One of the key features of the ship's design is her computer-assisted dynamic positioning system which can keep the vessel static in poor conditions, using the ship's range of thrusters and the variable-pitch propeller.

For the American premiere, a computer-assisted system will generate 3,500 separate lighting cues to 180 different lamps - an average of two autonomous lighting changes per minute.

In 1990 he wrote "A Tenured Professor," about a Harvard professor who devised a computer-assisted system for playing the stock market and used his billions in profits on programs for education and peace - only to be investigated by Congress for un-American activities and forced to shut down his operations.

Without the benefit of computer-assisted tactical systems, Ezri would have to guide the ship's phasers and torpedoes by eye and hand.

The Mauna Kea telescope uses adaptive optics, a computer-assisted system that helps to compensate for the distortion caused by the Earth's atmosphere.

In an ordinary human this would put intolerable strains on the body, as the brain would not be able to regulate itself at such a pace, but in Slant's computer-assisted system, with his steel-braced skeleton and restructured muscles, there were no such problems.

Mr. Sheer said the Government was making "aggressive use" of a Federal statute dealing with "Fraud in Connection with Access Devices" that was intended to combat credit card fraud but is being interpreted to cover frauds involving all computer-based or computer-assisted systems.

IPix, a computer-assisted system of 360-degree image viewing developed for the Department of Energy and NASA and first commercialized in part for real-estate virtual tours on the Web, is being tested as a means of providing improved security video of concourses and passenger areas.

The cluttered informality of the Edwardian local police station with its rudimentary procedures for record-keeping has been replaced by elaborate computer-assisted systems of information retrieval.