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21 Ctesibius (Ktesibios) of Alexandria
[br]fl. c.270 BC Alexandria[br]Alexandrian mechanician and inventor.[br]Ctesibius made a number of inventions of great importance, which he described in his book Pneumatics, now lost. The Roman engineer and architect Vitruvius quoted extracts from Ctesibius' work in his De Architectura and tells us that Ctesibius was the son of a barber and that he arranged an adjustable mirror controlled by a lead counterweight descending in a cylinder. He noticed that the weight compressed the air, which could be released with a loud noise. That led him to realize that the air was a body or substance: by means of a cylinder and plunger, he went on to invent an air pump with valves. This he connected to the keyboard and rows of pipes of an organ. He also invented a force pump for water.Ctesibius also improved the clepsydra or water clock, which measured time by the fall of water level in a vessel as the water escaped through a hole in the bottom. The rate of flow varied as the level dropped, so Ctesibius interposed a cistern with an overflow pipe, enabling the water level to be maintained; there was thus a constant flow into a cylinder and the passage of time was indicated by a float with a pointer. He fitted a rack to the float which turned a toothed wheel, to activate bells, singing birds or other "toys". This is probably the first known use of toothed gearing.Ctesibius is credited with some other inventions of a military nature, such as a catapult, but it was his pumps that established a tradition in antiquity for mechanical invention using the pressure of the air and other fluids, stretching through Philo of Byzantium (c.150 BC) and Hero of Alexandria (c.62 AD) and on through Islam into medieval Western Europe.[br]Further ReadingA.G.Drachmann, 1948, Ktesibios, Philon and Heron: A Study in Ancient Pneumatics, Copenhagen: Munksgaard (Acta Hist. Sci. Nat. Med. 4).LRDBiographical history of technology > Ctesibius (Ktesibios) of Alexandria
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22 employee
сущ.1) упр., эк. тр. (наемный) работник, сотрудник; служащий; рабочий (работающий на предприятии или в организации по трудовому договору за заработную плату или оклад, как правило, на позициях, не относящихся к управленческим)state employee — государственный [правительственный\] служащий
executive employee — руководитель, руководящий работник
office [clerical\] employee — конторский [канцелярский\] служащий, работник офиса
railway employee — железнодорожник, работник железной дороги
secretarial employee — служащий секретариата, канцелярский служащий
technical employee — технический служащий [работник\]
high-salaried [high-salary\] employee — высокооплачиваемый работник*, работник с высоким окладом*
low-salaried [low-salary\] employee — низкооплачиваемый работник*, работник с низким окладом*
employee bonus — премия работнику, надбавка к зарплате работника
Syn:See:administrative employee, confidential employee, contract employee, emergency employee, essential employee, exempt employee, federal employee, field employee, full-time employee, highly compensated employee, hourly employee, indeterminate employee, key employee, leased employee, long-term employee, managerial employee, nonexempt employee, non-exempt employee, nonhighly compensated employee, non-highly compensated employee, non-resident employee, office employee, part-time employee, professional employee, public employee, resident employee, retired employee, salaried employee, salary employee, state employee, temporary employee, wage employee, waged employee, employee benefits, employee buy-out, employee contribution, employee deferrals, employee director, employee discrimination, employee dishonesty, employee educational benefit, employee expenses, employee insurance, employee invention, employee involvement, employee leasing, employee magazine, employee maintenance, employee motivation, employee organization, employee participation, employee potential, employee rating, employee referral, employee relations, employee report, employee representation, employee representative, employee retention, employee share option, employee share ownership, employee stock option, employee stock ownership, employee trust, employee trust fund, employee turnover, employee welfare, employee's contribution, employees insurance, employees' insurance, employee's invention, employees' stock plan, all-employee share scheme, cafeteria employee benefit plan, employee-employer match, employee-employer matching, employee-owned company, employer-employee match, employer-employee matching, employer-employee relations, employee savings plan, harassment by low-level employees, revenue per employee, sales per employee, value added per employee, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Confederation of Health Service Employees, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, National Union of Public Employees, employer, collective agreement, collective bargaining, salaryman2) упр., эк. тр., мн. персонал, штат, кадрыSyn:
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рабочий, служащий, рабо-тающий по найму за деньги. -
23 Поскольку изобретение, заявленное в п.41, явным образом следует из уровня техники, не может
Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Поскольку изобретение, заявленное в п.41, явным образом следует из уровня техники, не может
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24 Lee, Edmund
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering[br]d. mid-1763 Brock Mill, Wigan, England[br]English inventor of the fantail, used to turn windmills automatically to face the wind.[br]On 9 December 1745 Edmund Lee was granted letters patent for his invention of the windmill fantail. In the preamble to Lee's patent he is described as a smith of Brock Mill, near Wigan, where he ran a millwright's business. Brock Mill is known to have been a substantial water-powered iron forge by the River Douglas to the north of Wigan. The drawing accompanying the patent shows a tower mill with its tail pole reaching the ground, and this is connected to a frame or carriage supporting a seven-bladed wind wheel. This tail projected some distance from the back of the tower, and when the wind caught it and turned it the cap was turned to face the wind by means of the gears which linked the cap to the fantail. The next logical step from Lee's invention was to place the fantail at a high level on the cap or at the foot of the ladder of a post mill. There is also an inferred connection between the Lee fantail and the annular sail of the wind engine or of a windmill such as that at Haverhill in Suffolk.[br]Further ReadingStephen Buckland, 1987, Lee's Patent Windmill, London KM -
25 Savery, Thomas
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering[br]b. c. 1650 probably Shilston, near Modbury, Devonshire, Englandd. c. 15 May 1715 London, England[br]English inventor of a partially successful steam-driven pump for raising water.[br]Little is known of the early years of Savery's life and no trace has been found that he served in the Army, so the title "Captain" is thought to refer to some mining appointment, probably in the West of England. He may have been involved in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, for later he was well known to William of Orange. From 1705 to 1714 he was Treasurer for Sick and Wounded Seamen, and in 1714 he was appointed Surveyor of the Water Works at Hampton Court, a post he held until his death the following year. He was interested in mechanical devices; amongst his early contrivances was a clock.He was the most prolific inventor of his day, applying for seven patents, including one in 1649, for polishing plate glass which may have been used. His idea for 1697 for propelling ships with paddle-wheels driven by a capstan was a failure, although regarded highly by the King, and was published in his first book, Navigation Improved (1698). He tried to patent a new type of floating mill in 1707, and an idea in 1710 for baking sea coal or other fuel in an oven to make it clean and pure.His most famous invention, however, was the one patented in 1698 "for raising water by the impellent force of fire" that Savery said would drain mines or low-lying land, raise water to supply towns or houses, and provide a source of water for turning mills through a water-wheel. Basically it consisted of a receiver which was first filled with steam and then cooled to create a vacuum by having water poured over the outside. The water to be pumped was drawn into the receiver from a lower sump, and then high-pressure steam was readmitted to force the water up a pipe to a higher level. It was demonstrated to the King and the Royal Society and achieved some success, for a few were installed in the London area and a manufactory set up at Salisbury Court in London. He published a book, The Miner's Friend, about his engine in 1702, but although he made considerable improvements, due to excessive fuel consumption and materials which could not withstand the steam pressures involved, no engines were installed in mines as Savery had hoped. His patent was extended in 1699 until 1733 so that it covered the atmospheric engine of Thomas Newcomen who was forced to join Savery and his other partners to construct this much more practical engine.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1706.Bibliography1698, Navigation Improved.1702, The Miner's Friend.Further ReadingThe entry in the Dictionary of National Biography (1897, Vol. L, London: Smith Elder \& Co.) has been partially superseded by more recent research. The Transactions of the Newcomen Society contain various papers; for example, Rhys Jenkins, 1922–3, "Savery, Newcomen and the early history of the steam engine", Vol. 3; A.Stowers, 1961–2, "Thomas Newcomen's first steam engine 250 years ago and the initial development of steam power", Vol. 34; A.Smith, 1977–8, "Steam and the city: the committee of proprietors of the invention for raising water by fire", 1715–1735, Vol. 49; and J.S.P.Buckland, 1977–8, "Thomas Savery, his steam engine workshop of 1702", Vol. 49. Brief accounts may be found in H.W. Dickinson, 1938, A Short History of the Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press, and R.L. Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press. There is another biography in T.I. Williams (ed.), 1969, A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, London: A. \& C.Black.RLH -
26 talk
tɔ:k
1. сущ.
