assemblers

For nanotechnology to succeed at consumer level, scientists will have to manipulate individual atoms using nanoscopic machines called assemblers that can be programmed for this purpose.

SPEECH DELIVERED BY NQABA NGCOBO - ANC MP DURING THE DEBATE ON THE PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS 2003

The basic process is easy: we already have the feature? word to check for the existence of a feature, and any implementation-specific platform-specific extensions such as assemblers should be listed as features, so the same mechanism can be used; but for the common special case of providing different native-code versions of a subroutine definition, we standardise NATIVE, the word for invoking an assembler, to work thusly:

Snell-Pym » HYDROGEN: Implementation 2009

Nothing above that layer need be platform dependent but it still can be; HYDROGEN permits the provision of platform-specific interfaces, such as assemblers and low-level device driver access.

Snell-Pym » HYDROGEN: Code generation 2009

Perhaps the most important spur to perfection is transparency, the fact that in a lean system everyone—subcontractors, first-tier suppliers, system integrators often called assemblers, distributors, customers, employees—can see everything, and so it’s easy to discover better ways to create value.

Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003

The primary "assemblers" of this information are Virginia Tech and the IEEE.

Resources | ZDNet 2010

The primary "assemblers" of this information are Virginia Tech and the IEEE.

Resources | ZDNet 2010

Such "assemblers" have yet to be completely designed, let alone built, but cellular automata research indicates that the smallest possible assembler is probably quite simple and small.

Ethical Technology 2009

"assemblers," like Ivan Doig and Wendell Berry, who were concerned with reformation and social betterment, and the hip, like Ken Kesey, the deep spirits, like Terry Tempest Williams, and the laconic and hyperintelligent, like Tom McGuane.

Orion Magazine Articles by Rick Bass 2010

The concepts of “public use” and “blight” ignore the real and fundamental dilemma raised by over-fragmented land — viz.: (a) land markets tend to do a poor job of re-assembling over-fragmented parcels but (b) assemblers use eminent domain to hog all of the post-assembly surplus, to the justified resentment of the dispossessed owners.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”? 2010

Surely, the availability of eminent domain to the “assemblers” weakens the bargaining power of the property owners and with it the likelihood of their getting a “reasonable share” of the post-assembly value.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”? 2010