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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predispositioning%20theory | Predispositioning theory, in the field of decision theory and systems theory, is a theory focusing on the stages between a complete order and a complete disorder.
Predispositioning theory was founded by Aron Katsenelinboigen (1927–2005), a professor in the Wharton School who dealt with indeterministic systems such as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1ry%27s%20theorem | In the mathematical field of graph theory, Fáry's theorem states that any simple, planar graph can be drawn without crossings so that its edges are straight line segments. That is, the ability to draw graph edges as curves instead of as straight line segments does not allow a larger class of graphs to be drawn. The th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-cost%20flow%20problem | The minimum-cost flow problem (MCFP) is an optimization and decision problem to find the cheapest possible way of sending a certain amount of flow through a flow network. A typical application of this problem involves finding the best delivery route from a factory to a warehouse where the road network has some capacity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation%20problem | The circulation problem and its variants are a generalisation of network flow problems, with the added constraint of a lower bound on edge flows, and with flow conservation also being required for the source and sink (i.e. there are no special nodes). In variants of the problem, there are multiple commodities flowing t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntop | ntop is computer software that probes a computer network to show network use in a way similar to what the program top does for processes.
Software
In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a web server, creating a HTML dump of the network status. It supports a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%203D | Club 3D, founded in 1997 as Colour Power (Club 3D since 2005), is a Dutch brand of video cards and digital multimedia products such as TV tuner cards and digital sound cards for PCs, featuring AMD graphics chipsets and technologies.
History
Pioneers in the introduction of the first graphics cards from S3 Graphics, 3d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NextGenTel | NextGenTel is a Norwegian telecommunications company located in Bergen (HQ), Trondheim, Oslo, Stavanger, and Kristiansand. They offer ADSL, SHDSL, ADSL2+, VDSL2, IPTV, IP Telephony, mobilephone subscriptions, and WiMax solutions. They are, with 140,000 customers, Norway's third-largest Internet service provider (the la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Triple%20Revolution | "The Triple Revolution" was an open memorandum sent to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and other government figures on March 22, 1964. It concerned three megatrends of the time: increasing use of automation, the nuclear arms race, and advancements in human rights. Drafted under the auspices of the Center for the Study... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poncelet%20point | In geometry, the Poncelet point of four given points is defined as follows:
Let be four points in the plane that do not form an orthocentric system and such that no three of them are collinear. The nine-point circles of triangles meet at one point, the Poncelet point of the points . (If do form an orthocentric sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotactic%20selection | Chemotaxis receptors are expressed in the surface membrane with diverse dynamics, some of them have long-term characteristics as they are determined genetically, others have short-term moiety as their assembly is induced ad hoc in the presence of the ligand. The diverse feature of the chemotaxis receptors and ligands p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malliavin%20derivative | In mathematics, the Malliavin derivative is a notion of derivative in the Malliavin calculus. Intuitively, it is the notion of derivative appropriate to paths in classical Wiener space, which are "usually" not differentiable in the usual sense.
Definition
Let be the Cameron–Martin space, and denote classical Wiener ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20memory%20model | The Java memory model describes how threads in the Java programming language interact through memory. Together with the description of single-threaded execution of code, the memory model provides the semantics of the Java programming language.
The original Java memory model developed in 1995, was widely perceived a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Elliott%20Bell | David Elliott Bell (born in 1945) is an American mathematician and computer security pioneer. While working at MITRE Corporation, he and Leonard J. LaPadula co-developed the highly influential Bell–LaPadula model. In 2012, Bell was interviewed as part of an effort by the National Science Foundation to document the “Bui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belweder%20%28TV%20set%29 | Belweder was the brand name of the OT1471 television set, manufactured in People's Republic of Poland (PRL) from 1957 to 1960 at the Warszawskie Zakłady Telewizyjne (WZT). It was the second (after the Wisła) TV set made in Poland and the first one designed entirely domestically.
