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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20cooling | Laser cooling includes a number of techniques where atoms, molecules, and small mechanical systems are cooled with laser light. The directed energy of lasers is often associated with heating materials, e.g. laser cutting, so it can be counterintuitive that laser cooling often results in sample temperatures approaching... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta%20Crusoe | The Transmeta Crusoe was a family of x86-compatible microprocessors developed by Transmeta and introduced in 2000.
Instead of the instruction set architecture being implemented in hardware, or translated by specialized hardware, the Crusoe runs a software abstraction layer, or a virtual machine, known as the Code Morp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterator | In computer programming, an iterator is an object that enables a programmer to traverse a container, particularly lists. Various types of iterators are often provided via a container's interface. Though the interface and semantics of a given iterator are fixed, iterators are often implemented in terms of the structures... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterBase | InterBase is a relational database management system (RDBMS) currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies. InterBase is distinguished from other RDBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi-generational architecture. InterBase runs on the Microsoft Windows, macOS, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerol | Glycerol (), also called glycerine or glycerin, is a simple triol compound. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid that is sweet-tasting and non-toxic. The glycerol backbone is found in lipids known as glycerides. Because it has antimicrobial and antiviral properties, it is widely used in wound and burn treatments... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff | nroff (short for "new roff") is a text-formatting program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows. It is an integral part of the Unix help system, being used to format man pages for display.
nroff and the related troff were both develope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Ossanna | Joseph Frank Ossanna, Jr. (December 10, 1928 – November 28, 1977) was an electrical engineer and computer programmer who worked as a member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He became actively engaged in the software design of Multics (Multiplexed Information and Comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT%20Storage | JT Storage, Inc. (also known as JTS Corporation) was a maker of inexpensive IDE hard drives for personal computers based in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1994 by "Jugi" Tandon—the inventor of the double-sided floppy disk drive and founder of Tandon Corporation—and Tom Mitchell, a co-founder of Seagate and for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPSET%20and%20RUNOFF | TYPSET is an early document editor that was used with the 1964-released RUNOFF program, one of the earliest text formatting programs to see significant use.
Of two earlier print/formatting programs DITTO and TJ-2, only the latter had, and introduced, text justification; RUNOFF also added pagination.
The name RUNOFF, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Libtool | In computer programming, GNU Libtool is a software development tool, part of the GNU build system, consisting of a shell script created to address the software portability problem when compiling shared libraries from source code.
It hides the differences between computing platforms for the commands which compile shared... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20server | A news server is a collection of software used to handle Usenet articles. It may also refer to a computer itself which is primarily or solely used for handling Usenet. Access to Usenet is only available through news server providers.
Articles and posts
End users often use the term "posting" to refer to a single messag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterNetNews | InterNetNews (INN) is a Usenet news server package, originally released by Rich Salz in 1991, and presented at the Summer 1992 USENIX conference in San Antonio, Texas. It was the first news server with integrated NNTP functionality.
While previous servers processed articles individually or in batches, innd is a single... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosonde | A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver. Modern radiosondes measure or calculate the following variables: altitude, pressure, temperature, relative humidi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20E.%20J.%20Brouwer | Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (; ; 27 February 1881 – 2 December 1966), usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th centu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEXR | OpenEXR is a high-dynamic range, multi-channel raster file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), under a free software license similar to the BSD license.
It is notable for supporting multiple channels of potentially different pixel sizes, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20News | C News is a news server package, written by Geoff Collyer, assisted by Henry Spencer, at the University of Toronto as a replacement for B News. It was presented at the Winter 1987 USENIX conference in Washington, D.C.
Functionally, the operation of C News is very much like that of B News. One major difference was tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20News%20Transfer%20Protocol | The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for reading/posting articles by the end user client applications. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego, and Phil Lapsley of the University of California,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann%20surface | In mathematics, particularly in complex analysis, a Riemann surface is a one-dimensional complex manifold.
Loosely speaking, this means that any Riemann surface is formed by gluing together open subsets of the complex plane C using holomorphic gluing maps.
Examples of Riemann surfaces include graphs of multivalued ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-to-roll%20processing | In the field of electronic devices, roll-to-roll processing, also known as web processing, reel-to-reel processing or R2R, is the process of creating electronic devices on a roll of flexible plastic, metal foil, or flexible glass. In other fields predating this use, it can refer to any process of applying coating, prin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20network | In physics, a spin network is a type of diagram which can be used to represent states and interactions between particles and fields in quantum mechanics. From a mathematical perspective, the diagrams are a concise way to represent multilinear functions and functions between representations of matrix groups. The diagram... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP | UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers.
A command named is one of the programs in the suite; it provides a user interface for requesting file copy operations. The UUCP suite also includes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-exposure%20HDR%20capture | In photography and videography, multi-exposure HDR capture is a technique that creates high dynamic range (HDR) images (or extended dynamic range images) by taking and combining multiple exposures of the same subject matter at different exposure levels. Combining multiple images in this way results in an image with a g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefaction | In materials science, liquefaction is a process that generates a liquid from a solid or a gas or that generates a non-liquid phase which behaves in accordance with fluid dynamics.
It occurs both naturally and artificially. As an example of the latter, a "major commercial application of liquefaction is the liquefaction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorology | Chorology (from Greek , khōros, "place, space"; and , -logia) can mean
the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region
the study of the spatial distribution of organisms (biogeography).
In geography, the term was first used by Strabo. In the twentieth century, Ri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting | In mathematical modeling, overfitting is "the production of an analysis that corresponds too closely or exactly to a particular set of data, and may therefore fail to fit to additional data or predict future observations reliably". An overfitted model is a mathematical model that contains more parameters than can be ju... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation | Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines. Automation has been achieved by various means including mechanical, hydrauli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Units | GNU Units is a cross-platform computer program for conversion of units of quantities. It has a database of measurement units, including esoteric and historical units. This for instance allows conversion of velocities specified in furlongs per fortnight, and pressures specified in tons per acre. Output units are checked... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter%20design | Filter design is the process of designing a signal processing filter that satisfies a set of requirements, some of which may be conflicting. The purpose is to find a realization of the filter that meets each of the requirements to a sufficient degree to make it useful.
The filter design process can be described as an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20sampled%20filter | An analog sampled filter an electronic filter that is a hybrid between an analog and a digital filter. The input is an analog signal, and usually stored in capacitors. The time domain is discrete, however. Distinct analog samples are shifted through an array of holding capacitors as in a bucket brigade. Analog adders a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20physics | Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The Journal of Mathematical Physics defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the development of mathematical methods suitable for such applications and for the formulatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20domain | Time domain refers to the analysis of mathematical functions, physical signals or time series of economic or environmental data, with respect to time. In the time domain, the signal or function's value is known for all real numbers, for the case of continuous time, or at various separate instants in the case of discre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitron | Trinitron was Sony's brand name for its line of aperture-grille-based CRTs used in television sets and computer monitors, one of the first television systems to enter the market since the 1950s. Constant improvement in the basic technology and attention to overall quality allowed Sony to charge a premium for Trinitron ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9 | 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding .
Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit
Circa 300 BCE, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated%20services | Differentiated services or DiffServ is a computer networking architecture that specifies a mechanism for classifying and managing network traffic and providing quality of service (QoS) on modern IP networks. DiffServ can, for example, be used to provide low-latency to critical network traffic such as voice or streaming... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20method | In mathematics, the probabilistic method is a nonconstructive method, primarily used in combinatorics and pioneered by Paul Erdős, for proving the existence of a prescribed kind of mathematical object. It works by showing that if one randomly chooses objects from a specified class, the probability that the result is of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Hamilton%20theorem | In linear algebra, the Cayley–Hamilton theorem (named after the mathematicians Arthur Cayley and William Rowan Hamilton) states that every square matrix over a commutative ring (such as the real or complex numbers or the integers) satisfies its own characteristic equation.
If is a given matrix and is the identity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Laboratories | Wang Laboratories was a US computer company founded in 1951 by An Wang and G. Y. Chu. The company was successively headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1954–1963), Tewksbury, Massachusetts (1963–1976), and finally in Lowell, Massachusetts (1976–1997). At its peak in the 1980s, Wang Laboratories had annual revenue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona%20project | The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service and later absorbed by the National Security Agency (NSA), that ran from February 1, 1943, until October 1, 1980. It was intended to decrypt messages transmitted by the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpose | In linear algebra, the transpose of a matrix is an operator which flips a matrix over its diagonal;
that is, it switches the row and column indices of the matrix by producing another matrix, often denoted by (among other notations).
The transpose of a matrix was introduced in 1858 by the British mathematician Art... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%20Mark%20I | The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.
One of the first programs to run on the Mark I was initiated on 29 March 1944 by John von Neumann. At that time, v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-volatile%20random-access%20memory | Non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) is random-access memory that retains data without applied power. This is in contrast to dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and static random-access memory (SRAM), which both maintain data only for as long as power is applied, or forms of sequential-access memory such as magnet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20heuristic | In competitive two-player games, the killer heuristic is a move-ordering method based on the observation that a strong move or small set of such moves in a particular position may be equally strong in similar positions at the same move (ply) in the game tree.
Retaining such moves obviates the effort of rediscovering th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicenter | The epicenter (), epicentre, or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates.
Determination
The primary purpose of a seismometer is to locate the initiating points of earthquake epicenters. The s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiFT | giFT Internet File Transfer (giFT) is a computer software daemon that allows several file sharing protocols to be used with a simple client having a graphical user interface (GUI). The client dynamically loads plugins implementing the protocols, as they are required.
General
Clients implementing frontends for the gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20bias | The inductive bias (also known as learning bias) of a learning algorithm is the set of assumptions that the learner uses to predict outputs of given inputs that it has not encountered.
Inductive bias is anything which makes the algorithm learn one pattern instead of another pattern (e.g. step-functions in decision tree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20of%20mass | In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space (sometimes referred to as the barycenter or balance point) is the unique point at any given time where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero. This is the point to which a force may be applied to cause a linear acceleration w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic%20matrix | In mathematics, a symplectic matrix is a matrix with real entries that satisfies the condition
where denotes the transpose of and is a fixed nonsingular, skew-symmetric matrix. This definition can be extended to matrices with entries in other fields, such as the complex numbers, finite fields, p-adic numbers, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20unitary%20group | In mathematics, the special unitary group of degree , denoted , is the Lie group of unitary matrices with determinant 1.
The matrices of the more general unitary group may have complex determinants with absolute value 1, rather than real 1 in the special case.
The group operation is matrix multiplication. The specia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phar%20Lap | Phar Lap (4 October 1926 – 5 April 1932) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. Achieving incredible success during his distinguished career, his initial underdog status gave people hope during the early years of the Great Depression. He won the Melbourne Cup, two Cox Plates, the Australian Derby, and 19 oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20blot | The western blot (sometimes called the protein immunoblot), or western blotting, is a widely used analytical technique in molecular biology and immunogenetics to detect specific proteins in a sample of tissue homogenate or extract. Besides detecting the proteins, this technique is also utilized to visualize, distinguis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew-symmetric%20matrix | In mathematics, particularly in linear algebra, a skew-symmetric (or antisymmetric or antimetric) matrix is a square matrix whose transpose equals its negative. That is, it satisfies the condition
In terms of the entries of the matrix, if denotes the entry in the -th row and -th column, then the skew-symmetric condit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonal%20matrix | In linear algebra, a diagonal matrix is a matrix in which the entries outside the main diagonal are all zero; the term usually refers to square matrices. Elements of the main diagonal can either be zero or nonzero. An example of a 2×2 diagonal matrix is , while an example of a 3×3 diagonal matrix is. An identity matrix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Messenger%20service | Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger Service, .NET Messenger Service and Windows Live Messenger Service) was an instant messaging and presence system developed by Microsoft in 1999 for use with its MSN Messenger software. It was used by instant messaging clients including Windows 8, Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Messe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc%20conjecture | The abc conjecture (also known as the Oesterlé–Masser conjecture) is a conjecture in number theory that arose out of a discussion of Joseph Oesterlé and David Masser in 1985. It is stated in terms of three positive integers and (hence the name) that are relatively prime and satisfy . The conjecture essentially state... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA | SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard to become the predominant interface for storage devices.
