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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Httpd | HTTPd is a software program that usually runs in the background, as a process, and plays the role of a server in a client–server model using the HTTP and/or HTTPS network protocol(s).
The process waits for the incoming client requests and for each request it answers by replying with requested information, including th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20NBC | This is a list of programs currently broadcast by the American television network NBC.
Current programming
Dramas
Law & Order (1990–2010; 2022)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Chicago Fire (2012)
Chicago P.D. (2014)
Chicago Med (2015)
Transplant (2020)
Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)
La Brea (2021)
Quant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20CBS | This is a list of programs currently or formerly broadcast by CBS.
Current programming
Note: Titles are listed according to their year of debut on the network in parentheses.
Dramas
NCIS (2003)
Blue Bloods (2010)
S.W.A.T. (2017)
FBI (2018)
FBI: Most Wanted (2020)
The Equalizer (2021)
NCIS: Hawaiʻi (2021)
FBI: Inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Fox | The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial free-to-air television network owned and operated by the Fox Corporation.
Though it was officially launched on October 9, 1986, Fox began its official primetime setup on April 5, 1987, with the series Married... with Children and The Tracey Ullman Show airing tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20UPN | The following is a list of programs broadcast by UPN. Some programs were carried over to The CW, a network formed through a partnership between WB parent company Time Warner and UPN corporate parent CBS Corporation, in September 2006 following the closure of The WB. Titles are listed in alphabetical order followed by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946%20in%20television | The year 1946 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1946. The number of television programming was increasing after World War II.
Events
February 4 – RCA demonstrates an all-electronic color television system.
February 18 – The first Washington, D.C. – Ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX | THX is a suite of high fidelity audiovisual reproduction standards for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, video game consoles, car audio systems, and video games. The THX trailer that precedes movies is based on the Deep Note, with a distinctive glissando up from a rumbling low pitch.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET%20Relay | BITNET Relay, also known as the Inter Chat Relay Network, was a chat network setup over BITNET nodes. It predated Internet Relay Chat and other online chat systems. The program that made the network possible was called "Relay" and was developed by Jeff Kell of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1985 using th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20Days | Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run on the ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, it was one of the most successful series of the 1970s. The series presented an idealized vision of life in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNP | PNP may refer to:
Science and technology
Purine nucleoside phosphorylase, an enzyme
4-Nitrophenol or p-nitrophenol
PNP transistor
Theoretical computer science
P versus NP problem
Computing
Plug and play, not requiring configuration
Legacy Plug and Play or Legacy PnP
Perspective-n-Point in computer vision
Org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20mouse | An optical mouse is a computer mouse which uses a light source, typically a light-emitting diode (LED), and a light detector, such as an array of photodiodes, to detect movement relative to a surface. Variations of the optical mouse have largely replaced the older mechanical mouse design, which uses moving parts to sen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon | The Automatic Voice Network (AUTOVON, military designation 490-L) was a worldwide American military telephone system. The system was built starting in 1963, based on the Army's existing Switch Communications Automated Network (SCAN) system.
In June 1966 the Air Defense Command voice network was cut over to the new se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20social%20relations | Chinese social relations are typified by a reciprocal social network. Often social obligations within the network are characterized in familial terms. The individual link within the social network is known by guanxi (关系/關係) and the feeling within the link is known by the term ganqing (感情). An important concept within C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoconf | GNU Autoconf is a tool for producing configure scripts for building, installing, and packaging software on computer systems where a Bourne shell is available.
Autoconf is agnostic about the programming languages used, but it is often used for projects using C, C++, Fortran, Fortran 77, Erlang, or Objective-C.
A confi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%20light%20transport | Metropolis light transport (MLT) is a global illumination application of a variant of the Monte Carlo method called the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm to the rendering equation for generating images from detailed physical descriptions of three-dimensional scenes.