The communist authorities of the PRL sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillistor | An oscillistor is a semiconductor device, consisting of a semiconductor specimen placed in magnetic field, and a resistor after a power supply. The device produces high-frequency oscillations, which are very close to sinusoidal.
The basic principle of operation is the effect of spiral unsteadiness of electron-hole (p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20over%20USB | Ethernet over USB is the use of a USB link as a part of an Ethernet network, resulting in an Ethernet connection over USB (instead of e.g. PCI or PCIe).
USB over Ethernet (also called USB over Network or USB over IP) is a system to share USB-based devices over Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or the Internet, allowing access to devic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86%20calling%20conventions | This article describes the calling conventions used when programming x86 architecture microprocessors.
Calling conventions describe the interface of called code:
The order in which atomic (scalar) parameters, or individual parts of a complex parameter, are allocated
How parameters are passed (pushed on the stack, plac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarion | Alvarion Technologies is a global provider of autonomous Wi-Fi networks designed with self-organizing capabilities for carrier-grade Wi-Fi, enterprise connectivity, smart city planning, smart hospitality, connected campuses, and connected events.
History
Alvarion was originally incorporated as BreezeCOM Ltd. in Septe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1760 | MIL-STD-1760 Aircraft/Store Electrical Interconnection System defines a standardized electrical interface between a military aircraft and its carriage stores. Carriage stores range from weapons, such as GBU-31 JDAM, to pods, such as AN/AAQ-14 LANTIRN, to drop tanks. Prior to adoption and widespread use of MIL-STD-1760... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame%20controversy | The artificial sweetener aspartame has been the subject of several controversies since its initial approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1974. The FDA approval of aspartame was highly contested, beginning with suspicions of its involvement in brain cancer, alleging that the quality of the initial r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4 | SSE4 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 4) is a SIMD CPU instruction set used in the Intel Core microarchitecture and AMD K10 (K8L). It was announced on September 27, 2006, at the Fall 2006 Intel Developer Forum, with vague details in a white paper; more precise details of 47 instructions became available at the Spring 2007 In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20engineering | Surface engineering is the sub-discipline of materials science which deals with the surface of solid matter. It has applications to chemistry, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering (particularly in relation to semiconductor manufacturing).
Solids are composed of a bulk material covered by a surface. The s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20liquidator | A computer liquidator buys computer technology and related equipment that is no longer required by one company, and resells ("flips") it to another company. Computer liquidators are agents that act in the computer recycling, or electronic recycling, business.
There are several reasons why companies will sell, or liqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Digital%20Rights | European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. EDRi is a network collective of non-profit organizations (NGO), experts, advocates and academics working to defend and advance digital rights across the continent. As of October 2022, EDRi is made of more than 40 NGOs,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20statistical%20packages | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.
General information
Operating system support
ANOVA
Support for various ANOVA methods
Regression
Support for various regression methods.
Time series analysis
Support for various time series analysis methods... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20datum | In mathematical group theory, the root datum of a connected split reductive algebraic group over a field is a generalization of a root system that determines the group up to isomorphism. They were introduced by Michel Demazure in SGA III, published in 1970.
Definition
A root datum consists of a quadruple
,
where
an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20streaming%20media%20software | This is a comparison of streaming media systems. A more complete list of streaming media systems is also available.
General
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of streaming media systems both audio and video. Please see the individual systems' linked articles for further informa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20computational%20identification | Molecular computational identification (MCID) is a technique in which molecules are used as means for identifying individual cells or nanodevices.
See also
RFID
References
Automatic identification and data capture
Ubiquitous computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWater | SmartWater is a traceable liquid and forensic asset marking system (taggant) that is applied to items of value to identify thieves and deter theft. The liquid leaves a long-lasting and unique identifier, whose presence is invisible except under an ultraviolet black light.
