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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautical%20Fixed%20Telecommunication%20Network | The Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network (AFTN) is a worldwide system of aeronautical fixed circuits provided, as part of the Aeronautical Fixed Service, for the exchange of messages and/or digital data between aeronautical fixed stations having the same or compatible communications characteristics. AFTN comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical%20logic |
Categorical logic is the branch of mathematics in which tools and concepts from category theory are applied to the study of mathematical logic. It is also notable for its connections to theoretical computer science.
In broad terms, categorical logic represents both syntax and semantics by a category, and an interpret... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurs%20check | In computer science, the occurs check is a part of algorithms for syntactic unification. It causes unification of a variable V and a structure S to fail if S contains V.
Application in theorem proving
In theorem proving, unification without the occurs check can lead to unsound inference. For example, the Prolog goal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBJ%20%28programming%20language%29 | OBJ is a programming language family introduced by Joseph Goguen in 1976, and further worked on by Jose Meseguer.
Overview
It is a family of declarative "ultra high-level" languages. It features abstract types, generic modules, subsorts (subtypes with multiple inheritance), pattern-matching modulo equations, E-strateg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo%20%28operating%20system%29 | Cairo was the codename for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996. Its charter was to build technologies for a next-generation operating system that would fulfill Bill Gates's vision of "information at your fingertips." Cairo never shipped, although portions of its technologies have since appeared in other products.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEN/XFS | CEN/XFS or XFS (extensions for financial services) provides a client-server architecture for financial applications on the Microsoft Windows platform, especially peripheral devices such as EFTPOS terminals and ATMs which are unique to the financial industry. It is an international standard promoted by the European Comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigram | A bigram or digram is a sequence of two adjacent elements from a string of tokens, which are typically letters, syllables, or words. A bigram is an n-gram for n=2.
The frequency distribution of every bigram in a string is commonly used for simple statistical analysis of text in many applications, including in computat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%20gas | An ideal Bose gas is a quantum-mechanical phase of matter, analogous to a classical ideal gas. It is composed of bosons, which have an integer value of spin, and abide by Bose–Einstein statistics. The statistical mechanics of bosons were developed by Satyendra Nath Bose for a photon gas, and extended to massive particl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldspan | Worldspan is a provider of travel technology and content and a part of the Travelport GDS business. It offers worldwide electronic distribution of travel information, Internet products and connectivity, and e-commerce capabilities for travel agencies, travel service providers and corporations. Its primary system is c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20encryption | Link encryption is an approach to communications security that encrypts and decrypts all network traffic at each network routing point (e.g. network switch, or node through which it passes) until arrival at its final destination. This repeated decryption and encryption is necessary to allow the routing information cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end%20encryption | End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a private communication system in which only communicating users can participate. As such, no one, including the communication system provider, telecom providers, Internet providers or malicious actors, can access the cryptographic keys needed to converse.
End-to-end encryption is int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20injection | Code injection is the exploitation of a computer bug that is caused by processing invalid data. The injection is used by an attacker to introduce (or "inject") code into a vulnerable computer program and change the course of execution. The result of successful code injection can be disastrous, for example, by allowing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megascale%20engineering | Megascale engineering (or macro-engineering) is a form of exploratory engineering concerned with the construction of structures on an enormous scale. Typically these structures are at least in length—in other words, at least one megameter, hence the name. Such large-scale structures are termed megastructures.
In add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPS%20report | A TPS report ("test procedure specification") is a document used by a quality assurance group or individual, particularly in software engineering, that describes the testing procedures and the testing process.
Definition
The official definition and creation is provided by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red/black%20concept | The red/black concept, sometimes called the red–black architecture
or red/black engineering,
refers to the careful segregation in cryptographic systems of signals that contain sensitive or classified plaintext information (red signals) from those that carry encrypted information, or ciphertext (black signals). Therefor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superreal%20number | In abstract algebra, the superreal numbers are a class of extensions of the real numbers, introduced by H. Garth Dales and W. Hugh Woodin as a generalization of the hyperreal numbers and primarily of interest in non-standard analysis, model theory, and the study of Banach algebras. The field of superreals is itself a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ%20layer | A germ layer is a primary layer of cells that forms during embryonic development. The three germ layers in vertebrates are particularly pronounced; however, all eumetazoans (animals that are sister taxa to the sponges) produce two or three primary germ layers. Some animals, like cnidarians, produce two germ layers (t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalization | Cephalization is an evolutionary trend in which, over many generations, the mouth, sense organs, and nerve ganglia become concentrated at the front end of an animal, producing a head region. This is associated with movement and bilateral symmetry, such that the animal has a definite head end. This led to the formation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20network%20naming%20scheme | In computing, naming schemes are often used for objects connected into computer networks.
