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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-F717
The Sony Cybershot DSC-F717 is a bridge digital camera, introduced by Sony in September 2002. Overview F717 features the same 5.0 megapixel CCD sensor and 38–190 mm equiv. Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar lens as its predecessor, the 2001 DSC-F707. Major changes / improvements over the F707 include: Analog focus ring can now...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Strip%20episodes
The Strip is an Australian television show which aired from 4 September 2008 to 27 November 2008 on the Nine Network. The series was cancelled in November 2008, due to disappointing ratings. The series took much inspiration from CSI: Miami with its aerial shots of beaches and sparkling surf, and was filmed on location ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting%20points%20on%20elliptic%20curves
An important aspect in the study of elliptic curves is devising effective ways of counting points on the curve. There have been several approaches to do so, and the algorithms devised have proved to be useful tools in the study of various fields such as number theory, and more recently in cryptography and Digital Signa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolochroma%20metarhodata
Aeolochroma metarhodata, the tea-tree emerald, is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in the Australian states of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. The larvae feed on Leptospermum polygalifolium. References Moths described in 1863 Pseudoterpnini Moths of A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M%20%28disambiguation%29
3M is an American multinational conglomerate corporation. 3M may also refer to: 3M computer 3-M syndrome, or dolichospondylic dysplasia, gloomy face syndrome, le Merrer syndrome Myasishchev 3M, Soviet bomber, NATO reporting name Bison-B Military Mapping Maidens, U.S. women mapmakers during World War II 3-metre s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITIC%20Guoan%20Information%20Industry
CITIC Guoan Information Industry Co., Ltd. is a Chinese publicly traded company in the computer network infrastructure and information service industries. It includes the construction and operation of cable television networks and satellite information networks, the network system integration, software development and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terascale
In computing, terascale may refer to Intel Tera-Scale AMD TeraScale (microarchitecture) See also petascale computing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe%20%28log%20server%29
Scribe was a server for aggregating log data streamed in real-time from many servers. It was designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine. Scribe was developed at Facebook and released in 2008 as open source. Scribe servers are arra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datang%20Youxia%20Zhuan
Datang Youxia Zhuan is a wuxia novel by Liang Yusheng first published as a serial between 1 January 1963 and 14 June 1964 in the Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao. The first part of a trilogy, the novel is followed by Longfeng Baochai Yuan and Huijian Xinmo. Plot The novel is set in China during the Tianbao era (742–75...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldED
GoldED was a popular message editor for FidoNet-compatible computer networks. In 1998, Odinn Sørensen released the source code of GoldED and Goldware Utilities 3.x under GNU General Public License version 2, and the Goldware Library under GNU Library General Public License version 2. A permission has also been given t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision
Vision, Visions, or The Vision may refer to: Perception Optical perception Visual perception, the sense of sight Visual system, the physical mechanism of eyesight Computer vision, a field dealing with how computers can be made to gain understanding from digital images or videos Machine vision, technology for imag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20standard
A metadata standard is a requirement which is intended to establish a common understanding of the meaning or semantics of the data, to ensure correct and proper use and interpretation of the data by its owners and users. To achieve this common understanding, a number of characteristics, or attributes of the data have t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatosensory%20system
In physiology, the somatosensory system is the network of neural structures in the brain and body that produce the perception of touch (haptic perception), as well as temperature (thermoception), body position (proprioception), and pain. It is a subset of the sensory nervous system, which also represents visual, audito...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug%20computer
A plug computer is an external device, often configured for use in the home or office as a compact computer. The name is derived from the small configuration of such devices; they are often enclosed in an AC power plug or AC adapter. Description Plug computers consist of a high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet%20assembler
Velvet is an algorithm package that has been designed to deal with de novo genome assembly and short read sequencing alignments. This is achieved through the manipulation of de Bruijn graphs for genomic sequence assembly via the removal of errors and the simplification of repeated regions. Velvet has also been implemen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altor
Altor may refer to: Altor (given name) Altor Equity Partners, a firm Altor Networks, cybersecurity business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Privacy%20Day
Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international event that occurs every year on 28 January. The purpose of Data Privacy Day is to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. It is currently observed in the United States, Canada, Nigeria, Israel and 47 European c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moralzarzal