History
SmartWater, the forensic technology co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioorganometallic%20chemistry | Bioorganometallic chemistry is the study of biologically active molecules that contain carbon directly bonded to metals or metalloids. The importance of main-group and transition-metal centers has long been recognized as important to the function of enzymes and other biomolecules. However, only a small subset of natur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinging%20Atwood%27s%20machine | The swinging Atwood's machine (SAM) is a mechanism that resembles a simple Atwood's machine except that one of the masses is allowed to swing in a two-dimensional plane, producing a dynamical system that is chaotic for some system parameters and initial conditions.
Specifically, it comprises two masses (the pendulum, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20source%20of%20truth | In information science and information technology, single source of truth (SSOT) architecture, or single point of truth (SPOT) architecture, for information systems is the practice of structuring information models and associated data schemas such that every data element is mastered (or edited) in only one place, provi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDOS | HDOS is an early microcomputer operating system, originally written for the Heathkit H8 computer system and later also available for the Heathkit H89 and Zenith Z-89 computers. The author was Heath Company employee Gordon Letwin, who later was an early employee of Microsoft and lead architect of OS/2.
HDOS originally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-integer%20base%20of%20numeration | A non-integer representation uses non-integer numbers as the radix, or base, of a positional numeral system. For a non-integer radix β > 1, the value of
is
The numbers di are non-negative integers less than β. This is also known as a β-expansion, a notion introduced by and first studied in detail by . Every real n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jerry%20Lewis%20MDA%20Labor%20Day%20Telethon | The MDA Labor Day Telethon was an annual telethon held on (starting the night before and throughout) Labor Day in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The Muscular Dystrophy Association was founded in 1950 with hopes of gaining the American public's interest. The show was hoste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Nehalem is the codename for Intel's 45 nm microarchitecture released in November 2008. It was used in the first-generation of the Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, and succeeds the older Core microarchitecture used on Core 2 processors. The term "Nehalem" comes from the Nehalem River.
Nehalem is built on the 45 nm pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipulated%20Nash%20equilibrium | In game theory, a Manipulated Nash equilibrium or MAPNASH is a refinement of subgame perfect equilibrium used in dynamic games of imperfect information. Informally, a strategy set is a MAPNASH of a game if it would be a subgame perfect equilibrium of the game if the game had perfect information. MAPNASH were first su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20guidance | The term Machine Guidance is used to describe a wide range of techniques which improve the productivity of agricultural, mining and construction equipment. It is most commonly used to describe systems which incorporate GPS, Motion Measuring Units (MMU) and other devices to provide on-board systems with information abou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoblock%20LNB | Low-noise block downconverters (LNBs) are electronic devices coupled to satellite dishes for TV reception or general telecommunication that convert electromagnetic waves into digital signals that can be used to transform information into human or machine interpretable data, e.g., optical images, video, code, communicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass%20diffusion%20model | The Bass model or Bass diffusion model was developed by Frank Bass. It consists of a simple differential equation that describes the process of how new products get adopted in a population. The model presents a rationale of how current adopters and potential adopters of a new product interact. The basic premise of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom%3A%20Knightmare%20III | is a 1987 adventure video game developed and published by Konami for the MSX home computer. It was re-released digitally for Microsoft Windows. It is the third and final entry in the Knightmare trilogy. Set a century after the events of The Maze of Galious, the plot follows a Japanese high school student teleported int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivic%20integration | Motivic integration is a notion in algebraic geometry that was introduced by Maxim Kontsevich in 1995 and was developed by Jan Denef and François Loeser. Since its introduction it has proved to be quite useful in various branches of algebraic geometry, most notably birational geometry and singularity theory. Roughly s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-jet | An N-jet is the set of (partial) derivatives of a function up to order N.
Specifically, in the area of computer vision, the N-jet is usually computed from a scale space representation of the input image , and the partial derivatives of are used as a basis for expressing various types of visual modules. For example,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric%20derivative | In mathematics, the metric derivative is a notion of derivative appropriate to parametrized paths in metric spaces. It generalizes the notion of "speed" or "absolute velocity" to spaces which have a notion of distance (i.e. metric spaces) but not direction (such as vector spaces).
