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If you took your mouse apart, you'd see that it's really a very simple machine.
The first of these numbers is associated with the discovery that was made a few kilometers from this hall, at CERN, home of this machine, the largest scientific device ever built by the human race, the Large Hadron Collider.
Harry Cliff: I was very lucky that I joined the experiment I work on at the LHC in 2008, just as we were switching on, and there are people in my research group who have been working on it for three decades, their entire careers on one machine.
So I think the first conversations about the LHC were in 1976, and you start planning the machine without the technology that you know you're going to need to be able to build it.
So building a machine like the LHC requires countries from all over the world to pool their resources.
No one nation can afford to build a machine this large, apart from maybe China, because they can mobilize huge amounts of resources, manpower and money to build machines like this.
What they're really planning to do is to build a machine that will study the Higgs boson in detail and could give us some clues as to whether these new ideas, like supersymmetry, are really out there, so it's great news for physics, I think.
Mysteries of vernacular: Robot, a machine capable of carrying out a programmable series of actions.
But the first modern tattooing machine was modeled after Thomas Edison's engraving machine and ran on electricity.
René Descartes advanced the notion that the human body was essentially no different from any other machine, brought to life by a divinely created soul located in the brain's pineal gland.
We've built layers and layers of abstraction on top of each other between the man and the machine to the point that we no longer have any idea how computers work or how to talk to them.
In 1843, Lady Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician considered the world's first computer programmer, wrote that a machine could not have human-like intelligence as long as it only did what humans intentionally programmed it to do.
According to Lovelace, a machine must be able to create original ideas if it is to be considered intelligent.
A machine can pass this test if it can produce an outcome that its designers cannot explain based on their original code.
At first glance, the idea of a machine creating high quality, original music in this way might seem impossible.
So how can evolution make a machine musically creative?
Order and chaos, machine and human.
These are the dynamos at the heart of machine creativity initiatives that are currently making music, sculptures, paintings, poetry and more.
So we studied salamander locomotion in more detail, and we had in fact access to a very nice X-ray video machine from Professor Martin Fischer in Jena University in Germany.
And thanks to that, you really have an amazing machine to record all the bone motion in great detail.
Another method is statistical machine translation, which analyzes a database of books, articles, and documents that have already been translated by humans.
In fact, one of the most famous fictional universal translators, the Babel fish from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", is not a machine at all but a small creature that translates the brain waves and nerve signals of sentient species through a form of telepathy.
Imagine if you could plug your brain into a machine that would bring you ultimate pleasure for the rest of your life.
That's the question philosopher Robert Nozick posed through a thought experiment he called the Experience Machine.
The experiment asks us to consider a world in which scientists have developed a machine that would simulate real life while guaranteeing experiences of only pleasure and never pain.
Limitless pleasure minus zero pain equals maximum net pleasure, or in other words, the exact scenario the Experience Machine offers.
That's what Nozick believed he was demonstrating through his Experience Machine thought experiment.
Despite the machine's promise of maximum net pleasure, he still found reason not to plug in, as do many other experimenters who consider the proposition.
By never learning the truth, Betsy is essentially living life in her own personal Experience Machine, a world of happiness that's not based in reality.
Some even use a modern day spirometer that actually has a button labeled "race" so the machine adjusts the measurement for each patient according to his or her race.
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