ff., 577; IV. 3, pp. 681–2.LRDBiographical history of technology > Gongshu Pan (Kungshu Phan)
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48 Gramme, Zénobe Théophile
[br]b. 4 April 1826 Jehay-Bodignée, Belgiumd. 20 January 1901 Bois de Colombes, Paris, France[br]Belgian engineer whose improvements to the dynamo produced a machine ready for successful commercial exploitation.[br]Gramme trained as a carpenter and showed an early talent for working with machinery. Moving to Paris he found employment in the Alliance factory as a model maker. With a growing interest in electricity he left to become an instrument maker with Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff. In 1870 he patented the uniformly wound ring-armature dynamo with which his name is associated. Together with Hippolyte Fontaine, in 1871 Gramme opened a factory to manufacture his dynamos. They rapidly became a commercial success for both arc lighting and electrochemical purposes, international publicity being achieved at exhibitions in Vienna, Paris and Philadelphia. It was the realization that a Gramme machine was capable of running as a motor, i.e. the reversibility of function, that illustrated the entire concept of power transmission by electricity. This was first publicly demonstrated in 1873. In 1874 Gramme reduced the size and increased the efficiency of his generators by relying completely on the principle of self-excitation. It was the first practical machine in which were combined the features of continuity of commutation, self-excitation, good lamination of the armature core and a reasonably good magnetic circuit. This dynamo, together with the self-regulating arc lamps then available, made possible the innumerable electric-lighting schemes that followed. These were of the greatest importance in demonstrating that electric lighting was a practical and economic means of illumination. Gramme also designed an alternator to operate Jablochkoff candles. For some years he took an active part in the operations of the Société Gramme and also experimented in his own workshop without collaboration, but made no further contribution to electrical technology.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnight Commander, Order of Leopold of Belgium 1897. Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. Chevalier, Order of the Iron Crown, Austria.Bibliography9 June 1870, British patent no. 1,668 (the ring armature machine).1871, Comptes rendus 73:175–8 (Gramme's first description of his invention).Further ReadingW.J.King, 1962, The Development of Electrical Technology in the 19th Century, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Paper 30, pp. 377–90 (an extensive account of Gramme's machines).S.P.Thompson, 1901, obituary, Electrician 66: 509–10.C.C.Gillispie (ed.), 1972, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. V, New York, p. 496.GWBiographical history of technology > Gramme, Zénobe Théophile
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49 Henry, Joseph
[br]b. 17 December 1797 Albany, New York, USAd. 13 May 1878 Washington, DC, USA[br]American scientist after whom the unit of inductance is named.[br]Sent to stay with relatives at the age of 6 because of the illness of his father, when the latter died in 1811 Henry was apprenticed to a silversmith and then turned to the stage. Whilst he was ill himself, a book on science fired his interest and he began studying at Albany Academy, working as a tutor to finance his studies. Initially intending to pursue medicine, he then spent some time as a surveyor before becoming Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Albany Academy in 1826. There he became interested in the improvement of electromagnets and discovered that the use of an increased number of turns of wire round the core greatly increased their power; by 1831 he was able to supply to Yale a magnet capable of lifting almost a ton weight. During this time he also discovered the principles of magnetic induction and self-inductance. In the same year he made, but did not patent, a cable telegraph system capable of working over a distance of 1 mile (1.6 km). It was at this time, too, that he found that adiabatic expansion of gases led to their sudden cooling, thus paving the way for the development of refrigerators. For this he was recommended for, but never received, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. Five years later he became Professor of Natural Philosophy at New Jersey College (later Princeton University), where he deduced the laws governing the operation of transformers and observed that changes in magnetic flux induced electric currents in conductors. Later he also observed that spark discharges caused electrical effects at a distance. He therefore came close to the discovery of radio waves. In 1836 he was granted a year's leave of absence and travelled to Europe, where he was able to meet Michael Faraday. It was with his help that in 1844 Samuel Morse set up the first patented electric telegraph, but, sadly, the latter seems to have reaped all the credit and financial rewards. In 1846 he became the first secretary of the Washington Smithsonian Institute and did much to develop government support for scientific research. As a result of his efforts some 500 telegraph stations across the country were equipped with meteorological equipment to supply weather information by telegraph to a central location, a facility that eventually became the US National Weather Bureau. From 1852 he was a member of the Lighthouse Board, contributing to improvements in lighting and sound warning systems and becoming its chairman in 1871. During the Civil War he was a technical advisor to President Lincoln. He was a founder of the National Academy of Science and served as its President for eleven years.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1849. President, National Academy of Science 1893–1904. In 1893, to honour his work on induction, the International Congress of Electricians adopted the henry as the unit of inductance.Bibliography1824. "On the chemical and mechanical effects of steam". 1825. "The production of cold by the rarefaction of air".1832, "On the production of currents \& sparks of electricity \& magnetism", AmericanJournal of Science 22:403."Theory of the so-called imponderables", Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 6:84.Further ReadingSmithsonian Institution, 1886, Joseph Henry, Scientific Writings, Washington DC.KF -
50 Leschot, Georges Auguste
[br]b. 24 March 1800 Geneva, Switzerlandd. 4 February 1884 Geneva, Switzerland[br]Swiss clockmaker, inventor of diamond drilling.[br]By about 1843, Leschot, who was renowned for designing machines to produce parts of clocks on an industrialized scale, had gathered that the fine, deep lines he found on an Egyptian red porphyry plate must have been cut by diamonds. He thus resurrected a technology that had been largely forgotten over the centuries, when in 1862 his son, who was engaged in constructing a railway line in Italy, was confronted with the problems of tunnelling through hard rock. In Paris he developed a drilling machine consisting of a casing that rotated in a similar way to the American rope drilling method. The crown of the machine was mounted with eight black diamonds, and inside the casing a stream of water circulated continuously to flush out the mud.He took out his first patent in France in 1862, and followed it with further ones in many European countries and in America. He continued to concentrate on his watchmaker's profession and left the rights to his patents to his son. It was Leschot's ingenious idea of utilizing diamonds for drilling hard rock that was later applied in different mining processes. It influenced a series of further developments in many countries, including those of Alfred Brandt and Major Beaumont in England. In particular, the fact that the hollow casing produced a complete core was of importance for the increasing amount of petroleum prospecting in Pennsylvania after Edwin Laurentine Drake's find of 1859, where M.C.Bullock sunk the first deep well (200 m) in the world by diamond drilling in 1870. The efforts of Per Anton Crælius in Sweden made diamond drilling a success worldwide.[br]Further ReadingD.Colladon, 1884, "Notice sur les inventions mécaniques de M.G.Leschot, horloger", Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles 3, XI (1):297–313 (discusses the influences of Leschot's invention on other engineers in Europe).D.Hoffmann, 1962, "Die Erfindung der Diamantbohrmaschine vor 100 Jahren", Der Anschnitt 14(1):15–19 (contains detailed biographical outlines).WKBiographical history of technology > Leschot, Georges Auguste
