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calculate, cipher, figure, reckon, work out
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There are currently more than 500,000 unfilled computing jobs nationally, 72,000 of which are in California (Conference Board, 2019). — Andrew Lisa, The Mercury News, "Opinion: Too few Bay Area students have access to computer science courses," 11 Aug. 2019 Many, however, rely on Indian universities’ remarkable ability to turn out engineers in great numbers, and computing firms’ ability to use them to solve complex problems. — The Economist, "Core elements of the global banking industry are moving to India," 8 Aug. 2019 Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs built off computing technology that NASA incubated during the Apollo era, Hero said. — Jackie Wattles, CNN, "How NASA's Apollo program kicked off Silicon Valley's tech revolution," 4 Aug. 2019 Although women of color comprise 39 percent of the U.S. population (and will be the majority by 2060), only 12 percent of all women in computing roles are filled by black or Latina women. — Halley Bondy, NBC News, "In the know: Women in the news 7/28-8/2," 2 Aug. 2019 FCore is designed so that the two different classes of AI can either be represented by a common underlying compute architecture or easily reconfigured on the fly to handle one or the other. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "One chip to rule them all: It natively runs all types of AI software," 31 July 2019 The company’s cloud computing performance continues to dwarf revenue from the No. — Jay Greene, Washington Post, "Amazon’s profit edges higher as regulators scrutinize company’s growing clout," 25 July 2019 Codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing has been chosen as the face of Britain's new 50 pound note, the Bank of England announced Monday. — chicagotribune.com, "WWII codebreaker Alan Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘The Imitation Game,’ to be face of U.K. 50 pound note," 15 July 2019 Elsewhere in enterprise computing land, Microsoft acquired startup BlueTalon, which helps companies control data sharing, for an undisclosed sum. — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, "Why Jeff Williams May Not Be the Next Apple CEO—Data Sheet," 30 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'compute.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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