The procedure constructs paths from the eye to a light s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20archaeology | Computational archaeology describes computer-based analytical methods for the study of long-term human behaviour and behavioural evolution. As with other sub-disciplines that have prefixed 'computational' to their name (e.g., computational biology, computational physics and computational sociology), the term is reserve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong%20shading | In 3D computer graphics, Phong shading, Phong interpolation, or normal-vector interpolation shading is an interpolation technique for surface shading invented by computer graphics pioneer Bui Tuong Phong. Phong shading interpolates surface normals across rasterized polygons and computes pixel colors based on the interp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump%20mapping | Bump mapping is a texture mapping technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object. This is achieved by perturbing the surface normals of the object and using the perturbed normal during lighting calculations. The result is an apparently bumpy surface rather than a smooth sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valleys%20%26%20Cardiff%20Local%20Routes | Valleys & Cardiff Local Routes () (formerly Valley Lines) is the network of passenger suburban railway services radiating from Cardiff, Wales. It includes lines within the city itself, the Vale of Glamorgan and the South Wales Valleys.
The services are currently operated by Transport for Wales Rail. In total, it serve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLISP | XLISP is a family of Lisp implementations written by David Betz and first released in 1983.
The first version was a Lisp with object-oriented extensions for computers with limited power. The second version (XLISP 2.0) moved toward Common Lisp, but was by no means a complete implementation. After a long period of inact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20and%20towns%20in%20Russia | This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census, there are 1,117 cities and towns in
List
Gallery
See also
Types of inhabited localities in Russia
List of renamed cities and towns in Russia
List of cities in Asia
List of cities in Europe
References
External links
List of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rc | rc (for "run commands") is the command line interpreter for Version 10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems. It resembles the Bourne shell, but its syntax is somewhat simpler. It was created by Tom Duff, who is better known for an unusual C programming language construct ("Duff's device").
A port of the or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Autotools | The GNU Autotools, also known as the GNU Build System, is a suite of programming tools designed to assist in making source code packages portable to many Unix-like systems.
It can be difficult to make a software program portable: the C compiler differs from system to system; certain library functions are missing on so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classful%20network | A classful network is an obsolete network addressing architecture used in the Internet from 1981 until the introduction of Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) in 1993. The method divides the IP address space for Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) into five address classes based on the leading four address bits. Class... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logit | In statistics, the logit ( ) function is the quantile function associated with the standard logistic distribution. It has many uses in data analysis and machine learning, especially in data transformations.
Mathematically, the logit is the inverse of the standard logistic function , so the logit is defined as
Because... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20filter | An adaptive filter is a system with a linear filter that has a transfer function controlled by variable parameters and a means to adjust those parameters according to an optimization algorithm. Because of the complexity of the optimization algorithms, almost all adaptive filters are digital filters. Adaptive filters a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20layer | An application layer is an abstraction layer that specifies the shared communication protocols and interface methods used by hosts in a communications network. An application layer abstraction is specified in both the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) and the OSI model. Although both models use the same term for their r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen%20Information%20System | The Schengen Information System (SIS) is a governmental database maintained by the European Commission. The SIS is used by 31 European countries to find information about individuals and entities for the purposes of national security, border control and law enforcement since 2001. A second technical version of this sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stride | Stride or STRIDE may refer to:
Computing
STRIDE (security), spoofing, tampering, repudiation, information disclosure, denial of service, elevation of privilege
Stride (software), a successor to the cloud-based HipChat, a corporate cloud-based collaboration tool
Stride (game engine), a free and open-source 2D and 3D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakeNet | QuakeNet is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, and was one of the largest IRC networks. The network was founded in 1997 by Garfield (Henrik Rasmussen, Denmark) and Oli (Oli Gustafsson, Sweden) as a new home for their respective countries' Quake channels. At its peak on February 8, 2005, the network recorded 243,394 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture%20grille | An aperture grille is one of two major technologies used to manufacture color cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions and computer displays; the other is the shadow mask.
