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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%2080
The ABC 80 (Advanced BASIC Computer 80) was a personal computer engineered by the Swedish corporation Dataindustrier AB (DIAB) and manufactured by Luxor in Motala, Sweden in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was introduced on the market in August 1978. The ABC 80 was based on an earlier modular computer system from t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra%20Alice
The Matra & Hachette Ordinateur Alice is a home computer sold in France beginning in 1983. It was a clone of the TRS-80 MC-10, produced through a collaboration between Matra and Hachette in France and Tandy Corporation in the United States. The Alice is distinguished by its bright red casing. Functionally, it is equ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-net
A free-net was originally a computer system or network that provided public access to digital resources and community information, including personal communications, through modem dialup via the public switched telephone network. The concept originated in the health sciences to provide online help for medical patients....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPaint
MacPaint is a raster graphics editor developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processing counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate graphics that could be used by other applicati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%201101
The ERA 1101, later renamed UNIVAC 1101, was a computer system designed and built by Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in the early 1950s and continued to be sold by the Remington Rand corporation after that company later purchased ERA. Its (initial) military model, the ERA Atlas, was the first stored-program compu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart
A chart (sometimes known as a graph) is a graphical representation for data visualization, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart". A chart can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of quality structure and provides di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Series/1
The IBM Series/1 is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP. The Series/1 was typically used to control and operate external electro-mechanical co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20magazine
Computer magazines are about computers and related subjects, such as networking and the Internet. Most computer magazines offer (or offered) advice, some offer programming tutorials, reviews of the latest technologies, and advertisements. History 1940s–1950s Sources:. Mathematics of Computation established in 1943, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN
FN may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Faking News, Indian news satire website Financial News, UK financial newspaper and news website Finding Nemo, a 2003 computer-animated adventure comedy film by Disney and Pixar Fortnite, a game released in 2017 by Epic Games Future Nostalgia, a 2020 album by Dua Li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore%20%28programming%29
In computer science, a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type used to control access to a common resource by multiple threads and avoid critical section problems in a concurrent system such as a multitasking operating system. Semaphores are a type of synchronization primitive. A trivial semaphore is a plain vari...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder%20pattern
The builder pattern is a design pattern designed to provide a flexible solution to various object creation problems in object-oriented programming. The intent of the builder design pattern is to separate the construction of a complex object from its representation. It is one of the Gang of Four design patterns. Overvi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory%20method%20pattern
In class-based programming, the factory method pattern is a creational pattern that uses factory methods to deal with the problem of creating objects without having to specify the exact class of the object that will be created. This is done by creating objects by calling a factory method—either specified in an interfa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20pattern
In software engineering, the composite pattern is a partitioning design pattern. The composite pattern describes a group of objects that are treated the same way as a single instance of the same type of object. The intent of a composite is to "compose" objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator%20pattern
In object-oriented programming, the decorator pattern is a design pattern that allows behavior to be added to an individual object, dynamically, without affecting the behavior of other objects from the same class. The decorator pattern is often useful for adhering to the Single Responsibility Principle, as it allows fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy%20pattern
In computer programming, the proxy pattern is a software design pattern. A proxy, in its most general form, is a class functioning as an interface to something else. The proxy could interface to anything: a network connection, a large object in memory, a file, or some other resource that is expensive or impossible to d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20pattern
In object-oriented programming, the command pattern is a behavioral design pattern in which an object is used to encapsulate all information needed to perform an action or trigger an event at a later time. This information includes the method name, the object that owns the method and values for the method parameters. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterator%20pattern
In object-oriented programming, the iterator pattern is a design pattern in which an iterator is used to traverse a container and access the container's elements. The iterator pattern decouples algorithms from containers; in some cases, algorithms are necessarily container-specific and thus cannot be decoupled. For ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter%20pattern
In computer programming, the interpreter pattern is a design pattern that specifies how to evaluate sentences in a language. The basic idea is to have a class for each symbol (terminal or nonterminal) in a specialized computer language. The syntax tree of a sentence in the language is an instance of the composite patte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediator%20pattern
In software engineering, the mediator pattern defines an object that encapsulates how a set of objects interact. This pattern is considered to be a behavioral pattern due to the way it can alter the program's running behavior. In object-oriented programming, programs often consist of many classes. Business logic and c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy%20pattern