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51 Wilkes, Maurice Vincent
SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology[br]b. 26 June 1913 Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England[br]English physicist who was jointly responsible for the construction of the EDS AC computer.[br]Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge, where he began to make radio sets and read Wireless World, Wilkes went to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1931, graduating as a Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1934. He then carried out research at the Cavendish Laboratory, becoming a demonstrator in 1937. During the Second World War he worked on radar, differential analysers and operational research at the Bawdsey Research Station and other air-defence establishments. In 1945 he returned to Cambridge as a lecturer and as Acting Director of the Mathematical (later Computer) Laboratory, serving as Director from 1946 to 1970.During the late 1940s, following visits to the USA for computer courses and to see the ENIAC computer, with the collaboration of colleagues he constructed the Cambridge University digital computer EDSAC (for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer), using ultrasonic delay lines for data storage. In the mid-1950s a second machine, EDSAC2, was constructed using a magnetic-core memory. In 1965 he became Professor of Computer Technology. After retirement he worked for the Digital Electronic Corporation (DEC) from 1981 to 1986, serving also as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985. In 1990 he became a research strategy consultant to the Olivetti Research Directorate.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1956. First President, British Computer Society 1957–60. Honorary DSc Munich 1978, Bath 1987. Honorary DTech Linkoping 1975. FEng 1976. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1981.Bibliography1948, "The design of a practical high-speed computing machine", Proceedings of the Royal Society A195:274 (describes EDSAC).1949, Oscillation of the Earth's Atmosphere.1951, Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, New York: Addison-Wesley.1956, Automatic Digital Computers, London: Methuen. 1966, A Short Introduction to Numerical Analysis.1968, Time-Sharing Computer Systems: McDonald \& Jane's.1979, The Cambridge CAP Computer and its Operating System: H.Holland.1985, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (autobiography).Further ReadingB.Randell (ed.), 1973, The Origins of Digital Computers, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.KFBiographical history of technology > Wilkes, Maurice Vincent
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52 hard
1. adjective1) (firm; solid; not easy to break, scratch etc: The ground is too hard to dig.) duro; sólido2) (not easy to do, learn, solve etc: Is English a hard language to learn?; He is a hard man to please.) difícil3) (not feeling or showing kindness: a hard master.) severo; rudo; seco4) ((of weather) severe: a hard winter.) duro, severo, riguroso5) (having or causing suffering: a hard life; hard times.) duro, difícil6) ((of water) containing many chemical salts and so not easily forming bubbles when soap is added: The water is hard in this part of the country.) dura
2. adverb1) (with great effort: He works very hard; Think hard.) duro, con ahínco2) (with great force; heavily: Don't hit him too hard; It was raining hard.) fuerte, fuertemente3) (with great attention: He stared hard at the man.) fijamente4) (to the full extent; completely: The car turned hard right.) completamente, totalmente•- harden- hardness
- hardship
- hard-and-fast
- hard-back
- hard-boiled
- harddisk
- hard-earned
- hard-headed
- hard-hearted
- hardware
- hard-wearing
- be hard on
- hard at it
- hard done by
- hard lines/luck
- hard of hearing
- a hard time of it
- a hard time
- hard up
hard1 adj1. duro2. difícilhard2 adv1. mucho2. duro / fuertehit him hard! ¡pégale duro!tr[hɑːd]2 (difficult) difícil3 (harsh) severo,-a4 (work) arduo,-a, penoso,-a, agotador,-ra5 figurative use cruel, rudo,-a6 (fight, match) reñido,-a, disputado,-a; (decision) injusto,-a8 (final decision) definitivo,-a, irrevocable; (person) severo,-a, inflexible9 SMALLLINGUISTICS/SMALL fuerte1 (forcibly) fuerte; (diligently) mucho, de firme, concienzudamente, con ahínco\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLhard of hearing duro,-a de oídoto be hard done by sentirse mal tratado,-a, ser tratado,-a injustamenteto be hard hit by figurative use quedar muy afectado,-a porto be hard on somebody figurative use tratar a alguien con severidad, tratar a alguien con durezato be hard on somebody's heels figurative use pisar los talones a alguiento be hard pushed to do something figurative use verse apurado,-a para realizar algoto be hard up familiar estar sin blancato drive a hard bargain figurative use negociar con durezato have a hard time familiar pasarlo canutas, pasarlo malto take something very hard tomar algo muy a pecho, encajar algo muy malto work hard trabajar muchohard drinker bebedor,-ra empedernido,-ahard evidence pruebas nombre femenino plural definitivashard labour trabajos nombre masculino plural forzadoshard luck mala suertehard ['hɑrd] adv1) forcefully: fuerte, con fuerzathe wind blew hard: el viento sopló fuerte2) strenuously: duro, muchoto work hard: trabajar duro3)to take something hard : tomarse algo muy mal, estar muy afectado por algohard adj1) firm, solid: duro, firme, sólido2) difficult: difícil, arduo3) severe: severo, duroa hard winter: un invierno severo4) unfeeling: insensible, duro5) diligent: diligenteto be a hard worker: ser muy trabajador6)hard liquor : bebidas fpl fuertes7)hard water : agua f duraadj.• arduo, -a adj.• calloso, -a adj.• dificultoso, -a adj.• difícil adj.• duro, -a adj.• endurecido, -a adj.• firme adj.• fuerte adj.• laborioso, -a adj.• peliagudo, -a adj.• recio, -a adj.• rudo, -a adj.• sólido, -a adj.• terco, -a adj.• tieso, -a adj.adv.• apretadamente adv.• difícilmente adv.• duro adv.• mucho adv.• recio adv.• tieso adv.
I hɑːrd, hɑːdadjective -er, -est1)a) (firm, solid) <object/surface> duroto set hard — endurecerse*
to freeze hard — helarse*
b) ( forceful) <push/knock> fuerte2)he's hard to please — es difícil de complacer, es exigente
b) ( severe) <winter/climate/master> duro, severoto give somebody a hard time — hacérselas* pasar mal a alguien
c) (tough, cynical) <person/attitude> duro, insensible3) (concentrated, strenuous)to take a long hard look at something — analizar* seriamente algo
5) (sharp, harsh) <light/voice> fuerte; < expression> duro6)a) ( in strongest forms)hard drugs — drogas fpl duras
hard liquor — bebidas fpl (alcohólicas) fuertes
b) ( Fin)hard currency — divisa f or moneda f fuerte
c) < water> durod) ( Ling) <sound/consonant> fuerte
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adverb -er, -est1)a) ( with force) <pull/push> con fuerza; < hit> fuerteb) ( strenuously) < work> mucho, duro, duramenteto be hard put o (BrE also) pushed to + inf: you'd be hard put (to it) to find a better doctor — sería difícil encontrar un médico mejor
2) ( heavily) <rain/snow> fuerte, mucho; <pant/breathe> pesadamente3) ( severely)[hɑːd]to be/feel hard done by: she thinks she has been o she feels hard done by — piensa que la han tratado injustamente
1. ADJ(compar harder) (superl hardest)1) (=not soft) [object, substance, cheese, skin] duro; [ground, snow] duro, compacto•
to become or go hard — ponerse duro, endurecerse•
the water is very hard here — aquí el agua es muy dura or tiene mucha cal- be as hard as nails- as hard as a rocknut2) (=harsh, severe) [climate, winter, person] duro, severo; [frost] fuerte; [words, tone] duro, áspero; [expression, eyes, voice] serio, duro; [drink, liquor] fuerte; [drugs] duro; [fact] concreto; [evidence] irrefutable•
a hard blow — (fig) un duro golpe•
to take a long hard look at sth — examinar algo detenidamente•
to be hard on sb — ser muy duro con algn, darle duro a algn (LAm)don't be so hard on him, it's not his fault — no seas tan duro con él, no es culpa suya
aren't you being a bit hard on yourself? — ¿no estás siendo un poco duro contigo mismo?