Serial ATA industry co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiga%20toxin | Shiga toxins are a family of related toxins with two major groups, Stx1 and Stx2, expressed by genes considered to be part of the genome of lambdoid prophages. The toxins are named after Kiyoshi Shiga, who first described the bacterial origin of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae. Shiga-like toxin (SLT) is a his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceability | Traceability is the capability to trace something. In some cases, it is interpreted as the ability to verify the history, location, or application of an item by means of documented recorded identification.
Other common definitions include the capability (and implementation) of keeping track of a given set or type of i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birefringence | Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light. These optically anisotropic materials are said to be birefringent (or birefractive). The birefringence is often quantified as the maximum difference between refractive indic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization%20gear | A synchronization gear (also known as a gun synchronizer or interrupter gear) was a device enabling a single-engine tractor configuration aircraft to fire its forward-firing armament through the arc of its spinning propeller without bullets striking the blades. This allowed the aircraft, rather than the gun, to be aime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity%20theorem | The modularity theorem (formerly called the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, Taniyama-Weil conjecture or modularity conjecture for elliptic curves) states that elliptic curves over the field of rational numbers are related to modular forms. Andrew Wiles proved the modularity theorem for semistable elliptic curves, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20logarithm | In mathematics, the common logarithm is the logarithm with base 10. It is also known as the decadic logarithm and as the decimal logarithm, named after its base, or Briggsian logarithm, after Henry Briggs, an English mathematician who pioneered its use, as well as standard logarithm. Historically, it was known as logar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20chat | Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver. Chat messages are generally short in order to enable other participants to respond quickly. Thereby, a feeling similar to a spoken conversation is created, which distinguis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20number%20theory | Algebraic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses the techniques of abstract algebra to study the integers, rational numbers, and their generalizations. Number-theoretic questions are expressed in terms of properties of algebraic objects such as algebraic number fields and their rings of integers, finite f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%20operator | In mathematics, the Laplace operator or Laplacian is a differential operator given by the divergence of the gradient of a scalar function on Euclidean space. It is usually denoted by the symbols , (where is the nabla operator), or . In a Cartesian coordinate system, the Laplacian is given by the sum of second partial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20field | In physics, a gravitational field or gravitational acceleration field is a vector field used to explain the influences that a body extends into the space around itself. A gravitational field is used to explain gravitational phenomena, such as the gravitational force field excerted on another massive body. It has dimens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert%20channel | In computer security, a covert channel is a type of attack that creates a capability to transfer information objects between processes that are not supposed to be allowed to communicate by the computer security policy. The term, originated in 1973 by Butler Lampson, is defined as channels "not intended for information... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20predicate | In formal logic and related branches of mathematics, a functional predicate, or function symbol, is a logical symbol that may be applied to an object term to produce another object term.
Functional predicates are also sometimes called mappings, but that term has additional meanings in mathematics.