In computer programming, the strategy pattern (also known as the policy pattern) is a behavioral software design pattern that enables selecting an algorithm at runtime. Instead of implementing a single algorithm directly, code receives run-time instructions as to which in a family of algorithms to use. Strategy lets t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%20method%20pattern
In object-oriented programming, the template method is one of the behavioral design patterns identified by Gamma et al. in the book Design Patterns. The template method is a method in a superclass, usually an abstract superclass, and defines the skeleton of an operation in terms of a number of high-level steps. These...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarded%20suspension
In concurrent programming, guarded suspension is a software design pattern for managing operations that require both a lock to be acquired and a precondition to be satisfied before the operation can be executed. The guarded suspension pattern is typically applied to method calls in object-oriented programs, and involve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-checked%20locking
In software engineering, double-checked locking (also known as "double-checked locking optimization") is a software design pattern used to reduce the overhead of acquiring a lock by testing the locking criterion (the "lock hint") before acquiring the lock. Locking occurs only if the locking criterion check indicates t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20design%20pattern
In software engineering, a software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. It is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into source or machine code. Rather, it is a description or template for how to solve a problem that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Shadows
Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place. The series becam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20configuration%20management
In software engineering, software configuration management (SCM or S/W CM) is the task of tracking and controlling changes in the software, part of the larger cross-disciplinary field of configuration management. SCM practices include revision control and the establishment of baselines. If something goes wrong, SCM c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Allman
Eric Paul Allman (born September 2, 1955) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc. Education and training Born in El Cerrito, California, Allman knew fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper
BitKeeper is a software tool for distributed revision control of computer source code. Originally developed as proprietary software by BitMover Inc., a privately held company based in Los Gatos, California, it was released as open-source software under the Apache-2.0 license on 9 May 2016. BitKeeper is no longer being ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARAM
PARAM is a series of Indian supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune. PARAM means "supreme" in the Sanskrit language, whilst also creating an acronym for "PARAllel Machine". As of November 2022 the fastest machine in the series is the PARAM Siddhi AI whic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-text
e-text (from "electronic text"; sometimes written as etext) is a general term for any document that is read in digital form, and especially a document that is mainly text. For example, a computer-based book of art with minimal text, or a set of photographs or scans of pages, would not usually be called an "e-text". An...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Linux%20Sound%20Architecture
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is a software framework and part of the Linux kernel that provides an application programming interface (API) for sound card device drivers. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware and graceful handling of multi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Sound%20System
The Open Sound System (OSS) is an interface for making and capturing sound in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is based on standard Unix devices system calls (i.e. POSIX read, write, ioctl, etc.). The term also sometimes refers to the software in a Unix kernel that provides the OSS interface; it can be thought...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LADSPA
LADSPA is an acronym for Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API. It is an application programming interface (API) standard for handling audio filters and audio signal processing effects, licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later. It was originally designed for Linux through consensus on the Linux Audio Developers Mailing Lis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20synthesizer
A software synthesizer or softsynth is a computer program that generates digital audio, usually for music. Computer software that can create sounds or music is not new, but advances in processing speed now allow softsynths to accomplish the same tasks that previously required the dedicated hardware of a conventional sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20instrument
Virtual instrument may refer to: A Software synthesizer, a computer program or plug-in that generates digital audio A program that implements functions of an instrument by computer, sensors and actuators, see Virtual instrumentation See also VI (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Atari%202600%20games
This is a list of games for the Atari Video Computer System, a console renamed to the Atari 2600 in November 1982. Sears licensed the console and many games from Atari, Inc., selling them under different names. 3 cartridges were Sears exclusives. The list contains games, divided into three sections: Games published ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreader
Newsreader can refer to: Newsreader (Usenet), a computer program for reading Usenet newsgroups Newsreaders, a television series on Adult Swim News presenter, a person that presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet News aggregator, a computer program for syndicated Web content supplied in the form of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreaders
Newsreaders is an American television comedy that aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim. Newsreaders is a spin-off of Childrens Hospital, presented as the fictional television news magazine program Newsreaders. The series premiered January 17, 2013 and ended on February 13, 2015, with a tot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20ABC%20%28American%20TV%20network%29
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a commercial broadcasting television network owned by Disney Entertainment, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, ABC is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world. The network began its TV op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20development%20kit
