computation

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Using a technique known as Approximate Bayesian Computation, the researchers worked backward from the fossil record to estimate how far organisms spread and how intensely they competed for resources.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

For Loeb, the director of Harvard’s Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who delivered a Zoom talk at Contact on Saturday, serious researchers into this field should expect healthy criticism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024

"Computation" in this case refers to the numerical calculations that were done in the course of testing an implosion method for creating a more efficient nuclear bomb.

From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2023

Earlier this year, Google presented a paper at the Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing.

From The Verge • Dec. 16, 2019

Accordingly, Langley centralized its computing operations into a group named the Analysis and Computation Division, created to service all the center’s research operations, as well as to provide computing to outside contractors.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly