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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20cloud
A point cloud is a discrete set of data points in space. The points may represent a 3D shape or object. Each point position has its set of Cartesian coordinates (X, Y, Z). Point clouds are generally produced by 3D scanners or by photogrammetry software, which measure many points on the external surfaces of objects arou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability%20theory
Computability theory, also known as recursion theory, is a branch of mathematical logic, computer science, and the theory of computation that originated in the 1930s with the study of computable functions and Turing degrees. The field has since expanded to include the study of generalized computability and definability...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20registration
Image registration is the process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system. Data may be multiple photographs, data from different sensors, times, depths, or viewpoints. It is used in computer vision, medical imaging, military automatic target recognition, and compiling and analyzing images and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finder%20%28software%29
The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems. Described in its "About" window as "The Macintosh Desktop Experience", it is responsible for the launching of other applications, and for the overall user management of files, disks, and network volumes. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983. It was initially conceived by Microsoft as a product for the Eastern sector, and jointly marketed by Kazuhiko Nishi, the director at ASCII Corporation. Microsoft and Nishi conceived the project as an attempt to create uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Lech%20Johansen
Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983, in Harstad, Norway), also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats. He wrote the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scramble System used for DVD licensing enforcement. Johansen is a self-trained software engineer, wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad%20PCW
The Amstrad PCW series is a range of personal computers produced by British company Amstrad from 1985 to 1998, and also sold under licence in Europe as the "Joyce" by the German electronics company Schneider in the early years of the series' life. The PCW, short for Personal Computer Word-processor, was targeted at the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20channel
A communication channel refers either to a physical transmission medium such as a wire, or to a logical connection over a multiplexed medium such as a radio channel in telecommunications and computer networking. A channel is used for information transfer of, for example, a digital bit stream, from one or several sender...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20digital%20library%20projects
This is a list of digital library projects. See also Bibliographic database List of academic databases and search engines List of online databases List of online encyclopedias List of open-access journals List of search engines References Digital library projects Digital library projects Digital library projec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Template%20Library
The Standard Template Library (STL) is a software library originally designed by Alexander Stepanov for the C++ programming language that influenced many parts of the C++ Standard Library. It provides four components called algorithms, containers, functions, and iterators. The STL provides a set of common classes for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoskeleton
The cytoskeleton is a complex, dynamic network of interlinking protein filaments present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including those of bacteria and archaea. In eukaryotes, it extends from the cell nucleus to the cell membrane and is composed of similar proteins in the various organisms. It is composed of three main...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20logic
In computer software, business logic or domain logic is the part of the program that encodes the real-world business rules that determine how data can be created, stored, and changed. It is contrasted with the remainder of the software that might be concerned with lower-level details of managing a database or displayi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation
In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data. Although in the broadest sense, "correlation" may indicate any type of association, in statistics it usually refers to the degree to which a pair of variables are linearly r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks
VxWorks is a real-time operating system (or RTOS) developed as proprietary software by Wind River Systems, a subsidiary of Aptiv. First released in 1987, VxWorks is designed for use in embedded systems requiring real-time, deterministic performance and, in many cases, safety and security certification for industries su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut%2C%20copy%2C%20and%20paste
In human–computer interaction and user interface design, cut, copy, and paste are related commands that offer an interprocess communication technique for transferring data through a computer's user interface. The cut command removes the selected data from its original position, while the copy command creates a duplicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20instruction%2C%20multiple%20data
In computing, multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) is a technique employed to achieve parallelism. Machines using MIMD have a number of processors that function asynchronously and independently. At any time, different processors may be executing different instructions on different pieces of data. MIMD architectu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exim
Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is a free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail. Exim has been ported to most Unix-like systems, as well...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SICP%20%28disambiguation%29
SICP may refer to: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, an introductory computer programming book St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Jesuit high school in San Francisco, California, U.S. St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, Jesuit high school in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Sleator
Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator (born 10 December 1953) is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States. In 1999, he won the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (jointly with Robert Tarjan) for the splay tree data structure. He was one of the pioneers in amortized analysis of algorithm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportsCenter
SportsCenter (SC) is an American daily sports news television program that serves as the flagship program and brand of American cable and satellite television network ESPN. The show covers various sports teams and athletes from around the world and often shows highlights of sports from the day. Originally broadcast onl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaintext
In cryptography, plaintext usually means unencrypted information pending input into cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms. This usually refers to data that is transmitted or stored unencrypted. Overview With the advent of computing, the term plaintext expanded beyond human-readable documents to mean ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General
Data General Corporation was one of the first minicomputer firms of the late 1960s. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Their first product, 1969's Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer intended to both outperform and cost less than the equivalent from DEC, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombination
Recombination may refer to: Carrier generation and recombination, in semiconductors, the cancellation of mobile charge carriers (electrons and holes) Crossover (genetic algorithm), also called recombination Genetic recombination, the process by which genetic material is broken and joined to other genetic material Bacte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix
KNOPPIX ( ) is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD / DVD (Live CD) or a USB flash drive (Live USB), one of the first live operating system distributions (just after Yggdrasil Linux). Knoppix was developed by, and named after, Linux consultant Klaus Knopper. When starting a program,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20name%20registry
A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that enables third party entities to request administrative control of a domain name. Most registries operate on the top-level and second-level of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhonda%20Shear
Rhonda Honey Shear (born November 12, 1954) is an American television personality, comedian, actress, and entrepreneur. She is known for her role as a host in the 1990s USA Network's weekend B movie show, USA Up All Night. In 2001, she started an intimate apparel business that was marketed on Home Shopping Network (HSN...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability%20engineering
Usability engineering is a professional discipline that focuses on improving the usability of interactive systems. It draws on theories from computer science and psychology to define problems that occur during the use of such a system. Usability Engineering involves the testing of designs at various stages of the devel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls
In computing, ls is a command to list computer files and directories in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is specified by POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification. It is available in the EFI shell, as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20Faeries
The Radical Faeries are a loosely affiliated worldwide network and countercultural movement seeking to redefine queer consciousness through secular spirituality. Sometimes deemed a form of modern Paganism, the movement also adopts elements from anarchism and environmentalism. Rejecting hetero-imitation, the Radical Fa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20network
A community network is a computer-based system that is intended to help support (usually geographical) communities by supporting, augmenting, and extending already existing social networks, by using networking technologies by, and for, a community. Free-nets and civic networks indicate roughly the same range of online...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd%20%28command%29
The command, also known as (change directory), is a command-line shell command used to change the current working directory in various operating systems. It can be used in shell scripts and batch files. Implementations The command has been implemented in operating systems such as Unix, DOS, IBM OS/2, MetaComCo TRIP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory
Directory may refer to: Directory (computing), or folder, a file system structure in which to store computer files Directory (OpenVMS command) Directory service, a software application for organizing information about a computer network's users and resources Directory (political), a system under which a country is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dir%20%28command%29
In computing, dir (directory) is a command in various computer operating systems used for computer file and directory listing. It is one of the basic commands to help navigate the file system. The command is usually implemented as an internal command in the command-line interpreter (shell). On some systems, a more grap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug%20and%20play
In computing, a plug and play (PnP) device or computer bus is one with a specification that facilitates the recognition of a hardware component in a system without the need for physical device configuration or user intervention in resolving resource conflicts. The term "plug and play" has since been expanded to a wide ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20directory
In a computer file system, and primarily used in the Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the root directory is the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy. It can be likened to the trunk of a tree, as the starting point where all branches originate from. The root file system is the file system contained on the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult%20Awareness%20Network
The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was an anti-cult organization founded by deprogrammer Ted Patrick that provided information on groups it considered "cults", as well as support and referrals to deprogrammers. It operated (initially under the name “Citizens’ Freedom Foundation”) from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteSeerX
{{DISPLAYTITLE:CiteSeerX}} CiteSeerX (formerly called CiteSeer) is a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers, primarily in the fields of computer and information science. CiteSeer's goal is to improve the dissemination and access of academic and scientific literature. As a non-prof...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%20directory
In computing, the working directory of a process is a directory of a hierarchical file system, if any, dynamically associated with each process. It is sometimes called the current working directory (CWD), e.g. the BSD getcwd function, or just current directory. When the process refers to a file using a simple file name...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-vector%20routing%20protocol
A distance-vector routing protocol in data networks determines the best route for data packets based on distance. Distance-vector routing protocols measure the distance by the number of routers a packet has to pass; one router counts as one hop. Some distance-vector protocols also take into account network latency and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElcomSoft
ElcomSoft is a privately owned software company headquartered in Moscow, Russia. Since its establishment in 1990, the company has been working on computer security programs, with the main focus on password and system recovery software. DMCA case On July 16, 2001, Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian citizen employed by ElcomSo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux%20Racer
Tux Racer is a 2000 open-source winter sports racing video game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. It was originally developed by Jasmin Patry as a computer graphics project at the University of Waterloo. Later on, Patry and the newly founded Sunspire Studios, composed of several former students of the univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb%20sort
Comb sort is a relatively simple sorting algorithm originally designed by Włodzimierz Dobosiewicz and Artur Borowy in 1980, later rediscovered (and given the name "Combsort") by Stephen Lacey and Richard Box in 1991. Comb sort improves on bubble sort in the same way that Shellsort improves on insertion sort. nist.govs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall
Recall may refer to: Recall (bugle call), a signal to stop Recall (information retrieval), a statistical measure ReCALL (journal), an academic journal about computer-assisted language learning Recall (memory) Recall (Overwatch), a 2016 animated short The Recall, a 2017 Canadian-American film Recall election, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%E2%80%93beta%20pruning
Alpha–beta pruning is a search algorithm that seeks to decrease the number of nodes that are evaluated by the minimax algorithm in its search tree. It is an adversarial search algorithm used commonly for machine playing of two-player combinatorial games (Tic-tac-toe, Chess, Connect 4, etc.). It stops evaluating a move ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation%20function
An evaluation function, also known as a heuristic evaluation function or static evaluation function, is a function used by game-playing computer programs to estimate the value or goodness of a position (usually at a leaf or terminal node) in a game tree. Most of the time, the value is either a real number or a quantize...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-state%20routing%20protocol
Link-state routing protocols are one of the two main classes of routing protocols used in packet switching networks for computer communications, the others being distance-vector routing protocols. Examples of link-state routing protocols include Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System to Intermediate Sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDP
SDP may refer to: Computing Scenario Design Power, a power level mode of certain generations of Intel's mobile processors Semidefinite programming, an optimization procedure Service data point, a node in mobile telecommunication networks Service delivery platform, a mobile telecommunications component Service De...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Time%20Protocol
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. In operation since before 1985, NTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols in current use. NTP was designed by David L. Mills of the University of Delaware. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Flight%20Simulator
Microsoft Flight Simulator is a series of flight simulator programs for MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and differed significantly from Microsoft's other software, which was largely business-oriented. As of November 2022, Mic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20interpolation
In mathematics, linear interpolation is a method of curve fitting using linear polynomials to construct new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points. Linear interpolation between two known points If the two known points are given by the coordinates and , the linear interpolant is the strai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20cipher%20mode%20of%20operation
In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity. A block cipher by itself is only suitable for the secure cryptographic transformation (encryption or decryption) of one fixed-length group of bits called a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20ripper
A CD ripper, CD grabber, or CD extractor is software that rips raw digital audio in Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) format tracks on a compact disc to standard computer sound files, such as WAV or MP3. A more formal term used for the process of ripping audio CDs is digital audio extraction (DAE). History In the ea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20player%20software
Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files. Media players commonly display standard media control icons known from physical devices such as tape recorders and CD players, such as play (  ), pause (  ), fastforward (⏩️), rewind (⏪), and stop (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDL
IDL may refer to: Computing Interface description language, any computer language used to describe a software component's interface IDL specification language, the original IDL created by Lamb, Wulf and Nestor at Queen's University, Canada OMG IDL, an IDL standardized by Object Management Group selected by the W3C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MenuetOS
MenuetOS is an operating system with a monolithic preemptive, real-time kernel written in FASM assembly language. The system also includes video drivers. It runs on 64-bit and 32-bit x86 architecture computers. Its author is Ville M. Turjanmaa. It has a graphical desktop, games, and networking abilities (TCP/IP stack)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASM
FASM (flat assembler) is an assembler for x86 processors. It supports Intel-style assembly language on the IA-32 and x86-64 computer architectures. It claims high speed, size optimizations, operating system (OS) portability, and macro abilities. It is a low-level assembler and intentionally uses very few command-line o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20estimation
In statistics, point estimation involves the use of sample data to calculate a single value (known as a point estimate since it identifies a point in some parameter space) which is to serve as a "best guess" or "best estimate" of an unknown population parameter (for example, the population mean). More formally, it is t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20estimation
In statistics, interval estimation is the use of sample data to estimate an interval of possible values of a parameter of interest. This is in contrast to point estimation, which gives a single value. The most prevalent forms of interval estimation are confidence intervals (a frequentist method) and credible interval...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C128
C128 may refer to: Commodore 128, a home / personal computer a production designation for the XC-120 Packplane aircraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback
Loopback (also written loop-back) is the routing of electronic signals or digital data streams back to their source without intentional processing or modification. It is primarily a means of testing the communications infrastructure. Applications There are many example applications. It may be a communication channel ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20random%20number%20generator