1) а) разговор;
диалог;
беседа I think it's time we had a talk. ≈ Я думаю, нам пора поговорить. She had a long talk with him about his work. ≈ Она долго разговаривала с ним о его работе. big talk blunt talk heart-to-heart talk loose talk pep talk plain talk straight talk sweet talk б) мн. переговоры the next round of Middle East peace talks ≈ следующий раунд переговоров о мире на Ближнем Востоке
2) лекция;
беседа, рассказ to give a talk ≈ прочитать лекцию She gave an interesting talk on bringing up children. ≈ Она прочитала интересную лекцию по вопросам воспитания детей.
3) а) пустой разговор, треп, болтовня It will end in talk. ≈ Это дальше разговоров не пойдет. idle talk ≈ пустословие, болтовня б) слухи, толки, молва There is talk of her resigning. ≈ Поговаривают о том, что она уходит на пенсию. в) предмет разговоров, толков It is the talk of the town. ≈ Об этом толкует весь город.
2. гл.
1) а) говорить, вести беседу;
разговаривать( about, of - о чем-л.;
with - с кем-л.) to talk bluntly, to talk candidly, to talk frankly, to talk freely ≈ открыто/свободно/искренне разговаривать о чем-л. to talk loud, to talk loudly, to talk openly ≈ во весь голос/открыто заявить о чем-л. to talk oneself sick ≈ договориться до болезненного состояния They were talking about the elections. ≈ Они разговаривали о выборах. She was talking of her trip. ≈ Она рассказывала о своем путешествии. to talk on a topic ≈ вести беседу на какую-л. тему to talk smb. into doing smth. ≈ убедить/уговорить кого-л. сделать что-л. to talk smb. out of doing smth. ≈ отговорить кого-л. делать что-л. I will talk to them about this problem. ≈ Я обсужу с ними этот вопрос. {to} talk big ≈ хвастать(ся) {to} talk bawdy ≈ говорить непристойности б) вести переговоры в) заговорить( о допрашиваемом)
2) читать, вести лекцию (on)
3) а) болтать, трепать языком б) сплетничать ∙ talk about talk around talk at smb. talk away talk back talk big talk down talk down to talk into talk of talk on talk out talk out of talk over talk round talk to talk to the point talk up to talk big/large/tall разг. ≈ хвастать, бахвалиться to talk smb.'s head off, to talk a donkey's hind leg off разг. ≈ заговорить до смерти now you are talking! разг. ≈ вот сейчас ты говоришь дело! you can't talk разг. ≈ не тебе говорить, ты бы лучше помалкивал talk against time talk turkey разговор, беседа - straight * откровенный разговор, разговор начистоту - idle * пустой разговор - double * двусмысленный разговор - small * разговор о пустяках, светский /пустой/ разговор - she has no small * она не умеет поддерживать беседу - to meet for a good * встретиться и всласть поговорить - to engage smb. in *, to make a * начинать разговор, пытаться завязать беседу - to fall into * разговориться - to have a * with smb. поговорить с кем-л. - to start a * off in a different direction перевести разговор на другую тему - the * turned to economics разговор перешел на экономику (on, about) лекция, доклад, беседа - to give a * on disarmament прочитать лекцию о разоружении - the coach gave the team a * about the need for more team spirit тренер провел с командой беседу об усилении духа коллективизма пустой разговор, болтовня - to end in * кончиться одними словами, не пойти дальше разговоров - it's just *, it's mere * это одни слова - he's all * он вечно болтает - we want actions, not * нам нужны не слова, а дела разговоры, слухи;
россказни;
толки, молва - that will make * теперь пойдут разговоры /толки, слухи/, теперь разговоров не оберешься - there is * of a new invention ходят слухи о новом изобретении предмет толков, разговоров - it's the * of the town об этом толкует /говорит/ весь город, это у всех на устах - to risk * быть выше сплетен /молвы/, не бояться сплетен pl переговоры - informal *s неофициальные переговоры - summit /top-level/ *s переговоры на высшем уровне - peace *s переговоры о мире (разговорное) язык, диалект, жаргон - baby * детский язык - thieves's * воровской /блатной/ жаргон > all * and no cider (американизм) шуму много, а толку мало > that's the *! вот это дело!, вот это я понимаю! разговаривать, беседовать;
говорить;
общаться - to * about smb., smth. говорить о ком-л., чем-л. - to get oneself *ed about заставить говорить о себе - I know what I am *ing about я знаю, о чем говорю - to * of smth. говорить о чем-л.;
упоминать о чем-л.;
говорить о своем намерении - he *ed of /about/ going abroad он сказал, что собирается за границу;
он упомянул о своем намерении поехать за границу - to * of one thing and another, to * of this and that поговорить /потолковать/ о том о сем - to * with smb. разговаривать с кем-л. - to * to smb. разговаривать с кем-л.;
(разговорное) выговаривать кому-л., упрекать /бранить/ кого-л. - she has found smb. to * to она нашла себе собеседницу - to * to oneself говорить с самим собой;
заговариваться - to * at smb. отпускать замечания на чей-л. счет /по чьему-л. адресу/ - to * by signs говорить /общаться/ с помощью знаков - to * in riddles говорить загадками - to * on a subject говорить на какую-л. тему - to * to the point говорить по существу - he didn't care to * ему не хотелось разговаривать - that's no way to *! так не разговаривают! - he likes to hear himself * он любит слушать (самого) себя говорить (что-л.) - to * sense /business/ говорить дело - to * nonsense говорить чепуху, нести /пороть/ чушь - to * politics говорить о политике - to * scandal распускать слухи, сплетничать - to * treason вести преступные разговоры;
держать мятежные речи общаться при помощи звуковых сигналов, обладать способностью речи (о живых существах, отличных от человека) ;