Moralzarzal is a town in Spain. It is located in the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the Community of Madrid. It had a population of 11,318 in 2008. Public Transport Moralzarzal has a big bus network. The bus lines going through Moralzarzal are the following: 670: Collado Villalba (Hospital) 671: Madrid (Moncloa) 672...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Insight
Norton Insight whitelists files based on reputation. Norton-branded antivirus software then leverages the data to skip known files during virus scans. Symantec claims quicker scans and more accurate detection with the use of the technology. Development Insight was codenamed Mr. Clean. Its initial aim was to help user...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sathajhan%20Sarachandran
A Tamil Canadian computer-science student, Sarhajhan 'Sarachandran', is a member of the Tamil Tigers who pleaded guilty to trying to purchase anti-aircraft missiles for the militant group. He was convicted of supporting terrorism. American Nadarasa Yogarasa was alleged to have helped Sarachandran concoct the plan, aft...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle%20Disk
Jungle Disk is both the name of an online backup software service and a privately held data security company. It was one of the first backup services to use cloud storage and Amazon S3. In 2009 after being acquired by Rackspace the service added Rackspace Cloud Files. The name is a word association as the Amazon rainfo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%201.0x
Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985, while the European version was released as Windows 1.02 in May 1986. Its development bega...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20NT
Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released on July 27, 1993. It is a processor-independent, multiprocessing and multi-user operating system. The first version of Windows NT was Windows NT 3.1 and was produced for workstations and server compute...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%202.0x
Windows 2.0 is a major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on December 9, 1987, as a successor to Windows 1.0. The product includes two different variants, a base edition for 8086 real mode, and Windows/38...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few operating systems attempting to be compatible with MS-DOS, are sometimes referred to a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior%20tree
Behavior trees are a formal, graphical modelling language used primarily in systems and software engineering. Behavior trees employ a well-defined notation to unambiguously represent the hundreds or even thousands of natural language requirements that are typically used to express the stakeholder needs for a large-sca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Millikin
Eric Millikin is an American artist and activist based in Detroit, Michigan. He is known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence art, augmented and virtual reality art, conceptual art, Internet art, performance art, poetry, post-Internet art, video art, and webcomics. His work is often controversial, with po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Shum
Heung-Yeung "Harry" Shum (; born October 1966) is a Chinese computer scientist. He was a doctoral student of Raj Reddy. He was the Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Research at Microsoft. He is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics, and for the development of the search eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networking%20cable
Networking cable is a piece of networking hardware used to connect one network device to other network devices or to connect two or more computers to share devices such as printers or scanners. Different types of network cables, such as coaxial cable, optical fiber cable, and twisted pair cables, are used depending on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carex%20sheldonii
Carex sheldonii is a species of sedge known by the common name Sheldon's sedge. Description Carex sheldonii produces triangular stems up to a meter tall from a network of rhizomes. The narrow, hairy leaves attach to the stems by reddish purple sheaths. The inflorescence is a solid, narrow cluster of flowers up to 50 c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Lite%20Codec%20Pack
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video codecs for Microsoft Windows DirectShow that enables an operating system and its software to play various audio and video formats generally not supported by the operating system itself. The K-Lite Codec Pack also includes several related tools, including Media Pl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Dulce
Villa Dulce (English: Sweet Village) is a Chilean animated series created by Beatriz Buttazzoni and Francisco Bobadilla of Empatía Productions in 2004 and broadcast in Canal 13 network. Villa Dulce was a historical series in Chile because it was the first animated TV program made in the country since Condorito's shorts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarowsky%20algorithm
In computational linguistics the Yarowsky algorithm is an unsupervised learning algorithm for word sense disambiguation that uses the "one sense per collocation" and the "one sense per discourse" properties of human languages for word sense disambiguation. From observation, words tend to exhibit only one sense in most ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escenas%20de%20Matrimonio
Escenas de Matrimonio was a series broadcast by the Spanish television network, Telecinco, produced by Alba Adriatica. It premiered on 1 August 2007, featuring the lives of various couples who live in the same building dealing with similar problems in their daily lives. Predecessors TVE (2002–2004) The idea of the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapipe
Datapipe was a provider of managed hosting services and data centers for information technology services and cloud computing with data centers in Somerset, New Jersey, San Jose, California, the United Kingdom, and China. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Since 2011, more d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcracker%20Technology
Netcracker Technology Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, is a provider of business support system (BSS), operations support systems (OSS) and software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) solutions. The company also offers professional services (including planning and c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermore%20loops
Livermore loops (also known as the Livermore Fortran kernels or LFK) is a benchmark for parallel computers. It was created by Francis H. McMahon from scientific source code run on computers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It consists of 24 do loops, some of which can be vectorized, and some of which cannot. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20songs%20in%20SingStar%20games%20%28PlayStation%203%29
SingStar is a competitive music video game series, developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. SingStar allows 1–2 people to sing karaoke via microphone peripherals in time with on-screen music. The first game in the series, SingSt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Things%20Considered%20%28disambiguation%29
All Things Considered is a news program on the American network National Public Radio. All Things Considered may also refer to: All Things Considered (BBC radio show), a religious affairs program on BBC Radio Wales "All Things Considered" (song), a song by Yankee Grey "All Things Considered", a song by The Mighty Mig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kineo%20CAM
Kineo Computer Aided Motion ("Kineo CAM") was a computer software company based in Toulouse, France, that was awarded the European ICT Prize in 2007 in Hannover, Germany, for KineoWorks, its automatic motion planning, path planning and pathfinding technology. It was acquired by Siemens Digital Industries Software in 20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transam%C3%A9rica%20Pop
Transamérica Pop was a Brazilian radio network owned by . The network was directed to a young audience and has programming that highlights the musical genres pop, rock and hip hop. It was created in 1990 at the start of the satellite transmissions of Transamérica. The Transamérica Pop network expanded to fourteen stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Shift%20Network
Power Shift Network is a North American non-profit organization made up of a network of youth-led social and environmental justice organizations working together to build the youth clean energy and climate movement. It runs campaigns in the United States and Canada to build grassroots power and advocate for tangible ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GroupLens%20Research
GroupLens Research is a human–computer interaction research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities specializing in recommender systems and online communities. GroupLens also works with mobile and ubiquitous technologies, digital libraries, and local geograp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS
DOS (, ) is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers. The DOS family primarily consists of IBM PC DOS and a rebranded version, Microsoft's MS-DOS, both of which were introduced in 1981. Later compatible systems from other manufacturers include DR-DOS (1988), ROM-DOS (1989), PTS-DOS (1993...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20C.%20Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He moved to UCI at the start of 2012, having held the positions of Professor and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information. Prior to that, Bowker was Executive Director and Regis and Di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livescribe
Livescribe is a paper-based computing platform that consists of a digital pen, digital paper, software applications, and developer tools. Central to the Livescribe platform is the smartpen, a ballpoint pen with an embedded computer and digital audio recorder. When used with Anoto digital paper, it records what it writ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access%20memory
Random-access memory (RAM; ) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code. A random-access memory device allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data ins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20file-sharing%20programs%20for%20Linux%20and%20BSD
A list of file sharing programs for use on computers running Linux, BSD or other Unix-like operating systems, categorised according to the different filesharing networks or protocols they access. BitTorrent BitTorrent Deluge KTorrent Miro Opera Tixati Transmission Tribler - Tribler uses a modified form of the BitTorre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Session%20Relay%20Protocol
In computer networking, the Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) is a protocol for transmitting a series of related instant messages in the context of a communications session. An application instantiates the session with the Session Description Protocol (SDP) over Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) or other rendezvous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecpod.com
ECPod.com was a Chinese-language social network, created in 2007 by a group of young entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. ECPod was also a community portal for people to share videos. History ECPod was first launched in June 2007 as a language learning website. ECPod stood for "English Chinese Podcast", where members could po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20compiler%20construction
In computing, a compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language or computer language (the source language), into another computer language (the target language, often having a binary form known as object code or machine code). The most common reason for transforming source c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20barangays%20in%20Valenzuela