A software development kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools in one installable package. They facilitate the creation of applications by having a compiler, debugger and sometimes a software framework. They are normally specific to a hardware platform and operating system combination. To create applica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Visual%20C%2B%2B
Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) is a compiler for the C, C++, C++/CLI and C++/CX programming languages by Microsoft. MSVC is proprietary software; it was originally a standalone product but later became a part of Visual Studio and made available in both trialware and freeware forms. It features tools for developing and deb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirection
In computer programming, indirection (also called dereferencing) is the ability to reference something using a name, reference, or container instead of the value itself. The most common form of indirection is the act of manipulating a value through its memory address. For example, accessing a variable through the use o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddie%20%28CAD%20system%29
Caddie is a mid-range computer-assisted draughting (CAD) software package for 2D and 3D design. It is used primarily by architects, but has tools for surveyors and mechanical, civil and construction engineers. It was initially designed as an electronic drawing board, using concepts and tools clearly related to a phys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng-hsiung%20Hsu
Feng-hsiung Hsu (born January 1, 1959) () (nicknamed Crazy Bird) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. His work led to the creation of the Deep Thought chess computer, which led to the first chess playing com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari%20%28web%20browser%29
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple. It is built into Apple's operating systems, including macOS, iOS, iPadOS and their upcoming VisionOS, and uses Apple's open-source browser engine WebKit, which was derived from KHTML. Safari was introduced in Mac OS X Panther in January 2003. It has been included with the iP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog
Cyberdog was an OpenDoc-based Internet suite of applications, developed by Apple Computer for the Mac OS line of operating systems. It was introduced as a beta in February 1996 and abandoned in March 1997. The last version, Cyberdog 2.0, was released on April 28, 1997. It worked with later versions of System 7 as well ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream%20format
A bitstream format is the format of the data found in a stream of bits used in a digital communication or data storage application. The term typically refers to the data format of the output of an encoder, or the data format of the input to a decoder when using data compression. Processing Standardized interoperabi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone
A smartphone (or simply a phone) is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone functions and personal computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from older-design feature phones by their more advanced hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, which facilitate wider soft...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong%20reflection%20model
The Phong reflection model (also called Phong illumination or Phong lighting) is an empirical model of the local illumination of points on a surface designed by the computer graphics researcher Bui Tuong Phong. In 3D computer graphics, it is sometimes referred to as "Phong shading", particularly if the model is used wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's various operations report to the president of NBC News, Noah Oppenhe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Brokaw
Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American retired network television journalist and author. He first served as the co-anchor of The Today Show from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982–2004). In the previous decade he served as a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am5x86
The Am5x86 processor is an x86-compatible CPU announced in November of 1995 by AMD for use in 486-class computer systems. It began shipping in December of 1995, with a base price of $93 per unit in bulk quantities. Before being released, it was in development under the codename "X5". Specifications The Am5x86 (also k...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity%204
SimCity 4 is a city-building simulation computer game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. The game was released in January 2003 for Microsoft Windows and in June 2003 for Mac OS X. It is the fourth major installment in the SimCity series. SimCity 4 has a single expansion pack called Rush Hour which add...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected%20mode
In computing, protected mode, also called protected virtual address mode, is an operational mode of x86-compatible central processing units (CPUs). It allows system software to use features such as segmentation, virtual memory, paging and safe multi-tasking designed to increase an operating system's control over applic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC%20%28archive%29
MARC (Mailing list ARChive) is a computer-related mailing list archive. It archives over 31 million e-mails from over 2400 mailing lists, with approximately 320,000 new mails added per month. The archive is hosted by KoreLogic, and is maintained by a group of volunteers led by Hank Leininger. Mailing list indexes incl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC%20OS
RISC OS is a computer operating system originally designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England. First released in 1987, it was designed to run on the ARM chipset, which Acorn had designed concurrently for use in its new line of Archimedes personal computers. RISC OS takes its name from the reduced instruction...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20the%20Genius
"Bart the Genius" is the second episode of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 14, 1990. It was the first episode written by Jon Vitti. It is the show's first normal episode as well as the first to use the signature title sequence,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s%20Odyssey%20%28The%20Simpsons%29
"Homer's Odyssey" is the third episode of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox Network in the United States on January 21, 1990. In this episode, Homer becomes a crusader for safety in Springfield and is promoted to safety inspector at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictogram
A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is a graphic symbol that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to a considerable extent pictoria...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis and management of business information. Common functions of business intelligence technologies include reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, dashboard development, data mining, process mining, co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePNA
The HomePNA Alliance (formerly the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance, also known as HPNA) is an incorporated non-profit industry association of companies that develops and standardizes technology for home networking over the existing coaxial cables and telephone wiring within homes, so new wires do not need to be inst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20and%20Away
Home and Away (often abbreviated as H&A) is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip to Kangaroo Point, New South Wales, where he noticed locals were complaining about t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20CD
Enhanced CD is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players. Formats that fall under the "enhanced CD" category include mixed mode CD (Yellow Book CD-ROM/Red Book CD-DA), CD-i, CD-i ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teradata
Teradata Corporation is an American software company that provides cloud database and analytics-related software, products, and services. The company was formed in 1979 in Brentwood, California, as a collaboration between researchers at Caltech and Citibank's advanced technology group. Overview Teradata is an enterpri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Database%20Connectivity
In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems. An application written using ODBC can be ported to other platforms, both o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate%20Play%20the%20Game
Ashby Computers and Graphics Limited, trading as Ultimate Play the Game, was a British video game developer and publisher, founded in 1982, by ex-arcade video game developers Tim and Chris Stamper. Ultimate released a series of successful games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, MSX and Commodore 64 computers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20haven
A data haven, like a corporate haven or tax haven, is a refuge for uninterrupted or unregulated data. Data havens are locations with legal environments that are friendly to the concept of a computer network freely holding data and even protecting its content and associated information. They tend to fit into three categ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve%20physics
Naïve physics or folk physics is the untrained human perception of basic physical phenomena. In the field of artificial intelligence the study of naïve physics is a part of the effort to formalize the common knowledge of human beings. Many ideas of folk physics are simplifications, misunderstandings, or misperceptions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoordNed
NoordNed Personenvervoer B.V. (English translation Network North) was a public transport company operating trains and buses in the north and northeast of the Netherlands. Founded in 1999 as a joint venture by Arriva and Nederlandse Spoorwegen, after Arriva took full ownership in 2003, the brand was retired in 2005. Hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProRail
ProRail () is a Dutch government organisation responsible for the maintenance and extension of the national railway network infrastructure (not the metro or tram), the allocation of rail capacity, and controlling rail traffic. Prorail is a part of NS Railinfratrust, the Dutch railway infrastructure owner. Its Utrecht ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kan%20Lans
Anders Håkan Lans (born 2 November 1947 in Enskede) is a Swedish inventor. He holds two patents: a memory controller for a framebuffer: "Data processing system and apparatus for color graphics display". Framebuffer with memory controllers had been in common use for years at the time of this 1979 patent filing. a call...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse%20Spoorwegen
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; ; ) is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The Dutch rail network is the busiest in the European Union, and the third busiest in the world after Switzerland and Japan. The rail infrastructure is maintained by networ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LilyPond
LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. LilyPond is cross-platform, and is available for several common operating systems; released under...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion%20skinning
In 2D computer graphics, onion skinning is a technique used in creating animated cartoons and editing movies to see several frames at once. This way, the animator or editor can make decisions on how to create or change an image based on the previous image in the sequence. In traditional animation, the individual fram...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANDOS
ANDOS is a Russian operating system for Electronika BK series computers: BK-0010, BK-0011, and BK-0011M. They were based on the PDP-11 architecture by Digital Equipment Corporation. ANDOS was created in 1990 and released first in 1992. Initially it was developed by Alexey Nadezhin (by whose name the system is named) an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika%20BK
The Electronika BK is a series of 16-bit PDP-11-compatible home computers developed under the Electronika brand by NPO Scientific Center, then the leading microcomputer design team in the Soviet Union. It is also the predecessor of the more powerful UKNC and DVK micros. Overview First released in 1985 (developed in 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations%20of%20mathematics
Foundations of mathematics is the study of the philosophical and logical and/or algorithmic basis of mathematics, or, in a broader sense, the mathematical investigation of what underlies the philosophical theories concerning the nature of mathematics. In this latter sense, the distinction between foundations of mathema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell
Novell, Inc. () was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare. Under the leadership of chief executive Ray Noorda, NetWare became the dominant form of p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction
Satisfaction may refer to: Contentment Computer user satisfaction Customer satisfaction Job satisfaction Satisfaction theory of atonement, a Christian view of salvation The regaining of honour in a duel The process or outcome of assigning values to the free variables of a satisfiable formula Law Satisfaction o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27t
c't – (Magazine for Computer Technology) is a German computer magazine, published by the Heinz Heise publishing house. History and profile The first issue of the magazine was the November/December 1983 edition. Originally a special section of the electronics magazine elrad, the magazine has been published monthly sin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen%20or%20Bust
Seventeen or Bust was a volunteer computing project started in March 2002 to solve the last seventeen cases in the Sierpinski problem. The project solved eleven cases before a server loss in April 2016 forced it to cease operations. Work on the Sierpinski problem moved to PrimeGrid, which solved a twelfth case in Oct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instance%20variable