Fine vertical wires behind the front glass of the display screen separate the different colors of phosphors into strips. These wires are positioned such ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20mask | The shadow mask is one of the two technologies used in the manufacture of cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions and computer monitors which produce clear, focused color images. The other approach is the aperture grille, better known by its trade name, Trinitron. All early color televisions and the majority of CRT compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modchip | A modchip (short for modification chip) is a small electronic device used to alter or disable artificial restrictions of computers or entertainment devices. Modchips are mainly used in video game consoles, but also in some DVD or Blu-ray players. They introduce various modifications to its host system's function, inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20postman%20problem | In graph theory, a branch of mathematics and computer science, Guan's route problem, the Chinese postman problem, postman tour or route inspection problem is to find a shortest closed path or circuit that visits every edge of an (connected) undirected graph at least once. When the graph has an Eulerian circuit (a clos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete%20algorithm | The Rete algorithm ( , , rarely , ) is a pattern matching algorithm for implementing rule-based systems. The algorithm was developed to efficiently apply many rules or patterns to many objects, or facts, in a knowledge base. It is used to determine which of the system's rules should fire based on its data store, its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne | AmigaOne is a series of computers intended to run AmigaOS 4 developed by Hyperion Entertainment, as a successor to the Amiga series by Commodore International. Earlier models were produced by Eyetech, and were based on the Teron series of PowerPC POP mainboards. In September 2009, Hyperion Entertainment secured an excl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterator | In computer programming, an iterator is an object that enables a programmer to traverse a container, particularly lists. Various types of iterators are often provided via a container's interface. Though the interface and semantics of a given iterator are fixed, iterators are often implemented in terms of the structures... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterBase | InterBase is a relational database management system (RDBMS) currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies. InterBase is distinguished from other RDBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi-generational architecture. InterBase runs on the Microsoft Windows, macOS, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL%20Utility%20Library | The OpenGL Utility Library (GLU) is a computer graphics library for OpenGL.
It consists of a number of functions that use the base OpenGL library to provide higher-level drawing routines from the more primitive routines that OpenGL provides. It is usually distributed with the base OpenGL package. GLU is not implemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20Level%20Interface | The Call Level Interface (CLI) is an application programming interface (API) and software standard to embed Structured Query Language (SQL) code in a host program as defined in a joint standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC): ISO/IEC 9075-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior%20%28chess%29 | Junior is a computer chess program written by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shai Bushinsky. Grandmaster Boris Alterman assisted, in particular with the opening book. Junior can take advantage of multiple processors, taking the name Deep Junior when competing this way in tournaments.
According to Bushinsky, one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon | Carmageddon is a vehicular combat video game released for personal computers in 1997. It was produced by Stainless Games and published by Interplay Productions and Sales Curve Interactive. It was ported to other platforms, and spawned a series.
In 2011, Stainless Games obtained the rights to Carmageddon from Square En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groff | Groff may refer to:
Groff (surname)
groff (software), a typesetting computer program
Groff (lychee), a variety of lychee fruit tree
Groff v. DeJoy, a United States Supreme Court case regarding religious liberty decided as part of the 2022 term
See also
Graf (disambiguation)
Graff (disambiguation)
Grof (disam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff | nroff (short for "new roff") is a text-formatting program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows. It is an integral part of the Unix help system, being used to format man pages for display.
nroff and the related troff were both develope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron | In machine learning, the perceptron (or McCulloch-Pitts neuron) is an algorithm for supervised learning of binary classifiers. A binary classifier is a function which can decide whether or not an input, represented by a vector of numbers, belongs to some specific class. It is a type of linear classifier, i.e. a class... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Ossanna | Joseph Frank Ossanna, Jr. (December 10, 1928 – November 28, 1977) was an electrical engineer and computer programmer who worked as a member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He became actively engaged in the software design of Multics (Multiplexed Information and Comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT%20Storage | JT Storage, Inc. (also known as JTS Corporation) was a maker of inexpensive IDE hard drives for personal computers based in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1994 by "Jugi" Tandon—the inventor of the double-sided floppy disk drive and founder of Tandon Corporation—and Tom Mitchell, a co-founder of Seagate and for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roff%20%28software%29 | roff is a typesetting markup language. As the first Unix text-formatting computer program, it is a predecessor of the nroff and troff document processing systems.