Definition
Let be a metric space. L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20genealogy%20software | This article compares several selected client-based genealogy programs. Web-based genealogy software is not included.
General information
General features
Genealogy software products differ in the way they support data acquisition (e.g. drag and drop data entry for images, flexible data formats, free defined custom ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20lot | In real estate, a lot or plot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s). A plot is essentially considered a parcel of real property in some countries or immovable property (meaning practically the same thing) in other countries. Possible owners of a plot can be one or more persons or anot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%20art | Programmer art refers to temporary assets added by the programmer to test functionality.
When creating the graphics, speed is a priority and aesthetics are secondary (if they are given any consideration at all). In fact, programmer art might be intentionally bad, to draw attention to the fact that the graphics are me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20syndrome | Benjamin syndrome is a type of multiple congenital anomaly/intellectual disability (MCA/MR) syndrome. It is characterized by hypochromic anemia with intellectual disability and various craniofacial and other anomalies. It can also include heart murmur, dental caries and splenic tumors.
It was first described in the me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation%20matrix | In statistics and information theory, the expected formation matrix of a likelihood function is the matrix inverse of the Fisher information matrix of , while the observed formation matrix of is the inverse of the observed information matrix of .
Currently, no notation for dealing with formation matrices is widely u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib.ru | Lib.ru, also known as Maksim Moshkow's Library (, started to operate in November 1994) is the oldest electronic library in the Russian Internet segment.
Founded and supported by Maksim Moshkow, it receives contributions mainly from users who send texts they scanned and processed (OCR, proofreading). This method of acq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Defense%20Information%20Assurance%20Certification%20and%20Accreditation%20Process | The DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) is a deprecated United States Department of Defense (DoD) process meant to ensure companies and organizations applied risk management to information systems (IS). DIACAP defined a DoD-wide formal and standard set of activities, general task... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral%20plant | An ephemeral plant is a plant with a very short life cycle or very short period of active growth, often one that grows only during brief periods when conditions are favorable. Several types of ephemeral plants exist. The first, spring ephemeral, refers to perennial plants that emerge quickly in the spring and die back ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molluscivore | A molluscivore is a carnivorous animal that specialises in feeding on molluscs such as gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods and cephalopods. Known molluscivores include numerous predatory (and often cannibalistic) molluscs, (e.g.octopuses, murexes, decollate snails and oyster drills), arthropods such as crabs and firefly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique%20key | In relational database management systems, a unique key is a candidate key. All the candidate keys of a relation can uniquely identify the records of the relation, but only one of them is used as the primary key of the relation. The remaining candidate keys are called unique keys because they can uniquely identify a re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell%20shoveling | Shell shoveling, in network security, is the act of redirecting the input and output of a shell to a service so that it can be remotely accessed, a reverse shell.
In computing, the most basic method of interfacing with the operating system is the shell. On Microsoft Windows based systems, this is a program called cmd.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20imprinting | Hormonal imprinting (HI) is a phenomenon which takes place at the first encounter between a hormone and its developing receptor in the critical periods of life (in unicellulars during the whole life) and determines the later signal transduction capacity of the cell. The most important period in mammals is the perinata... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Citation%20Index%20Expanded | The Science Citation Index Expanded – previously titled Science Citation Index – is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield.
It was officially launched in 1964 and is now owned by Clarivate (previously the Intellectual Property and Science ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4%20address%20exhaustion | IPv4 address exhaustion is the depletion of the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses. Because the original Internet architecture had fewer than 4.3 billion addresses available, depletion has been anticipated since the late 1980s, when the Internet started experiencing dramatic growth. This depletion is one of the reasons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huberta%20%28hippopotamus%29 | Huberta (initially named Hubert; the sex was discovered after death) was a hippopotamus which travelled for a large distance across South Africa. In November 1928, Huberta left her waterhole in the St. Lucia Estuary in Zululand and over the next three years, travelled to the Eastern Cape. In that time, Huberta became ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visite%20du%20Branchage | A Visite du Branchage is an inspection of roads in Jersey and Guernsey to ensure property owners have complied with the laws against vegetation encroaching onto the road.