переговариваться - dolphins can * дельфины умеют говорить, у дельфинов есть язык - the birds were *ing loudly слышались громкие голоса птиц - ships were *ing to each other by wireless корабли переговаривались друг с другом по радио говорить - to * fluently говорить бегло - to learn to * учиться говорить - to * in one's sleep говорить во сне - stop *ing! перестаньте разговаривать! - I'll make you * ты у меня заговоришь, я заставлю тебя заговорить говорить на каком-л. языке - to * French говорить по-французски - to * dialect говорить на диалекте (on, about) проводить беседу - to * on discipline проводить беседу о дисциплине - to * on the radio on /about/ smth. выступать по радио( с беседой) о чем-л. (around, round) избегать существа дела;
обсуждать, не касаясь, не доходя до существа дела;
ходить вокруг да около, толочь воду в ступе - they *ed around the proposal for several hours они несколько часов обсуждали это предложение, но так ни до чего и не договорились (разговорное) болтать;
говорить пустое - to * by the hour болтать без умолку, тараторить, трещать - to * small вести пустой /светский/ разговор, вести салонную беседу - to * big /large, tall/ хвастать, бахвалиться, важничать;
врать с три короба - you * big послушать тебя - так ты все можешь распускать или распространять слухи, сплетничать;
судачить, злословить - to * behind smb.'s back говорить за спиной у кого-л., судачить /злословить/ на чей-л. счет - the case gave people something to * about это дело дало обильную пищу для толков - people are beginning to * уже пошли разговоры /толки/ - the neighbours are sure to * соседи уж почешут языки доводить разговорами (до чего-л.) - to * oneself hoarse договориться до хрипоты;
охрипнуть /сорвать голос/ от разговоров - I've *ed myself black in the face telling you! я тут надсаживаюсь, а ты и ухом не ведешь!;
я уже посинел /охрип/, толкуя тебе об этом! - he *ed himself into trouble он чересчур много говорил и влип в неприятную историю убеждать, уговаривать - to * smb. into agreement вырвать согласие у кого-л. - to * smb. into taking the trip уговорить кого-л. предпринять поездку (разговорное) сообщать нужные сведения;
доносить;
"раскалываться" - the prisoner *ed to the police арестованный раскололся и все рассказал полиции - to make a prisoner * заставить арестованного заговорить, "расколоть" арестованного - his accomplices are afraid he'll * его сообщники боятся, как бы он не заговорил /что он их выдаст/ > *ing of (pictures) кстати, о ( картинах) > to * Greek /Hebrew, Double-Dutch, gibberish/ говорить непонятно /заумно/ > to * (cold) turkey( американизм) говорить дело, разговаривать по-деловому;
говорить начистоту;
выкладывать всю правду > to * against time говорить для того, чтобы выиграть время;
стараться соблюсти регламент > to * through one's hat /through (the back of) one's neck/ нести чушь, говорить вздор, пороть чепуху > to * one's head /one's arm, a donkey's hind leg/ off, to * to death наговориться всласть /вволю/ > to * smb,'s head off, to * smb. to death замучить кого-л. разговорами, заговорить кого-л. до потери сознания /до смерти/ > to * horse хвастать, бахвалиться > how you *! рассказывай!, ври больше! > you can't * ты бы уж лучше помалкивал > now you're *ing! вот это дело!, вот это я понимаю!, вот это другой разговор! > * of the devil (and he will come /and he is sure to appear/) легок на помине > look who's *ing чья бы корова мычала ~ разговор;
беседа;
a heart-to-heart talk разговор по душам;
to fall into talk разговориться to get oneself talked about заставить заговорить о себе;
to talk politics говорить о политике ~ разговор;
беседа;
a heart-to-heart talk разговор по душам;
to fall into talk разговориться to ~ (smb.'s) head off, to ~ a donkey's hind leg off разг. заговорить до смерти;
how you talk! рассказывай!, ври больше! ~ слухи, толки;
предмет разговоров, толков;
it is the talk of the town об этом толкует весь город ~ пустой разговор, болтовня;
it will end in talk это дальше разговоров не пойдет to ~ turkey амер. разг. говорить начистоту;
now you are talking! разг. вот сейчас ты говоришь дело! sales ~ переговоры о продаже товара talk беседа ~ беседовать ~ болтать, говорить пустое ~ говорить;
разговаривать (about, of - о чем-л.;
with - с кем-л.) ;
to talk English говорить по-английски ~ говорить ~ заговорить (о допрашиваемом) ;
talk at говорить дурно( о ком-л.) в расчете на то, что он это услышит ~ лекция, беседа ~ лекция ~ pl переговоры ~ переговоры ~ пустой разговор, болтовня;
it will end in talk это дальше разговоров не пойдет ~ разговаривать ~ разговор;
беседа;
a heart-to-heart talk разговор по душам;
to fall into talk разговориться ~ разговор ~ слухи, толки;
предмет разговоров, толков;
it is the talk of the town об этом толкует весь город ~ сплетничать, распространять слухи ~ убеждать ~ уговаривать ~ читать лекцию (on) to ~ (smb.'s) head off, to ~ a donkey's hind leg off разг. заговорить до смерти;
how you talk! рассказывай!, ври больше! to ~ against time говорить с целью выиграть время to ~ against time стараться уложиться в установленное время( об ораторе) ~ заговорить (о допрашиваемом) ;
talk at говорить дурно (о ком-л.) в расчете на то, что он это услышит ~ attr. говорящий;
talk film звуковой фильм ~ away заговориться, заболтаться;
болтать без умолку;
talk back возражать, дерзить ~ up говорить прямо и откровенно;
to talk big (или large, tall) разг. хвастать, бахвалиться to ~ down (to smb.) говорить (с кем-л.) свысока;
talk into уговорить, убедить;
to talk (smb.) into doing (smth.) уговорить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) ~ down перекричать( кого-л.) ;
заставить (кого-л.) замолчать ~ говорить;
разговаривать (about, of - о чем-л.;
with - с кем-л.) ;
to talk English говорить по-английски ~ attr. говорящий;
talk film звуковой фильм to ~ (smb.'s) head off, to ~ a donkey's hind leg off разг. заговорить до смерти;
how you talk! рассказывай!, ври больше! to ~ down (to smb.) говорить (с кем-л.) свысока;
talk into уговорить, убедить;
to talk (smb.) into doing (smth.) уговорить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) to ~ down (to smb.) говорить (с кем-л.) свысока;
talk into уговорить, убедить;