Roff was a Unix version of the runoff text-formatting program from Multics, which was a descendant of RUNOFF for CTSS (the first computerized text-formatti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Libtool | In computer programming, GNU Libtool is a software development tool, part of the GNU build system, consisting of a shell script created to address the software portability problem when compiling shared libraries from source code.
It hides the differences between computing platforms for the commands which compile shared... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20%28newsreader%29 | Pan is a news client for multiple operating systems, developed by Charles Kerr and others. It supports offline reading, multiple servers, multiple connections, fast (indexed) article header filtering and mass saving of multi-part attachments encoded in uuencode, yEnc and base64; images in common formats can be viewed i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20server | A news server is a collection of software used to handle Usenet articles. It may also refer to a computer itself which is primarily or solely used for handling Usenet. Access to Usenet is only available through news server providers.
Articles and posts
End users often use the term "posting" to refer to a single messag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT | GNAT is a free-software compiler for the Ada programming language which forms part of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). It supports all versions of the language, i.e. Ada 2012, Ada 2005, Ada 95 and Ada 83. Originally its name was an acronym that stood for GNU NYU Ada Translator, but that name no longer applies. The fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%27s%20Audio | Monkey's Audio is an algorithm and file format for lossless audio data compression. Lossless data compression does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as Advanced Audio Coding, MP3, Vorbis, and Opus. Therefore, it may be decompressed to a file that is identical to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demos | Demos may refer to:
Computing
DEMOS, a Soviet Unix-like operating system
DEMOS (ISP), the first internet service provider in the USSR
Demos Commander, an Orthodox File Manager for Unix-like systems
plural for Demo (computer programming)
Organizations
Demos (UK think tank), London-based public policy research org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogroup | Demogroups are teams of demosceners, who make computer based audio-visual works of art known as demos. Demogroups form a subculture collectively known as the demoscene.
Groups frequently consist of students, young computer enthusiasts who spend days coding their demos. They often have a pseudonym (called a "handle" or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene | The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. The purpose of a demo is to show off programming, visual art, and musical skills. Demos and other demoscene productions (graphics, mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Spencer | Henry Spencer (born 1955) is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote "regex", a widely used software library for regular expressions, and co-wrote C News, a Usenet server program. He also wrote The Ten Commandments for C Programmers. He is coauthor, with David Lawrence, of the book Managing Usenet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20News%20Transfer%20Protocol | The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for reading/posting articles by the end user client applications. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego, and Phil Lapsley of the University of California,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20broadcasting | Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in satellite radio the radio waves are broadcast by a satellit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20network | In physics, a spin network is a type of diagram which can be used to represent states and interactions between particles and fields in quantum mechanics. From a mathematical perspective, the diagrams are a concise way to represent multilinear functions and functions between representations of matrix groups. The diagram... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Becker | Donald Becker is an American computer programmer who wrote Ethernet drivers for the Linux operating system.
Becker, in collaboration with Thomas Sterling, created the Beowulf clustering software while at NASA, to connect many inexpensive PCs to solve complex math problems typically reserved for classic supercomputer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo%20%281987%20video%20game%29 | Bolo is a video game initially created for the BBC Micro computer by Stuart Cheshire in 1987, and was later ported by Cheshire to the Apple Macintosh. Although offered for sale for the BBC Micro, this version is now regarded as lost. It is a networked multiplayer game that simulates a tank battlefield. Currently, a Win... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP | UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers.