- be as hard as nailsfeeling3) (=strenuous, tough) [work, day] duro; [fight, match] muy reñidophew, that was hard work! — ¡uf!, ¡ha costado lo suyo!
coping with three babies is very hard work — tres bebés dan mucha tarea or mucho trabajo, arreglárselas con tres bebés es una dura or ardua tarea
it's hard work getting her to talk about herself — cuesta mucho or resulta muy trabajoso hacerla hablar sobre sí misma
4) (=difficult) [exam, decision, choice] difícilto be hard to do: it's hard to study on your own — es difícil estudiar por tu cuenta
I find it hard to believe that... — me cuesta (trabajo) creer que...
bargain, play 3., 4)to be hard to please — ser muy exigente or quisquilloso
5) (=tough, unpleasant) [life, times] duroit's a hard life! — ¡qué vida más dura!
those were hard times to live in — aquellos eran tiempos duros, la vida era dura en aquellos tiempos
- take a hard line against/over sthgoing, hard-line, hard-linerhard lines! — ¡qué mala suerte!, ¡qué mala pata! *
6) (=forceful) [push, tug, kick] fuerte7) (Phon, Ling) [sound] fuerte; [consonant] oclusivo2. ADV(compar harder) (superl hardest)1) (=with a lot of effort) [work] duro, mucho; [study] muchohe had worked hard all his life — había trabajado duro or mucho toda su vida
he works very hard — trabaja muy duro, trabaja mucho
he was hard at work in the garden — estaba trabajando afanosamente or con ahínco en el jardín
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he was breathing hard — respiraba con dificultad•
we're saving hard for our holidays — estamos ahorrando todo lo que podemos para las vacaciones, estamos ahorrando al máximo para las vacaciones•
to try hard, she always tries hard — siempre se esfuerza muchoI can't do it, no matter how hard I try — no puedo hacerlo, por mucho que lo intente
to be hard at it —
Bill was hard at it in the garden * — Bill se estaba empleando a fondo en el jardín, Bill estaba dándole duro al jardín *
2) (=with force) [hit] fuerte, duro; [pull, push, blow] con fuerza; [snow, rain] fuerte, mucho•
the government decided to clamp down hard on terrorism — el gobierno decidió tomar medidas duras contra el terrorismo•
she was feeling hard done by — pensaba que la habían tratado injustamenteto hit sb hard — (fig) ser un duro golpe para algn
California has been (particularly) hard hit by the crisis — California (en particular) se ha visto seriamente afectada por la crisis
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I would be hard pushed or put to think of another plan — me resultaría difícil pensar en otro planwe'll be hard pushed or put to finish this tonight! — ¡nos va a ser difícil terminar esto esta noche!
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to take sth hard — tomarse algo muy mal *he took it pretty hard — se lo tomó muy mal, fue un duro golpe para él, le golpeó mucho (LAm)
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to be hard up * — estar pelado *, no tener un duro (Sp) *hard-pressedto be hard up for sth — estar falto or escaso de algo
3) (=solid)•
to freeze hard — quedarse congelado4) (=intently) [listen] atentamente; [concentrate] al máximo•
to look hard (at sth) — fijarse mucho (en algo)•
think hard before you make a decision — piénsalo muy bien antes de tomar una decisiónI thought hard but I couldn't remember his name — por más que pensé or por más vueltas que le di no pude recordar su nombre
5) (=sharply)6) (=closely)•
hard behind sth — justo detrás de algoI hurried upstairs with my sister hard behind me — subí las escaleras corriendo con mi hermana que venía justo detrás
heelthe launch of the book followed hard upon the success of the film — el lanzamiento del libro se produjo justo después del éxito de la película
3.CPDhard centre, hard center (US) N — relleno m duro
hard cider (US) N — sidra f
hard copy N — (Comput) copia f impresa
hard-corethe hard core N — (=intransigents) los incondicionales, el núcleo duro
hard court N — (Tennis) cancha f (de tenis) de cemento, pista f (de tenis) de cemento
hard currency N — moneda f fuerte, divisa f fuerte
hard disk N — (Comput) disco m duro
hard goods NPL — productos mpl no perecederos
hard hat N — (=riding hat) gorra f de montar; [of construction worker] casco m; (=construction worker) albañil mf
hard landing N — aterrizaje m duro
the hard left N — (esp Brit) la extrema izquierda, la izquierda radical
hard luck N — mala suerte f
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to be hard luck on sb, it was hard luck on him — tuvo mala suertehard luck! — ¡(qué) mala suerte!
hard palate N — paladar m
the hard right N — (esp Brit) la extrema derecha, la derecha radical
hard rock N — (Mus) rock m duro
hard sell tactics — táctica fsing de venta agresiva
hard sell techniques — técnicas fpl de venta agresiva
hard shoulder N — (Brit) (Aut) arcén m, hombrillo m
hard stuff * N — (=alcohol) alcohol m duro, bebidas fpl fuertes; (=drugs) droga f dura
hard top N — (=car) coche m no descapotable; (=car roof) techo m rígido
hard water N — agua f dura, agua f con mucha cal
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I [hɑːrd, hɑːd]adjective -er, -est1)a) (firm, solid) <object/surface> duroto set hard — endurecerse*
to freeze hard — helarse*
b) ( forceful) <push/knock> fuerte2)he's hard to please — es difícil de complacer, es exigente
b) ( severe) <winter/climate/master> duro, severoto give somebody a hard time — hacérselas* pasar mal a alguien
c) (tough, cynical) <person/attitude> duro, insensible3) (concentrated, strenuous)to take a long hard look at something — analizar* seriamente algo
5) (sharp, harsh) <light/voice> fuerte; < expression> duro6)a) ( in strongest forms)hard drugs — drogas fpl duras
hard liquor — bebidas fpl (alcohólicas) fuertes
b) ( Fin)hard currency — divisa f or moneda f fuerte
c) < water> durod) ( Ling) <sound/consonant> fuerte
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adverb -er, -est1)a) ( with force) <pull/push> con fuerza; < hit> fuerteb) ( strenuously) < work> mucho, duro, duramenteto be hard put o (BrE also) pushed to + inf: you'd be hard put (to it) to find a better doctor — sería difícil encontrar un médico mejor
2) ( heavily) <rain/snow> fuerte, mucho; <pant/breathe> pesadamente3) ( severely)to be/feel hard done by: she thinks she has been o she feels hard done by — piensa que la han tratado injustamente
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1. n вещество; материал2. n гной3. n филос. материяdead matter — неживая материя; неорганическое вещество
organized matter — живая материя, живое вещество
4. n содержание5. n сущность, предмет6. n дело, вопросbusiness matters — дела, деловые вопросы
a private matter — личное дело, личный вопрос
it is no easy matter — это дело не простое, это не просто
a matter of common knowledge — общеизвестная вещь, общеизвестный факт
a matter of great importance — очень важное дело, очень важный вопрос
a matter of life and death — вопрос жизни и смерти; жизненно важный вопрос
in all matters of education — во всём, что касается образования
7. n неприятное дело, неприятность; трудностьto mend the matter, to mend matters — помочь делу
8. n повод, причина, основание9. n собир. спец. почтовые отправления10. n юр. заявление, утверждение, требующее доказательствa matter in deed — факт, подтверждённый документально
work done without much expenditure of grey matter — работа, не требующая большого ума
11. n юр. спорный вопрос, спорный пункт; предмет спораthe root of the matter — суть дела, сущность вопроса
12. n полигр. рукопись, оригинал13. n полигр. набор; напечатанный, набранный материалit made no matter to him that his brother lost all his money — ему было безразлично, что его брат потерял все деньги
no matter! — ничего!, неважно!, всё равно!