Naming schemes in computing
Server naming is a common tradition. It makes it more convenient to refer to a machine by name than by its IP address.
The CIA named their servers after states.
Server names may be named by their rol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic%20%28algebra%29 | In mathematics, the characteristic of a ring , often denoted , is defined to be the smallest positive number of copies of the ring's multiplicative identity () that will sum to the additive identity (). If no such number exists, the ring is said to have characteristic zero.
That is, is the smallest positive number ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus%20vivendi | Modus vivendi (plural modi vivendi) is a Latin phrase that means "mode of living" or "way of life". In international relations, it often is used to mean an arrangement or agreement that allows conflicting parties to coexist in peace. In science, it is used to describe lifestyles.
Modus means "mode", "way", "method", o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain | ReplayGain is a proposed technical standard published by David Robinson in 2001 to measure and normalize the perceived loudness of audio in computer audio formats such as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. It allows media players to normalize loudness for individual tracks or albums. This avoids the common problem of having to manual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20AntiVirus | Norton AntiVirus is an anti-virus or anti-malware software product founded by Peter Norton, developed and distributed by Symantec (now Gen Digital) since 1990 as part of its Norton family of computer security products. It uses signatures and heuristics to identify viruses. Other features included in it are e-mail spam ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20death | Cell death is the event of a biological cell ceasing to carry out its functions. This may be the result of the natural process of old cells dying and being replaced by new ones, as in programmed cell death, or may result from factors such as diseases, localized injury, or the death of the organism of which the cells ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSEMU | DOSEMU, stylized as dosemu, is a compatibility layer software package that enables DOS operating systems (e.g., MS-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS) and application software to run atop Linux on x86-based PCs (IBM PC compatible computers).
Features
It uses a combination of hardware-assisted virtualization features and high-level... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formally%20real%20field | In mathematics, in particular in field theory and real algebra, a formally real field is a field that can be equipped with a (not necessarily unique) ordering that makes it an ordered field.
Alternative definitions
The definition given above is not a first-order definition, as it requires quantifiers over sets. Howeve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CherryOS | CherryOS was a PowerPC G4 processor emulator for x86 Microsoft Windows platforms, which allowed various Apple Inc. programs to be operated on Windows XP. Announced and made available for pre-orders on October 12, 2004, it was developed by Maui X-Stream (MXS), a startup company based in Lahaina, Hawaii and a subsidiary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy%27s%20constant | In mathematics Lévy's constant (sometimes known as the Khinchin–Lévy constant) occurs in an expression for the asymptotic behaviour of the denominators of the convergents of continued fractions.
In 1935, the Soviet mathematician Aleksandr Khinchin showed that the denominators qn of the convergents of the continued frac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Alexanderson | Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson (January 25, 1878 – May 14, 1975) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who was a pioneer in radio and television development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used between 1906 and the 1930s for longwave long distance radio transmission. Ale... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoremediation | Phytoremediation technologies use living plants to clean up soil, air and water contaminated with hazardous contaminants. It is defined as "the use of green plants and the associated microorganisms, along with proper soil amendments and agronomic techniques to either contain, remove or render toxic environmental conta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSD-64 | The KSD-64[A] Crypto Ignition Key (CIK) is an NSA-developed EEPROM chip packed in a plastic case that looks like a toy key. The model number is due to its storage capacity — 64 kibibits (65,536bits, or 8KiB), enough to store multiple encryption keys. Most frequently it was used in key-splitting applications: either t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign%20bit | In computer science, the sign bit is a bit in a signed number representation that indicates the sign of a number. Although only signed numeric data types have a sign bit, it is invariably located in the most significant bit position, so the term may be used interchangeably with "most significant bit" in some contexts.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponent%20bias | In IEEE 754 floating-point numbers, the exponent is biased in the engineering sense of the word – the value stored is offset from the actual value by the exponent bias, also called a biased exponent.