A command named is one of the programs in the suite; it provides a user interface for requesting file copy operations. The UUCP suite also includes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIX | MIX is a hypothetical computer used in Donald Knuth's monograph, The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP). MIX's model number is 1009, which was derived by combining the model numbers and names of several contemporaneous, commercial machines deemed significant by the author. Also, "MIX" read as a Roman numeral is 1009.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting | In mathematical modeling, overfitting is "the production of an analysis that corresponds too closely or exactly to a particular set of data, and may therefore fail to fit to additional data or predict future observations reliably". An overfitted model is a mathematical model that contains more parameters than can be ju... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Graham%20%28programmer%29 | Paul Graham (; born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, investor, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Units | GNU Units is a cross-platform computer program for conversion of units of quantities. It has a database of measurement units, including esoteric and historical units. This for instance allows conversion of velocities specified in furlongs per fortnight, and pressures specified in tons per acre. Output units are checked... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APC | APC most often refers to:
Armoured personnel carrier, an armoured fighting vehicle
APC or Apc may also refer to:
Computing and technology
Auto Power Control, a system of powering e.g. laser diodes
Adaptive predictive coding, an analog-to-digital conversion system
Advanced process control, a concept in control the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20domain | Time domain refers to the analysis of mathematical functions, physical signals or time series of economic or environmental data, with respect to time. In the time domain, the signal or function's value is known for all real numbers, for the case of continuous time, or at various separate instants in the case of discre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitron | Trinitron was Sony's brand name for its line of aperture-grille-based CRTs used in television sets and computer monitors, one of the first television systems to enter the market since the 1950s. Constant improvement in the basic technology and attention to overall quality allowed Sony to charge a premium for Trinitron ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon%20Zakraj%C5%A1ek | Egon Zakrajšek (July 7, 1941 – September 2002) was a Slovene mathematician and computer scientist.
Zakrajšek was born in Ljubljana, SFR Yugoslavia (today Slovenia). He became an orphan even before he started school. He went to elementary school and gymnasium in Jesenice. He was a good student and he soon showed his ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty%20Morphin%20Power%20Rangers | Mighty Power Rangers (MMPR) is an American superhero television series that premiered on August 28, 1993, on the Fox Kids programming block. It is the first entry of the Power Rangers franchise, and became a 1990s pop culture phenomenon along with a large line of toys, action figures, and other merchandise. The show a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated%20services | Differentiated services or DiffServ is a computer networking architecture that specifies a mechanism for classifying and managing network traffic and providing quality of service (QoS) on modern IP networks. DiffServ can, for example, be used to provide low-latency to critical network traffic such as voice or streaming... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Wang | An Wang (; February 7, 1920 – March 24, 1990) was a Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor, and cofounder of computer company Wang Laboratories, which was known primarily for its dedicated word processing machines. An Wang was an important contributor to the development of magnetic-core memory.
Early life and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive%20analysis | Competitive analysis may refer to:
Competitor analysis
Competitive analysis (online algorithm) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Laboratories | Wang Laboratories was a US computer company founded in 1951 by An Wang and G. Y. Chu. The company was successively headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1954–1963), Tewksbury, Massachusetts (1963–1976), and finally in Lowell, Massachusetts (1976–1997). At its peak in the 1980s, Wang Laboratories had annual revenue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic | Ludic may refer to:
Ludic language, a Finnic language in the Uralic language family
Ludic fallacy, is "the misuse of games to model real-life situations."
Ludic interface, are types of computer interface that are inherently "playful".
Ludology, Game studies (Not to be confused with Game theory.) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Kidder | John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Dobb%27s%20Journal | Dr. Dobb's Journal (DDJ) was a monthly magazine published in the United States by UBM Technology Group, part of UBM. It covered topics aimed at computer programmers. When launched in 1976, DDJ was the first regular periodical focused on microcomputer software, rather than hardware. In its last years of publication, it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%20Mark%20I | The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.
One of the first programs to run on the Mark I was initiated on 29 March 1944 by John von Neumann. At that time, v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-volatile%20random-access%20memory | Non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) is random-access memory that retains data without applied power. This is in contrast to dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and static random-access memory (SRAM), which both maintain data only for as long as power is applied, or forms of sequential-access memory such as magnet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiFT | giFT Internet File Transfer (giFT) is a computer software daemon that allows several file sharing protocols to be used with a simple client having a graphical user interface (GUI). The client dynamically loads plugins implementing the protocols, as they are required.
General
Clients implementing frontends for the gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20bias | The inductive bias (also known as learning bias) of a learning algorithm is the set of assumptions that the learner uses to predict outputs of given inputs that it has not encountered.