no such matter — ничего подобного, ничуть не бывало
a matter of — что-нибудь вроде, около
no matter what — несмотря ни на что; что бы ни было
to take matters easy — не волноваться, не обращать внимания
to make matters worse he was late — более того, он ещё и опоздал
over matter — набор, не вмещающийся в установленный параметр
close matter — убористая печать, сплошной текстовой материал
reading matter — литература, материал для чтения
14. v иметь значение15. v гноитьсяthe cut got dirty and began to matter — в ранку попала грязь, и она загноилась
Синонимический ряд:1. affair (noun) affair; business; circumstance; concern; shooting match; situation; thing; undertaking2. order (noun) extent; magnitude; neighborhood; order; range; tune; vicinity3. pus (noun) infection; maturation; purulence; pus; sore; suppuration; ulceration4. subject (noun) argument; content; essence; focus; head; interest; motif; motive; point; resolution; subject; subject matter; text; theme; topic5. substance (noun) amount; being; body; burden; constituents; core; crux; element; entity; gist; individual; kernel; material; materiality; meat; medium; nub; nubbin; object; pith; purport; sense; short; strength; stuff; substance; substantiality; sum and substance; sum total; thrust; upshot6. things (noun) beings; entities; individuals; objects; substances; things7. trouble (noun) difficulty; distress; perplexity; trouble8. count (verb) be important; carry weight; count; imply; import; mean; signify; value; weigh9. discharge pus (verb) come to a head; decay; discharge pus; fester; suppurate -
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1) Общая лексика: schedules, Site Controller (SEIC)2) Компьютерная техника: Screen Capture, Script Compiled, Select Class, Semi Compiled, Simplified Computing, Smart Card, Storage Control, System Class3) Геология: Saratoga Champlain4) Авиация: КК (Координационный коммитет)5) Медицина: п/к, подкожный, подкожно (путь введения инъекционного препарата), slice collimation6) Американизм: Special Collections, Support Contract7) Ботаника: Stem Clearance8) Спорт: Steeplechase, Stock Car, Street Competition9) Латинский язык: Senatus Consulto10) Военный термин: Air Force Communications-Computers Directorate, Deputy Chief of Staff for C4, Sanitary Corps, Screen Commander or Coordinator, Security Committee, Signal Corps, Silent Communication, Single Channel, Space Command, Specialty Codes, Squad Commander, Staff College, Structural Category, Submarine Chaser, Submarine Conversion, Superintending Cartographer, Supreme Commander, System Center, System Controller, Systems Command, satellite communications, screen commander, screen coordinator, searchlight company, section commander, sector commander, security classification, security code, senior controller, service ceiling (ЛА), service center, service certificate, service club, service command, service company, shaped charge, shipping container, signal center, signal command, signal communications, signal company, signal comparator, significant characteristics, simulation coordinator, single column, small craft, small-caliber, soldier capabilities, source code, spacecraft, spacecraft capsule, special circuit, special circular, specialty code, specification change, specified command, spot check, squadron commander, staff captain, staff car, staff command, staff corps, statement of capability, station, station commander, steering committee, stock control, storage capacity, subcontractor, summary court-martial, supervisor's console, supply catalog, supply center, supply column, supply control, supply corps, support chief, support command, support coordinator, survey company, switching center, system concept, Science Committee (NATO)11) Техника: Shuttle communications, safety class, satellite computer, satellite contact, scintillation counter, secondary confinement, sensor controller, sent-common, separate contact, session control, set course, shows of condensate, shuttle car, simplex circuit, site characterization, site contingency, situation console, software contractor, space charge, spacecraft communicator, speed controller, standard conductivity, stellar camera, superconducting, suppressed carrier, surveillance compliance, switched capacitor, switching cell, switching computer, synchrocyclotron, system control12) Сельское хозяйство: Scottish Crop, Specific Conductivity, КС (напр., в названиях гербицидов), концентрат суспензии13) Химия: Silicon Carbide, Solid Carbide, Suspendable Concentrate14) Строительство: Scullery15) Математика: достаточное условие (sufficient condition), последовательное исчисление (sequential calculus), сильная состоятельность (strong consistency)16) Религия: Second Cataclysm, Seraphim Call, Sources chretiennes17) Юридический термин: Session Cases, Striker Clan, The Supreme Council, Senior Counsel (старший адвокат, аналог титула “Queen’s/King’s Counsel” в ряде бывших британских колоний), NAFO Scientific Council18) Бухгалтерия: Simple And Cheap, share capital19) Австралийский сленг: School Certificate20) Автомобильный термин: supercharged engine21) Астрономия: Star Cluster22) Ветеринария: Society for Cryobiology23) Грубое выражение: Some Cunt, Sucks Cock, Super Crap24) География: Южная Каролина (штат США)25) Музыка: single coil26) Оптика: semiconductor27) Политика: St. Christopher ( Kitts) and Nevis28) Телевидение: sand castle29) Телекоммуникации: subscriber connector (optical fiber connector)30) Сокращение: Secondary Channel, Sectional Center, Security Council, Self-Cocking, Seychelles, Single Card, Sorting Carriage (UK, within RPO), South Carolina (US state), Staff Captain (British Army), Standing Committee (China), Supercavitating, Supreme Court, Systeme Combattant (Future Soldier programme (French Army)), same case, saturable core, self-check, self-contained, separate cover, shaft center, short circuit, single conductor, single-contact, smooth contour, special committee, special constables, subcontract, Supervisory Committee (термин в Киотском протоколе (КН)), Save the Children31) Университет: Scientific Community, Stevenson Center, Stockton College, Study Committee, Sub Campus32) Физика: Splat-Cooled33) Физиология: Sacrococcygeal, San Clemente, Scapula, Self Care34) Электроника: Sapphire Carrier, Semi-Conducting, Set Clock, Shaping Circuit, Slow Close, Socket Contact, Super Cell35) Вычислительная техника: SubCommittee, secondary cache, диспетчерский контроль, SubCommittee (ISO, TC, IEC), подкомитет, счётчик команд37) Стоматология: single crown38) Биохимия: Subcutaneously39) Онкология: Subcutaneous40) Космонавтика: КА41) Картография: South Carolina42) Транспорт: Scored Cylinders, Short Cut, Soft Conditions, Sports Coupe, Steam Catamaran43) Пищевая промышленность: Senior Cycle, Super Combo, Swiss Cheese44) Холодильная техника: subcooling45) СМИ: Small Capitals, Soft Cover, Story Collection, Subject Category46) Деловая лексика: Shopping Center, (subsidiary company) ДП(дочернее предприятие) (употребляется как сокращение при написании реквизитов компании)47) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: РК (Steering Committee), руководящий комитет (Steering Committee)48) Образование: Sentence Comprehension, Short Course, Swimming Course49) Сетевые технологии: Same Context, Service Class, Session Counter, Set Cookie, Smp Cluster, Subscriber Connector, Swapped Controller, sequence counter, service channel, supervisory control, сервисный канал, служебный канал50) Полимеры: semicrystalline, slow-curing, standard conditions51) Программирование: Skip Conditionally, Special Character, Special Code52) Автоматика: superimposed coding53) Ядерная физика: Special Conventional-Alloy54) Сахалин Р: УК55) Океанография: Seabed Classification, Space Council56) Сахалин А: sealed closed57) Безопасность: Single Check58) Расширение файла: Display driver (Framework II), PAL script (Paradox)59) SAP.тех. подчинённый класс60) Нефть и газ: signal conditioner61) МИД: single crystal62) Гостиничное дело: большой ребёнок + 1 взрослый63) Лаки и краски: stripe coat64) Электротехника: single-core cable, static compensator, superconductor65) Имена и фамилии: Shepherd Clark, Stanley Cohen66) Должность: Senior Counsel67) Правительство: Silver City, Strawberry Creek68) NYSE. Shell Transportation & Trading, PLC69) НАСА: Stress Compensated70) Программное обеспечение: Shell Commands, Source Control, Spreadsheet Calculator71) Федеральное бюро расследований: Sacramento Field Office, Special Clerk -
