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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20compensation
Reverse compensation, in United States broadcasting, is the practice of a commercial television station paying a television network in exchange for being permitted to affiliate with that network. The word "reverse" refers to the historical practice of networks paying stations to compensate them for the airtime networks...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWBN
KWBN (channel 44) is a religious television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, airing programming from the Daystar Television Network. The station is owned and operated by Ho'ona'auao Community Television, a subsidiary of Daystar parent company Word of God Fellowship. KWBN's transmitter is located in Akupu, Ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMusic
OpenMusic (OM) is an object-oriented visual programming environment for musical composition based on Common Lisp. It may also be used as an all-purpose visual interface to Lisp programming. At a more specialized level, a set of provided classes and libraries make it a very convenient environment for music composition. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHLU-CD
KHLU-CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 46, was a low-power, Class A Univision-affiliated television station licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The station was owned by Hawaiian TV Network, Ltd. On cable, the station was carried on Time Warner Cable digital channel 35, which added the station in March 2014. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unan1mous
Unan1mous (pronounced "unanimous") is an American reality television program that premiered on the Fox Network on March 22, 2006, and ran for one season. The host of the series was J. D. Roth. Concept Nine strangers are locked in a bunker and told they cannot leave until they unanimously choose to award one of them ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Complexity%20of%20Songs
"The Complexity of Songs" is a scholarly article by computer scientist Donald Knuth in 1977, as an in-joke about computational complexity theory. The article capitalizes on the tendency of popular songs to devolve from long and content-rich ballads to highly repetitive texts with little or no meaningful content. The ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo%20railway%20station%20%28Merseyside%29
Waterloo railway station is a railway station in Waterloo, Merseyside, England, on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. It serves a largely residential area, although there is a number of shops along South Road, where the station entrance is situated. History Waterloo opened in 1848 as the original terminus of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNMC-FM
WNMC-FM (90.7 FM) is a public radio station in Traverse City, Michigan, and is licensed to the trustees of Northwestern Michigan College (NMC). The station has block programming, mostly jazz and blues during the daytime, Americana in the late afternoon, and rock programming at night, but also playing alternative countr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T%20Communications
AT&T Communications is a division of AT&T that focuses on mobile phone, broadband, fixed line telephone, home security, network security, and business services. The division houses AT&T Mobility, AT&T Internet, AT&T Phone, AT&T Labs, AT&T Digital Life, and AT&T Cybersecurity. History and information On July 28, 2017,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20lock%20manager
Operating systems use lock managers to organise and serialise the access to resources. A distributed lock manager (DLM) runs in every machine in a cluster, with an identical copy of a cluster-wide lock database. In this way a DLM provides software applications which are distributed across a cluster on multiple machines...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20software
Amiga software is computer software engineered to run on the Amiga personal computer. Amiga software covers many applications, including productivity, digital art, games, commercial, freeware and hobbyist products. The market was active in the late 1980s and early 1990s but then dwindled. Most Amiga products were origi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Append
In computer programming, append is the operation for concatenating linked lists or arrays in some high-level programming languages. Lisp Append originates in the programming language Lisp. The append procedure takes zero or more (linked) lists as arguments, and returns the concatenation of these lists. (append '(1 2 3...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards
The 54th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 22, 2002. Nominations were announced July 22, 2002. The ceremony was hosted by Conan O'Brien and was broadcast on NBC. Two networks, FX and VH1, received their first major nominations this year. The program America: A Tribute to Heroes was simulcast on every...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torula
Torula (Cyberlindnera jadinii) is a species of yeast. Use Torula, in its inactive form (usually labeled as torula yeast), is widely used as a flavoring in processed foods and pet foods. It is often grown on wood liquor, a byproduct of paper production, which is rich in wood sugars (xylose). It is pasteurized and spra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChEBI
Chemical Entities of Biological Interest, also known as ChEBI, is a chemical database and ontology of molecular entities focused on 'small' chemical compounds, that is part of the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) effort at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). The term "molecular entity" refers to any "constitut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOS
DEMOS (Dialogovaya Edinaya Mobilnaya Operatsionnaya Sistema: ) is a Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union. It is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix. Development DEMOS's development was initiated in the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow in 1982, and development conti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaforth%20%26%20Litherland%20railway%20station