to talk (smb.) into doing (smth.) уговорить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) to ~ oneself hoarse договориться до хрипоты ~ out выяснить( что-л.) в ходе беседы ~ out парл. затягивать прения с тем, чтобы отсрочить голосование;
talk out of отговорить, разубедить ~ out исчерпать тему разговора ~ out парл. затягивать прения с тем, чтобы отсрочить голосование;
talk out of отговорить, разубедить to ~ (smb.) out of doing (smth.) отговорить (кого-л.) (от чего-л.) ~ over обсудить (подробно) ~ over убедить to get oneself talked about заставить заговорить о себе;
to talk politics говорить о политике ~ round говорить пространно, не касаясь существа дела ~ round переубедить( кого-л.) ;
talk to выговаривать, бранить ~ round переубедить (кого-л.) ;
talk to выговаривать, бранить to ~ turkey амер. разг. говорить дело, разговаривать по-деловому to ~ turkey амер. разг. говорить начистоту;
now you are talking! разг. вот сейчас ты говоришь дело! turkey: ~ sl неудача, провал;
Norfolk turkey житель Норфолка;
to talk turkey амер. sl. говорить прямо, без обиняков ~ up говорить прямо и откровенно;
to talk big (или large, tall) разг. хвастать, бахвалиться ~ up хвалить, расхваливать you can't ~ разг. не тебе говорить, ты бы лучше помалкивал -
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1. [tɔ:k] n1. разговор, беседаstraight talk - откровенный разговор, разговор начистоту
idle [intimate, disjointed] talk - пустой [интимный, бессвязный] разговор
small talk - разговор о пустяках, светский /пустой/ разговор
to engage smb. in talk, to make a talk - начинать разговор, пытаться завязать беседу
to have a talk with smb. - поговорить с кем-л.
to start the talk off in a different direction - перевести разговор на другую тему
2. (on, about) лекция, доклад, беседаthe coach gave the team a talk about the need for more team spirit - тренер провёл с командой беседу об усилении духа коллективизма
3. пустой разговор, болтовняto end in talk - кончиться одними словами, не пойти дальше разговоров
it's just talk, it's mere talk - это одни слова
we want actions, not talk - нам нужны не слова, а дела
4. разговоры, слухи; россказни; толки, молваthat will make talk - теперь пойдут разговоры /толки, слухи/, теперь разговоров не оберёшься
there is talk of a new invention [of his returning] - ходят слухи о новом изобретении [о его возвращении]
5. предмет толков, разговоровit's the talk of the town - об этом толкует /говорит/ весь город, это у всех на устах
to risk talk - быть выше сплетен /молвы/, не бояться сплетен
6. pl переговорыsummit /top-level/ talks - переговоры на высшем уровне
7. разг. язык, диалект, жаргонthieves' talk - воровской /блатной/ жаргон
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all talk and no cider - амер. ≅ шуму много, а толку мало2. [tɔ:k] vthat's the talk! - вот это дело!, вот это я понимаю!
1. 1) разговаривать, беседовать; говорить; общатьсяto talk about smb., smth. - говорить о ком-л., чём-л.
I know what I am talking about - я знаю, о чём говорю
to talk of smth. - а) говорить о чём-л.; б) упоминать о чём-л.; говорить о своём намерении; he talked of /about/ going abroad - он сказал, что собирается за границу; он упомянул о своём намерении поехать за границу
to talk of one thing and another, to talk of this and that - поговорить /потолковать/ о том о сём
to talk with smb. - разговаривать с кем-л.
to talk to smb. - а) разговаривать с кем-л.; she has found smb. to talk to - она нашла себе собеседницу; to talk to oneself - говорить с самим собой; заговариваться; б) разг. выговаривать кому-л.; упрекать /бранить/ кого-л.
to talk at smb. - отпускать замечания на чей-л. счёт /по чьему-л. адресу/
to talk by signs - говорить /общаться/ с помощью знаков
to talk on a subject - говорить на какую-л. тему
that's no way to talk! - так не разговаривают!
2) говорить (что-л.)to talk sense /business/ - говорить дело
to talk nonsense - говорить чепуху, нести /пороть/ чушь
to talk politics [literature] - говорить о политике [о литературе]
to talk scandal - распускать слухи, сплетничать
to talk treason - вести преступные разговоры; держать мятежные речи
3) общаться при помощи звуковых сигналов, обладать способностью речи (о живых существах, отличных от человека); переговариватьсяdolphins can talk - дельфины умеют говорить, у дельфинов есть язык
the birds were talking loudly - ≅ слышались громкие голоса птиц
ships were talking to each other by wireless - корабли переговаривались друг с другом по радио
2. 1) говоритьstop talking! - перестаньте разговаривать!
I'll make you talk - ты у меня заговоришь, я заставлю тебя заговорить
2) говорить на каком-л. языкеto talk French [English] - говорить по-французски [по-английски]
3. 1) (on, about) проводить беседуto talk on the radio on /about/ smth. - выступать по радио (с беседой) о чём-л.
2) (around, round) избегать существа дела; обсуждать, не касаясь, не доходя до существа дела; ≅ ходить вокруг да около, толочь воду в ступеthey talked around the proposal for several hours - они несколько часов обсуждали это предложение, но так ни до чего и не договорились
4. разг. болтать; говорить пустоеto talk by the hour - болтать без умолку, тараторить, трещать
to talk small - вести пустой /светский/ разговор, вести салонную беседу
to talk big /large, tall/ - хвастать, бахвалиться, важничать; ≅ врать с три короба
5. распускать или распространять слухи, сплетничать; судачить, злословитьto talk behind smb.'s back - говорить за спиной у кого-л., судачить /злословить/ на чей-л. счёт
the case gave people something to talk about - это дело дало обильную пищу для толков
people are beginning to talk - уже пошли разговоры /толки/
6. доводить разговорами (до чего-л.)to talk oneself hoarse - договориться до хрипоты; охрипнуть /сорвать голос/ от разговоров
I've talked myself black in the face telling you! - ≅ я тут надсаживаюсь, а ты и ухом не ведёшь!; я уже посинел /охрип/, толкуя тебе об этом!
