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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-14%20CADC | The F-14's Central Air Data Computer, also abbreviated as CADC, computes altitude, vertical speed, air speed, and mach number from sensor inputs such as pitot and static pressure and temperature. Earlier air data computer systems were electromechanical computers, such as in the F-111. From 1968 to 1970, the first CADC ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20case | In software engineering, a test case is a specification of the inputs, execution conditions, testing procedure, and expected results that define a single test to be executed to achieve a particular software testing objective, such as to exercise a particular program path or to verify compliance with a specific requirem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontic%20logic | Deontic logic is the field of philosophical logic that is concerned with obligation, permission, and related concepts. Alternatively, a deontic logic is a formal system that attempts to capture the essential logical features of these concepts. It can be used to formalize imperative logic, or directive modality in natu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20N.%20Mather | John Norman Mather (June 9, 1942 – January 28, 2017) was a mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics. He was descended from Atherton Mather (1663–1734), a cousin of Cotton Mather. His early work dealt with the stability of smooth mappings between smooth ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Objects%20Everywhere | Distributed Objects Everywhere (DOE) was a long-running Sun Microsystems project to build a distributed computing environment based on the CORBA system in the 'back end' and OpenStep as the user interface. First started in 1990 and announced soon thereafter, it remained vaporware for many years before it was finally re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-flow%20diagram | A data-flow diagram is a way of representing a flow of data through a process or a system (usually an information system). The DFD also provides information about the outputs and inputs of each entity and the process itself. A data-flow diagram has no control are no decision rules and no loops. Specific operations bas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20building | Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to both a structure and the application of processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from planning to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20text-based%20role-playing%20game | An online text-based role playing game is a role-playing game played online using a solely text-based interface. Online text-based role playing games date to 1978, with the creation of MUD1, which began the MUD heritage that culminates in today's MMORPGs. Some online-text based role playing games are video games, but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian%20transform | In computer programming, the Schwartzian transform is a technique used to improve the efficiency of sorting a list of items. This idiom is appropriate for comparison-based sorting when the ordering is actually based on the ordering of a certain property (the key) of the elements, where computing that property is an int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a position or position vector, also known as location vector or radius vector, is a Euclidean vector that represents the position of a point P in space in relation to an arbitrary reference origin O. Usually denoted x, r, or s, it corresponds to the straight line segment from O to P.
In other words, it is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widal%20test | The Widal test, developed in 1896 and named after its inventor, Georges-Fernand Widal, is an indirect agglutination test for enteric fever or undulant fever whereby bacteria causing typhoid fever is mixed with a serum containing specific antibodies obtained from an infected individual. In cases of Salmonella infection,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20operator | In mathematics, the transfer operator encodes information about an iterated map and is frequently used to study the behavior of dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, quantum chaos and fractals. In all usual cases, the largest eigenvalue is 1, and the corresponding eigenvector is the invariant measure of the system.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20Dimension%20%28software%29 | 4D (4th Dimension, or Silver Surfer, as it was known during early development) is a relational database management system and integrated development environment developed by Laurent Ribardière. 4D was created in 1984 and had a slightly delayed public release for Macintosh in 1987 with its own programming language.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20Am29000 | The AMD Am29000, commonly shortened to 29k, is a family of 32-bit RISC microprocessors and microcontrollers developed and fabricated by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Based on the seminal Berkeley RISC, the 29k added a number of significant improvements. They were, for a time, the most popular RISC chips on the market, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File-system%20permissions | Most file systems include attributes of files and directories that control the ability of users to read, change, navigate, and execute the contents of the file system. In some cases, menu options or functions may be made visible or hidden depending on a user's permission level; this kind of user interface is referred t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20test%20documentation |
Status of IEEE 829
Note: IEEE 829-2008 has been superseded by ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3:2013.
Background to IEEE 829
IEEE 829-2008, also known as the 829 Standard for Software and System Test Documentation, was an IEEE standard that specified the form of a set of documents for use in eight defined stages of software test... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20isometry | In mathematical functional analysis a partial isometry is a linear map between Hilbert spaces such that it is an isometry on the orthogonal complement of its kernel.
The orthogonal complement of its kernel is called the initial subspace and its range is called the final subspace.
Partial isometries appear in the pola... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%209126 | ISO/IEC 9126 Software engineering — Product quality was an international standard for the evaluation of software quality. It has been replaced by ISO/IEC 25010:2011.