Biasing is done because exponents have to be signed values in order to be able to represent both tiny and huge values, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial%20survey | Aerial survey is a method of collecting geomatics or other imagery by using airplanes, helicopters, UAVs, balloons or other aerial methods. Typical types of data collected include aerial photography, Lidar, remote sensing (using various visible and invisible bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as infrared, gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordosis%20behavior | Lordosis behavior (), also known as mammalian lordosis (Greek lordōsis, from lordos "bent backward") or presenting, is the naturally occurring body posture for sexual receptivity to copulation present in females of most mammals including rodents, elephants, and cats. The primary characteristics of the behavior are a lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotket | In computer hardware terminology, slotkets, also known as slockets, (both short for slot to socket adapter) are adapters that allow socket-based microprocessors to be used on slot-based motherboards.
Slotkets were first created to allow the use of Socket 8 Pentium Pro processors on Slot 1 motherboards. Later, they bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20team | A virtual team (also known as a geographically dispersed team, distributed team, or remote team) usually refers to a group of individuals who work together from different geographic locations and rely on communication technology such as email, instant messaging, and video or voice conferencing services in order to coll... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20derivative | In mathematics, the total derivative of a function at a point is the best linear approximation near this point of the function with respect to its arguments. Unlike partial derivatives, the total derivative approximates the function with respect to all of its arguments, not just a single one. In many situations, thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20cryptographic%20keys | This glossary lists types of keys as the term is used in cryptography, as opposed to door locks. Terms that are primarily used by the U.S. National Security Agency are marked (NSA). For classification of keys according to their usage see cryptographic key types.
40-bit key - key with a length of 40 bits, once the upp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state%20transducer | A finite-state transducer (FST) is a finite-state machine with two memory tapes, following the terminology for Turing machines: an input tape and an output tape. This contrasts with an ordinary finite-state automaton, which has a single tape. An FST is a type of finite-state automaton (FSA) that maps between two sets ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a median of a triangle is a line segment joining a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side, thus bisecting that side. Every triangle has exactly three medians, one from each vertex, and they all intersect each other at the triangle's centroid. In the case of isosceles and equilateral triangles, a media... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20universe | In mathematics, a Grothendieck universe is a set U with the following properties:
If x is an element of U and if y is an element of x, then y is also an element of U. (U is a transitive set.)
If x and y are both elements of U, then is an element of U.
If x is an element of U, then P(x), the power set of x, is also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place%20and%20route | Place and route is a stage in the design of printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, and field-programmable gate arrays. As implied by the name, it is composed of two steps, placement and routing. The first step, placement, involves deciding where to place all electronic components, circuitry, and logic elements in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20access%20service | A remote access service (RAS) is any combination of hardware and software to enable the remote access tools or information that typically reside on a network of IT devices.
A remote access service connects a client to a host computer, known as a remote access server. The most common approach to this service is remote ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20over%20WLAN | Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN), also Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi), is the use of a wireless broadband network according to the IEEE 802.11 standards for the purpose of vocal conversation. In essence, it is Voice over IP (VoIP) over a Wi-Fi network. In most cases, the Wi-Fi network and voice components supporting the voic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety%20life%20cycle | The safety life cycle is the series of phases from initiation and specifications of safety requirements, covering design and development of safety features in a safety-critical system, and ending in decommissioning of that system. This article uses software as the context but the safety life cycle applies to other area... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet | The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) is "a system of interconnected computer networks used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State to transmit classified information (up to and including information classified SECRET) by packet switching over the 'completely secure' environme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosignature | A biosignature (sometimes called chemical fossil or molecular fossil) is any substance – such as an element, isotope, molecule, or phenomenon that provides scientific evidence of past or present life. Measurable attributes of life include its complex physical or chemical structures and its use of free energy and the pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20%28linear%20algebra%29 | In mathematics, the kernel of a linear map, also known as the null space or nullspace, is the linear subspace of the domain of the map which is mapped to the zero vector. That is, given a linear map between two vector spaces and , the kernel of is the vector space of all elements of such that , where denotes the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigyes%20Riesz | Frigyes Riesz (, , sometimes spelled as Frederic; 22 January 1880 – 28 February 1956) was a Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, as did his younger brother Marcel Riesz.
Life and career
He was born into a Jewish family in Győr, Austria-Hungary and died in Budapest, Hungar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20Riesz | Marcel Riesz ( ; 16 November 1886 – 4 September 1969) was a Hungarian mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras. He spent most of his career in Lund (Sweden).
