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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%2068008
The Motorola 68008 is an 8/32-bit microprocessor introduced by Motorola in 1982. It is a version of 1979's Motorola 68000 with an 8-bit external data bus, as well as a smaller address bus. The 68008 was available with 20 or 22 address lines (respective to 48-pin or 52-pin package) which allowed 1 MB or 4 MB address spa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20services
In computer networking, integrated services or IntServ is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. IntServ specifies a fine-grained QoS system, which is often contr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick%20%28programming%20language%29
Yorick is an interpreted programming language designed for numerics, graph plotting, and steering large scientific simulation codes. It is quite fast due to array syntax, and extensible via C or Fortran routines. It was created in 1996 by David H. Munro of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Features Indexing Yo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%20%28disambiguation%29
Alan Turing (1912–1954) was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. Turing may also refer to: People Turing baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, including a list of baronets Dermot Turing (born 1961), British solicitor and author Turing (drag queen), Filipino drag queen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20algebra
In database theory, relational algebra is a theory that uses algebraic structures for modeling data, and defining queries on it with a well founded semantics. The theory was introduced by Edgar F. Codd. The main application of relational algebra is to provide a theoretical foundation for relational databases, particul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple%20relational%20calculus
Tuple calculus is a calculus that was created and introduced by Edgar F. Codd as part of the relational model, in order to provide a declarative database-query language for data manipulation in this data model. It formed the inspiration for the database-query languages QUEL and SQL, of which the latter, although far le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20recompilation
In computer science, dynamic recompilation is a feature of some emulators and virtual machines, where the system may recompile some part of a program during execution. By compiling during execution, the system can tailor the generated code to reflect the program's run-time environment, and potentially produce more effi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext
In cryptography, ciphertext or cyphertext is the result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher. Ciphertext is also known as encrypted or encoded information because it contains a form of the original plaintext that is unreadable by a human or computer without the proper cipher to decry...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa%20%28computer%20virus%29
The Melissa virus is a mass-mailing macro virus released on or around March 26, 1999. It targets Microsoft Word and Outlook-based systems and created considerable network traffic. The virus infects computers via email; the email is titled "Important Message From," followed by the current username. Upon clicking the mes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon%20mapping
In computer graphics, photon mapping is a two-pass global illumination rendering algorithm developed by Henrik Wann Jensen between 1995 and 2001 that approximately solves the rendering equation for integrating light radiance at a given point in space. Rays from the light source (like photons) and rays from the camera a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket%207
Socket 7 is a physical and electrical specification for an x86-style CPU socket on a personal computer motherboard. It was released in June 1995. The socket supersedes the earlier Socket 5, and accepts P5 Pentium microprocessors manufactured by Intel, as well as compatibles made by Cyrix/IBM, AMD, IDT and others. Socke...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20calculus
The relational calculus consists of two calculi, the tuple relational calculus and the domain relational calculus, that is part of the relational model for databases and provide a declarative way to specify database queries. The raison d'être of relational calculus is the formalization of query optimization, which is f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20%28computer%20virus%29
Brain is the industry standard name for a computer virus that was released in its first form on 19 January 1986, and is considered to be the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles. Description Brain affects the PC by replacing the boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the vi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active-matrix%20liquid-crystal%20display
An active-matrix liquid-crystal display (AMLCD) is a type of flat-panel display used in high-resolution TVs, computer monitors, notebook computers, tablet computers and smartphones with an LCD screen, due to low weight, very good image quality, wide color gamut and fast response time. The concept of active-matrix LCDs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%205
Channel 5 may refer to: Americas Canal 5 (Mexico), a Mexican television network owned by Televisa XHGC-TDT, a television station in Mexico City, flagship of the Canal 5 network Canal 5 Noticias, a news channel in Buenos Aires, Argentina Canal 5 (Uruguay), a government-owned Uruguayan television network Tonis (Can...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclocking
In computing, overclocking is the practice of increasing the clock rate of a computer to exceed that certified by the manufacturer. Commonly, operating voltage is also increased to maintain a component's operational stability at accelerated speeds. Semiconductor devices operated at higher frequencies and voltages incre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. From 2017 to 2021, the network's slogan was "We Are the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance
Assurance may refer to: Assurance (computer networking) Assurance (theology), a Protestant Christian doctrine Assurance services, offered by accountancy firms Life assurance, an insurance on human life Quality assurance Assurance IQ, Inc., a subsidiary of Prudential Financial Places Assurance, West Virginia, an ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIM
PIM or Pim may refer to: Computing Parallel inference machine, an intended fifth generation computer Personal information management Personal information manager software Personal Information Module for PalmDOS Personal Iterations Multiplier for VeraCrypt Platform-independent model in software engineering Prot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20community
A virtual community is a social network of individuals who connect through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Some of the most pervasive virtual communities are online communities operating under social networking services. Ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20box
A blue box is an electronic device that produces tones used to generate the in-band signaling tones formerly used within the North American long-distance telephone network to send line status and called number information over voice circuits. This allowed an illicit user, referred to as a "phreaker", to place long-dist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20Router%20Project
The Linux Router Project (LRP) is a now defunct networking-centric micro Linux distribution. The released versions of LRP were small enough to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and made building and maintaining routers, access servers, thin servers, thin clients, network appliances, and typically embedded systems nex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20coherence
In computer architecture, cache coherence is the uniformity of shared resource data that ends up stored in multiple local caches. When clients in a system maintain caches of a common memory resource, problems may arise with incoherent data, which is particularly the case with CPUs in a multiprocessing system. In the i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appliance
Appliance may refer to: Electrical equipment and machinery Computer appliance, a computing device with a specific function and limited configuration ability, e.g.: Storage appliance, provides storage functionality for multiple attached systems using the transparent local storage area networks paradigm Anti-spam appli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20geometry
Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems are also considered to be part of computational geometry. While modern comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Mu%C3%B1iz
Lucas Tomás Muñiz Ramírez (4 February 1922 – 15 January 2009), better known as Tommy Muñiz, was a Puerto Rican comedy and drama actor, media producer, businessman and network owner. He is considered to be one of the pioneering figures of the television business in Puerto Rico. Although Muñíz was born in Ponce, he was r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot%20%28disambiguation%29
A polyglot is someone who speaks multiple languages. Polyglot may also refer to: Polyglot (book), a book that contains the same text in more than one language Polyglot (computing), a computer program that is valid in more than one programming language Polyglot (webzine), a biweekly game industry webzine published ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20management%20unit
A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all memory references on the memory bus, translating these requests, known as virtual memory addresses, into physical addresses in main memory. In modern systems, programs generally have addr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20II
The Macintosh II is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from March 1987 to January 1990. Based on the Motorola 68020 32-bit CPU, it is the first Macintosh supporting color graphics. When introduced, a basic system with monitor and 20 MB hard drive cost . With a 13-inch color monitor a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20FrontPage
Microsoft FrontPage (full name Microsoft Office FrontPage) is a discontinued WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003. Microsoft FrontPage has since been replaced by Micr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSC
SSC may refer to: Businesses Shanghai Supercomputer Center, a high-performance computing service provider Shared services center, outsourcing SSC North America, an automobile manufacturer Specialized System Consultants, a private media company Swedish Space Corporation, a Swedish government owned company Souther...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoiceXML
VoiceXML (VXML) is a digital document standard for specifying interactive media and voice dialogs between humans and computers. It is used for developing audio and voice response applications, such as banking systems and automated customer service portals. VoiceXML applications are developed and deployed in a manner an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20data%20structures
This is a list of well-known data structures. For a wider list of terms, see list of terms relating to algorithms and data structures. For a comparison of running times for a subset of this list see comparison of data structures. Data types Primitive types Boolean, true or false. Character Floating-point representa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equational%20prover
EQP, an abbreviation for equational prover, is an automated theorem proving program for equational logic, developed by the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of the Argonne National Laboratory. It was one of the provers used for solving a longstanding problem posed by Herbert Robbins, namely, whether all Robbin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhol%20worm