The fundamental objective of the ISO/IEC 9126 standard is to address some of the well-known human biases that can adversely affect the delivery and perc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetology | Cetology (from Greek , kētos, "whale"; and , -logia) or whalelore (also known as whaleology) is the branch of marine mammal science that studies the approximately eighty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the scientific order Cetacea. Cetologists, or those who practice cetology, seek to understand and expla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolem%27s%20paradox | In mathematical logic and philosophy, Skolem's paradox is a seeming contradiction that arises from the downward Löwenheim–Skolem theorem. Thoralf Skolem (1922) was the first to discuss the seemingly contradictory aspects of the theorem, and to discover the relativity of set-theoretic notions now known as non-absolutene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers%20%28TV%20series%29 | Numbers (stylized as NUMB3RS) is an American crime drama television series that was broadcast on CBS from January 23, 2005, to March 12, 2010, for six seasons and 118 episodes. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) and his brother Charlie Eppes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20projector | A handheld projector (also known as a pocket projector, mobile projector, pico projector or mini beamer) is an image projector in a handheld device. It was developed as a computer display device for compact portable devices such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and digital cameras, which have sufficient ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%20series | In mathematics, the Bell series is a formal power series used to study properties of arithmetical functions. Bell series were introduced and developed by Eric Temple Bell.
Given an arithmetic function and a prime , define the formal power series , called the Bell series of modulo as:
Two multiplicative functions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgenii%20Landis | Evgenii Mikhailovich Landis (, Yevgeny Mikhaylovich Landis; 6 October 1921 – 12 December 1997) was a Soviet mathematician who worked mainly on partial differential equations.
Life
Landis was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He was Jewish. He studied and worked at the Moscow State University, where his ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized%20number | In applied mathematics, a number is normalized when it is written in scientific notation with one non-zero decimal digit before the decimal point. Thus, a real number, when written out in normalized scientific notation, is as follows:
where n is an integer, are the digits of the number in base 10, and is not zero. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-Controller%20Operating%20Systems | Micro-Controller Operating Systems (MicroC/OS, stylized as μC/OS, or Micrium OS) is a real-time operating system (RTOS) designed by Jean J. Labrosse in 1991. It is a priority-based preemptive real-time kernel for microprocessors, written mostly in the programming language C. It is intended for use in embedded systems.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead%20sort | Bead sort, also called gravity sort, is a natural sorting algorithm, developed by Joshua J. Arulanandham, Cristian S. Calude and Michael J. Dinneen in 2002, and published in The Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Both digital and analog hardware implementations of bead sort can achi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine%20Lie%20algebra | In mathematics, an affine Lie algebra is an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra that is constructed in a canonical fashion out of a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra. Given an affine Lie algebra, one can also form the associated affine Kac-Moody algebra, as described below. From a purely mathematical point of view, af... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligand-gated%20ion%20channel | Ligand-gated ion channels (LICs, LGIC), also commonly referred to as ionotropic receptors, are a group of transmembrane ion-channel proteins which open to allow ions such as Na+, K+, Ca2+, and/or Cl− to pass through the membrane in response to the binding of a chemical messenger (i.e. a ligand), such as a neurotransmit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast | Avast Software s.r.o. is a Czech multinational cybersecurity software company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, that researches and develops computer security software, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Avast has more than 435 million monthly active users and the second largest market share among an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo | In computing, the modulo operation returns the remainder or signed remainder of a division, after one number is divided by another (called the modulus of the operation).
Given two positive numbers and , modulo (often abbreviated as ) is the remainder of the Euclidean division of by , where is the dividend and is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-monitor | Multi-monitor, also called multi-display and multi-head, is the use of multiple physical display devices, such as monitors, televisions, and projectors, in order to increase the area available for computer programs running on a single computer system. Research studies show that, depending on the type of work, multi-hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decider%20%28Turing%20machine%29 | In computability theory, a decider is a Turing machine that halts for every input. A decider is also called a total Turing machine as it represents a total function.
Because it always halts, such a machine is able to decide whether a given string is a member of a formal language. The class of languages which can be d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the term modulo ("with respect to a modulus of", the Latin ablative of modulus which itself means "a small measure") is often used to assert that two distinct mathematical objects can be regarded as equivalent—if their difference is accounted for by an additional factor. It was initially introduced into... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20200LX | The HP 200LX Palmtop PC (F1060A, F1061A, F1216A), also known as project Felix, is a personal digital assistant introduced by Hewlett-Packard in August 1994. It was often called a Palmtop PC, and it was notable that it was, with some minor exceptions, a MS-DOS-compatible computer in a palmtop format, complete with a mon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprobe | A microprobe is an instrument that applies a stable and well-focused beam of charged particles (electrons or ions) to a sample.