This is a list of barangays in Valenzuela in the Philippines based on 2015 census data of the Philippine Statistics Authority. List of barangays Alternate names of barangays Canumay West is the political name for the barangay but it is sometimes called Canumay. Gen. T. de Leon is sometimes spelled as Hen. T. de Leo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi%20Myriad
The Marconi Myriad was an early computer designed by the Marconi Company in the 1960s. Myriad was a 24-bit machine largely built using integrated circuits from Ferranti which were packaged in small "TO-5" type cans. The architecture was "conventional", and was developed largely by the in-house Marconi team that design...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Bank%20residual%20model
The World Bank residual model, in economics, refers to a widely used model by economists to measure illicit financial flows. The data sources for this analysis are the large-scale macroeconomic databases maintained by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In order to estimate illicit financial flows, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa%20Siemaszko
Ewa Siemaszko is a Polish writer, publicist and lecturer; collector of oral accounts and historical data regarding the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia. An engineer by profession with Master's in technological studies from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Siemaszko worked in public health education and also as a s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivi%20%28disambiguation%29
Tivi is a village and municipality in the Ordubad Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Tivi may also refer to: Tiv people or Tivi, an ethnic nation in West Africa , a Finnish computer magazine published by Alma Media People with the given name Tivi Etok, a Canadian Inuit artist See also TV Tiwi (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Lights%20Library%20Network
Northern Lights Library Network (NLLN) is the largest (geographically) of seven multi-county, multitype library cooperative systems in the state of Minnesota. NLLN serves all types of libraries found in the 23 counties of Northwest and West Central Minnesota. The organization has over 300 member libraries including p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Protection%20Act
Data Protection Act may refer to: Data Protection Act, 2012 (Ghana) Data Protection Act 2018 (United Kingdom) The now-superseded Data Protection Act 1998 and Data Protection Act 1984 (United Kingdom)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20media%20converter
A fiber media converter is a simple networking device that makes it possible to connect two dissimilar media types such as twisted pair with fiber optic cabling. They were introduced to the industry in the 1990s, and are important in interconnecting fiber optic cabling-based systems with existing copper-based structure...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi%20Data%20Systems
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) was a provider of modular mid-range and high-end computer data storage systems, software and services. Its operations are now a part of Hitachi Vantara. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. and part of the Hitachi Information Systems & Telecommunications Division. In 2017 its ope...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A1dio%20Record
Rádio Record is a Brazilian radio station based in São Paulo, Brazil. It is part of the Grupo Record and operates in the frequency 1000 kHz AM. It has programming dedicated to sports, news, and popular programs. History Rádio Record was founded in 1928 by Álvaro Liberato de Macedo, with the name of Rádio Sociedade Rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20Zero%20%28TV%20program%29
Ground Zero was a late night Australian music television program on Network Ten that featured music videos and live appearances. The program was written and produced by James Mark Anthony who also negotiated sponsorship with major brands that allowed the program to be produced free of charge to Network Ten. The program...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FleetBroadband
FleetBroadband is maritime satellite internet, telephony, SMS texting, and ISDN network for ocean-going vessels using portable domed terminal antennas. These antennas, and corresponding indoor controllers, are used to connect phones and laptop computers from sailing vessels to the Internet. All antennas require line-o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20Community%20Consortium
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is a programmatic committee of the Computing Research Association. Its stated mission is "...to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research". The CCC conducts activities that strengthen the research community, articulate ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CycleNetXChange
CycleNetXChange provides a standard format with which to exchange cycle path data, together with information about the quality of routes; This enables computerised transport systems to provide cycle routes. This UK National Cycle Path network schema (CycleNetXChange) defines an exchange format for an exchange of c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahti%20Heinla
Ahti Heinla (born 2 May 1972) is an Estonian computer programmer and businessman. He is one of the developers of Skype. He was also an organizer of Let's Do It 2008, a civic action with 50,000 volunteers participating in cleaning up the countryside of Estonia in one day. He was a recipient of the 2008 Estonian Volunt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo%20Metro%20Line%202
Cairo Metro Line 2 is the second line of the Cairo Metro in Cairo, Egypt. History Cairo's metro network was greatly expanded in the mid-1990s with the building of Line 2 (red), from Shoubra-El-Kheima to Cairo University, with an extension to Giza. It is the first line in history to have a tunnel going under the Nile....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FortMP
