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Record 1 2024-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Machinery
  • Engineering
  • Various Industries
CONT

The industrial machine manufacturer is interested in designing and creating products that are innovative, practical and suitable for today's technology. [The] purpose is not ony to produce products, but also to focus on products such as industrial equipment, motor vehicles and hardware.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines
  • Ingénierie
  • Industries diverses

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
  • Dyes and Pigments (Industries)
CONT

The key-factor of [our] worldwide success [is our] focus on yarn dyeing machines for top quality yarns, tops and fibres.... By comparing [our new] machine to our ordinary technology,... we come up with [a very] low 1 : 4 liquor ratio for most fibres [and savings] of water, chemicals and steam.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
  • Teintures et pigments (Industries)

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

... an orchestrator platform does not need to concern itself with finding an appropriate host machine on which to run a single container.... Instead, the orchestrator can focus on the tasks that simplify the development of multi-container architectures, including scaling and coordinated upgrades.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
Key term(s)
  • architecture multi-conteneur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
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Record 4 2007-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Processing of Language Data
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

[A type] of MT [machine translation] in which the focus of processing for both input and output texts is at the level of the lexicon, i. e., the words and phrases of a language, rather than its grammar.

CONT

Since our initial corpus was constructed by running a simple lexical translation system over Japanese headlines, the results were poor, but we have high hopes that usable summaries may be produced by training over larger corpora.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatisation des données linguistiques
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Nous développons à Kyoto un système de traduction automatique "guidé par le lexique" (lexicon-driven machine translation system). Ce système utilise non seulement les règles générales mais aussi un certain nombre de règles et phénomènes propres à chaque mot et qui lui ont été préalablement "inculqués". C'est typiquement un système de troisième génération.

Spanish

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Record 5 2005-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

A multimedia projector of the LCD (liquid-crystal display) or DLP (digital light processing) type, especially used in meeting rooms.

OBS

InFocus: A brand of data projector used by Multimedia Services.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Projecteur multimédia de type ACL (à cristaux liquides) ou DLP (digital light processing : traitement numérique de la lumière), utilisé surtout dans les salles de réunion.

OBS

«InFocus» est une marque de commerce pour un projecteur de la compagnie Multimedia Services.

Key term(s)
  • projecteur In-Focus

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Machines and Equipment
  • Platemaking (Printing)
  • Graphic Reproduction
  • Photography
DEF

A camera for producing multiple images in predetermined position by projection from a single image.

CONT

The modern step and repeat camera consists of a machine base, a set of coordinate stages, drive systems for the coordinate stages, a coordinate position reference system, master plate holder(s) which define the image plane, a reduction lens with facilities for setting magnification and focus, a reticle locating mechanism which accurately defines the object plane and its alignment, and a suitable illuminator.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement (Imprimerie et arts graphiques)
  • Clicherie (Imprimerie)
  • Production graphique
  • Photographie
DEF

Chambre photographique utilisée dans le procédé image par image.

CONT

[...] au moins quatre ou cinq masques sont nécessaires pour réaliser un circuit intégré ... Il est donc difficilement concevable de réaliser directement, avec cet appareil, un masque d'un diamètre classique de deux pouces avec la précision maximale. Mieux vaut ne réaliser qu'un motif élémentaire qui ne fait en général que quelques millimètres carrés, puis faire un masque complet sur lequel les motifs élémentaires sont juxtaposés par photo à l'aide d'un photorépéteur.

Key term(s)
  • chambre à répéter

Spanish

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Record 7 1997-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
OBS

This talk and software demonstration will focus on the Parallel Application Development Environment(PADE) developed at the National Institute of STandards and TEchnology. PADE is a flexible, customizable environment for developing parallel application that use the PVM message-passing library. It provides an integrated framework for all phases of development of a message-passing application : editing, file transfer, compilation, execution, and performance monitoring and enhancement.... The basic concept of PADE is to provide a development console for the virtual machine, that spans multiple file systems, so that all essential parallel development tasks can be carried out at a central location.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI

Spanish

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Record 8 1988-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

... the knowledge of a production engineer is encoded into "constraints" that are used to focus the search for an acceptable machine operation sequence. For this reason, this method is known as "constraint-directed reasoning".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir aussi "programmation orientée-contraintes".

Spanish

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