In class-based, object-oriented programming, an instance variable is a variable defined in a class (i.e., a member variable), for which each instantiated object of the class has a separate copy, or instance. An instance variable has similarities with a class variable, but is non-static. An instance variable is a variab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20computer%20science
Computer science (also called computing science) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. One well known subject classification system for computer science is the ACM Computing Classification System devised by the Associatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, an object can be a variable, a data structure, a function, or a method. As regions of memory, objects contain a value and are referenced by identifiers. In the object-oriented programming paradigm, an object can be a combination of variables, functions, and data structures; in particular in class-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMI
MMI may refer to: Science and technology Man-machine interface or user interface GSM Man-Machine Interface, a mobile telephony standard, see Unstructured Supplementary Service Data § Man-Machine Interface Modified Mercalli intensity scale, an earthquake intensity measure W3C MMI or Multimodal Interaction Activity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%20in%20television
The year 1972 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of notable television-related events. Events January 3 – Show Boat is aired for the first time on network television, on NBC January 21 – The first convention of Star Trek fans is held in New York City's Statler-Hilton hotel Mid-February – J...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nili
NILI () was a Jewish espionage network which assisted the United Kingdom in its fight against the Ottoman Empire in Palestine between 1915 and 1917, during World War I. NILI was centered in Zichron Ya'acov, with branches in Hadera and other Moshava. Nili is an acronym which stands for the Hebrew phrase from the First B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20variable
In class-based, object-oriented programming, a class variable is a variable defined in a class of which a single copy exists, regardless of how many instances of the class exist. A class variable is not an instance variable. It is a special type of class attribute (or class property, field, or data member). The same ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%20Willy
Miner Willy is the protagonist in a series of platform games for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64 home computers. The first two games - Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy were written by Matthew Smith during the early 1980s. The Willy saga was to be a trilogy and a third game in the series was planne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context
Context may refer to: Context (language use), the relevant constraints of the communicative situation that influence language use, language variation, and discourse summary Computing Context (computing), the virtual environment required to suspend a running software program Lexical context or runtime context of a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratification
Stratification may refer to: Mathematics Stratification (mathematics), any consistent assignment of numbers to predicate symbols Data stratification in statistics Earth sciences Stable and unstable stratification Stratification, or stratum, the layering of rocks Stratification (archeology), the formation of lay...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDC
DDC may stand for: Computing Distributed Disaggregated Chassis, an open networking design for a router chassis submitted by AT&T to the Open Compute Project. Digital distribution copy Digital down converter, a method in digital signal processing Display Data Channel, a communication protocol between a graphics card a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20integration
In analysis, numerical integration comprises a broad family of algorithms for calculating the numerical value of a definite integral. The term numerical quadrature (often abbreviated to quadrature) is more or less a synonym for "numerical integration", especially as applied to one-dimensional integrals. Some authors re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface%20%28object-oriented%20programming%29
In object-oriented programming, an interface or protocol type is a data type that acts as an abstraction of a class. It describes a set of method signatures, the implementations of which may be provided by multiple classes that are otherwise not necessarily related to each other. A class which provides the methods list...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M-86
CP/M-86 is a discontinued version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are the same as in CP/M-80. Executable files used the relocatable .CMD file format. Digital Research also produced a multi-user multitasking operating system compatible w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-based%20reasoning
In artificial intelligence and philosophy, case-based reasoning (CBR), broadly construed, is the process of solving new problems based on the solutions of similar past problems. In everyday life, an auto mechanic who fixes an engine by recalling another car that exhibited similar symptoms is using case-based reasoning...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite%20comic
Sprite comics are webcomics that consist primarily of computer sprites from video games. Art assets are ripped from various classic games such as Mega Man and Sonic the Hedgehog, are edited and combined by amateur cartoonists, and are posted on the internet. Popularized by Bob and George in the early 2000s, the style i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Raiders
Star Raiders is a space combat simulator video game that was written by Doug Neubauer and published in 1980 by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 400/800 computers. The player assumes the role of a starship pilot who is fighting Zylon forces while managing their ship's energy and systems, and protecting friendly starbases. Star...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpdump
tcpdump is a data-network packet analyzer computer program that runs under a command line interface. It allows the user to display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network to which the computer is attached. Distributed under the BSD license, tcpdump is free software. Tcpdump works on most ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarkko%20Oikarinen
Jarkko Oikarinen (born 16 August 1967) is a Finnish IT professional and the inventor of the first Internet chat network, called Internet Relay Chat (IRC), where he is known as WiZ. Biography and career Oikarinen was born in Kuusamo. While working at the University of Oulu in August 1988, he wrote the first IRC server ...