How to Use digital computer in a Sentence

digital computer

noun

• In fact, its roots stretch back to World War II, with the invention of the first digital computers.
  — Zafar Daud, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
• Is there a bias—or perhaps a fear—against technology and digital computers in the arts?
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
• One way to do this is to write down a mathematical model and then solve the equations on a digital computer.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2015
• The air force determined the nation should build a massive radar network tied to digital computers.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• However, the politician also expressed frustration that the artillery pieces had not been the fitted with the digital computer systems.
  — Tom Burridge, ABC News, 20 May 2022
• All six of the first programmers of America’s first digital computer, Eniac, were women.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
• To compute something, the qubits need to be able to perform operations on each other, except the researchers don't plan to create discrete gates like a classical digital computer.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2018
• At the time, Berkeley was establishing himself as a leading author, publisher, and consultant for the new world of digital computers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
• If fitted to a howitzer, the digital computer system enables the crew operating the weapon to quickly and accurately pinpoint a target.
  — Tom Burridge, ABC News, 20 May 2022
• His mother began as a typist before landing a role as digital computer systems operator, then worked nights to gain a promotion as a civilian worker, as described in a 2021 brief write-up of her life published by the Navy.
  — Jaime Adame, Arkansas Online, 6 July 2022
• Indeed, smart money in Silicon Valley holds that digital computers will be able to replicate and soon exceed anything and everything that humans are capable of.
  — Christof Kochgiulio Tononi, IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2017
• The mathematical equations that Arthur and others are using to simulate the chip’s behavior and test its blueprint for flaws would quickly bog down a regular digital computer.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• Where traditional digital computers are made from bits, each bit representing either a one or a zero, quantum computers are made from some number of qubits (quantum bits).
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017
• But the earliest all-electronic digital computers appeared less than a single lifetime ago, and until the 1970s, virtually all computers were room-size machines.
  — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• Meanwhile, spin waves have wavelengths of around 100 nanometers and offer a different vision for analog computing more aligned to the predominantly electronic world of digital computers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
• The idea of an automatic digital computer dates back to mathematical prodigy Charles Babbage.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021
• Academics are already looking beyond the digital computer.
  — Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• The real promise of the internet of things is making our physical surroundings accessible to our digital computers, putting sensors on everything in the world and translating it into a digital format.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 10 Feb. 2020
• Soon versions of Conway’s game were running at scale on early digital computers, allowing easier explorations of the intricate patterns and complex behaviors that emerged.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• In the control booth above the auditorium, digital computer systems run the lights and sound for music and theater productions, said Kevin Holly, technical theater coordinator.
  — Denys Bucksten, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• The study and design of memristors is usually linked with the subject of neurocomputers, a blanket term for both digital computers that imitate human brains and hypothetical machines made of human neural cells.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 Nov. 2019
• As Nobel laureate Bill Phillips said, quantum computers are as different from today’s digital computers as today’s computers are from an abacus.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2019
• Rockets and other armament are controlled with digital computers.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 June 2019
• Central aspects of humanity—sympathy, intuition, creativity, improvisation, artistic and social skills—could be curtailed or even erased by the brain as a result of its attempt to copy the behavior of digital computers.
  — Miguel Nicolelis, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• Edmund Berkeley’s Simon was a simple and inexpensive digital computer that used electrical relays.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
• Neurogrid’s noisy processors will not have anything like a digital computer’s rigorous precision.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• Tech is exceptional because digital computers and networks are universal, and universal things are interoperable, and interoperability lowers switching costs.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Implementing such algorithms on digital computers invariably involves approximation, but theoretical analysis of their limitations is plagued by subtleties stemming from those approximations.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024