A Warhol worm is a computer worm that spreads as fast as physically possible, infecting all vulnerable machines on the entire Internet in 15 minutes or less. The term is based on the claim that "in the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of fame", which has been misattributed to Andy Warhol. A 2002 paper presented a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS
NetBIOS () is an acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. It provides services related to the session layer of the OSI model allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over a local area network. As strictly an API, NetBIOS is not a networking protocol. Operating systems of the 1980s (DOS and Novel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta%20XML%20Registries
Jakarta XML Registries (JAXR; formerly Java API for XML Registries) defines a standard API for Jakarta EE applications to access and programmatically interact with various kinds of metadata registries. JAXR is one of the Java XML programming APIs. The JAXR API was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 93. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday-morning%20cartoon
"Saturday-morning cartoon" is a colloquial term for the original animated series and live-action programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the United States on the "Big Three" television networks. The genre's popularity had a broad peak from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s; over ti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OASIS%20%28organization%29
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS; ) is a nonprofit consortium that works on the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for cybersecurity, blockchain, Internet of things (IoT), emergency management, cloud computing, legal data exchange, energy, content tec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealab%202021
Sealab 2021 is an American adult animated television series created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim. Cartoon Network aired the show's first three episodes in December 2000 before the official inception of the Adult Swim block on September 2, 2001, with the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker
The term Marker may refer to: Common uses Marker (linguistics), a morpheme that indicates some grammatical function Marker (telecommunications), a special-purpose computer Boundary marker, an object that identifies a land boundary Marker or Clapperboard, equipment used during filming Marker, a set of sewing patte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20WB
The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, and nicknamed the "Frog Network" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Biscuit%20Flower%20Hour
The King Biscuit Flower Hour was an American syndicated radio show presented by the D.I.R. Radio Network that featured concert performances by various rock music recording artists. History The program was broadcast on Sunday nights from 1973 until 1993. Following the end of original programming, the program continued,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20of%20Brandon%20Vedas
Brandon Carl Vedas (April 21, 1981 – January 12, 2003), also known by his nickname ripper on IRC, was an American computer enthusiast, recreational drug user and member of the Shroomery.org community who died of a multiple drug overdose while discussing what he was doing via chat and webcam. His death led to debate abo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Television%20Authority
The Independent Television Authority (ITA) was an agency created by the Television Act 1954 to supervise the creation of "Independent Television" (ITV), the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom. The ITA existed from 1954 until 1972. It was responsible for determining the location, constructing, bui...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn%20Atom
The Acorn Atom is a home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd from 1979 to 1982, when it was replaced by the BBC Micro. The BBC Micro began life as an upgrade to the Atom, originally known as the Proton. The Atom was a progression of the MOS Technology 6502-based machines that the company had been making from 1979. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%20Cantab
Jupiter Cantab Limited was a Cambridge based home computer company. Its main product was the 1983 Forth-based Jupiter Ace. The company was founded in 1982 by two ex-Sinclair Research staffers, Richard Altwasser and Steven Vickers. Their machine was, externally, remarkably similar to the ZX Spectrum, with a copycat rub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruithof%20curve
The Kruithof curve describes a region of illuminance levels and color temperatures that are often viewed as comfortable or pleasing to an observer. The curve was constructed from psychophysical data collected by Dutch physicist Arie Andries Kruithof, though the original experimental data is not present on the curve its...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPSS
SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, and criminal investigation. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. Versions of the software released since 2015 have the brand name IBM SPSS Statis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinemax
Cinemax (alternatively shortened to Max) is an American pay television, cable, and satellite television network owned by the Home Box Office, Inc. subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Developed as a companion "maxi-pay" service complementing the offerings shown on parent network Home Box Office (HBO) and initially foc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL
Very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) and very high-speed digital subscriber line 2 (VDSL2) are digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies providing data transmission faster than the earlier standards of asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) G.992.1, G.992.3 (ADSL2) and G.992.5 (ADSL2+). VDSL offers speed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Looney
Andrew J. Looney (born November 5, 1963) is a game designer and computer programmer. He is also a photographer, a cartoonist, a video-blogger, and a marijuana-legalization advocate. Andrew and Kristin Looney together founded the games company Looney Labs, where Andrew is the chief creative officer. Looney Labs has pub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ%20%28computing%29
In computer security, a DMZ or demilitarized zone (sometimes referred to as a perimeter network or screened subnet) is a physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization's external-facing services to an untrusted, usually larger, network such as the Internet. The purpose of a DMZ is to add an ad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer
Developer may refer to: Computers Software developer, a person or organization who develop programs/applications Video game developer, a person or business involved in video game development, the process of designing and creating games Web developer, a programmer who specializes in, or is specifically engaged in, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20workstation
A mobile workstation, also known as a desktop replacement computer (DTR) or workstation laptop, is a personal computer that provides the full capabilities of a workstation-class desktop computer while remaining mobile. They are often larger, bulkier laptops or in some cases 2-in-1 PCs with a tablet-like form factor an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWN
WWN may refer to: Wales West and North Television World Wide Name, a Fibre Channel, Serial ATA, and Serial Attached SCSI term World Without Nazism World Wrestling Network Weekly World News, a tabloid newspaper W. W. Norton, a book publishing company WWNLive Waterford Whispers News, an Irish satirical online new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keygen
A key generator (key-gen) is a computer program that generates a product licensing key, such as a serial number, necessary to activate for use of a software application. Keygens may be legitimately distributed by software manufacturers for licensing software in commercial environments where software has been licensed i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20link
In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto. Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS. Limited support also exists in Windo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20Act%201954
The Television Act 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. 55) was a British law which permitted the creation of the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom, ITV. Until the early 1950s, the only television service in Britain was operated as a monopoly by the British Broadcasting Corporation, and financed by the annu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman%20filter
For statistics and control theory, Kalman filtering, also known as linear quadratic estimation (LQE), is an algorithm that uses a series of measurements observed over time, including statistical noise and other inaccuracies, and produces estimates of unknown variables that tend to be more accurate than those based on a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nintendo%20Entertainment%20System%20accessories
This is a list of accessories released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (known in Japan as the Family Computer, or Famicom) by Nintendo and other various third party manufacturers. Family Computer Since the Famicom lacked traditional game controller ports, third-party controllers were designed for use with the c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo/Domain
Apollo/Domain was a range of workstations developed and produced by Apollo Computer from circa 1980 to 1989. The machines were built around the Motorola 68k family of processors, except for the DN10000, which had from one to four of Apollo's RISC processors, named PRISM. Operating system The original operating system ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%20Computer
Apollo Computer Inc., founded in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s. Like com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMEA%200183
NMEA 0183 is a combined electrical and data specification for communication between marine electronics such as echo sounder, sonars, anemometer, gyrocompass, autopilot, GPS receivers and many other types of instruments. It has been defined and is controlled by the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA). It repl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0X
0X or 0-X ("zero/oh ex") may refer to: Computing 0x, prefix for a hexadecimal numeric constant 0x (decentralized exchange infrastructure), a blockchain protocol C++11, standard for the C++ programming language (previously C++0x) In fiction Zero-X, a spacecraft from the Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett puppet s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimer%20SQL
Mimer SQL is a proprietary SQL-based relational database management system produced by the Swedish company Mimer Information Technology AB (Mimer AB), formerly known as Upright Database Technology AB. It was originally developed as a research project at the Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden in the 1970s before bein...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefish%20%28software%29
Bluefish is a free and open-source software advanced text editor with a variety of tools for programming and website development. It supports coding languages including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Go, Vala, Ada, D, SQL, Perl, ColdFusion, JSP, Python, Ruby, and shell. It is available for many p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godel%20%28disambiguation%29
