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computation

[kom-pyoo-tay-shuhn] / ˌkɒm pjʊˈteɪ ʃən /


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As part of the investment, the DOE will invest more than $500 million across five years in lab measurement, modeling and computation to build an AI-ready open data resource.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Many advanced deepfake detectors depend on enormous amounts of digital computation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

At the same time, the added structure allows errors to be detected during the quantum computation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

"We spent months of computation time doing the imaging with our new techniques," Thorne said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

When Dorothy and the other West Computers signed up for computation classes in the 1950s, they registered to attend at Hampton Institute.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

He characterized AI capabilities as statistical computations and warned that assigning consciousness to AI erodes human dignity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Even so, some have already outgrown those computations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

The Fields Medal, regarded as the Nobel prize equivalent for mathematics, was handed out on Thursday in the US as human computations are increasingly challenged by AI.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

South Korea’s market is led by twin chip giants, Samsung and SK Hynix, which dominate the production of two leading types of memory chips for AI computations and data storage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

But its very simplicity and the great ease which it lent to all computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife


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