Marcel is the younger b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%27s%20representability%20theorem | In mathematics, Brown's representability theorem in homotopy theory gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a contravariant functor F on the homotopy category Hotc of pointed connected CW complexes, to the category of sets Set, to be a representable functor.
More specifically, we are given
F: Hotcop → Set,
and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato%20paste | Tomato paste is a thick paste made from tomatoes, which are cooked for several hours to reduce water content, straining out seeds and skins, and cooking the liquid again to reduce the base to a thick, rich concentrate. It is used to impart an intense tomato flavour to a variety of dishes, such as pasta, soups and brais... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton%20tensor | In differential geometry, the Cotton tensor on a (pseudo)-Riemannian manifold of dimension n is a third-order tensor concomitant of the metric. The vanishing of the Cotton tensor for is necessary and sufficient condition for the manifold to be conformally flat. By contrast, in dimensions ,
the vanishing of the Cotton ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20motion%20linkage | In kinematics, the parallel motion linkage is a six-bar mechanical linkage invented by the Scottish engineer James Watt in 1784 for the double-acting Watt steam engine. It allows a rod moving practically straight up and down to transmit motion to a beam moving in an arc, without putting significant sideways strain on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistello | Logistello is a computer program that plays the game Othello, also known as Reversi. Logistello was written by Michael Buro and is regarded as a strong player, having beaten the human world champion Takeshi Murakami six games to none in 1997 — the best Othello programs are now much stronger than any human player. Logi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind-infinite%20set | In mathematics, a set A is Dedekind-infinite (named after the German mathematician Richard Dedekind) if some proper subset B of A is equinumerous to A. Explicitly, this means that there exists a bijective function from A onto some proper subset B of A. A set is Dedekind-finite if it is not Dedekind-infinite (i.e., no s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clebsch%E2%80%93Gordan%20coefficients | In physics, the Clebsch–Gordan (CG) coefficients are numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an uncoupled tensor product basis. In more mathematical terms, the CG coefficients are used in representation the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb%20shift | In physics the Lamb shift, named after Willis Lamb, refers to an anomalous difference in energy between two electron orbitals in a hydrogen atom. The difference was not predicted by theory and it cannot be derived from the Dirac equation, which predicts identical energies. Hence the Lamb shift refers to a deviation fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactome | In molecular biology, an interactome is the whole set of molecular interactions in a particular cell. The term specifically refers to physical interactions among molecules (such as those among proteins, also known as protein–protein interactions, PPIs; or between small molecules and proteins) but can also describe sets... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulome | Regulome refers to the whole set of regulatory components in a cell. Those components can be regulatory elements, genes, mRNAs, proteins, and metabolites. The description includes the interplay of regulatory effects between these components, and their dependence on variables such as subcellular localization, tissue, de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolome | The metabolome refers to the complete set of small-molecule chemicals found within a biological sample. The biological sample can be a cell, a cellular organelle, an organ, a tissue, a tissue extract, a biofluid or an entire organism. The small molecule chemicals found in a given metabolome may include both endogenous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi%20Electric | is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It was established in 1921 as a spin-off from the electrical machinery manufacturing business of Mitsubishi Shipbuilding (current Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) at the Kobe Shipyard. The products from MEL... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA%20cryptography | The vast majority of the National Security Agency's work on encryption is classified, but from time to time NSA participates in standards processes or otherwise publishes information about its cryptographic algorithms. The NSA has categorized encryption items into four product types, and algorithms into two suites. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahn%20embedding%20theorem | In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra dealing with ordered structures on abelian groups, the Hahn embedding theorem gives a simple description of all linearly ordered abelian groups. It is named after Hans Hahn.