Kurt Gödel (28 April 1906 – 14 January 1978) was an Austrian (later American) logician, mathematician and philosopher. Godel or similar may also refer to: Gödel (programming language) 3366 Gödel, a main belt asteroid discovered in 1985 Gödel, Kastamonu, a village in the Kastamonu Province, Turkey Godel (river), at Föh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Darlington
Sidney Darlington (July 18, 1906 – October 31, 1997) was an American electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar, bombsights, and gun and rocket guidance. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation
Installation may refer to: Installation (computer programs) Installation, work of installation art Installation, military base Installation, into an office, especially a religious (Installation (Christianity)) or political one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary%20Agency%20Network%20of%20Korea
The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (), abbreviated VANK (), is an Internet-based South Korean organization funded by the Korean government and established in 1999, consisting of 120,000 South Korean members and 30,000 international members. They refer to themselves as the "Cyber Diplomatic Delegation Group", and are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-6
STS-6 was the sixth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the maiden flight of the . Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 4, 1983, the mission deployed the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, into orbit, before landing at Edwards Air Force Base on April 9, 1983. STS-6 was the first Space Shuttle mission du...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston%20railway%20station
Euston railway station ( ; or London Euston) is a central London railway terminus managed by Network Rail in the London Borough of Camden. It is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line, the UK's busiest inter-city railway. Euston is the eleventh-busiest station in Britain and the country's busiest inter-city ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare%20logic
Hoare logic (also known as Floyd–Hoare logic or Hoare rules) is a formal system with a set of logical rules for reasoning rigorously about the correctness of computer programs. It was proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare, and subsequently refined by Hoare and other researchers. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20IIfx
The Macintosh IIfx is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from March 1990 to April 1992. At introduction it cost from to , depending on configuration, and it was the fastest Macintosh available at the time. The IIfx is the most powerful of the 68030-based Macintosh II family and was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMP
MMP may refer to: Computing and video games Massively multi-player, a type of online game Massively multiprocessing, large symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) computer systems Measure Map Pro format, a GIS format Science and mathematics Matrix metalloproteinase enzymes Methuselah Mouse Prize, for research into slowi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone%20station
Marylebone station ( ) is a Central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the Marylebone area of the City of Westminster. On the National Rail network it is also known as London Marylebone and is the southern terminus of the Chiltern Main Line to Birmingham. An accompanying Underground sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20television%20channels
Television in Canada has many individual stations, networks, and systems. National broadcast television networks English CBC Television, a national public network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Citytv, a privately owned television network owned by Rogers Media, with stations in Quebec, Ontari...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness%20to%20History
Eyewitness to History was a Friday night CBS Television Network public affairs program. It was initially hosted by veteran broadcaster Charles Kuralt (1960–61), followed by Walter Cronkite (1961–62), and then Charles Collingwood (1962–63). It aired from September 30, 1960 through July 26, 1963 in the 10:30 pm time slo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unsolved%20problems%20in%20mathematics
Many mathematical problems have been stated but not yet solved. These problems come from many areas of mathematics, such as theoretical physics, computer science, algebra, analysis, combinatorics, algebraic, differential, discrete and Euclidean geometries, graph theory, group theory, model theory, number theory, set th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-side%20bus
The front-side bus (FSB) is a computer communication interface (bus) that was often used in Intel-chip-based computers during the 1990s and 2000s. The EV6 bus served the same function for competing AMD CPUs. Both typically carry data between the central processing unit (CPU) and a memory controller hub, known as the n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20modem
A satellite modem or satmodem is a modem used to establish data transfers using a communications satellite as a relay. A satellite modem's main function is to transform an input bitstream to a radio signal and vice versa. There are some devices that include only a demodulator (and no modulator, thus only allowing dat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Plug%20and%20Play
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols on the Internet Protocol (IP) that permits networked devices, such as personal computers, printers, Internet gateways, Wi-Fi access points and mobile devices, to seamlessly discover each other's presence on the network and establish functional network serv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic%20community