Seaforth & Litherland railway station is a railway station in Seaforth, Merseyside, England, on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. It also serves the adjacent area of Litherland. There are around four trains per hour, taking around 15 minutes to/from Liverpool Central. History The main section of the Liver...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Kids
CBC Kids is a Canadian children's block on CBC Television. The block was launched as Hodge Podge Lodge in 1987 and contains programming targeted at children. The block airs on weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Saturdays from 6:00 a.m. to noon and Sundays from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Its French-language counterpart...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is an American cryptographer who is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School, and later earned a BA in computer science from UC Berkeley and completed his PhD in cryptography at MIT, in the Theory of Computation group. He has t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to: ITV Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of: ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands ITV1, a brand name used by ITV plc for twelve franchises of the ITV televi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Fone
S-Fone was a mobile communication operator in Vietnam that used the CDMA technology. Founded on 1 July 2003 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, S-Fone became the third network of Vietnam, breaking the duopoly of the two VNPT operators. It is the trademark of S-Telecom (CDMA Mobile Phone Centre) (set up as a joint venture bet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PortAudio
PortAudio is an open-source computer library for audio playback and recording. It is a cross-platform library, so programs using it can run on many different computer operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. PortAudio supports Core Audio, ALSA, and MME, DirectSound, ASIO and WASAPI on Windows. Like oth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PortMedia
PortMedia, formerly PortMusic, is a set of open source computer libraries for dealing with sound and MIDI. Currently the project has two main libraries: PortAudio, for digital audio input and output, and PortMidi, a library for MIDI input and output. A library for dealing with different audio file formats, PortSoundFil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PortMidi
PortMidi is a computer library for real time input and output of MIDI data. It is designed to be portable to many different operating systems. PortMidi is part of the PortMusic project. See also PortAudio External links portmidi.h – definition of the API and contains the documentation for PortMidi Audio libraries C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo%20Proxy
Ergo Proxy is a Japanese cyberpunk anime television series, produced by Manglobe, directed by Shūkō Murase and written by Dai Satō. The series ran for 23 episodes from February to August 2006 on the Wowow satellite network. It is set in a post-apocalyptic future where humans and AutoReiv androids coexist peacefully unt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster%20Resource%20Network
The Disaster Resource Network (DRN), an initiative of the World Economic Forum, was the first non-governmental organization to donate to the United Nations' CERF. The UN CERF is a fund created to aid regions threatened by starvation and disasters, particularly African nations. DRN organizes and mobilizes business sect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Music%20Summit
The Music Summit was a channel on XM Satellite Radio located on channel 13 (previously 24). The channel was programmed out of Cincinnati, Ohio, and sold to advertisers by Premiere Radio Networks. The terrestrial version is still free to air for HD Radio listeners on HD2 or HD3 stations owned by Clear Channel Communicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherstone%27s%20algorithm
Featherstone's algorithm is a technique used for computing the effects of forces applied to a structure of joints and links (an "open kinematic chain") such as a skeleton used in ragdoll physics. The Featherstone's algorithm uses a reduced coordinate representation. This is in contrast to the more popular Lagrange mu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20H.%20Goble
George H. Goble is a staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner. Goble is commonly known as "ghg" since he has used that as a login id, and signature in digital communications, since the 1970s. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check%20sheet
The check sheet is a form (document) used to collect data in real time at the location where the data is generated. The data it captures can be quantitative or qualitative. When the information is quantitative, the check sheet is sometimes called a tally sheet. The check sheet is one of the so-called Seven Basic Tools...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Bromley
Allan Bromley may refer to: D. Allan Bromley (1926–2005), Canadian-American physicist Allan G. Bromley (1947–2002), Australian historian of computing See also Allyn Bromley (born 1928), American artist and art educator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boppin%27
Boppin' is a puzzle-oriented video game created by Jennifer Diane Reitz in 1991, developed under the company name Accursed Toys and published by Karmasoft for the Amiga computer with only 32 colors on screen. Around that time Karmasoft held a level design contest. The game sold poorly with 284 copies, so Jennifer got i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20G.%20Bromley
Allan George Bromley (1 February 1947 – 16 August 2002) was an Australian historian of computing who became a world authority on many aspects of early computing and was one of the most avid collectors of mechanical calculators. The work on understanding Charles Babbage's calculating engines is Allan Bromley's greatest...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery%20disc