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1) Общая лексика: schedules, Site Controller (SEIC)2) Компьютерная техника: Screen Capture, Script Compiled, Select Class, Semi Compiled, Simplified Computing, Smart Card, Storage Control, System Class3) Геология: Saratoga Champlain4) Авиация: КК (Координационный коммитет)5) Медицина: п/к, подкожный, подкожно (путь введения инъекционного препарата), slice collimation6) Американизм: Special Collections, Support Contract7) Ботаника: Stem Clearance8) Спорт: Steeplechase, Stock Car, Street Competition9) Латинский язык: Senatus Consulto10) Военный термин: Air Force Communications-Computers Directorate, Deputy Chief of Staff for C4, Sanitary Corps, Screen Commander or Coordinator, Security Committee, Signal Corps, Silent Communication, Single Channel, Space Command, Specialty Codes, Squad Commander, Staff College, Structural Category, Submarine Chaser, Submarine Conversion, Superintending Cartographer, Supreme Commander, System Center, System Controller, Systems Command, satellite communications, screen commander, screen coordinator, searchlight company, section commander, sector commander, security classification, security code, senior controller, service ceiling (ЛА), service center, service certificate, service club, service command, service company, shaped charge, shipping container, signal center, signal command, signal communications, signal company, signal comparator, significant characteristics, simulation coordinator, single column, small craft, small-caliber, soldier capabilities, source code, spacecraft, spacecraft capsule, special circuit, special circular, specialty code, specification change, specified command, spot check, squadron commander, staff captain, staff car, staff command, staff corps, statement of capability, station, station commander, steering committee, stock control, storage capacity, subcontractor, summary court-martial, supervisor's console, supply catalog, supply center, supply column, supply control, supply corps, support chief, support command, support coordinator, survey company, switching center, system concept, Science Committee (NATO)11) Техника: Shuttle communications, safety class, satellite computer, satellite contact, scintillation counter, secondary confinement, sensor controller, sent-common, separate contact, session control, set course, shows of condensate, shuttle car, simplex circuit, site characterization, site contingency, situation console, software contractor, space charge, spacecraft communicator, speed controller, standard conductivity, stellar camera, superconducting, suppressed carrier, surveillance compliance, switched capacitor, switching cell, switching computer, synchrocyclotron, system control12) Сельское хозяйство: Scottish Crop, Specific Conductivity, КС (напр., в названиях гербицидов), концентрат суспензии13) Химия: Silicon Carbide, Solid Carbide, Suspendable Concentrate14) Строительство: Scullery15) Математика: достаточное условие (sufficient condition), последовательное исчисление (sequential calculus), сильная состоятельность (strong consistency)16) Религия: Second Cataclysm, Seraphim Call, Sources chretiennes17) Юридический термин: Session Cases, Striker Clan, The Supreme Council, Senior Counsel (старший адвокат, аналог титула “Queen’s/King’s Counsel” в ряде бывших британских колоний), NAFO Scientific Council18) Бухгалтерия: Simple And Cheap, share capital19) Австралийский сленг: School Certificate20) Автомобильный термин: supercharged engine21) Астрономия: Star Cluster22) Ветеринария: Society for Cryobiology23) Грубое выражение: Some Cunt, Sucks Cock, Super Crap24) География: Южная Каролина (штат США)25) Музыка: single coil26) Оптика: semiconductor27) Политика: St. Christopher ( Kitts) and Nevis28) Телевидение: sand castle29) Телекоммуникации: subscriber connector (optical fiber connector)30) Сокращение: Secondary Channel, Sectional Center, Security Council, Self-Cocking, Seychelles, Single Card, Sorting Carriage (UK, within RPO), South Carolina (US state), Staff Captain (British Army), Standing Committee (China), Supercavitating, Supreme Court, Systeme Combattant (Future Soldier programme (French Army)), same case, saturable core, self-check, self-contained, separate cover, shaft center, short circuit, single conductor, single-contact, smooth contour, special committee, special constables, subcontract, Supervisory Committee (термин в Киотском протоколе (КН)), Save the Children31) Университет: Scientific Community, Stevenson Center, Stockton College, Study Committee, Sub Campus32) Физика: Splat-Cooled33) Физиология: Sacrococcygeal, San Clemente, Scapula, Self Care34) Электроника: Sapphire Carrier, Semi-Conducting, Set Clock, Shaping Circuit, Slow Close, Socket Contact, Super Cell35) Вычислительная техника: SubCommittee, secondary cache, диспетчерский контроль, SubCommittee (ISO, TC, IEC), подкомитет, счётчик команд37) Стоматология: single crown38) Биохимия: Subcutaneously39) Онкология: Subcutaneous40) Космонавтика: КА41) Картография: South Carolina42) Транспорт: Scored Cylinders, Short Cut, Soft Conditions, Sports Coupe, Steam Catamaran43) Пищевая промышленность: Senior Cycle, Super Combo, Swiss Cheese44) Холодильная техника: subcooling45) СМИ: Small Capitals, Soft Cover, Story Collection, Subject Category46) Деловая лексика: Shopping Center, (subsidiary company) ДП(дочернее предприятие) (употребляется как сокращение при написании реквизитов компании)47) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: РК (Steering Committee), руководящий комитет (Steering Committee)48) Образование: Sentence Comprehension, Short Course, Swimming Course49) Сетевые технологии: Same Context, Service Class, Session Counter, Set Cookie, Smp Cluster, Subscriber Connector, Swapped Controller, sequence counter, service channel, supervisory control, сервисный канал, служебный канал50) Полимеры: semicrystalline, slow-curing, standard conditions51) Программирование: Skip Conditionally, Special Character, Special Code52) Автоматика: superimposed coding53) Ядерная физика: Special Conventional-Alloy54) Сахалин Р: УК55) Океанография: Seabed Classification, Space Council56) Сахалин А: sealed closed57) Безопасность: Single Check58) Расширение файла: Display driver (Framework II), PAL script (Paradox)59) SAP.тех. подчинённый класс60) Нефть и газ: signal conditioner61) МИД: single crystal62) Гостиничное дело: большой ребёнок + 1 взрослый63) Лаки и краски: stripe coat64) Электротехника: single-core cable, static compensator, superconductor65) Имена и фамилии: Shepherd Clark, Stanley Cohen66) Должность: Senior Counsel67) Правительство: Silver City, Strawberry Creek68) NYSE. Shell Transportation & Trading, PLC69) НАСА: Stress Compensated70) Программное обеспечение: Shell Commands, Source Control, Spreadsheet Calculator71) Федеральное бюро расследований: Sacramento Field Office, Special Clerk -