An epistemic community is a network of knowledge-based experts who help decision-makers to define the problems they face, identify various policy solutions and assess the policy outcomes. The definitive conceptual framework of an epistemic community is widely accepted as that of Peter M. Haas. He describes them as "......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20theory
Proof theory is a major branch of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science within which proofs are treated as formal mathematical objects, facilitating their analysis by mathematical techniques. Proofs are typically presented as inductively-defined data structures such as lists, boxed lists, or trees, which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European%20road%20network
The Trans-European road network (TERN) was defined by Council Decision 93/629/EEC of 29 October 1993, and is a project to improve the internal road infrastructure of the European Union (EU). The TERN project is one of several Trans-European Transport Networks. Decision 93/629/EEC expired on 30 June 1995 so it was furt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality%20test
A primality test is an algorithm for determining whether an input number is prime. Among other fields of mathematics, it is used for cryptography. Unlike integer factorization, primality tests do not generally give prime factors, only stating whether the input number is prime or not. Factorization is thought to be a co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBuilder
JBuilder is a discontinued integrated development environment (IDE) for the programming language Java from Embarcadero Technologies. Originally developed by Borland, JBuilder was spun off with CodeGear which was eventually purchased by Embarcadero Technologies in 2008. Oracle had based the first versions of JDevelope...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias%20%28statistics%29
Statistical bias, in the mathematical field of statistics, is a systematic tendency in which the methods used to gather data and generate statistics present an inaccurate, skewed or biased depiction of reality. Statistical bias exists in numerous stages of the data collection and analysis process, including: the source...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20H.%20Bailey%20%28mathematician%29
David Harold Bailey (born 14 August 1948) is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Brigham Young University in 1972 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University in 1976. He worked for 14 years as a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, and then from 1998 to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBus
SBus is a computer bus system that was used in most SPARC-based computers (including all SPARCstations) from Sun Microsystems and others during the 1990s. It was introduced by Sun in 1989 to be a high-speed bus counterpart to their high-speed SPARC processors, replacing the earlier (and by this time, outdated) VMEbus u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aho%E2%80%93Corasick%20algorithm
In computer science, the Aho–Corasick algorithm is a string-searching algorithm invented by Alfred V. Aho and Margaret J. Corasick in 1975. It is a kind of dictionary-matching algorithm that locates elements of a finite set of strings (the "dictionary") within an input text. It matches all strings simultaneously. The c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Norris%20%28CEO%29
William Charles Norris (July 14, 1911, near Red Cloud, Nebraska – August 21, 2006) was an American business executive. He was the CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world. He is famous for taking on IBM in a head-on fight and winning, as well as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSDP
SSDP may refer to: Simple Service Discovery Protocol, a networking protocol Students for Sensible Drug Policy, an international non-profit advocacy and education organization based in Washington D.C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Service%20Discovery%20Protocol
The Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) is a network protocol based on the Internet protocol suite for advertisement and discovery of network services and presence information. It accomplishes this without assistance of server-based configuration mechanisms, such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) or Do...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEN
Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) is a mobile telecommunications technology, developed by Motorola, which provides its users the benefits of a trunked radio and a cellular telephone. It was called the first mobile social network by many technology industry analysts. iDEN places more users in a given spectral s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN
MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95. The Microsoft Network was initially a subscription-based dial-up online service that later bec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Series%20Cricket
World Series Cricket (WSC) was a commercial professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 which was organised by Kerry Packer and his Australian television network, Nine Network. WSC ran in commercial competition to established international cricket. World Series Cricket drastically changed the nature o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20model
In computing, the network model is a database model conceived as a flexible way of representing objects and their relationships. Its distinguishing feature is that the schema, viewed as a graph in which object types are nodes and relationship types are arcs, is not restricted to being a hierarchy or lattice. The netwo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20data%20model
A standard data model or industry standard data model (ISDM) is a data model that is widely applied in some industry, and shared amongst competitors to some degree. They are often defined by standards bodies, database vendors or operating system vendors. When in use, they enable easier and faster information shari...