he talked himself into trouble - он чересчур много говорил и влип в неприятную историю
7. убеждать, уговариватьto talk smb. into agreement - вырвать согласие у кого-л.
to talk smb. into [out of] taking the trip - уговорить кого-л. предпринять поездку [отговорить кого-л. от поездки]
8. разг. сообщать нужные сведения; доносить; ≅ «раскалываться»the prisoner talked to the police - арестованный раскололся и всё рассказал полиции
to make a prisoner talk - заставить арестованного заговорить, «расколоть» арестованного
his accomplices are afraid he'll talk - его сообщники боятся, как бы он не заговорил /что он их выдаст/
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talking of (pictures) - кстати, о (картинах)to talk Greek /Hebrew, Double-Dutch, gibberish/ - говорить непонятно /заумно/
to talk (cold) turkey - амер. а) говорить дело, разговаривать по-деловому; б) говорить начистоту; выкладывать всю правду
to talk against time - а) говорить для того, чтобы выиграть время; б) стараться соблюсти регламент
to talk through one's hat /through (the back of) one's neck/ - нести чушь, говорить вздор, пороть чепуху
to talk one's head /one's arm, a donkey's hind leg/ off, to talk to death - наговориться всласть /вволю/
to talk smb.'s head off, to talk smb. to death - замучить кого-л. разговорами, заговорить кого-л. до потери сознания /до смерти/
to talk horse - хвастать, бахвалиться
how you talk! - рассказывай!, ври больше!
now you're talking! - вот это дело!, вот это я понимаю!, вот это другой разговор!
talk of the devil (and he will come /and he is sure to appear/) - ≅ лёгок на помине
look who's talking - ≅ чья бы корова мычала
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28 reduce
1) уменьшать
2) редуцировать
3) понижать
4) приводить
5) сводить
6) сокращать
7) восстанавливать
8) концентрировать
9) испергировать
10) измельчать
– reduce... to an identity
– reduce a negative
– reduce fraction
– reduce price
– reduce the image
– reduce the scrap
– reduce throttle
– reduce to
– reduce to an identity
– reduce to sea level
– reduce to zero
– reduce unit
reduce equation to identity — превращать уравнение в тождество
reduce to normal conditions — приводить к нормальным условиям
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29 Gemeinschaftsabkommen
Gemeinschaftsabkommen
joint-venture agreement;
• Gemeinschaftsanschluss (telecom.) party lines;
• Gemeinschaftsarbeit combined (coop) work, teamwork, (Autoren) joint authorship;
• Gemeinschaftsausgaben (EU) Community expenses;
• Gemeinschaftsausstellung joint presentation;
• Gemeinschaftsbesitz joint ownership;
• Gemeinschaftsbestimmungen (EU) Community rules (provisions);
• Gemeinschaftsbeteiligung joint venture;
• Gemeinschaftsbetrieb joint operation (working), common enterprise;
• Gemeinschaftsbeziehungen (EU) Community relations;
• Gemeinschaftsbilanz consolidated balance sheet;
• Gemeinschaftsbürger Community citizen;
• Gemeinschaftscharta der sozialen Grundrechte der Arbeitnehmer Community Charter of Fundamental Social Rights of Workers;
• Gemeinschaftsdepot joint deposit, alternative safe-custody (Br.) (custodianship, US) account;
• Gemeinschaftsdurchschnitt (EU) Community average;
• Gemeinschaftsebene (EU) Community level;
• auf Gemeinschaftsebene beschließen (EU) to take decision within the Community framework;
• Gemeinschaftseigentum community of goods, collective ownership, ownership in common, community estate, society goods, (Grundstück) tenancy in common;
• Gemeinschaftseinkauf group (combine) buying, cooperative purchasing, collective shopping;
• Gemeinschaftseinkauf unabhängiger Einzelhändler voluntary chain;
• Gemeinschaftseinkäufer group buyer;
• Gemeinschaftseinrichtungen (EU) Community institutions;
• Gemeinschaftserfindung joint invention;
• Gemeinschaftserzeuger EU producer;
• Gemeinschaftsetat (EU) Community budget;
• Gemeinschaftsfelder open fields;
• Gemeinschaftsfinanzierung group financing;
• Gemeinschaftsfonds joint stock, pool, mutual trust (US), (EU) Community fund;
• Gemeinschaftsforschung joint research, (EU) Community research;
• Gemeinschaftsfoto (Journalismus) pool photo;
• Gemeinschaftsgründung joint establishment;
• Gemeinschaftsgüter collective goods;
• Gemeinschaftshaushalt (EU) Community (EU) budget;
• Gemeinschaftshilfe (EU) Community aid;
• Gemeinschaftsinitiative [für den ländlichen Raum] (EU) Community initiative [for the countryside];
• Gemeinschaftskapital pooled fund;
• Gemeinschaftskasse common fund;
• Gemeinschaftskauf combine (group) buying, cooperative purchasing;
• Gemeinschaftskontenrahmen uniform system of accounts;
• Gemeinschaftskontingent (EU) Community quota;
• Gemeinschaftskonto joint (community) account;
• eheliches Gemeinschaftskonto husband-and-wife joint account;
• Gemeinschaftskonto mit Verfügungsrecht der Überlebenden survivorship account;
• Gemeinschaftskontrolle (EU) Community control;
• Gemeinschaftskredit joint and several credit;
• Gemeinschaftsmaßnahmen (EU) Community action;
• Gemeinschaftsorgan (EU) Community organ (institution);
• Gemeinschaftspatent joint patent;
• Gemeinschaftspolice joint policy, (Betrieb) group policy;
• Gemeinschaftspolitik (EU) Community (common) policy;
• Gemeinschaftspräferenzen (EU) Community preferences;
• Gemeinschaftspreise (EU) Community prices;
• Gemeinschaftsproduktion coproduction;
• Gemeinschaftsprogramm (EU) Community program(me);
• Gemeinschaftsprojekt community project;
• Gemeinschaftsrecht (EU) Community law (legislation);
• dem Gemeinschaftsrecht Geltung verschaffen (EU) to ensure enforcement of Community law;
• Gemeinschaftsrechtstexte (EU) Community legal texts;
• Gemeinschaftsrente (EU) Community pension;
• Gemeinschaftsschuld (Ehepaar) community debt;
• Gemeinschaftssekretariat typing (secretarial, typists’) pool;
• Gemeinschaftssteuer (EU) Community tax;
• Gemeinschaftsstreitigkeit dispute with the Community;
• Gemeinschaftssystem für das Umweltmanagement und die Umweltbetriebsprüfung Environmental management and audit scheme (EMAS);
• Gemeinschaftsunternehmen joint undertaking (enterprise, venture), cooperative [business] venture;
• Gemeinschaftsunternehmungen community works;
• Gemeinschaftsverfahren (EU) Community procedure;
• Gemeinschaftsverkauf cooperative selling (sales), consolidation sale;
• Gemeinschaftsvermögen collective property, social wealth;
• Gemeinschaftsverordnung (EU) Community Regulation;
• Gemeinschaftsversicherung group (collective) insurance, (Kraftfahrzeuge) fleet insurance;
• Gemeinschaftsvertrag joint compact (contract);
• Gemeinschaftsvertrieb cooperative marketing;
• Gemeinschaftsvorhaben community project, (Europäische Kernenergie Agentur) joint services;
• Gemeinschaftsvorschriften (EU) Community legislation;
• Gemeinschaftswährungen (EU) Community currencies;
• Gemeinschaftswerbesendungen cooperative programme (Br.);
• Gemeinschaftswerbung association (group, joint, cooperative, Br., coop) advertising;
• Gemeinschafts werbung in Funk und Fernsehen participating program(me);
• Gemeinschaftswerbung von Händlern und Herstellern vertical cooperative advertement;
• Gemeinschaftszentrum community center (US) (centre, Br.);
• Gemeinschaftszollkontingente (EU) Community tariff quotas. -
30 trascender
v.1 to leak out.La noticia trascendió The news leaked out.2 to transcend, to project.Su poder trasciende lo imaginable His power transcends the imaginable.El invento trasciende The invention transcends.3 to transcend, to go beyond, to be beyond, to go beyond the limits of.Su poder trasciende lo imaginable His power transcends the imaginable.* * *1 (olor - despedir) to smell; (- llegar hasta) to reach2 (darse a conocer) to become known, leak out3 (extenderse) to spread, have a wide effect1 (averiguar) to discover, bring to light\trascender a la opinión pública to become common knowledge* * *1. VI1) (=conocerse) to leak out, get outpor fin ha trascendido la noticia — the news has leaked o got out at last