Inductive bias is anything which makes the algorithm learn one pattern instead of another pattern (e.g. step-functions in decision tree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Catmull | Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist who is the co-founder of Pixar and was the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.
Early life
Edwin Catmull was born on March 31, 1945, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20C.%20Crow | Franklin C. (Frank) Crow is a computer scientist who has made important contributions to computer graphics, including some of the first practical spatial anti-aliasing techniques. Crow also proposed the shadow volume technique for generating geometrically accurate shadows.
Education
Crow studied electrical engineerin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Freeman | Dr. Herbert Freeman (born Herbert Freinmann, December 13, 1925 – November 15, 2020) was an American computer scientist who made important contributions to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, including spatial anti-aliasing, and machine vision.
Personal life
Herbert Freeman was born Herbert Freim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF | SDF may refer to:
Computing
File formats
Simple Data Format, for binary data
Spatial Data File, for geodatabases
Standard Delay Format, for timing data
SQL Server Compact Edition Database File (filename extension: .sdf)
Structure data file, for chemical tables
Scientific Data Format, a Hierarchical Data Format ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiled%20language | A compiled language is a programming language whose implementations are typically compilers (translators that generate machine code from source code), and not interpreters (step-by-step executors of source code, where no pre-runtime translation takes place).
The term is somewhat vague. In principle, any language can b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA | SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard to become the predominant interface for storage devices.
Serial ATA industry co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%20Slammer | SQL Slammer is a 2003 computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed general Internet traffic. It also crashed routers around the world, causing even more slowdowns. It spread rapidly, infecting most of its 75,000 victims within 10 minutes.
The program exploited a buffer o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20addiction | Computer addiction is a form of behavioral addiction that can be described as the excessive or compulsive use of the computer, which persists despite serious negative consequences for personal, social, or occupational function. Another clear conceptualization is made by Block, who stated that "Conceptually, the diagnos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonhap%20News%20Agency | Yonhap News Agency () is a major South Korean news agency. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea.
History
Yonhap (, ) was established on 19 December 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC%20Programming | BASIC Programming is an Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600) cartridge that teaches simple computer programming using a dialect of BASIC. Written by Warren Robinett and released by Atari, Inc. in 1979, this BASIC interpreter is one of a few non-game cartridges for the console. The Atari VCS's RAM s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peek | Peek or PEEK may refer to:
Computing
Peek (data type operation), an operation on data types such as stacks and queues
PEEK and POKE, the low-level commands of the BASIC programming language
Peek (mobile Internet device), an email-only mobile handheld device
Peek, an ADABAS/NATURAL utility
Peek (software), a Linux... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Red%20%28computer%20worm%29 | Code Red was a computer worm observed on the Internet on July 15, 2001. It attacked computers running Microsoft's IIS web server. It was the first large-scale, mixed-threat attack to successfully target enterprise networks.
The Code Red worm was first discovered and researched by eEye Digital Security employees Marc M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20computer%20viruses%20and%20worms | This timeline of computer viruses and worms presents a chronological timeline of noteworthy computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses, similar malware, related research and events.
1960s
John von Neumann's article on the "Theory of self-reproducing automata" is published in 1966. The article is based on lectur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash | The backslash is a typographical mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash . It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, downwhack, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-move%20heuristic | In computer chess programs, the null-move heuristic is a heuristic technique used to enhance the speed of the alpha–beta pruning algorithm.
Rationale
Alpha–beta pruning speeds the minimax algorithm by identifying cutoffs, points in the game tree where the current position is so good for the side to move that best pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartree | The hartree (symbol: Eh or Ha), also known as the Hartree energy, is the unit of energy in the Hartree atomic units system, named after the British physicist Douglas Hartree. Its CODATA recommended value is =
The hartree energy is approximately the electric potential energy of the hydrogen atom in its ground state a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert%20channel | In computer security, a covert channel is a type of attack that creates a capability to transfer information objects between processes that are not supposed to be allowed to communicate by the computer security policy. The term, originated in 1973 by Butler Lampson, is defined as channels "not intended for information... |
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