Overview
The theorem states that every linearly ordered abelian group G can be embedde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20signal%20averaging | Within signal processing, in many cases only one image with noise is available, and averaging is then realized in a local neighbourhood. Results are acceptable if the noise is smaller in size than the smallest objects of interest in the image, but blurring of edges is a serious disadvantage. In the case of smoothing wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%20problem | The angel problem is a question in combinatorial game theory proposed by John Horton Conway. The game is commonly referred to as the angels and devils game. The game is played by two players called the angel and the devil. It is played on an infinite chessboard (or equivalently the points of a 2D lattice). The angel ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20sequencing | Protein sequencing is the practical process of determining the amino acid sequence of all or part of a protein or peptide. This may serve to identify the protein or characterize its post-translational modifications. Typically, partial sequencing of a protein provides sufficient information (one or more sequence tags) t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%20equation | In the theory of evolution and natural selection, the Price equation (also known as Price's equation or Price's theorem) describes how a trait or allele changes in frequency over time. The equation uses a covariance between a trait and fitness, to give a mathematical description of evolution and natural selection. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPL | AMPL (A Mathematical Programming Language) is an algebraic modeling language to describe and solve high-complexity problems for large-scale mathematical computing (i.e., large-scale optimization and scheduling-type problems).
It was developed by Robert Fourer, David Gay, and Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories.
AMPL s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20homological%20algebra%20topics | This is a list of homological algebra topics, by Wikipedia page.
Basic techniques
Cokernel
Exact sequence
Chain complex
Differential module
Five lemma
Short five lemma
Snake lemma
Nine lemma
Extension (algebra)
Central extension
Splitting lemma
Projective module
Injective module
Projective resolution
Injective resolu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20M%C3%A9r%C5%91 | László Mérő (born Budapest, 11 December 1949) is a Hungarian research psychologist and popular science author. He has Jewish ancestry. He is a lecturer at the Experimental Psychology Department of Eötvös Loránd University and at the business school Kürt Academy. He is also a founder and leader of a software company pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor | Flor (Spanish and Portuguese for flower) in winemaking, is a film of yeast on the surface of wine, important in the manufacture of some styles of sherry. The flor is formed naturally under certain winemaking conditions, from indigenous yeasts found in the region of Andalucía in southern Spain. Normally in winemaking, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Road%20to%20Reality | The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe is a book on modern physics by the British mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, published in 2004. It covers the basics of the Standard Model of particle physics, discussing general relativity and quantum mechanics, and discusses the possible unificatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20sensor%20network | Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental conditions such as temperature, sound, pollution levels, humidity and win... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Protocol%20television | Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This is in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable television formats. Unlike downloaded media, IPTV offers the ability to stream the source media continuously. As a result,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20N.%20Watson | George Neville Watson (31 January 1886 – 2 February 1965) was an English mathematician, who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions. His collaboration on the 1915 second edition of E. T. Whittaker's A Course of Modern Analysis (1902) produced the classic "Whittaker and Watson" text. In 1918 he pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEST%20Robotics | BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) is a national six-week robotics competition in the United States held each fall, designed to help interest middle school and high school students in possible engineering careers. The games are similar in scale to those of the FIRST Tech Challenge.
History
The idea f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Authentication%20Service | The Central Authentication Service (CAS) is a single sign-on protocol for the web. Its purpose is to permit a user to access multiple applications while providing their credentials (such as user ID and password) only once. It also allows web applications to authenticate users without gaining access to a user's security... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliivibrio%20fischeri | Aliivibrio fischeri (also called Vibrio fischeri) is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium found globally in marine environments. This species has bioluminescent properties, and is found predominantly in symbiosis with various marine animals, such as the Hawaiian bobtail squid. It is heterotrophic, oxidase-positive, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpholino | A Morpholino, also known as a Morpholino oligomer and as a phosphorodiamidate Morpholino oligomer (PMO), is a type of oligomer molecule (colloquially, an oligo) used in molecular biology to modify gene expression. Its molecular structure contains DNA bases attached to a backbone of methylenemorpholine rings linked thro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA%20digital%20signature%20guidelines | The ABA digital signature guidelines are a set of guidelines published on 1 August 1996 by the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Science and Technology Law. The authors are members of the Section's Information Security Committee. The document was the first overview of principles and a framework for the use of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20programmable%20logic%20device | A complex programmable logic device (CPLD) is a programmable logic device with complexity between that of PALs and FPGAs, and architectural features of both. The main building block of the CPLD is a macrocell, which contains logic implementing disjunctive normal form expressions and more specialized logic operations.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore%20%28software%29 | Carnivore, later renamed DCS1000, was a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that was designed to monitor email and electronic communications. It used a customizable packet sniffer that could monitor all of a target user's Internet traffic. Carnivore was implemented in October 1997. By 2005 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isozyme | In biochemistry, isozymes (also known as isoenzymes or more generally as multiple forms of enzymes) are enzymes that differ in amino acid sequence but catalyze the same chemical reaction. Isozymes usually have different kinetic parameters (e.g. different KM values), or are regulated differently. They permit the fine-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow%20programming | In computer programming, dataflow programming is a programming paradigm that models a program as a directed graph of the data flowing between operations, thus implementing dataflow principles and architecture. Dataflow programming languages share some features of functional languages, and were generally developed in or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20operator | In mathematics and quantum mechanics, a Dirac operator is a differential operator that is a formal square root, or half-iterate, of a second-order operator such as a Laplacian. The original case which concerned Paul Dirac was to factorise formally an operator for Minkowski space, to get a form of quantum theory compati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B6rster%20resonance%20energy%20transfer | Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), fluorescence resonance energy transfer, resonance energy transfer (RET) or electronic energy transfer (EET) is a mechanism describing energy transfer between two light-sensitive molecules (chromophores). A donor chromophore, initially in its electronic excited state, may transf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20syntax | The syntax of Java is the set of rules defining how a Java program is written and interpreted.