2) (=propagarse)su influencia trasciende a los países más remotos — his influence extends to the most remote countries
3) (=ir más allá)trascender de algo — to transcend sth, go beyond sth
una cuestión que trasciende de los intereses nacionales — a matter that transcends o goes beyond national interests
4) (Fil) to transcend5) † (=oler) to smell (a of)(=heder) to reek (a of)2.VT to transcend, go beyondesto trasciende los confines de la razón — it transcends o goes beyond the boundaries of reason
* * *1.verbo intransitivoa) (period) ( darse a conocer)ha trascendido que... — it has emerged that...
b) (frml) ( extenderse)trascender A algo — influencia/popularidad to extend to something
c) ( ir más allá)trascender DE algo — to transcend something (frml), to go beyond something
2.esto trasciende de lo puramente filosófico — this transcends o goes beyond the purely philosophical
trascender vt to go beyond, transcend (frml)* * *= carry + implications, transcend.Ex. The merging of synonyms carries implications for the effectiveness of the index in terms of precision and recall.Ex. Why do only Catholics, Jews, Negroes, and women transcend their particular nationality?.----* trascender a = cut across.* trascender fronteras = transcend + boundaries.* * *1.verbo intransitivoa) (period) ( darse a conocer)ha trascendido que... — it has emerged that...
b) (frml) ( extenderse)trascender A algo — influencia/popularidad to extend to something
c) ( ir más allá)trascender DE algo — to transcend something (frml), to go beyond something
2.esto trasciende de lo puramente filosófico — this transcends o goes beyond the purely philosophical
trascender vt to go beyond, transcend (frml)* * *= carry + implications, transcend.Ex: The merging of synonyms carries implications for the effectiveness of the index in terms of precision and recall.
Ex: Why do only Catholics, Jews, Negroes, and women transcend their particular nationality?.* trascender a = cut across.* trascender fronteras = transcend + boundaries.* * *trascender [E8 ]viA1 ( period)«noticia»: según ha trascendido according to reportsha trascendido que … it has emerged that …el caso ha trascendido a la opinión pública the case has come to public notice o to the attention of the publichasta ahora no ha trascendido el nombre del nuevo inspector the name of the new inspector has not yet been made known, it is not yet known who is to be the new inspectordesean evitar que el suceso trascienda they want to avoid news of what has happened leaking outeste descontento ha trascendido a todas las capas de la sociedad this discontent has pervaded all levels of societysu influencia trasciende a los países más remotos its influence extends to even the remotest countriesesto trasciende de lo puramente filosófico this transcends o goes beyond the purely philosophicalcon ello ha trascendido del ámbito de su autoridad in this he has overstepped his authorityB ( Fil) to transcend■ trascendervtto go beyond, transcend ( frml)esto trasciende las fronteras de lo creíble this goes beyond the bounds of credibilitysu fama trasciende nuestras fronteras her fame has spread beyond our borders* * *
trascender ( conjugate trascender) verbo intransitivo ( ir más allá) trascender DE algo to transcend sth (frml), to go beyond sth
verbo transitivo
to go beyond, transcend (frml)
trascender
I vi (salir a la luz, ser conocido) to become known, get out
II verbo transitivo
1 (exceder) to go beyond: el problema trasciende los límites de mis competencias, the problem is outside my area of responsibility
2 Fil to transcend
' trascender' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
transcender
English:
cut across
- transcend
- cut
* * *trascender, transcender♦ vi1. [noticia] [difundirse] to become known;la noticia trascendió a la prensa the news leaked out to the press;el enfermo, según trascendió ayer, se halla grave the patient's condition, it emerged yesterday, is serious;sólo ha trascendido que se prepara un desembarco all we have heard so far is that a landing is being prepared;que no trascienda don't let on about it, don't let it get about2. [efectos, consecuencias] to spread (a to);el cambio ha trascendido a amplias capas de la población the change has spread to a large part of the populationun tema que trasciende del ámbito familiar a subject that extends beyond the family circle♦ vt[ir más allá de] to go beyond, to transcend;una costumbre que trasciende las fronteras a custom that goes beyond national borders;un problema que trascendió el ámbito nacional a problem that went beyond the national level* * *I v/i1 de noticia get out2:trascender de ( sobrepasar) transcendII v/t transcend* * *trascender {56} vi1) : to leak out, to become known2) : to spread, to have a wide effect3)trascender a : to smell ofla casa trascendía a flores: the house smelled of flowers4)trascender de : to transcend, to go beyondtrascender vt: to transcend -
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1) описание•- behavioral description
- design description
- fractal description
- fractal-based description
- functional description
- geometrical description
- machine-level layout description
- photon description
- primitive description
- problem description
- procedural description
- prototype description
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1) описание2) перечень с заголовками (в языке TEX)•- behavioral description
- description of invention
- design description
- fractal description
- fractal-based description
- functional description
- geometrical description
- machine-level layout description
- photon description
- primitive description
- problem description
- procedural description
- prototype description
- self-contained description
- structural description
- symbolic description
- topological descriptionThe New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > description
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33 horyzon|t
Ⅰ m (G horyzontu) 1. sgt (widnokrąg) horizon- linia horyzontu the skyline- chmury nad horyzontem clouds above the horizon- słońce skryło się za horyzontem the sun disappeared below the horizon- na horyzoncie pojawiły się chmury some clouds appeared on the horizon2. (granice) range- horyzont myślowy dziecka the limits of a child’s mental abilities- książka nie wykracza poza horyzonty dwudziestolecia międzywojennego the book doesn’t go beyond the interwar period3. zw. pl (zakres zainteresowań) horizons- mieć szerokie horyzonty to have broad horizons- mieć ciasne a. wąskie horyzonty to have narrow horizons, to be narrow-minded4. sgt Geog. water level 5. Teatr backdrop, backcloth GB Ⅱ horyzonty plt (perspektywy) horizons, vistas- otwierają się teraz przed nim nowe horyzonty new horizons a. vistas have opened up for him now- wynalazek ten otworzył przed medycyną nieznane dotąd horyzonty this invention has opened up entirely new horizons for medicine- □ sztuczny horyzont Techn. artificial a. gyro horizon- horyzont astronomiczny Astron. true horizonThe New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > horyzon|t
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35 innovation