In computing, a hardware random number generator (HRNG), true random number generator (TRNG), non-deterministic random bit generator (NRBG), or physical random number generator is a device that generates random numbers from a physical process capable of producing entropy (in other words, the device always has access to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINCGARS
Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) is a very high frequency combat-net radio (CNR) used by U.S. and allied military forces. In the CNR network, the SINCGARS’ primary role is voice transmission between surface and airborne command and control assets. The SINCGARS family replaced the Vietnam War-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20Graphics%20Adapter
The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is an IBM PC graphics adapter and de facto computer display standard from 1984 that superseded the CGA standard introduced with the original IBM PC, and was itself superseded by the VGA standard in 1987. In addition to the original EGA card manufactured by IBM, many compatible third...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier
In statistics, an outlier is a data point that differs significantly from other observations. An outlier may be due to a variability in the measurement, an indication of novel data, or it may be the result of experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set. An outlier can be an indication of ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%20plot
In descriptive statistics, a box plot or boxplot is a method for graphically demonstrating the locality, spread and skewness groups of numerical data through their quartiles. In addition to the box on a box plot, there can be lines (which are called whiskers) extending from the box indicating variability outside the up...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-number%20summary
The five-number summary is a set of descriptive statistics that provides information about a dataset. It consists of the five most important sample percentiles: the sample minimum (smallest observation) the lower quartile or first quartile the median (the middle value) the upper quartile or third quartile the samp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20T.%20Crowley
Robert T. Crowley (born March 2, 1948) is a pioneer in the development and practice of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), an early component of electronic commerce. Crowley participated in the development of the early forms of EDI, working with Edward A. Guilbert, the creator of the technology, from the 1977 onwards, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20East%20Timor
In East Timor, transportation is reduced due to the nation's poverty, poor transportation infrastructure, and sparse communications networks. There are no railways in the country. The general condition of the roads is inadequate, and telephone and Internet capabilities are limited outside the cities. The country has s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkdir
The mkdir (make directory) command in the Unix, DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS operating systems is used to make a new directory. It is also available in the EFI shell and in the PHP scripting language. In DOS, OS/2, Windows and ReactOS, the command is often abbreviated to md. The command is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an American comedian, actor, entertainer, and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54. These included a se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20memory%20%28disambiguation%29
Core memory or magnetic-core memory, is a form of random access computer memory used by computers in the mid-20th century. Core Memory or core memory may also refer to: Core rope memory, a form of read only computer memory first used in the 1960s Core memories, plot-critical items in the 2005 video game Star Fox Assa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ico
is an action-adventure game developed by Japan Studio and Team Ico and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It was released in North America and Japan in 2001 and Europe in 2002 in various regions. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria%20%281983%20video%20game%29
The Dungeons of Moria, usually referred to as simply Moria, is a computer game inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. The objective of the game is to dive deep into the Mines of Moria and kill the Balrog. Moria, along with Hack (1984) and Larn (1986), is considered to be the first roguelike game, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jail%20%28disambiguation%29
A jail is a prison. Jail may also refer to: Computing Chroot jail, the result of a chroot FreeBSD jail, a system-level virtualization mechanism In operating-system-level virtualization, any virtual user-space instance Entertainment Jail (2009 film), a Bollywood prison drama Jail (2018 film), Nigerian Jail (202...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI%20%28disambiguation%29
ANSI is the American National Standards Institute, a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards. ANSI may also refer to: Computing ANSI character set (disambiguation) ANSI escape code sequences, an in-band signalling mechanism for terminals and terminal emulators ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Scott
Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. His work on automata theory earned him the Turing Award in 1976,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean%20%28programming%20language%29
Clean is a general-purpose purely functional computer programming language. It was called the Concurrent Clean System, then the Clean System, later just Clean. Clean has been developed by a group of researchers from the Radboud University in Nijmegen since 1987. Features The language Clean first appeared in 1987. Alth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqueness%20type
In computing, a unique type guarantees that an object is used in a single-threaded way, with at most a single reference to it. If a value has a unique type, a function applied to it can be optimized to update the value in-place in the object code. Such in-place updates improve the efficiency of functional languages whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20methods
In computer science, formal methods are mathematically rigorous techniques for the specification, development, analysis, and verification of software and hardware systems. The use of formal methods for software and hardware design is motivated by the expectation that, as in other engineering disciplines, performing app...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20analysis
In computer science, program analysis is the process of automatically analyzing the behavior of computer programs regarding a property such as correctness, robustness, safety and liveness. Program analysis focuses on two major areas: program optimization and program correctness. The first focuses on improving the prog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene%20graph