Types
When the primary beam consists of accelerated electrons, the probe is termed an electron microprobe, when the primary beam consists of accelerated ions, the term ion microprobe is used.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20binomial%20coefficient | In mathematics, the Gaussian binomial coefficients (also called Gaussian coefficients, Gaussian polynomials, or q-binomial coefficients) are q-analogs of the binomial coefficients. The Gaussian binomial coefficient, written as or , is a polynomial in q with integer coefficients, whose value when q is set to a prime po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout%20box | A breakout box is a piece of electrical test equipment used to support integration testing, expedite maintenance, and streamline the troubleshooting process at the system, subsystem, and component-level by simplifying the access to test signals. Breakout boxes span a wide spectrum of functionality. Some serve to brea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20REXX | The Object REXX programming language is a general-purpose object-oriented scripting language.
Based on the Rexx programming language (often called "Classic Rexx"), Object REXX is designed to be easy to learn, use, and maintain. Object REXX retains all the features and syntax of Classic Rexx while adding full object-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20death%20paradox | The heat death paradox, also known as thermodynamic paradox, Clausius' paradox and Kelvin’s paradox, is a reductio ad absurdum argument that uses thermodynamics to show the impossibility of an infinitely old universe. It was formulated in February 1862 by Lord Kelvin and expanded upon by Hermann von Helmholtz and Willi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichenometry | In archaeology, palaeontology, and geomorphology, lichenometry is a geomorphic method of geochronologic dating that uses lichen growth to determine the age of exposed rock, based on a presumed specific rate of increase in radial size over time. Measuring the diameter of the largest lichen of a species on a rock surface... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE%20Institute | The SAE Institute (SAE), formerly the School of Audio Engineering and the SAE Technology College and badged SAE Creative Media Education, is a network of colleges around the world that provides creative media programmes. Founded in 1976 in Sydney, Australia, by Tom Misner, SAE is now owned by Navitas Limited.
History
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nhage%E2%80%93Strassen%20algorithm | The Schönhage–Strassen algorithm is an asymptotically fast multiplication algorithm for large integers, published by Arnold Schönhage and Volker Strassen in 1971. It works by recursively applying fast Fourier transform (FFT) over the integers modulo 2n+1. The run-time bit complexity to multiply two -digit numbers using... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Million%20Random%20Digits%20with%20100%2C000%20Normal%20Deviates | A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates is a random number book by the RAND Corporation, originally published in 1955. The book, consisting primarily of a random number table, was an important
20th century work in the field of statistics and random numbers.
Production and background
It was produced star... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20model%20of%20the%20Solar%20System | A numerical model of the Solar System is a set of mathematical equations, which, when solved, give the approximate positions of the planets as a function of time. Attempts to create such a model established the more general field of celestial mechanics. The results of this simulation can be compared with past measureme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20Dark%20%28software%29 | After Dark is a series of computer screensaver software introduced by Berkeley Systems in 1989 for the Apple Macintosh, and in 1991 for Microsoft Windows.
Following the original, additional editions included More After Dark, Before Dark, and editions themed around licensed properties such as Star Trek, The Simpsons, L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20RISC | Berkeley RISC is one of two seminal research projects into reduced instruction set computer (RISC) based microprocessor design taking place under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency VLSI Project. RISC was led by David Patterson (who coined the term RISC) at the University of California, Berkeley between 1980 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard%20system | A blackboard system is an artificial intelligence approach based on the blackboard architectural model, where a common knowledge base, the "blackboard", is iteratively updated by a diverse group of specialist knowledge sources, starting with a problem specification and ending with a solution. Each knowledge source upd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell%20number | In mathematics, the Pell numbers are an infinite sequence of integers, known since ancient times, that comprise the denominators of the closest rational approximations to the square root of 2. This sequence of approximations begins , , , , and , so the sequence of Pell numbers begins with 1, 2, 5, 12, and 29. The numer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keepalive | A keepalive (KA) is a message sent by one device to another to check that the link between the two is operating, or to prevent the link from being broken.
Description
Once a TCP connection has been established, that connection is defined to be valid until one side closes it. Once the connection has entered the connec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20evolution | Parallel evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response to similar evolutionary pressure.