In a model, a functio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimEarth | SimEarth: The Living Planet is a life simulation game, the second designed by Will Wright. and published in 1990 by Maxis. In SimEarth, the player controls the development of a planet. English scientist James Lovelock served as an advisor and his Gaia hypothesis of planet evolution was incorporated into the game. Versi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-on-dark%20color%20scheme | A light-on-dark color scheme also called dark mode, dark theme, night mode, black mode, or lights-out (mode) is a color scheme that uses light-colored text, icons, and graphical user interface elements on a dark background. It is often discussed in terms of computer user interface design and web design. Many modern web... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski%20method | The Czochralski method, also Czochralski technique or Czochralski process, is a method of crystal growth used to obtain single crystals of semiconductors (e.g. silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide), metals (e.g. palladium, platinum, silver, gold), salts and synthetic gemstones. The method is named after Polish scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20services | In computer networking, integrated services or IntServ is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption.
IntServ specifies a fine-grained QoS system, which is often contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20algebra | In database theory, relational algebra is a theory that uses algebraic structures for modeling data, and defining queries on it with a well founded semantics. The theory was introduced by Edgar F. Codd.
The main application of relational algebra is to provide a theoretical foundation for relational databases, particul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple%20relational%20calculus | Tuple calculus is a calculus that was created and introduced by Edgar F. Codd as part of the relational model, in order to provide a declarative database-query language for data manipulation in this data model. It formed the inspiration for the database-query languages QUEL and SQL, of which the latter, although far le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20recompilation | In computer science, dynamic recompilation is a feature of some emulators and virtual machines, where the system may recompile some part of a program during execution. By compiling during execution, the system can tailor the generated code to reflect the program's run-time environment, and potentially produce more effi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES3 | AES3 is a standard for the exchange of digital audio signals between professional audio devices. An AES3 signal can carry two channels of pulse-code-modulated digital audio over several transmission media including balanced lines, unbalanced lines, and optical fiber.
AES3 was jointly developed by the Audio Engineering... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext | In cryptography, ciphertext or cyphertext is the result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher. Ciphertext is also known as encrypted or encoded information because it contains a form of the original plaintext that is unreadable by a human or computer without the proper cipher to decry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passivation%20%28chemistry%29 | In physical chemistry and engineering, passivation is coating a material so that it becomes "passive", that is, less readily affected or corroded by the environment. Passivation involves creation of an outer layer of shield material that is applied as a microcoating, created by chemical reaction with the base material,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20element | In electrical engineering, electrical elements are conceptual abstractions representing idealized electrical components, such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors, used in the analysis of electrical networks. All electrical networks can be analyzed as multiple electrical elements interconnected by wires. Where the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler | A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, central heating, boiler-based power generation, cooking, and sanitation.
Heat source... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20insertion%20force | Zero insertion force (ZIF) is a type of IC socket or electrical connector that requires very little (but not literally zero) force for insertion. With a ZIF socket, before the IC is inserted, a lever or slider on the side of the socket is moved, pushing all the sprung contacts apart so that the IC can be inserted with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket%207 | Socket 7 is a physical and electrical specification for an x86-style CPU socket on a personal computer motherboard. It was released in June 1995. The socket supersedes the earlier Socket 5, and accepts P5 Pentium microprocessors manufactured by Intel, as well as compatibles made by Cyrix/IBM, AMD, IDT and others. Socke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20calculus | The relational calculus consists of two calculi, the tuple relational calculus and the domain relational calculus, that is part of the relational model for databases and provide a declarative way to specify database queries. The raison d'être of relational calculus is the formalization of query optimization, which is f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20display | A plasma display panel (PDP) is a type of flat panel display that uses small cells containing plasma: ionized gas that responds to electric fields. Plasma televisions were the first large (over 32 inches diagonal) flat panel displays to be released to the public.
Until about 2007, plasma displays were commonly used in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active-matrix%20liquid-crystal%20display | An active-matrix liquid-crystal display (AMLCD) is a type of flat-panel display used in high-resolution TVs, computer monitors, notebook computers, tablet computers and smartphones with an LCD screen, due to low weight, very good image quality, wide color gamut and fast response time.