Gen Mgtthe creation, development, and implementation of a new product, process, or service, with the aim of improving efficiency, effectiveness, or competitive advantage. Innovation may apply to products, services, manufacturing processes, managerial processes, or the design of an organization. It is most often viewed at a product, or process level, where product innovation satisfies a customer’s needs, and process innovation improves efficiency and effectiveness. Innovation is linked with creativity and the creation of new ideas, and involves taking those new ideas and turning them into reality through invention, research, and new product development. -
36 Eisler, Paul
[br]b. 1907 Vienna, Austria[br]Austrian engineer responsible for the invention of the printed circuit.[br]At the age of 23, Eisler obtained a Diploma in Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. Because of the growing Nazi influence in Austria, he then accepted a post with the His Master's Voice (HMV) agents in Belgrade, where he worked on the problems of radio reception and sound transmission in railway trains. However, he soon returned to Vienna to found a weekly radio journal and file patents on graphical sound recording (for which he received a doctorate) and on a system of stereoscopic television based on lenticular vertical scanning.In 1936 he moved to England and sold the TV patent to Marconi for £250. Unable to find a job, he carried out experiments in his rooms in a Hampstead boarding-house; after making circuits using strip wires mounted on bakelite sheet, he filed his first printed-circuit patent that year. He then tried to find ways of printing the circuits, but without success. Obtaining a post with Odeon Theatres, he invented a sound-level control for films and devised a mirror-drum continuous-film projector, but with the outbreak of war in 1939, when the company was evacuated, he chose to stay in London and was interned for a while. Released in 1941, he began work with Henderson and Spalding, a firm of lithographic printers, to whom he unwittingly assigned all future patents for the paltry sum of £1. In due course he perfected a means of printing conducting circuits and on 3 February 1943 he filed three patents covering the process. The British Ministry of Defence rejected the idea, considering it of no use for military equipment, but after he had demonstrated the technique to American visitors it was enthusiastically taken up in the US for making proximity fuses, of which many millions were produced and used for the war effort. Subsequently the US Government ruled that all air-borne electronic circuits should be printed.In the late 1940s the Instrument Department of Henderson and Spalding was split off as Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd, with Eisler as Technical Director. In 1949 he filed a further patent covering a multilayer system; this was licensed to Pye and the Telegraph Condenser Company. A further refinement, patented in the 1950s, the use of the technique for telephone exchange equipment, but this was subsequently widely infringed and although he negotiated licences in the USA he found it difficult to license his ideas in Europe. In the UK he obtained finance from the National Research and Development Corporation, but they interfered and refused money for further development, and he eventually resigned from Technograph. Faced with litigation in the USA and open infringement in the UK, he found it difficult to establish his claims, but their validity was finally agreed by the Court of Appeal (1969) and the House of Lords (1971).As a freelance inventor he filed many other printed-circuit patents, including foil heating films and batteries. When his Patent Agents proved unwilling to fund the cost of filing and prosecuting Complete Specifications he set up his own company, Eisler Consultants Ltd, to promote food and space heating, including the use of heated cans and wallpaper! As Foil Heating Ltd he went into the production of heating films, the process subsequently being licensed to Thermal Technology Inc. in California.[br]Bibliography1953, "Printed circuits: some general principles and applications of the foil technique", Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers 13: 523.1959, The Technology of Printed Circuits: The Foil Technique in Electronic Production.1984–5, "Reflections of my life as an inventor", Circuit World 11:1–3 (a personal account of the development of the printed circuit).1989, My Life with the Printed Circuit, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press.KF -
37 Torricelli, Evangelista
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 15 October 1608 Faenza, Italyd. 25 October 1647 Florence, Italy[br]Italian physicist, inventor of the mercury barometer and discoverer of atmospheric pressure.[br]Torricelli was the eldest child of a textile artisan. Between 1625 and 1626 he attended the Jesuit school at Faenza, where he showed such outstanding aptitude in mathematics and philosophy that his uncle was persuaded to send him to Rome to a school run by Benedetto Castelli, a mathematician and engineer and a former pupil of Galileo Galilei. Between 1630 and 1641, Torricelli was possibly Secretary to Giovanni Ciampoli, Galileo's friend and protector. In 1641 Torricelli wrote a treatise, De motugravium, amplifying Galileo's doctrine on the motion of projectiles, and Galileo accepted him as a pupil. On Galileo's death in 1642, he was appointed as mathematician and philosopher to the court of Grand Duke Ferdinando II of Tuscany. He remained in Florence until his early death in 1647, possibly from typhoid fever. He wrote a great number of mathematical papers on conic sections, the cycloid, the logarithmic curve and other subjects, which made him well known.By 1642 Torricelli was producing good lenses for telescopes; he subsequently improved them, and attained near optical perfection. He also constructed a simple microscope with a small glass sphere as a lens. Galileo had looked at problems of raising water with suction pumps, and also with a siphon in 1630. Torricelli brought up the subject again in 1640 and later produced his most important invention, the barometer. He used mercury to fill a glass tube that was sealed at one end and inverted it. He found that the height of mercury in the tube adjusted itself to a well-defined level of about 76 cm (30 in.), higher than the free surface outside. He realized that this must be due to the pressure of the air on the outside surface and predicted that it would fall with increasing altitude. He thus demonstrated the pressure of the atmosphere and the existence of a vacuum on top of the mercury, publishing his findings in 1644. He later noticed that changes in the height of the mercury were related to changes in the weather.[br]Bibliography1641, De motu gravium.Further ReadingT.I.Williams (ed.), 1969, A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, London: A. \& C.Black.Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists, 1989, Cambridge.A Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 1976, Vol. XIII, New York: C.Scribner's Sons.A.Stowers, 1961–2, "Thomas Newcomen's first steam engine 250 years ago and the initial development of steam power", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 34 (provides an account of his mercury barometer).W.E.Knowles Middleton, 1964, The History of the Barometer, Baltimore.RLHBiographical history of technology > Torricelli, Evangelista
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38 Computers