Parallel vs. convergent evolution
Given a trait that occurs in each of two lineages descended from a specified ancestor, it is pos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant%20DNA | Recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules are DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of genetic recombination (such as molecular cloning) that bring together genetic material from multiple sources, creating sequences that would not otherwise be found in the genome.
Recombinant DNA is the general name for a piece of DNA tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLT-3%20encoding | MLT-3 encoding (Multi-Level Transmit) is a line code (a signaling method used in a telecommunication system for transmission purposes) that uses three voltage levels. An MLT-3 interface emits less electromagnetic interference and requires less bandwidth than most other binary or ternary interfaces that operate at the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychrel%20number | A Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers. This process is sometimes called the 196-algorithm, after the most famous number associated with the process. In base ten, no Lychrel numbers have been ye... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-Doppler%20radar | A pulse-Doppler radar is a radar system that determines the range to a target using pulse-timing techniques, and uses the Doppler effect of the returned signal to determine the target object's velocity. It combines the features of pulse radars and continuous-wave radars, which were formerly separate due to the complexi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobol%20sequence | Sobol’ sequences (also called LPτ sequences or (t, s) sequences in base 2) are an example of quasi-random low-discrepancy sequences. They were first introduced by the Russian mathematician Ilya M. Sobol’ (Илья Меерович Соболь) in 1967.
These sequences use a base of two to form successively finer uniform partitions of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansatz | In physics and mathematics, an ansatz (; , meaning: "initial placement of a tool at a work piece", plural ansätze ; ) is an educated guess or an additional assumption made to help solve a problem, and which may later be verified to be part of the solution by its results.
Use
An ansatz is the establishment of the start... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey%E2%80%93Wicker%20Amendment | The Dickey–Wicker Amendment is the name of an appropriation bill rider attached to a bill passed by United States Congress in 1995, and signed by former President Bill Clinton, which prohibits the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using appropriated funds for the creation of human embryos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime%20layer | A slime layer in bacteria is an easily removable (e.g. by centrifugation), unorganized layer of extracellular material that surrounds bacteria cells. Specifically, this consists mostly of exopolysaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids. Therefore, the slime layer is considered as a subset of glycocalyx.
While slime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregeometry%20%28model%20theory%29 | Pregeometry, and in full combinatorial pregeometry, are essentially synonyms for "matroid". They were introduced by Gian-Carlo Rota with the intention of providing a less "ineffably cacophonous" alternative term. Also, the term combinatorial geometry, sometimes abbreviated to geometry, was intended to replace "simple ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomology | Pomology (from Latin , "fruit", + , "study") is a branch of botany that studies fruits and their cultivation. Someone who researches and practices the science of pomology is called a pomologist. The term fruticulture (from Latin , "fruit", + , "care") is also used to describe the agricultural practice of growing fruits... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Kuzmin%E2%80%93Wirsing%20operator | In mathematics, the Gauss–Kuzmin–Wirsing operator is the transfer operator of the Gauss map that takes a positive number to the fractional part of its reciprocal. (This is not the same as the Gauss map in differential geometry.) It is named after Carl Gauss, Rodion Kuzmin, and Eduard Wirsing. It occurs in the study of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20volume | In continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, a control volume (CV) is a mathematical abstraction employed in the process of creating mathematical models of physical processes. In an inertial frame of reference, it is a fictitious region of a given volume fixed in space or moving with constant flow velocity through which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20differential%20equation | A stochastic differential equation (SDE) is a differential equation in which one or more of the terms is a stochastic process, resulting in a solution which is also a stochastic process. SDEs have many applications throughout pure mathematics and are used to model various behaviours of stochastic models such as stock p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20television | Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary%20ammonium%20cation | In organic chemistry, quaternary ammonium cations, also known as quats, are positively-charged polyatomic ions of the structure , where R is an alkyl group, an aryl group or organyl group. Unlike the ammonium ion () and the primary, secondary, or tertiary ammonium cations, the quaternary ammonium cations are permanentl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20ring | A bubble ring, or toroidal bubble, is an underwater vortex ring where an air bubble occupies the core of the vortex, forming a ring shape. The ring of air as well as the nearby water spins poloidally as it travels through the water, much like a flexible bracelet might spin when it is rolled on to a person's arm. The fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear%20wall | In structural engineering, a shear wall is a two-dimensional vertical element of a system that is designed to resist in-plane lateral forces, typically wind and seismic loads.