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1) Общая лексика: schedules, Site Controller (SEIC)2) Компьютерная техника: Screen Capture, Script Compiled, Select Class, Semi Compiled, Simplified Computing, Smart Card, Storage Control, System Class3) Геология: Saratoga Champlain4) Авиация: КК (Координационный коммитет)5) Медицина: п/к, подкожный, подкожно (путь введения инъекционного препарата), slice collimation6) Американизм: Special Collections, Support Contract7) Ботаника: Stem Clearance8) Спорт: Steeplechase, Stock Car, Street Competition9) Латинский язык: Senatus Consulto10) Военный термин: Air Force Communications-Computers Directorate, Deputy Chief of Staff for C4, Sanitary Corps, Screen Commander or Coordinator, Security Committee, Signal Corps, Silent Communication, Single Channel, Space Command, Specialty Codes, Squad Commander, Staff College, Structural Category, Submarine Chaser, Submarine Conversion, Superintending Cartographer, Supreme Commander, System Center, System Controller, Systems Command, satellite communications, screen commander, screen coordinator, searchlight company, section commander, sector commander, security classification, security code, senior controller, service ceiling (ЛА), service center, service certificate, service club, service command, service company, shaped charge, shipping container, signal center, signal command, signal communications, signal company, signal comparator, significant characteristics, simulation coordinator, single column, small craft, small-caliber, soldier capabilities, source code, spacecraft, spacecraft capsule, special circuit, special circular, specialty code, specification change, specified command, spot check, squadron commander, staff captain, staff car, staff command, staff corps, statement of capability, station, station commander, steering committee, stock control, storage capacity, subcontractor, summary court-martial, supervisor's console, supply catalog, supply center, supply column, supply control, supply corps, support chief, support command, support coordinator, survey company, switching center, system concept, Science Committee (NATO)11) Техника: Shuttle communications, safety class, satellite computer, satellite contact, scintillation counter, secondary confinement, sensor controller, sent-common, separate contact, session control, set course, shows of condensate, shuttle car, simplex circuit, site characterization, site contingency, situation console, software contractor, space charge, spacecraft communicator, speed controller, standard conductivity, stellar camera, superconducting, suppressed carrier, surveillance compliance, switched capacitor, switching cell, switching computer, synchrocyclotron, system control12) Сельское хозяйство: Scottish Crop, Specific Conductivity, КС (напр., в названиях гербицидов), концентрат суспензии13) Химия: Silicon Carbide, Solid Carbide, Suspendable Concentrate14) Строительство: Scullery15) Математика: достаточное условие (sufficient condition), последовательное исчисление (sequential calculus), сильная состоятельность (strong consistency)16) Религия: Second Cataclysm, Seraphim Call, Sources chretiennes17) Юридический термин: Session Cases, Striker Clan, The Supreme Council, Senior Counsel (старший адвокат, аналог титула “Queen’s/King’s Counsel” в ряде бывших британских колоний), NAFO Scientific Council18) Бухгалтерия: Simple And Cheap, share capital19) Австралийский сленг: School Certificate20) Автомобильный термин: supercharged engine21) Астрономия: Star Cluster22) Ветеринария: Society for Cryobiology23) Грубое выражение: Some Cunt, Sucks Cock, Super Crap24) География: Южная Каролина (штат США)25) Музыка: single coil26) Оптика: semiconductor27) Политика: St. Christopher ( Kitts) and Nevis28) Телевидение: sand castle29) Телекоммуникации: subscriber connector (optical fiber connector)30) Сокращение: Secondary Channel, Sectional Center, Security Council, Self-Cocking, Seychelles, Single Card, Sorting Carriage (UK, within RPO), South Carolina (US state), Staff Captain (British Army), Standing Committee (China), Supercavitating, Supreme Court, Systeme Combattant (Future Soldier programme (French Army)), same case, saturable core, self-check, self-contained, separate cover, shaft center, short circuit, single conductor, single-contact, smooth contour, special committee, special constables, subcontract, Supervisory Committee (термин в Киотском протоколе (КН)), Save the Children31) Университет: Scientific Community, Stevenson Center, Stockton College, Study Committee, Sub Campus32) Физика: Splat-Cooled33) Физиология: Sacrococcygeal, San Clemente, Scapula, Self Care34) Электроника: Sapphire Carrier, Semi-Conducting, Set Clock, Shaping Circuit, Slow Close, Socket Contact, Super Cell35) Вычислительная техника: SubCommittee, secondary cache, диспетчерский контроль, SubCommittee (ISO, TC, IEC), подкомитет, счётчик команд37) Стоматология: single crown38) Биохимия: Subcutaneously39) Онкология: Subcutaneous40) Космонавтика: КА41) Картография: South Carolina42) Транспорт: Scored Cylinders, Short Cut, Soft Conditions, Sports Coupe, Steam Catamaran43) Пищевая промышленность: Senior Cycle, Super Combo, Swiss Cheese44) Холодильная техника: subcooling45) СМИ: Small Capitals, Soft Cover, Story Collection, Subject Category46) Деловая лексика: Shopping Center, (subsidiary company) ДП(дочернее предприятие) (употребляется как сокращение при написании реквизитов компании)47) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: РК (Steering Committee), руководящий комитет (Steering Committee)48) Образование: Sentence Comprehension, Short Course, Swimming Course49) Сетевые технологии: Same Context, Service Class, Session Counter, Set Cookie, Smp Cluster, Subscriber Connector, Swapped Controller, sequence counter, service channel, supervisory control, сервисный канал, служебный канал50) Полимеры: semicrystalline, slow-curing, standard conditions51) Программирование: Skip Conditionally, Special Character, Special Code52) Автоматика: superimposed coding53) Ядерная физика: Special Conventional-Alloy54) Сахалин Р: УК55) Океанография: Seabed Classification, Space Council56) Сахалин А: sealed closed57) Безопасность: Single Check58) Расширение файла: Display driver (Framework II), PAL script (Paradox)59) SAP.тех. подчинённый класс60) Нефть и газ: signal conditioner61) МИД: single crystal62) Гостиничное дело: большой ребёнок + 1 взрослый63) Лаки и краски: stripe coat64) Электротехника: single-core cable, static compensator, superconductor65) Имена и фамилии: Shepherd Clark, Stanley Cohen66) Должность: Senior Counsel67) Правительство: Silver City, Strawberry Creek68) NYSE. Shell Transportation & Trading, PLC69) НАСА: Stress Compensated70) Программное обеспечение: Shell Commands, Source Control, Spreadsheet Calculator71) Федеральное бюро расследований: Sacramento Field Office, Special Clerk -
57 fondo
fondo sustantivo masculino 1 llegaré al fondo de esta cuestión I'll get to the bottom of this matter (— de habitación) back;c) ( profundidad):2 (Lit) ( contenido) content 3 (Fin)◊ hacer un fondo común to start a joint fund o (colloq) a kittyb)recaudar fondos to raise money; un cheque sin fondos a dud o (AmE) rubber check (colloq) 4 (Dep) ( en atletismo): 5 (Méx) (Indum) slip, underskirt 6 ( en locs) ‹ limpieza› thorough; ( loc adv) ‹prepararse/entrenar› thoroughly; de fondo ‹ruido/música› background ( before n); en el fondo: en el fondo nos llevamos bien we get on all right, really; en el fondo no es malo deep down he's not a bad person
fondo sustantivo masculino
1 (parte más profunda) bottom
un doble fondo, a false bottom
2 (interior de una persona) en el fondo es muy tierno, deep down he's very gentle
3 (extremo opuesto) (de una habitación) back (de un pasillo) end
4 (segundo plano) background
música de fondo, background music
mujer sobre fondo rojo, woman on a red background
5 (núcleo, meollo) essence, core
el fondo del asunto, the core of the matter