The syntax is mostly derived from C and C++. Unlike in C++, in Java there are no global functions or variables, but there are data members which are also regarded as global variables. All code belongs to classes and all valu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WildCRU | The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) is part of the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford in England. Its mission is to achieve practical solutions to conservation problems through original scientific research, training conservation scientists to conduct research, putting scientific knowledge i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT.X100 | The RT.X100 Pro Suite was a real-time PCI video editing card manufactured by Matrox Corporation. With the use of Adobe Premiere it enabled a real time preview on TV or Video Monitor. It was generally bundled with Adobe Premiere Pro (video editing software), Adobe Audition (digital audio editor), and Adobe Encore DVD (f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLEX%20%28protocol%29 | FLEX is a communications protocol developed by Motorola and used in many pagers. FLEX provides one-way communication only (from the provider to the pager device), but a related protocol called ReFLEX provides two-way messaging.
Protocol
Transmission of message data occurs in one of four modes: 1600/2, 3200/2, 3200/4,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PHP%20editors | This article contains a list of text editors with features specific to the PHP scripting language.
Free editors
Cross-platform
Aptana Studio – Eclipse-based IDE, able to use PDT plugins, visual JS editor. Open-source, free project. (Community edition merged in).
Atom – free and open-source text editor with out-of-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query%20by%20humming | Query by humming (QbH) is a music retrieval system that branches off the original classification systems of title, artist, composer, and genre. It normally applies to songs or other music with a distinct single theme or melody. The system involves taking a user-hummed melody (input query) and comparing it to an existin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PALASM | PALASM is an early hardware description language, used to translate Boolean functions and state transition tables into a fuse map for use with Programmable Array Logic (PAL) devices introduced by Monolithic Memories, Inc. (MMI). The language was developed by John Birkner in the early 1980s. It is not case-sensitive.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-set%20triangulation | A triangulation of a set of points in the Euclidean space is a simplicial complex that covers the convex hull of , and whose vertices belong to . In the plane (when is a set of points in ), triangulations are made up of triangles, together with their edges and vertices. Some authors require that all the points of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisini%20mean | In mathematics, a function f of n variables x1, ..., xn leads to a Chisini mean M if, for every vector ⟨x1, ..., xn⟩, there exists a unique M such that
f(M,M, ..., M) = f(x1,x2, ..., xn).
The arithmetic, harmonic, geometric, generalised, Heronian and quadratic means are all Chisini means, as are their weighted varian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebox | The Freebox is an ADSL-VDSL-FTTH modem and a set-top box that the French Internet service provider named Free (part of the Iliad group) provides to its DSL-FTTH subscribers.
Its main use is as a high-end fixed and wireless modem (802.11g MIMO), but it also allows Free to offer additional services over ADSL, such as IP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20program%2C%20multiple%20data | In computing, single program, multiple data (SPMD) is a term that has been used to refer to computational models for exploiting parallelism where-by multiple processors cooperate in the execution of a program in order to obtain results faster.
The term SPMD was introduced in 1983 and was used to denote two differen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20system%20quality%20attributes | Within systems engineering, quality attributes are realized non-functional requirements used to evaluate the performance of a system. These are sometimes named architecture characteristics, or "ilities" after the suffix many of the words share. They are usually architecturally significant requirements that require arch... |
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