The terms Recovery disc (or Disk), Rescue Disk/Disc and Emergency Disk all refer to a capability to boot from an external device, possibly a thumb drive, that includes a self-running operating system: the ability to be a boot disk/Disc that runs independent of an internal hard drive that may be failing, or for some oth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Kidshow
The CBS Kidshow was an American Saturday morning children's programming block that aired on CBS from October 3, 1998, to September 9, 2000. Canada-based Nelvana took over programming responsibilities. History In January 1998, CBS entered into an agreement with the Canada-based animation studio Nelvana to program th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons%20of%20Daggorath
Dungeons of Daggorath is one of the first real-time, first-person perspective role-playing video games. It was produced by DynaMicro for the TRS-80 Color Computer in 1983. A sequel, Castle of Tharoggad, was released in 1988. Gameplay Dungeons of Daggorath was one of the first games that attempted to portray three-dime...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20%28geology%29
A lead in hydrocarbon exploration, is a subsurface structural or stratigraphic feature with the potential to have entrapped oil or natural gas. When exploring a new area, or when new data becomes available in existing acreage, an explorer will carry out an initial screening to identify possible leads. Further work is t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggard%20%28TV%20series%29
Haggard is a British TV comedy series, which aired from 27 January 1990 to 30 August 1992. Starring Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Sam Kelly and William Simons. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television, and based on Squire Haggard's Journal by Michael Green, more famous for his The Art of Coarse... books...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Movie%20Masters
The Movie Masters is an American television panel game show that ran from August 2, 1989, to January 19, 1990. It was the last game show hosted by Gene Rayburn and aired as filler programming on the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable network. The regular panel of the show consisted of veteran New York Times movie and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec
Spec may refer to: Specification (technical standard), an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service datasheet, or "spec sheet" People Spec Harkness (1887-1952), American professional baseball pitcher Spec Keene (1894-1977), American college football, baseball and basketball coa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreeFam
TreeFam (Tree families database) is a database of phylogenetic trees of animal genes. It aims at developing a curated resource that gives reliable information about ortholog and paralog assignments, and evolutionary history of various gene families. TreeFam defines a gene family as a group of genes that evolved after ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20kernel
A hybrid kernel is an operating system kernel architecture that attempts to combine aspects and benefits of microkernel and monolithic kernel architectures used in operating systems. Overview The traditional kernel categories are monolithic kernels and microkernels (with nanokernels and exokernels seen as more extreme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20codes%20in%20the%20Caribbean
The integration of the Caribbean telephone networks into the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) began with the assignment of area codes in the Caribbean in 1958, when area code 809 was designated for Bermuda and any other potential participant island countries. From 1958 to 1999, most of the British West Indies in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Nelson%20%28disambiguation%29
Russell M. Nelson (born 1924), is an American physician and leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Russell Nelson may also refer to: Russ Nelson (born 1958), American computer programmer J. Russell Nelson (1929–2016), American educator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20User
Electron User was a magazine targeted at owners of the Acorn Electron microcomputer. It was published by Database Publications of Stockport, starting in October 1983 and ending after 82 issues in July 1990. Initially it was included as a 16-page pullout supplement to The Micro User but after four such editions it beca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20memory%20access
Uniform memory access (UMA) is a shared memory architecture used in parallel computers. All the processors in the UMA model share the physical memory uniformly. In an UMA architecture, access time to a memory location is independent of which processor makes the request or which memory chip contains the transferred data...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20Memory%20Access
Unified Memory Access is not a valid term, but is often used mistakenly when referring to: Uniform Memory Access, a computer memory architecture used in parallel computers Unified Memory Architecture, a technology that allows a graphics processing unit to share system memory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge%20%28SQL%29
A relational database management system uses SQL (also called upsert) statements to INSERT new records or UPDATE existing records depending on whether condition matches. It was officially introduced in the SQL:2003 standard, and expanded in the SQL:2008 standard. Usage MERGE INTO tablename USING table_reference ON (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condition%20%28SQL%29
A relational database management system uses SQL conditions or expressions in clauses and in clauses to subsets of data. Types of condition Many conditions compare values for (for example) equality, inequality or similarity. The EXISTS condition uses the SQL standard keyword EXISTS to determine whether rows exi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Log%20%28TV%20series%29
Hum Log (English: We People) is an Indian television soap opera and also the first serial drama series in Hindi. It began telecast on Doordarshan, India's national network on 7 July 1984, then the only television channel of India. It is the story of an Indian middle-class family of the 1980s and their daily struggles a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJEO-LD
