Help for nurses from helpmate

If you have ever been hospitalized, you know that nurses and other health professionals can use all the help they can get. Now, in ten different hospitals, nurses are receiving help from a 4 1\2-foot-tall HelpMate robot built by Transitions Research, Inc. This robot performs many of the tasks that often take nurses away from their primary task of caring for the sick, including transporting dietary items, sterile supplies, pharmaceuticals, and blood and human liquids from the operating room. At Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, a HelpMate prototype named "Rosco" has been delivering dinner trays for the dietary department since 1987.

The HelpMate robot does not require any type of fixed guidance system. Instead, the hospital's floor plan is stored in the robot's memory, and it is able to calculate distances between walls and intersections to guide it. This type of navigation is combined with vision, sonar, and radio frequency. For example, Rosco controls elevators by using radio frequency remote control. When the HelpMate robot senses a nonmoving obstacle, it stops and computes a course around the obstacle; for moving obstacles, such as patients or staff members, Rosco simply stops, allows the person to move, then continues on his way. When the robot arrives at its destination, it uses 1 of 16 messages to tell its human user what to do next.

Transitions Research, Inc., hopes eventually to sell HelpMate for home use and is designing a companion robot for outdoor work.

Sources: "HelpMate Is on the Way," Electronic House

LESSON 6

Exercise 6.1

Give the antonyms to the following words.

Input, outlet, monochrome, complete, hard, useful, easy, entire, large, varying, existing, to send, before, everything, successful, modulated, simply, much, major, put, unite, internal, to show, to add, to include, close, essential, the most, complicated, personal, original, the same, older, wide, new, standard, these, the first, relative, increased, approximately, additional, particular, meaningful, more, begin.

Exercise 6.2

Translate the following word combinations paying attention to participles.

data acquired, time stamped, logged to disk, shared across the network and controlled; distributed real-time super-controller; object-oriented configuration tools; Intel-based platform; tomorrow’s so-called smart cars; IBM’s ViaVoice Embedded technology; reusable component-based architecture; advanced ‘Team Stream’ integrated development environment; common embedded programming practices; distributed automation control and host system (DACHS); cost-reducing communication solutions; zoomed video input port; extended-temperature version; computer-based training course; advanced programming functions; integrated high-availability controller; bottom-to-top positive pressure forced-air cooling; center-mounted system controller; battery-backed static RAM option, self-resetting fuse; voltage-sensing reset circuit; software-programmable watchdog timer.

Offering multiple video interface options; supporting a wide variety of; including animated examples; providing increased buffer sizes; reducing processor interrupts; allowing larger blocks processing; ensuring full compatibility; requiring extreme noise immunity; stacking directly with other products; assessing the board’s status; expanding its interface capability; increasing power supply capacity; bringing higher level of integration; helping manage power consumption; requiring flexible memory options; monitoring CPU temperature; containing built-in power management.

Exercise 6.3

Translate the following word combinations paying attention to participles.

1. Increasing network capacity they used…

2. Having been increased the network could manage…

3. The network increased was capable to…

4. The network being increased will service…

5. Network area was widened, system’s capacity decreasing…

6. Having increased the network resource they…

7. Local network increasing, the service management should…

8. If decreased, the network will be used…

9. The technology increasing the capacity was introduced…

10. While decreasing the network they used enlarged distributed storage…

11. Increased capacity was supposed to change…

12. The capacity having been decreased, the network service was…

13. We need the capacity increased because…

14. The network was being upgraded, the capacity increasing…

15. The network used needed increased attention...

16. Once increased, the capacity could lead to…

Exercise 6.4

Translate the following sentences paying attention to participles.

1. Java gives developers the power of the Web when building applications and Excel gives end users familiar and productive environment for manipulating reports and data.

2. There are huge changes taking place in the mobile device market, bringing with them considerable opportunities for developers.

3. Interestingly, Microsoft has now begun to make the kernel source code available to developers and although this is no way a shift to an open source model, code changes not being allowed, that’s an important step.

4. There’s evidence of this happening in the growing number of device manufacturers.

5. SMS-messages of up to160 characters delivered over the data networks is extremely popular in Europe and Asia, but lacks the presence-based interactivity of IM.

6. He started as an assistant professor at Stanford, teaching a microprocessor laboratory course to graduate students and a systems programming course to undergraduates, his research being focused on complier optimization.

7. In 1988 Hennessy was running the Computer Systems Laboratory, teaching introductory computer architecture to graduate students, and putting together a group of researchers to explore how a RISK approach might be employed in parallel computing.

8. Open standards are not only vital to the deployment of autonomic computing, but they also level the playing field for the companies doing the innovations.

9. The Simula languages developed during 1960s provide the underlying logic for many languages in use today, including C++ and Java.

10. It comes as no surprise that all the Top R&D Spenders featured in our survey are based in OECD, with 45 being from the United States, 22 from Japan, and 11 from Germany.

11. IBM is building a self-managing, modular data storage server, known as IceCube, using Collective Intelligent Bricks (CIBs), each being outfitted with twelve 100-GB hard disks, a Pentium microprocessor running Linux and six 10-Gb/s capacitive couplers to interface each face of the brick with the adjacent one.

12. New Era of Networks Inc. is shipping a new product, NEON Java Connectors, providing Enterprise Java Bean components that connect to the company’s existing adaptor products.

13. The ebXML Technical Architecture Specification has been approved following a meeting of participating organizations in Vancouver.

14. This usually happens because the view definition includes a join and the columns being joined have the same name.

15. With the increased use of data warehouses to synthesize large data volumes, views have become a core function being increasingly important as performance becomes critical.

16. Request forwarding can impact performance, so the ideal approach is to save state by some other means, enabling any node to pick up an incoming request.

17. LimeWire 2.5, released last month, comes in both a free, ad-supported version and an ad-free version that sells for US $9.50.

18. Despite wide-spread confusion about the issue, the product hasn’t been renamed, Pocket PC being simply the marketing brand name for certain PDA devices running Windows CE.

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