The concept of active-matrix LCDs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20control | Robotic control is the system that contributes to the movement of robots. This involves the mechanical aspects and programmable systems that makes it possible to control robots. Robotics can be controlled by various means including manual, wireless, semi-autonomous (a mix of fully automatic and wireless control), and f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclocking | In computing, overclocking is the practice of increasing the clock rate of a computer to exceed that certified by the manufacturer. Commonly, operating voltage is also increased to maintain a component's operational stability at accelerated speeds. Semiconductor devices operated at higher frequencies and voltages incre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid | The geoid () is the shape that the ocean surface would take under the influence of the gravity of Earth, including gravitational attraction and Earth's rotation, if other influences such as winds and tides were absent. This surface is extended through the continents (such as with very narrow hypothetical canals). Accor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clownfish | Clownfish or anemonefish are fishes from the subfamily Amphiprioninae in the family Pomacentridae. Thirty species of clownfish are recognized: one in the genus Premnas, while the remaining are in the genus Amphiprion. In the wild, they all form symbiotic mutualisms with sea anemones. Depending on the species, anemonef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Storm%20Center | The Internet Storm Center (ISC) is a program of the SANS Technology Institute, a branch of the SANS Institute which monitors the level of malicious activity on the Internet, particularly with regard to large-scale infrastructure events.
History
The ISC evolved from "Incidents.org", a site initially founded by the SANS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwood%20Dudley | Underwood Dudley (born January 6, 1937) is an American mathematician and writer. His popular works include several books describing crank mathematics by pseudomathematicians who incorrectly believe they have squared the circle or done other impossible things.
Career
Dudley was born in New York City. He received bache... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann%20sum | In mathematics, a Riemann sum is a certain kind of approximation of an integral by a finite sum. It is named after nineteenth century German mathematician Bernhard Riemann. One very common application is in numerical integration, i.e., approximating the area of functions or lines on a graph, where it is also known as t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion%20%28moon%29 | Hyperion , also known as Saturn VII, is a moon of Saturn discovered by William Cranch Bond, his son George Phillips Bond and William Lassell in 1848. It is distinguished by its irregular shape, its chaotic rotation, and its unexplained sponge-like appearance. It was the first non-round moon to be discovered.
Name
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20feedback | Audio feedback (also known as acoustic feedback, simply as feedback) is a positive feedback situation that may occur when an acoustic path exists between an audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup) and an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker). In this example, a signal received by the microphone is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical%20coordinate%20system | A cylindrical coordinate system is a three-dimensional coordinate system that specifies point positions by the distance from a chosen reference axis (axis L in the image opposite), the direction from the axis relative to a chosen reference direction (axis A), and the distance from a chosen reference plane perpendicular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20geodesy | Physical geodesy is the study of the physical properties of Earth's gravity and its potential field (the geopotential), with a view to their application in geodesy.
Measurement procedure
Traditional geodetic instruments such as theodolites rely on the gravity field for orienting their vertical axis along the local plu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20coherence | In computer architecture, cache coherence is the uniformity of shared resource data that ends up stored in multiple local caches. When clients in a system maintain caches of a common memory resource, problems may arise with incoherent data, which is particularly the case with CPUs in a multiprocessing system.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20geometry | Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems are also considered to be part of computational geometry. While modern comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Archive | The Internet Archive is an American digital library founded on May 10, 1996, and chaired by free information advocate Brewster Kahle. It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode%20bridge | A diode bridge is a bridge rectifier circuit of four diodes that is used in the process of converting alternating current (AC) from the input terminals to direct current (DC, i.e. fixed polarity) on the output terminals. Its function is to convert the negative voltage portions of the AC waveform to positive voltage, af... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid | is a 1986 block breaker arcade game developed and published by Taito. In North America, it was published by Romstar. Controlling a paddle-like craft known as the Vaus, the player is tasked with clearing a formation of colorful blocks by deflecting a ball towards it without letting the ball leave the bottom edge of the ... |
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