A scene graph is a general data structure commonly used by vector-based graphics editing applications and modern computer games, which arranges the logical and often spatial representation of a graphical scene. It is a collection of nodes in a graph or tree structure. A tree node may have many children but only a singl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACL2
ACL2 ("A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp") is a software system consisting of a programming language, an extensible theory in a first-order logic, and an automated theorem prover. ACL2 is designed to support automated reasoning in inductive logical theories, mostly for software and hardware verification...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20voice%20response
Interactive voice response (IVR) is a technology that allows telephone users to interact with a computer-operated telephone system through the use of voice and DTMF tones input with a keypad. In telephony, IVR allows customers to interact with a company's host system via a telephone keypad or by speech recognition, aft...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20telephony%20integration
Computer telephony integration, also called computer–telephone integration or CTI, is a common name for any technology that allows interactions on a telephone and a computer to be coordinated. The term is predominantly used to describe desktop-based interaction for helping users be more efficient, though it can also re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTI
CTI may stand for: Companies and organizations CTI Consultants, engineering consulting firm in Richmond, Virginia CTI Electronics Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial computer peripherals CTI Móvil, a Latin American mobile network operator CTI Records, a jazz record label Chung T'ien Television, CTi TV, a c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20manufacturing
Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) also known as computer-aided modeling or computer-aided machining is the use of software to control machine tools in the manufacturing of work pieces. This is not the only definition for CAM, but it is the most common. It may also refer to the use of a computer to assist in all operat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%20uploading
Mind uploading is a speculative process of whole brain emulation in which a brain scan is used to completely emulate the mental state of the individual in a digital computer. The computer would then run a simulation of the brain's information processing, such that it would respond in essentially the same way as the ori...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS%20version%20history
The history of macOS, Apple's current Mac operating system formerly named Mac OS X until 2011 and then OS X until 2016, began with the company's project to replace its "classic" Mac OS. That system, up to and including its final release Mac OS 9, was a direct descendant of the operating system Apple had used in its Mac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktivism
Internet activism, hacktivism, or hactivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism), is the use of computer-based techniques such as hacking as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change. With roots in hacker culture and hacker ethics, its ends are often related to free speech, human right...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braided%20river
A braided river (also called braided channel or braided stream) consists of a network of river channels separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars or, in British English usage, aits or eyots. Braided streams tend to occur in rivers with high sediment loads or coarse grain sizes, and in rivers with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A300%20%28disambiguation%29
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body airliner. A300 or A.300 may also refer to: A300 road, a main road in Great Britain Acorn Archimedes A300, a British home computer Aero A.300, a 1938 Czechoslovakian bomber aircraft Ansaldo A.300, a 1919 Italian general-purpose biplane aircraft Midland Highway (Victoria), a highway i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Compiler%20for%20Java
The GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) is a discontinued free compiler for the Java programming language. It was part of the GNU Compiler Collection. GCJ compiles Java source code to Java virtual machine (JVM) bytecode or to machine code for a number of CPU architectures. It could also compile class files and whole JARs tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchrony
Asynchrony is the state of not being in synchronization. Asynchrony or asynchronous may refer to: Electronics and computing Asynchrony (computer programming), the occurrence of events independent of the main program flow, and ways to deal with such events Async/await Asynchronous system, a system having no global ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20memory
Bubble memory is a type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each storing one bit of data. The material is arranged to form a series of parallel tracks that the bubbles can move along under the action of an external mag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20of%20information%20laws%20by%20country
Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijacking
Hijacking may refer to: Common usage Computing and technology Bluejacking, the unsolicited transmission of data via Bluetooth Brandjacking, the unauthorized use of a company's brand Browser hijacking Clickjacking (including likejacking and cursorjacking), a phenomenon of hijacking "clicks" in a website context ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk%20Stalkings
Silk Stalkings is an American crime drama television series that premiered on CBS on November 7, 1991, as part of the network's late-night Crimetime After Primetime programming package. Broadcast for two seasons until CBS ended the Crimetime experiment in June 1993, the remaining six seasons ran exclusively on USA Netw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD%20Documentation%20License
The FreeBSD Documentation License is the license that covers most of the documentation for the FreeBSD operating system. License The license is very similar to the 2-clause Simplified BSD License used by the support of FreeBSD, however, it makes the applications of "source code" and "compile" less obscure in the conte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom%20Disk%20System
The commonly shortened to the Famicom Disk System or just Disk System, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer home video game console, released only in Japan on February 21, 1986. It uses proprietary floppy disks called "Disk Cards" for cheaper data storage and it adds a new high-fidelity sound channel for sup...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic%20scale
A logarithmic scale (or log scale) is a way of displaying numerical data over a very wide range of values in a compact way. As opposed to a linear number line in which every unit of distance corresponds to adding by the same amount, on a logarithmic scale, every unit of length corresponds to multiplying the previous v...