Jersey
The Visite du Branchage takes place in each parish twice a year to check that occupiers of houses and land bordering on public roads have u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ancient%20numeral%20systems | Number systems have progressed from the use of fingers and tally marks, perhaps more than 40,000 years ago, to the use of sets of glyphs able to represent any conceivable number efficiently. The earliest known unambiguous notations for numbers emerged in Mesopotamia about 5000 or 6000 years ago.
Prehistory
Counting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langhans%20giant%20cell | Langhans giant cells (LGC) are giant cells found in granulomatous conditions.
They are formed by the fusion of epithelioid cells (macrophages), and contain nuclei arranged in a horseshoe-shaped pattern in the cell periphery.
Although traditionally their presence was associated with tuberculosis, they are not specific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra%20system | The Barra system is a passive solar building technology developed by Horazio Barra in Italy. It uses a collector wall to capture solar radiation in the form of heat. It also uses the thermosiphon effect to distribute the warmed air through channels incorporated into the reinforced concrete floors, warming the floors a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20pioneering%20solar%20buildings | The following buildings are of significance in pioneering the use of solar powered building design:
MIT Solar House #1, Massachusetts, United States (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1939)
Howard Sloan House, Glenview, Illinois, United States (George Fred Keck, 1940)
"Solar Hemicycle", near Madison, Wisconsin, United State... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20SV1 | The Cray SV1 is a vector processor supercomputer from the Cray Research division of Silicon Graphics introduced in 1998. The SV1 has since been succeeded by the Cray X1 and X1E vector supercomputers. Like its predecessor, the Cray J90, the SV1 used CMOS processors, which lowered the cost of the system, and allowed the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20localisation | Language localisation (or language localization) is the process of adapting a product's translation to a specific country or region. It is the second phase of a larger process of product translation and cultural adaptation (for specific countries, regions, cultures or groups) to account for differences in distinct mark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-Ola | The Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation is an American developer and manufacturer of juke boxes and related machinery. It was founded in 1927 by Coin-Op pioneer David Cullen Rockola to manufacture slot machines, scales, and pinball machines. The firm later produced parking meters, furniture, arcade video games, and fire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20dysregulation | Immune dysregulation is any proposed or confirmed breakdown or maladaptive change in molecular control of immune system processes. For example, dysregulation is a component in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases and some cancers. Immune system dysfunction, as seen in IPEX syndrome leads to immune dysfunction, polye... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%202000 | The Rabbit 2000 is a high-performance 8-bit microcontroller designed by Rabbit Semiconductor for embedded system applications. Rabbit Semiconductor has been bought by Digi International, which is since selling the Rabbit microcontrollers and hardware based on them. The instruction set is based on the original Z80 micr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha1sum | is a computer program that calculates and verifies SHA-1 hashes. It is commonly used to verify the integrity of files. It (or a variant) is installed by default on most Linux distributions. Typically distributed alongside are , , and , which use a specific SHA-2 hash function and , which uses the BLAKE2 cryptographic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Processor | Virtual Processor (VP) was a virtual machine from Tao Group.