KJEO-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station in Fresno, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language religious network Canal de la Fe. It is owned by Cocola Broadcasting. Until late 2007, KJEO-LD was also seen on KBID-LP channel 31. History The station was first established in 1998 as KMCF...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20Public%20Radio
Alabama Public Radio (APR) is a network of public radio stations based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, that serves roughly the western half of the state of Alabama with classical music, folk music, and nostalgic music programs, as well as news and feature programs from the National Public Radio (NPR), Public Rad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallop
Wallop is an American software company that was spun off from Microsoft in 2003 to provide a social networking service, and from 2008 made Adobe Flash-based applications for other social networks. Wallop was a research project from the Social Computing Group that was a part of the Microsoft Research team. In the beginn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPW
MPW may refer to: Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, a software development environment for the Classic Mac OS operating system Magnetic pulse welding, a solid state welding process Mander Portman Woodward, a group of British independent schools Marco Pierre White, British 3-star Michelin chef and TV personality Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20%28David%20Bowie%20song%29
"Seven" is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for the album Hours in 1999. As with some of the other songs from Hours it was originally written for the computer game Omikron - The Nomad Soul from 1999. In July 2000, it was released as the fourth single from the album. The version used in the Omikron – The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJAB
WJAB (90.9 FM) is a National Public Radio-affiliated college radio station in Huntsville, Alabama. It primarily features jazz and blues music programming aimed toward African-American residents of the northern counties of Alabama and several counties in southern middle Tennessee. WJAB's signal travels in about a 120-mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plexus%20%28disambiguation%29
A Plexus is a network of nerves or blood vessels. Plexus may also refer to: Science and medicine Nervous plexus, a branching network of intersecting nerves Choroid plexus, a network of cells that produces the cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain Venous plexus, a congregation of multiple veins Cardiac pl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercan%C3%ADas%20M%C3%A1laga
Cercanías Málaga is a commuter rail service between central Málaga, Spain, and towns in the province. The network consists of of track, with two lines and 24 stations in operation. The trains are powered by overhead lines and run on broad Iberian gauge track. History In 1908 the first line of the Ferrocarriles Subur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELCOM
RELCOM or Relcom (), an acronym for "RELiable COMmunications" is a computer network in Russia. Network It was launched in the Soviet Union on August 1, 1990 in the Kurchatov Institute in collaboration with DEMOS co-operative (although the engineering team at DEMOS at the time consisted mostly of Kurchatov Institute em...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGOF-LD
KGOF-LD (channel 33) is a low-power television station in Fresno, California, United States. It is owned by Cocola Broadcasting. History The station was noted for its commitment to local programming. Originally broadcasting on channel 34, the then-KSDI-LP invited individuals and organizations to produce their own tele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewelry%20Television
Jewelry Television is an American television network specializing in the sale of jewelry. On-air and online, the network is mainly branded by its jtv initials in lower-case letters. It has an estimated reach of more than 80 million U.S. households, through cable and satellite providers, online streaming and limited ove...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLDS
HLDS may refer to: Half-Life Dedicated Server, a computer programming framework Hitachi-LG Data Storage, a joint venture between Hitachi and the LG group Hoek van Holland Strand railway station, in the Netherlands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korora%20%28operating%20system%29
Korora (previously Kororaa) was a remix of the Fedora Linux distribution. Originally Kororaa was a binary installation method for Gentoo Linux which aimed for easy installation of a Gentoo system by using install scripts instead of manual configuration. The name derives from the Māori word – the little penguin. Histo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coby%20Bell
Coby Scott Bell (born May 11, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Jesse Porter on the USA Network original series Burn Notice and professional football player Jason Pitts on The CW/BET comedy-drama The Game. He also co-starred as police officer Tyrone "Ty" Davis, Jr. on the NBC drama Third Wat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment%20Software%20Publishing
(ESP) was a Japanese video game publisher headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It was founded in 1997 as a publisher for games developed by the Game Developers Network (GD-NET). GD-NET, which included companies such as Treasure and Game Arts, was established due to concerns over smaller developers not having the same finan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shapies
The Shapies is an Australian computer-animated children's television series. Produced by Light Knights Productions, it first aired on 6 July 2002, on the Australian Nine Network and, in the United States, on PBS Kids and Animania. The series originally lasted for 26 episodes, with the Series 2 finale airing 30 December...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNSO
KNSO (channel 51) is a television station licensed to Clovis, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the Fresno area. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, KNSO maintains a transmitter on Bald Mountain, south of Meadow Lakes in Fresno County. History T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DyP
DyP may refer to: Dynamic programming Dye decolorizing peroxidase, an enzyme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natal%2C%20North%20Sumatra
Natal is a town in Mandailing region, North Sumatra province, Indonesia. Batang Gadis National Park is located here. There is also a gold mining industry in the town. The name derives from ranah datar, "flat land" in Indonesian. Even though it is located in Mandailing region, culturally Natal people are part of Minangk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnaround%20document
A turnaround document is a document that has been output from a computer, some extra information potentially added to it, and then returned to become an input document. For example, meter cards are produced for collecting readings from gas meters, photocopiers, water meters etc. These are filled in by the customer and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo%20%28disambiguation%29
Foo is a placeholder name in computer-related documentation. Foo or FOO may also refer to: People Adeline Foo, Singaporean writer Cedric Foo (born 1960), Singaporean politician Ching Ling Foo (1854–1922), Chinese magician Foo Choo Choon (1860-1921), Malaysian businessman Ernie Foo (1891–1934), Australian rules ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Keynes%20redway%20system
The Milton Keynes redway system (locally known as redways) is an over network of shared use paths for cyclists and pedestrians in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is generally surfaced with red tarmac, and criss-crosses most of the city. Some of these redways run next to the grid roads and local roads, wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR%20VRX
VRX is an acronym for Virtual Resource eXecutive, a proprietary operating system on the NCR Criterion series, and later the V-8000 series of mainframe computers manufactured by NCR Corporation during the 1970s and 1980s. It replaced the B3 Operating System originally distributed with the Century series, and inherited m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-excited%20linear%20prediction
Residual-excited linear prediction (RELP) is an obsolete speech coding algorithm. It was originally proposed in the 1970s and can be seen as an ancestor of code-excited linear prediction (CELP). Unlike CELP however, RELP directly transmits the residual signal. To achieve lower rates, that residual signal is usually dow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swapping
Swapping may refer to: In computer systems, an older form of memory management, similar to paging Swapping (barter) Hot swapping Book swapping Wife swapping Cumswapping Clothes swapping See also Swap (disambiguation) it:Baratto#Il baratto su internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODD
ODD is an initialism, which might refer to: ODD (Text Encoding Initiative) ("One Document Does it all"), an abstracted literate-programming format for describing XML schemas Oodnadatta Airport (IATA: ODD), South Australia Operational design domain (ODD), for automated systems Operational due diligence Oppositiona...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20digital%20control
Direct digital control is the automated control of a condition or process by a digital device (computer). Direct digital control takes a centralized network-oriented approach. All instrumentation is gathered by various analog and digital converters which use the network to transport these signals to the central control...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20L.%20Straus
Henry Lobe Straus (March 10, 1896 – October 25, 1949) was an American electrical engineer, horse and cattle breeder, sportsman, entrepreneur and computer pioneer. Biography Straus was a 1913 graduate of the Baltimore City College high school and a graduate electrical engineer of Johns Hopkins University. On April 26,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20G%20%28wireless%20networking%29
Super G is a proprietary method to increase the throughput of an IEEE 802.11g (Wi-Fi) wireless LAN. Atheros uses frame-bursting, compression, and channel bonding technology to improve performance. The throughput transmission speed limit when using Super G is claimed to be up to 40 Mbit/s-60 Mbit/s at a 108 Mbit/s sign...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futureland
Futureland is a series of nine loosely connected short pieces of science fiction by writer Walter Mosley. The novel is set in a postcyberpunk dystopian universe populated by humans living in a shellshocked, unfairly stratified society overseen by super-rich technocrats. Stories Whispers in the Dark - Introduces the ea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20system
Host system is any networked computer that provides services to other systems or users. These services may include printer, web or database access. Host system is a computer on a network, which provides services to users or other computers on that network. Host system usually runs a multi-user operating system such as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro%20%28wireless%20networking%29
Nitro from Conexant (originally developed by Intersil) is a proprietary 802.11g performance enhancement technology introduced in 2003 as part of the PRISM chipset. The first implementation was designed to help compensate for the performance loss of higher-speed 802.11g devices when they share a wireless network with s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20SIGACT
ACM SIGACT or SIGACT is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, whose purpose is support of research in theoretical computer science. It was founded in 1968 by Patrick C. Fischer. Publications SIGACT publishes a quarterly print newsletter, SIGACT News. Its o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage%20Computer%20Festival
The Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) is an international event celebrating the history of computing. It is held annually in various locations around the United States and various countries internationally. It was founded by Sellam Ismail in 1997. Purpose The Vintage Computer Festival promotes the preservation of "obs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Reck%20Miranda
Eduardo Reck Miranda (born 1963) is a Brazilian composer of chamber and electroacoustic pieces but is most notable in the United Kingdom for his scientific research into computer music, particularly in the field of human-machine interfaces where brain waves will replace keyboards and voice commands to permit the disabl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollon
(titled Ultimate Block Party in the United States, Koloomn in Europe) is a 2003 Arcade puzzle game developed by MagicPot and published by CyberFront. Kollon was later ported to the PlayStation Portable as a launch title in 2004. Gameplay Kollon is a puzzle game where the player rotates a two by two section of blocks ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%20Cheifet
Stewart Cheifet (; born September 24, 1938) is an American television presenter, best known for his work presenting and producing Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe. He has also worked in other reporting positions for PBS and ABC, and others. Raised in Philadelphia, he attended Central High School and graduated from the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20%28computing%29
In computing, the term group generally refers to a grouping of users. In principle, users may belong to none, one, or many groups (although in practice some systems place limits on this.) The primary purpose of user groups is to simplify access control to computer systems. Suppose a computer science department has a n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Finance%20Complex%2C%20Putrajaya
The Ministry of Finance Complex is a building complex housing the Malaysian Ministry of Finance, opposite the Boulevard and Dataran Wawasan in Precinct 2 (north of the Core island) of Putrajaya. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) comprises the Royal Customs and Excise Department, Department of Valuation and Property Servic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20Account%20Control
User Account Control (UAC) is a mandatory access control enforcement feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with a more relaxed version also present in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP-based%20Data%20Transfer%20Protocol
UDP-based Data Transfer Protocol (UDT), is a high-performance data transfer protocol designed for transferring large volumetric datasets over high-speed wide area networks. Such settings are typically disadvantageous for the more common TCP protocol. Initial versions were developed and tested on very high-speed networ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20Stew
Sunday Stew was a block of programming aired on Sunday nights between 9-11 p.m. where MTV showed new episodes of their comedic programs targeted towards younger college-aged men. Like MTV2, the Stew showed short films before and after a show. The branding was discontinued on television in December 2005. Sunday Stew l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Information%20Model%20%28computing%29
The Common Information Model (CIM) is an open standard that defines how managed elements in an IT environment are represented as a common set of objects and relationships between them. The Distributed Management Task Force maintains the CIM to allow consistent management of these managed elements, independent of thei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20in%20Armenia
Census in Armenia is a population census conducted in Armenia about every 10 years with the purpose of capturing exact data on demographics in the country. Demographic trends While Armenians formed a consistent majority, Azerbaijanis were historically the second largest population in the republic under Soviet rule (f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQAD-TV
WQAD-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Moline, Illinois, United States, serving the Quad Cities area as an affiliate of ABC and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Park 16th Street in Moline, and its transmitter is located in Orion, Illinois. Channel 8 was a comparativel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Air%20Surveillance%20Network
Baltic Air Surveillance Network (BALTNET) is an air defense radar network operated by the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Structure The Baltic Air Surveillance Network (BALTNET) is one of the commands within the NATO Integrated Air Defense System (NATINADS). BALTNET's Regional Airspace Surveillance C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEIDA%20memory%20card
The JEIDA memory card standard is a popular memory card standard at the beginning of memory cards appearing on portable computers. JEIDA cards could be used to expand system memory or as a solid-state storage drive. History Before the advent of the JEIDA standard, laptops had proprietary cards that were not interoper...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume%201%3A%20Sound%20Magic
Volume 1: Sound Magic is the first album by Afro Celt Sound System. Track listing Personnel Ronan Browne – flute, mandolin, harmonium, uilleann pipes Jo Bruce – keyboards, programming Kauwding Cissokho – kora Massamba Diop – talking drum Simon Emmerson – guitar, programming James McNally – accordion, bodhran I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Teachers%20%28TV%20series%29
English Teachers (airing internationally as Taipei Diaries) is a Canadian documentary television series. The series, which airs on Canada's Life Network, and internationally, profiles several young Canadians teaching English as a Second Language in Taipei, Taiwan. It won an award for Best Documentary Series at the 2004...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development%20of%20Windows%20Vista
The development of Windows Vista began in May 2001, prior to the release of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, and continuing until November 2006. Microsoft originally expected to ship Vista sometime late in 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP (codenamed "Whistler") and the next planned major release of Wind...