FortMP is a software package for solving large-scale optimization problems. It solves linear programming problems, quadratic programming problems and mixed integer programming problems (both linear and quadratic). Its robustness has been explored and published in the Mathematical Programming journal. FortMP is availabl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SweClockers.com
SweClockers.com is a Swedish online magazine about computers and computer hardware, founded in 1999, with about 270,000 unique visitors per week and 200,000 registered users, as of August 2017. The website has one of Sweden's largests forums which is focused on computer hardware, software, modding and overclocking. Fol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Ishkhans
Peter Ishkhans is a former Beverly Hills, California-based stylist and salon owner who went on to host Style Network's Peter Perfect. In 2009, Peter Perfect was nominated for a Daytime Emmy as outstanding lifestyle show, while Ishkhans was nominated for outstanding lifestyle host. References Living people British ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20%26%20Izzy
Ben & Izzy () is a Jordanian three-dimensional, computer animated children's television series. It was produced by Jordan's rising educational and CGI animation company Rubicon. This series follows the adventures and developing friendship of two pre-teenaged boys known as Ben and Izzy, who are from the United States an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20European%20Infrastructure%20for%20Supercomputing%20Applications
The Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA) was a European Union supercomputer project. A consortium of eleven national supercomputing centres from seven European countries promoted pan-European research on European high-performance computing systems. By extending the European collab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown%20Day
Shutdown Day was an Internet campaign active between 2007 and 2009 which promoted the idea of a holiday when people would go without a computer for the entire day. The benefits attributed to not using a computer for 24 hours range from electricity savings to getting back in touch with friends and nature. Establishment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Zdonik
Stanley Zdonik ( ) is a computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is a tenured professor of computer science at Brown University. Zdonik has lived in the Boston area his entire life. After completing two bachelor’s and two master's degrees at MIT, he then earned a PhD in database management und...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Lie%20to%20Me%20episodes
Lie to Me is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox network on January 21, 2009. The series follows Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his colleagues at The Lightman Group, as they solve crimes using applied psychology by interpreting microexpressions (through the Facial Action Coding System) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVR%20Media
RIVR Media is an American-based TV production company, specializing in reality and documentary programming. RIVR is responsible for Fixer to Fabulous, Whale Wars, Trading Spaces, Escaping Polygamy, Fat Guys in the Woods, Renovation Realities, Going RV, Friday Night Impossible with Jerry Rice, Great American Heroes fea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Conservation%20Educators%20and%20Practitioners
The Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP) is a project developed by the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and its partners around the world. NCEP is a global initiative, currently active in Bolivia, Laos, Madagascar, Mexico, Myanmar, Per...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Australian%20Research%20and%20Development%20Institute
The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) is the principal research institute of the Government of South Australia, with a network of research centres, laboratories and field sites both in metropolitan Adelaide and throughout South Australia. SARDI is part of Primary Industries and Regions SA. He...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20minimum%20query
In computer science, a range minimum query (RMQ) solves the problem of finding the minimal value in a sub-array of an array of comparable objects. Range minimum queries have several use cases in computer science, such as the lowest common ancestor problem and the longest common prefix problem (LCP). Definition Given...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based%20scheduling
Evidence-based scheduling is a software estimation approach created by Joel Spolsky, a commentator on software engineering principles. Evidence-based Scheduling is based on at least two core ideas: including all time spent, and using a Monte Carlo completion date prediction method. Evidence-based scheduling is an examp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%20M.%20Fort
Randall M. Fort (born July 4, 1956, Richmond, Indiana) is currently Director of Programs Security, Cyberdomain Team, Raytheon Corporation. He was formerly the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research in the United States Department of State from November 2006 through January 2009, as part of the Bush...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon%20%28disambiguation%29
Zircon is a mineral and gemstone. Zircon may also refer to: Science and technology Zircon (microkernel), the microkernel of the operating system Google Fuchsia Cubic zirconia, a synthetic diamond substitute, sometimes mistakenly referred to as "zircon" Military Zircon (satellite), a British signals intelligence s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Montreal
Transportation in Montreal is a developed transport infrastructure network in the city of Montreal in Canada, which includes well-developed air, road, rail, and maritime links to the rest of Canada, as well as the United States and the rest of the world. Local public transport includes a metro system, buses, ferry serv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20scientist