The brain has been compared to a digital computer because the neuron, like a switch or valve, either does or does not complete a circuit. But at that point the similarity ends. The switch in the digital computer is constant in its effect, and its effect is large in proportion to the total output of the machine. The effect produced by the neuron varies with its recovery from [the] refractory phase and with its metabolic state. The number of neurons involved in any action runs into millions so that the influence of any one is negligible.... Any cell in the system can be dispensed with.... The brain is an analogical machine, not digital. Analysis of the integrative activities will probably have to be in statistical terms. (Lashley, quoted in Beach, Hebb, Morgan & Nissen, 1960, p. 539)It is essential to realize that a computer is not a mere "number cruncher," or supercalculating arithmetic machine, although this is how computers are commonly regarded by people having no familiarity with artificial intelligence. Computers do not crunch numbers; they manipulate symbols.... Digital computers originally developed with mathematical problems in mind, are in fact general purpose symbol manipulating machines....The terms "computer" and "computation" are themselves unfortunate, in view of their misleading arithmetical connotations. The definition of artificial intelligence previously cited-"the study of intelligence as computation"-does not imply that intelligence is really counting. Intelligence may be defined as the ability creatively to manipulate symbols, or process information, given the requirements of the task in hand. (Boden, 1981, pp. 15, 16-17)The task is to get computers to explain things to themselves, to ask questions about their experiences so as to cause those explanations to be forthcoming, and to be creative in coming up with explanations that have not been previously available. (Schank, 1986, p. 19)In What Computers Can't Do, written in 1969 (2nd edition, 1972), the main objection to AI was the impossibility of using rules to select only those facts about the real world that were relevant in a given situation. The "Introduction" to the paperback edition of the book, published by Harper & Row in 1979, pointed out further that no one had the slightest idea how to represent the common sense understanding possessed even by a four-year-old. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 102)A popular myth says that the invention of the computer diminishes our sense of ourselves, because it shows that rational thought is not special to human beings, but can be carried on by a mere machine. It is a short stop from there to the conclusion that intelligence is mechanical, which many people find to be an affront to all that is most precious and singular about their humanness.In fact, the computer, early in its career, was not an instrument of the philistines, but a humanizing influence. It helped to revive an idea that had fallen into disrepute: the idea that the mind is real, that it has an inner structure and a complex organization, and can be understood in scientific terms. For some three decades, until the 1940s, American psychology had lain in the grip of the ice age of behaviorism, which was antimental through and through. During these years, extreme behaviorists banished the study of thought from their agenda. Mind and consciousness, thinking, imagining, planning, solving problems, were dismissed as worthless for anything except speculation. Only the external aspects of behavior, the surface manifestations, were grist for the scientist's mill, because only they could be observed and measured....It is one of the surprising gifts of the computer in the history of ideas that it played a part in giving back to psychology what it had lost, which was nothing less than the mind itself. In particular, there was a revival of interest in how the mind represents the world internally to itself, by means of knowledge structures such as ideas, symbols, images, and inner narratives, all of which had been consigned to the realm of mysticism. (Campbell, 1989, p. 10)[Our artifacts] only have meaning because we give it to them; their intentionality, like that of smoke signals and writing, is essentially borrowed, hence derivative. To put it bluntly: computers themselves don't mean anything by their tokens (any more than books do)-they only mean what we say they do. Genuine understanding, on the other hand, is intentional "in its own right" and not derivatively from something else. (Haugeland, 1981a, pp. 32-33)he debate over the possibility of computer thought will never be won or lost; it will simply cease to be of interest, like the previous debate over man as a clockwork mechanism. (Bolter, 1984, p. 190)t takes us a long time to emotionally digest a new idea. The computer is too big a step, and too recently made, for us to quickly recover our balance and gauge its potential. It's an enormous accelerator, perhaps the greatest one since the plow, twelve thousand years ago. As an intelligence amplifier, it speeds up everything-including itself-and it continually improves because its heart is information or, more plainly, ideas. We can no more calculate its consequences than Babbage could have foreseen antibiotics, the Pill, or space stations.Further, the effects of those ideas are rapidly compounding, because a computer design is itself just a set of ideas. As we get better at manipulating ideas by building ever better computers, we get better at building even better computers-it's an ever-escalating upward spiral. The early nineteenth century, when the computer's story began, is already so far back that it may as well be the Stone Age. (Rawlins, 1997, p. 19)According to weak AI, the principle value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool. For example, it enables us to formulate and test hypotheses in a more rigorous and precise fashion than before. But according to strong AI the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind; rather the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states. And according to strong AI, because the programmed computer has cognitive states, the programs are not mere tools that enable us to test psychological explanations; rather, the programs are themselves the explanations. (Searle, 1981b, p. 353)What makes people smarter than machines? They certainly are not quicker or more precise. Yet people are far better at perceiving objects in natural scenes and noting their relations, at understanding language and retrieving contextually appropriate information from memory, at making plans and carrying out contextually appropriate actions, and at a wide range of other natural cognitive tasks. People are also far better at learning to do these things more accurately and fluently through processing experience.What is the basis for these differences? One answer, perhaps the classic one we might expect from artificial intelligence, is "software." If we only had the right computer program, the argument goes, we might be able to capture the fluidity and adaptability of human information processing. Certainly this answer is partially correct. There have been great breakthroughs in our understanding of cognition as a result of the development of expressive high-level computer languages and powerful algorithms. However, we do not think that software is the whole story.In our view, people are smarter than today's computers because the brain employs a basic computational architecture that is more suited to deal with a central aspect of the natural information processing tasks that people are so good at.... hese tasks generally require the simultaneous consideration of many pieces of information or constraints. Each constraint may be imperfectly specified and ambiguous, yet each can play a potentially decisive role in determining the outcome of processing. (McClelland, Rumelhart & Hinton, 1986, pp. 3-4)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Computers
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