A shear wall resists loads parallel to the plane of the wall. Collectors, also known as drag members, transfer the diaphragm shear to shear wal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS%20Magnum | The MIPS Magnum was a line of computer workstations designed by MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. and based on the MIPS series of RISC microprocessors. The first Magnum was released in March, 1990, and production of various models continued until 1993 when SGI bought MIPS Technologies. SGI cancelled the MIPS Magnum line to p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further%20Mathematics | Further Mathematics is the title given to a number of advanced secondary mathematics courses. The term "Higher and Further Mathematics", and the term "Advanced Level Mathematics", may also refer to any of several advanced mathematics courses at many institutions.
In the United Kingdom, Further Mathematics describes a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20RISCstation | The NEC RISCstation was a line of computer workstations made by NEC in the mid-1990s, based on MIPS RISC microprocessors and designed to run Microsoft Windows NT. A series of nearly identical machines were also sold by NEC in headless (i.e., no video card or framebuffer) configuration as the RISCserver series, and were... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenol | Eugenol is an allyl chain-substituted guaiacol, a member of the allylbenzene class of chemical compounds. It is a colorless to pale yellow, aromatic oily liquid extracted from certain essential oils especially from clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, basil and bay leaf. It is present in concentrations of 80–90% in clove bud oil ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazhdan%27s%20property%20%28T%29 | In mathematics, a locally compact topological group G has property (T) if the trivial representation is an isolated point in its unitary dual equipped with the Fell topology. Informally, this means that if G acts unitarily on a Hilbert space and has "almost invariant vectors", then it has a nonzero invariant vector. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS%20RISC/os | RISC/os is a discontinued UNIX operating system developed by MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. from 1985 to 1992, for their computer workstations and servers, including such models as the MIPS M/120 server and MIPS Magnum workstation. It was also known as UMIPS or MIPS OS.
RISC/os was based largely on UNIX System V with add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC%20%28specification%29 | Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) is a specification promulgated by a defunct consortium of computer manufacturers (the Advanced Computing Environment project), setting forth a standard MIPS RISC-based computer hardware and firmware environment. The firmware on Alpha machines that are compatible with ARC is known as AlphaB... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCS%20%28computing%29 | ARCS is a firmware bootloader (also known as a PROM console) used in most computers produced by SGI since the beginning of the 1990s.
The ARCS system is loosely compliant with the Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) standard, promulgated by the Advanced Computing Environment consortium in the early 1990s. In another sense, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelling%20biological%20systems | Modelling biological systems is a significant task of systems biology and mathematical biology. Computational systems biology aims to develop and use efficient algorithms, data structures, visualization and communication tools with the goal of computer modelling of biological systems. It involves the use of computer si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OP-20-G | OP-20-G or "Office of Chief Of Naval Operations (OPNAV), 20th Division of the Office of Naval Communications, G Section / Communications Security", was the U.S. Navy's signals intelligence and cryptanalysis group during World War II. Its mission was to intercept, decrypt, and analyze naval communications from Japanese,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20Intelligence%20Service | The Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) was the United States Army codebreaking division through World War II. It was founded in 1930 to compile codes for the Army. It was renamed the Signal Security Agency in 1943, and in September 1945, became the Army Security Agency. For most of the war it was headquartered at Arling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz%20%28computer%29 | The Jazz computer architecture is a motherboard and chipset design originally developed by Microsoft for use in developing Windows NT. The design was eventually used as the basis for most MIPS-based Windows NT systems.
In part because Microsoft intended NT to be portable between various microprocessor architectures, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20Visual%20Workstation | SGI Visual Workstation is a series of workstation computers that are designed and manufactured by SGI. Unlike its other product lines, which used the 64-bit MIPS RISC architecture, the line used Intel Pentium II and III processors and shipped with Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 as its operating system in lieu of IRIX. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20of%20service | Class of service (COS or CoS) is a parameter used in data and voice protocols to differentiate the types of payloads contained in the packet being transmitted. The objective of such differentiation is generally associated with assigning priorities to the data payload or access levels to the telephone call.
Data servic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20Indigo | The Indigo, introduced as the IRIS Indigo, is a line of workstation computers developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). SGI first announced the system in July 1991.