6 Prensa artículo de fondo, leading article
7 Dep corredor de fondo, long-distance runner
esquí de fondo, cross-country skiing
8 Fin fund: nos dio un cheque sin fondos, he gave us a bad cheque familiar fondo común, kitty 9 bajos fondos, underworld
10 (conjunto de documentos, libros etc.) batch: los fondos documentales están en el sótano, the batches of documents are in the basement Locuciones: tocar fondo, Náut to touch bottom figurado to reach rock bottom
a fondo, thoroughly
a fondo perdido, non-recoverable funds ' fondo' also found in these entries: Spanish: esquí - F.M.I. - FMI - FSE - lecho - revolverse - sentar - telón - artículo - barril - bien - carrera - corredor - crear - cuestión - doble - maquillaje - mar English: back - backdrop - background - bed - blunder - board - bottom - bottom out - bottomless - clean out - clear out - cross-country - dappled - depth - end - extensive - floor - fund - going-over - groundswell - heart - IMF - inch - International Monetary Fund - kitty - long-distance - mutual fund - pool - scrub down - seabed - sink - spring-clean - stuff away - thoroughly - thrash out - underneath - unit trust - abreast - clean - closely - deep - deeply - disaster - float - full - further - good - heavy - in-depth - international -
58 Coimbra, University of
Portugal's oldest and once its most prestigious university. As one of Europe's oldest seats of learning, the University of Coimbra and its various roles have a historic importance that supersedes merely the educational. For centuries, the university formed and trained the principal elites and professions that dominated Portugal. For more than a century, certain members of its faculty entered the central government in Lisbon. A few, such as law professor Afonso Costa, mathematics instructor Sidônio Pais, anthropology professor Bernardino Machado, and economics professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar, became prime ministers and presidents of the republic. In such a small country, with relatively few universities until recently, Portugal counted Coimbra's university as the educational cradle of its leaders and knew its academic traditions as an intimate part of national life.Established in 1290 by King Dinis, the university first opened in Lisbon but was moved to Coimbra in 1308, and there it remained. University buildings were placed high on a hill, in a position thatphysically dominates Portugal's third city. While sections of the medieval university buildings are present, much of what today remains of the old University of Coimbra dates from the Manueline era (1495-1521) and the 17th and 18th centuries. The main administration building along the so-called Via Latina is baroque, in the style of the 17th and 18th centuries. Most prominent among buildings adjacent to the central core structures are the Chapel of São Miguel, built in the 17th century, and the magnificent University Library, of the era of wealthy King João V, built between 1717 and 1723. Created entirely by Portuguese artists and architects, the library is unique among historic monuments in Portugal. Its rare book collection, a monument in itself, is complemented by exquisite gilt wood decorations and beautiful doors, windows, and furniture. Among visitors and tourists, the chapel and library are the prime attractions to this day.The University underwent important reforms under the Pombaline administration (1750-77). Efforts to strengthen Coimbra's position in advanced learning and teaching by means of a new curriculum, including new courses in new fields and new degrees and colleges (in Portugal, major university divisions are usually called "faculties") often met strong resistance. In the Age of the Discoveries, efforts were made to introduce the useful study of mathematics, which was part of astronomy in that day, and to move beyond traditional medieval study only of theology, canon law, civil law, and medicine. Regarding even the advanced work of the Portuguese astronomer and mathematician Pedro Nunes, however, Coimbra University was lamentably slow in introducing mathematics or a school of arts and general studies. After some earlier efforts, the 1772 Pombaline Statutes, the core of the Pombaline reforms at Coimbra, had an impact that lasted more than a century. These reforms remained in effect to the end of the monarchy, when, in 1911, the First Republic instituted changes that stressed the secularization of learning. This included the abolition of the Faculty of Theology.Elaborate, ancient traditions and customs inform the faculty and student body of Coimbra University. Tradition flourishes, although some customs are more popular than others. Instead of residing in common residences or dormitories as in other countries, in Coimbra until recently students lived in the city in "Republics," private houses with domestic help hired by the students. Students wore typical black academic gowns. Efforts during the Revolution of 25 April 1974 and aftermath to abolish the wearing of the gowns, a powerful student image symbol, met resistance and generated controversy. In romantic Coimbra tradition, students with guitars sang characteristic songs, including Coimbra fado, a more cheerful song than Lisbon fado, and serenaded other students at special locations. Tradition also decreed that at graduation graduates wore their gowns but burned their school (or college or subject) ribbons ( fitas), an important ceremonial rite of passage.The University of Coimbra, while it underwent a revival in the 1980s and 1990s, no longer has a virtual monopoly over higher education in Portugal. By 1970, for example, the country had only four public and one private university, and the University of Lisbon had become more significant than ancient Coimbra. At present, diversity in higher education is even more pronounced: 12 private universities and 14 autonomous public universities are listed, not only in Lisbon and Oporto, but at provincial locations. Still, Coimbra retains an influence as the senior university, some of whose graduates still enter national government and distinguished themselves in various professions.An important student concern at all institutions of higher learning, and one that marked the last half of the 1990s and continued into the next century, was the question of increased student fees and tuition payments (in Portuguese, propinas). Due to the expansion of the national universities in function as well as in the size of student bodies, national budget constraints, and the rising cost of education, the central government began to increase student fees. The student movement protested this change by means of various tactics, including student strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations. At the same time, a growing number of private universities began to attract larger numbers of students who could afford the higher fees in private institutions, but who had been denied places in the increasingly competitive and pressured public universities. -
59 Artificial Intelligence
In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, EventuallyJust as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the ProgramMany problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)[AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract FormThe basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory FormationIt is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular ContextsEven if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial IntelligenceThe primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary PropositionsIn artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence
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60 country
ˈkʌntrɪ
1. сущ.