The term information scientist developed in the latter part of the twentieth century to describe an individual, usually with a relevant subject degree (such as one in Information and Computer Science - CIS) or high level of subject knowledge, providing focused information to scientific and technical research staff in i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%3A2006
SQL:2006 or ISO/IEC 9075:2006 standard is a revision part 14 (ISO/IEC 9075-14:2006) of the ISO standard for the SQL database query language. It is not a revision of the complete SQL standard. New features There are extensions to part 14 (ISO/IEC 9075-14:2006). This part defines ways in which SQL can be used in conjunc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMC%20%28computer%29
UMC (Uniwersalna Maszyna Cyfrowa - Polish for Universal Digital Machine) is a family of computers produced by Elwro from 1962. It consisted of vacuum-tube based UMC-1 and transistor-based UMC-10 (1964). UMC computers operated using negabinary (-2 base) numeral system invented by prof. Zdzisław Pawlak. References Earl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20of%20Pearls%20%28Indian%20Ocean%29
The String of Pearls is a geopolitical hypothesis proposed by United States political researchers in 2004. The term refers to the network of Chinese military and commercial facilities and relationships along its sea lines of communication, which extend from the Chinese mainland to Port Sudan in the Horn of Africa. The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar%20systems%20theory
Grammar systems theory is a field of theoretical computer science that studies systems of finite collections of formal grammars generating a formal language. Each grammar works on a string, a so-called sequential form that represents an environment. Grammar systems can thus be used as a formalization of decentralized o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiberpipa
Cyberpipe () was a hackerspace in Ljubljana, Slovenia, established in 2001 as a part of the K6/4 Institute. After a breakup with the parent organization and moving to a different location in 2013 it ceased most operations in 2015. The hackerspace operated as a cultural centre, computer laboratory and Internet café (wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20%28operating%20system%29
The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system. Kernel is also responsible for preventing and mitigating conflicts between different processes It is the portion of the operating system code that is always resident in memory ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like
A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Unix-like application is one that behaves like the corresponding Unix command or sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20kernel
The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds for his i386-based PC, and it was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU operating system, which was written to be a free (libre) replacement for Unix. L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
Unix (, ; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. Initially intended for use inside the Bell System, AT&T licensed Uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20operating%20systems
Two major families of Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known as the "Classic" Mac OS with its release of the original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded "Mac OS" in 1997, was pre-installed on every Macintosh until 2002 and offered ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generating%20Availability%20Data%20System
The Generating Availability Data System (GADS) is a database produced by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). It includes annual summary reports comprising the statistics for power stations in the United States and Canada. GADS is the main source of power station outage data in North America. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks%20%28TV%20series%29
Nighthawks was an Irish television series broadcast on Network 2 (now known as RTÉ Two). Shay Healy presented. It was part of the major re-brand of RTÉ Two as Network 2 in 1988. The programme, which began broadcasting in the late 1980s, was a three times-weekly, late-night series. Nighthawks was produced for its first...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD%20checksum
The BSD checksum algorithm was a commonly used, legacy checksum algorithm. It has been implemented in old BSD and is also available through the sum command line utility. This algorithm is useless from a security perspective, and is weaker than the CRC-32 cksum for error detection. Computation of the BSD checksum Belo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSV%20checksum
The SYSV checksum algorithm was a commonly used, legacy checksum algorithm. It has been implemented in UNIX System V and is also available through the sum command line utility. This algorithm is useless on a security perspective, and is weaker than the CRC-32 cksum for error detection. Description of the algorithm Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret%20Intelligence%20Branch
The Secret Intelligence Branch of the United States' Office of Strategic Services was a wartime foreign intelligence service responsible for the collection of human intelligence from a network of field stations in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The branch was established in 1942. Its first head was David K. E. B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Drake%20%28engineer%29
Sir James Drake (27 July 1907 – 1 February 1989) was a chartered civil engineer who is regarded as the pioneer of the national motorway network in the United Kingdom. As the county surveyor and bridgemaster of Lancashire County Council from 1945 to 1972 he led teams that designed the first stretch of motorway opened t...