History
The first version, VP1, was the basis of its parallel processing multimedia OS and platform, TAOS. VP1 supported a RISC-like instruction set with 16 32-bit registers, and had data types of 32- and 64-bit integers and 32- and 64-bit IEEE floating poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergotty%20meteorite | The Shergotty meteorite (Named after Sherghati) is the first example of the shergottite Martian meteorite family. It was a meteorite which fell to Earth at Sherghati, in the Gaya district, Bihar, India on 25 August 1865, and was retrieved by witnesses almost immediately. Radiometric dating indicates that it solidified... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold%20cryptosystem | A threshold cryptosystem, the basis for the field of threshold cryptography, is a cryptosystem that protects information by encrypting it and distributing it among a cluster of fault-tolerant computers. The message is encrypted using a public key, and the corresponding private key is shared among the participating par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratype | In zoology and botany, a paratype is a specimen of an organism that helps define what the scientific name of a species and other taxon actually represents, but it is not the holotype (and in botany is also neither an isotype nor a syntype). Often there is more than one paratype. Paratypes are usually held in museum res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytotelma | Phytotelma (plural phytotelmata) is a small water-filled cavity in a terrestrial plant. The water accumulated within these plants may serve as the habitat for associated fauna and flora.
A rich literature in German summarised by Thienemann (1954) developed many aspects of phytotelm biology. Reviews of the subject by K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20J90 | The Cray J90 series (code-named Jedi during development) was an air-cooled vector processor supercomputer first sold by Cray Research in 1994. The J90 evolved from the Cray Y-MP EL minisupercomputer, and is compatible with Y-MP software, running the same UNICOS operating system. The J90 supported up to 32 CMOS processo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20X1 | The Cray X1 is a non-uniform memory access, vector processor supercomputer manufactured and sold by Cray Inc. since 2003. The X1 is often described as the unification of the Cray T90, Cray SV1, and Cray T3E architectures into a single machine. The X1 shares the multistreaming processors, vector caches, and CMOS design ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Guides | Norton Guides were a product family sold by Peter Norton Computing. The guides were written in 1985 by Warren Woodford for the x86 Assembly Language, C, BASIC, and Forth languages and made available to DOS users via a terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) program that integrated with programming language editors on IBM PC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20RAM | Internal RAM, or IRAM or on-chip RAM (OCRAM), is the address range of RAM that is internal to the CPU. Some object files contain an .iram section.
Internal RAM (Random-Access Memory)
History of Random-Access Memory (RAM)
Earlier forms of what we have today as DRAM started as drum memory which was an early form of me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChipWits | ChipWits is a programming game for the Macintosh written by Doug Sharp and Mike Johnston, and published by BrainPower software in 1984. Ports to the Apple II and Commodore 64 were published by Epyx in 1985.
The player uses a visual programming language to teach a virtual robot how to navigate various mazes of varying ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20key%20generation | Distributed key generation (DKG) is a cryptographic process in which multiple parties contribute to the calculation of a shared public and private key set. Unlike most public key encryption models, distributed key generation does not rely on Trusted Third Parties. Instead, the participation of a threshold of honest p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn%20mod%20N%20algorithm | The Luhn mod N algorithm is an extension to the Luhn algorithm (also known as mod 10 algorithm) that allows it to work with sequences of values in any even-numbered base. This can be useful when a check digit is required to validate an identification string composed of letters, a combination of letters and digits or an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi%20HD44780%20LCD%20controller | The Hitachi HD44780 LCD controller is an alphanumeric dot matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) controller developed by Hitachi in the 1980s. The character set of the controller includes ASCII characters, Japanese Kana characters, and some symbols in two 40 character lines. Using an extension driver, the device can displ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales%20engineering | Sales engineering is a hybrid of sales and engineering that exists in industrial and commercial markets. An engineering degree is not mandatory for a sales engineer, as long as they have sales knowledge and sufficient technical knowledge of the service or product they are called sales engineer. Buying decisions in thes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piping%20and%20plumbing%20fitting | A fitting or adapter is used in pipe systems to connect straight sections of pipe or tube, adapt to different sizes or shapes, and for other purposes such as regulating (or measuring) fluid flow. These fittings are used in plumbing to manipulate the conveyance of water, gas, or liquid waste in domestic or commercial en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC%20%28algorithm%29 | MUSIC (MUltiple SIgnal Classification) is an algorithm used for frequency estimation and radio direction finding.