The Indigo is considered one of the most capable graphics workstations of its era, and was essentially peerless in the realm of hardwar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s%20key | The programmer's key, or interrupt button, is a button or switch on Classic Mac OS-era Macintosh systems, which jumps to a machine code monitor. The symbol on the button is ⎉: . On most 68000 family based Macintosh computers, an interrupt request can also be sent by holding down the command key and pressing the power k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR%2053C9x | The NCR 53C9x is a family of application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) produced by the former NCR Corporation and others for implementing the SCSI (small computer standard interface) bus protocol in hardware and relieving the host system of the work required to sequence the SCSI bus. The 53C9x was a low-cost sol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Environment%20Real-Time | Multi-Environment Real-Time (MERT), later renamed UNIX Real-Time (UNIX-RT), is a hybrid time-sharing and real-time operating system developed in the 1970s at Bell Labs for use in embedded minicomputers (especially PDP-11s). A version named Duplex Multi Environment Real Time (DMERT) was the operating system for the AT&T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies%20for%20engineered%20negligible%20senescence | Strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS) is a range of proposed regenerative medical therapies, either planned or currently in development, for the periodic repair of all age-related damage to human tissue. These therapies have the ultimate aim of maintaining a state of negligible senescence in patients a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20Light%20%28Doctor%20Who%29 | Ghost Light is the second serial of the 26th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts on BBC1 from 4 to 18 October 1989.
Set in a mansion house in Perivale in 1883, Josiah Smith (Ian Hogg), a cataloguer of life forms from another planet, seeks... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davfs2 | In computer networking davfs2 is a Linux tool for connecting to WebDAV shares as though they were local disks. It is an open-source GPL-licensed file system for mounting WebDAV servers. It uses the FUSE file system API to communicate with the kernel and the neon WebDAV library for communicating with the web server.
Ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelling%20refraction | Levelling refraction refers to the systematic refraction effect distorting the results of line levelling over the Earth's surface.
In line levelling, short segments of a line are levelled by taking readings through a level from two staffs, one fore and one behind. By chaining together the height differences of these s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle | A handle is a part of, or attachment to, an object that allows it to be grasped and manipulated by hand. The design of each type of handle involves substantial ergonomic issues, even where these are dealt with intuitively or by following tradition. Handles for tools are an important part of their function, enabling th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPeNDAP | OPeNDAP is an acronym for "Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol," an endeavor focused on enhancing the retrieval of remote, structured data through a Web-based architecture and a discipline-neutral Data Access Protocol (DAP). Widely used, especially in Earth science, the protocol is layered on HTTP, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku | Sudoku (; ; originally called Number Place) is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. In classic Sudoku, the objective is to fill a 9 × 9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3 × 3 subgrids that compose the grid (also called "boxes", "blocks", or "regions") contains all of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicide | An avicide is any substance (normally a chemical) used to kill birds.
Commonly used avicides include strychnine (also used as rodenticide and predacide), DRC-1339 (3-chloro-4-methylaniline hydrochloride, Starlicide) and CPTH (3-chloro-p-toluidine, the free base of Starlicide), Avitrol (4-aminopyridine) and chloralos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOS%20BASIC | STOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Atari ST personal computer. It was designed for creating games, but the set of high-level graphics and sound commands it offers is suitable for developing multimedia software without knowledge of the internals of the Atari ST.
STOS BASIC was developed b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universo%20Online | (Portuguese for "Online Universe") (known by the acronym UOL) is a Brazilian web content, products and services company. It belongs to Grupo Folha enterprise.
In 2012, UOL was the fifth most visited website in Brazil, below only Google portals (Google Brasil, Google USA, YouTube) and Facebook. According to Ibope Niels... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20for%20Pen%20Computing | Windows for Pen Computing is a software suite for Windows 3.1x, that Microsoft designed to incorporate pen computing capabilities into the Windows operating environment. Windows for Pen Computing was the second major pen computing platform for x86 tablet PCs; GO Corporation released their operating system, PenPoint OS,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors%20of%20noise | In audio engineering, electronics, physics, and many other fields, the color of noise or noise spectrum refers to the power spectrum of a noise signal (a signal produced by a stochastic process). Different colors of noise have significantly different properties. For example, as audio signals they will sound differently... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s%20Boots | Rocky's Boots is an educational logic puzzle game by Warren Robinett and Leslie Grimm, published by The Learning Company in 1982. It was released for the Apple II, CoCo, Commodore 64, IBM PC and the IBM PCjr. It was followed by a more difficult sequel, Robot Odyssey. It won Software of the Year awards from Learning Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%20series | In mathematics, a Lambert series, named for Johann Heinrich Lambert, is a series taking the form
It can be resumed formally by expanding the denominator:
where the coefficients of the new series are given by the Dirichlet convolution of an with the constant function 1(n) = 1:
This series may be inverted by means of ... |
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