1) а) страна;
местность, территория His road lay over a flat country. ≈ Дорога шла по равнине. Syn: region, district б) ландшафт в) страна как административная единица: территория шотландского клана, баронство, герцогство, княжество (и т.п.) ;
страна как местность, принадлежащая кому-л. или населенная кем-л., всегда в сочетаниях The fort at Inversnaid, constructed for the express purpose of bridling the country of the MacGregors. ≈ Форт у Инверснайда, построенный специально, чтобы ограничить набеги с земли клана МакГрегоров. God's own country г) родина, отечество (также в варианте old country) leave the country country damaged Syn: fatherland, motherland д) жители страны, население, граждане appeal to the country go to the country е) перен. область, сфера( знаний, деятельности)
2) а) периферия, провинция б) деревня, сельская местность He is country to the core. ≈ Он - воплощение деревни. - country cousin in the country in the open country
3) муз. стиль кантри country air
4) а) мор. остановка в пути, заход в порт б) мор. часть кубрика, не занятая гамаками
2. прил.
1) сельский;
деревенский country road ≈ проселочная дорога
2) отдаленный от центра, провинциальный - country town - country cousin
3) относящийся к музыке "кантри" страна - member * страна-член( какой-л. организации) ;
страна-участница( какого-л. соглашения) - giving * страна, предоставляющая помощь - * of origin страна происхождения( особ. товара) население, народ страны - the * is opposed to war вся страна против войны избиратели - to go to the * распустить парламент и назначить новые выборы - to put oneself on one's * обратиться к избирателям родина, отечество - this * наша страна, мое отечество - * sickness тоска по родине, ностальгия (тк. в ед. ч.) местность, территория - wooded * лесистая местность - broken * пересеченная местность - level * равнина (the *;
тк. в ед. ч.) sing. деревня, сельская местность, провинция - in the * в деревне, за городом;
на даче область, сфера - this is unknown * to me это неизвестная для меня область (юридическое) присяжные заседатели;
жюри присяжных заседателей (the C.) (спортивное) бег по пересеченной местности музыка "кантри" > every * has its customs;
so many countries, so many customs что (ни) город, то норов, что (ни) деревня, то обычай деревенский, сельский - fresh * air свежий деревенский воздух - * speech просторечие - * manners грубоватые манеры - * road проселочная дорога;
дорога местного значения отдаленный от центра, провинциальный - * town провинциальный город относящийся к музыке "кантри" - * singer исполнитель песен "кантри" ASEAN countries страны - члены Ассоциации государств Юго-Восточной Азии back ~ отдаленные от центра районы;
глушь beneficiary ~ страна проживания бенефициария borrowing ~ страна, пользующаяся займом cereals-exporting ~ страна-экспортер зерна cereals-importing ~ страна-импортер зерна competing ~ конкурирующая страна corn-growing ~ страна, производящая зерно country страна;
surplus ~ страна с активным платежным балансом country: country деревенский ~ деревня (в противоположность городу) ;
сельская местность;
in the country за городом;
в деревне;
на даче;
in the open country на лоне природы ~ жители страны, население ~ жюри присяжных заседателей ~ избиратели ~ ландшафт ~ местность;
территория ~ местность ~ население ~ область, сфера;
this subject is quite unknown country to me этот вопрос - чуждая мне область ~ область ~ отечество ~ периферия, провинция ~ присяжные ~ присяжные заседатели ~ родина, отечество (тж. old country) ;
to leave the country уехать за границу ~ сельский ~ страна ~ сфера ~ территория ~ attr. сельский;
деревенский;
to appeal( или to go) to the country распустить парламент и назначить новые выборы ~ of departure страна отправления ~ of destination страна назначения ~ of domicile страна постоянного проживания ~ of domicile for tax purposes страна проживания для налогообложения ~ of incorporation страна регистрации ~ of issue страна эмиссии ~ of last residence страна последнего пребывания ~ of marketing страна сбыта ~ of origin страна отправления ~ of origin страна происхождения ~ of provenance страна происхождения ~ of residence страна пребывания ~ of residence страна проживания ~ of residence for tax purposes страна пребывания для целей налогообложения ~ of source страна происхождения ~ of warehousing страна складирования ~ of warehousing страна хранения товара creditor ~ страна-кредитор debtor ~ страна-дебитор debtor ~ страна-должник developing ~ развивающаяся страна exporting ~ страна-экспортер exporting ~ экспортирующая страна foreign ~ зарубежная страна foreing ~ зарубежная страна grain-exporting ~ страна, экспортирующая зерно grain-growing ~ страна, производящая зерно grain-importing ~ страна, импортирующая зерно home ~ внутренняя часть страны home ~ отечество home ~ родина host ~ приглашающая страна host ~ принимающая страна host ~ страна пребывания host: ~ attr.: ~ country страна-устроительница (конференций и т. п.) import ~ импортирующая страна importing ~ страна-импортер ~ деревня (в противоположность городу) ;
сельская местность;
in the country за городом;
в деревне;
на даче;
in the open country на лоне природы ~ деревня (в противоположность городу) ;
сельская местность;
in the country за городом;
в деревне;
на даче;
in the open country на лоне природы industrialized ~ промышленно развитая страна landlocked ~ страна, не имеющая выхода к морю ~ родина, отечество (тж. old country) ;
to leave the country уехать за границу less developed ~ развивающаяся страна low-inflation ~ страна с низкими темпами инфляции member ~ страна-участник member ~ страна-член mother ~ метрополия (по отношению к колониям) mother ~ родина native ~ родина neighbouring ~ пограничное государство neighbouring ~ соседняя страна net exporting ~ страна нетто-экспортер newly industrialized countries (NIC) новые промышленно развитые страны newly industrising countries новые индустриальные страны non-EC ~ страна, не входящая в Европейское экономическое сообщество output losses in sending countries потери производства из-за выезда за границу рабочей силы (особенно квалифицированной) participating ~ страна-участница (договора, конференции и т. п.) producer ~ страна-производитель receiving ~ принимающая страна recipient ~ страна-получатель sending ~ страна из которой выезжают мигранты на заработки signatory ~ подписавшееся государство state trading ~ страна, ведущая государственную торговлю country страна;
surplus ~ страна с активным платежным балансом third ~ третья сторона third world countries развивающиеся страны ~ область, сфера;
this subject is quite unknown country to me этот вопрос - чуждая мне область transit ~ страна транзита underdeveloped ~ развивающаяся страна up ~ внутри страны;
внутрь страны
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