History
In many practical signal processing problems, the objective is to estimate from measurements a set of constant parameters upon which the received signals depend. There have been several approache... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisarenko%20harmonic%20decomposition | Pisarenko harmonic decomposition, also referred to as Pisarenko's method, is a method of frequency estimation. This method assumes that a signal, , consists of complex exponentials in the presence of white noise. Because the number of complex exponentials must be known a priori, it is somewhat limited in its usefulnes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arzak | Arzak is a restaurant in San Sebastián, Spain. It features New Basque Cuisine. In 2008, Arzak's owner and chef, Juan Mari Arzak, was awarded the Universal Basque award for "adapting gastronomy, one of the most important traditions of the Basque Country, to the new times and making of it one of the most innovative of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikie | Mikie, known as in Japan, is an arcade video game developed and released by Konami in 1984. The object of the game is to guide a student named Mikie around the school locations to collect hearts which make up a letter from his girlfriend while being chased by members of the school staff. In Japan, the game's setting w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20XT3 | The Cray XT3 is a distributed memory massively parallel MIMD supercomputer designed by Cray Inc. with Sandia National Laboratories under the codename Red Storm. Cray turned the design into a commercial product in 2004. The XT3 derives much of its architecture from the previous Cray T3E system, and also from the Intel A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino%20computer | A domino computer is a mechanical computer built using dominoes to represent mechanical amplification or logic gating of digital signals.
Basic phenomenon
Sequences of standing dominoes (so that each domino topples the next one) can be arranged to demonstrate digital concepts such as amplification and digital signal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression%20Networks | Compression Networks is a digital content delivery system developed by TV/COM International that evolved into the current DVB-S standard for satellite broadcasting. The system provided MPEG2 video, audio, signalling, enhanced program guide, and conditional access for pay-television services like AlphaStar.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales%20outsourcing | Sales outsourcing refers to indirect sales process through which the seller sells products or services to buyers while making some profits.
Purpose of indirect sales
The sole purpose of a contract sales organization is to provide sales resource to its clients, without taking title to their products. Sales outsourcin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating%20waveforms | Repeating waveforms is a technique for digital synthesis common in PC sound cards.
The waveform amplitude values are stored in a buffer memory, which is stored in a phase generator. When addressed, the retrieved value is used as the basis of the synthesized sound.
In the phase generator, a value proportional to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baja%20SAE | Baja SAE is a Collegiate Design Series competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE International). Teams of students from universities all over the world design and build small off-road cars. The goal in Baja SAE is to design, build and race off-road vehicles that can withstand the harshes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equating%20coefficients | In mathematics, the method of equating the coefficients is a way of solving a functional equation of two expressions such as polynomials for a number of unknown parameters. It relies on the fact that two expressions are identical precisely when corresponding coefficients are equal for each different type of term. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helaman%20Ferguson | Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson (born 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist. He is also well known for his development of the PSLQ algorithm, an integer relation detection algorithm.
Early life and education
Ferguson's mother died when he was about three and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%20Megacast | ESPN Megacast, formerly known as ESPN Full Circle, is a multi-network simulcast of a single sporting event across multiple ESPN networks and serviceswith each feed providing a different version of the telecast making use of different features, functions or perspectives. These simulcasts typically involve ESPN's linear ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core-Plus%20Mathematics%20Project | Core-Plus Mathematics is a high school mathematics program consisting of a four-year series of print and digital student textbooks and supporting materials for teachers, developed by the Core-Plus Mathematics Project (CPMP) at Western Michigan University, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Development o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematically%20Correct | Mathematically Correct was a U.S.-based website created by educators, parents, mathematicians, and scientists who were concerned about the direction of reform mathematics curricula based on NCTM standards. Created in 1997, it was a frequently cited website in the so-called Math wars, and was actively updated until 2003... |
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