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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His | His or HIS may refer to:
Computing
Hightech Information System, a Hong Kong graphics card company
Honeywell Information Systems
Hybrid intelligent system
Microsoft Host Integration Server
Education
Hangzhou International School, in China
Harare International School, in Zimbabwe
Hokkaido International School,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jini | Jini (), also called Apache River, is a network architecture for the construction of distributed systems in the form of modular co-operating services. JavaSpaces is a part of the Jini.
Originally developed by Sun Microsystems, Jini was released under the Apache License 2.0. Responsibility for Jini has been transferred... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Kay%20and%20Johnny | Mary Kay and Johnny is an American situation comedy starring real-life married couple Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns. It was the first sitcom broadcast on a network television in the United States. Mary Kay and Johnny initially aired live on the DuMont Television Network before moving to CBS and then NBC.
Format
Plots ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression%20artifact | A compression artifact (or artefact) is a noticeable distortion of media (including images, audio, and video) caused by the application of lossy compression. Lossy data compression involves discarding some of the media's data so that it becomes small enough to be stored within the desired disk space or transmitted (str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami%20Al-Arian | Sami Amin Al-Arian (; born January 14, 1958) is a Kuwaiti-born political activist of Palestinian origin who was a computer engineering professor at University of South Florida. During the Clinton administration and Bush administration, he was invited to the White House. He actively campaigned for the Bush presidential ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfamily | Superfamily may refer to:
Protein superfamily
Superfamily database
Superfamily (taxonomy), a taxonomic rank
Superfamily (linguistics), also known as macrofamily
Font superfamily, a large typographic family
Superfamily (band), a Norwegian pop band
"Super Family", a group of comic characters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Educational%20Television | National Educational Television (NET) was an American educational broadcast television network owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It operated from May 16, 1954, to October 4, 1970, and was succeeded by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which has memberships ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicific%20calculus | The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1747–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to induce. Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of plea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCCW | PCCW Limited (formerly known as Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited) is a Hong Kong-based information and communication technology (ICT) company.
The company is the major owner of telecommunications company HKT Limited, and also holds a major interest in Pacific Century Premium Developments Limited. PCCW headquartered ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Personal%20Web%20Server | Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS) is a scaled-down web server software for Windows operating systems. It has fewer features than Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) and its functions have been superseded by IIS and Visual Studio. Microsoft officially supports PWS on Windows 95-98, Windows 98 SE, and Windo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA%20Kernel | The VA Kernel is a set of programs, developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs of the United States Government, which provide an operating system and MUMPS implementation independent abstraction to the VistA Hospital Information System. These programs (called 'routines' in MUMPS) are the only programs which are e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo%20Yamagata | is a Japanese author, critic, economist and translator. He translated some important works in computer technology such as "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond, "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" by Lawrence Lessig into Japanese. He is also the founder and chairman of Project Sugita Genpaku, which is a vol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Swaggart | Jimmy Lee Swaggart (; born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal televangelist.
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network (SBN). Swaggart is the senior pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Swaggart was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1988 after a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBBS | CBBS ("Computerized Bulletin Board System") was a computer program created by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess to allow them and other computer hobbyists to exchange information between each other.
In January 1978, Chicago was hit by the Great Blizzard of 1978, which dumped record amounts of snow throughout the Midw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point%20Tunneling%20Protocol | The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is an obsolete method for implementing virtual private networks. PPTP has many well known security issues.
PPTP uses a TCP control channel and a Generic Routing Encapsulation tunnel to encapsulate PPP packets. Many modern VPNs use various forms of UDP for this same function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Germany | , Germany had a railway network of , of which were electrified and were double track. Germany is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Germany is 80.
Germany was ranked fourth among national European rail systems in the 2017 European Railway Performance Index assessing inten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADL | Adl is an Arabic word meaning justice.
Adl or ADL may also refer to:
Computing
Action description language, a formal language for automatic planning systems
Adventure Development Language, created by On-Line Systems
Alder Lake series Intel CPUs
Archetype definition language, as used in openEHR archetypes
Archite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSN | SSN may refer to:
Broadcasting
Setanta Sports News, a former 24-hour sports news network in the United Kingdom
Sky Sports News, a 24-hour sports news network in the United Kingdom
Soul of the South Network, an African-American oriented TV Network that launched May 28, 2013
Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh, a primary school in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual%20Broadcasting%20System | The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999. In the golden age of U.S. radio drama, Mutual was best known as the original network home of The Lone Ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20diagram | A state diagram is a type of diagram used in computer science and related fields to describe the behavior of systems. State diagrams require that the system described is composed of a finite number of states; sometimes, this is indeed the case, while at other times this is a reasonable abstraction. Many forms of state ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20IOS | The Internetworking Operating System (IOS) is a family of proprietary network operating systems used on several router and network switch models manufactured by Cisco Systems. The system is a package of routing, switching, internetworking, and telecommunications functions integrated into a multitasking operating system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20metric | In software engineering and development, a software metric is a standard of measure of a degree to which a software system or process possesses some property. Even if a metric is not a measurement (metrics are functions, while measurements are the numbers obtained by the application of metrics), often the two terms are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg | dpkg is the software at the base of the package management system in the free operating system Debian and its numerous derivatives. dpkg is used to install, remove, and provide information about .deb packages.
dpkg (Debian Package) itself is a low-level tool. APT (Advanced Package Tool), a higher-level tool, is more c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan | Lifespan or life span may refer to:
Lifespan (film), 1976 film starring Klaus Kinski
Lifespan (video game), 1983 Atari 8-bit computer game
Lifespan (album), 2004 album by Kris Davis
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To, 2019 book by David Andrew Sinclair
Lifespan.io, non-profit crowdfunding platform of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serving%20channel | A serving channel (sometimes called a depot channel) is a slang term for a file sharing channel found on an IRC network. Here, users can share and download files including photos, videos, audio files, books, programs, etc. Users that are actively sharing their files are generally referred to as 'servers', whereas use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTAN | CTAN (an acronym for "Comprehensive TeX Archive Network") is the authoritative place where TeX related material and software can be found for download. Repositories for other projects, such as the MiKTeX distribution of TeX, constantly mirror most of CTAN.
History
Before CTAN there were a number of people who made som... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature | Feature may refer to:
Computing
Feature recognition, could be a hole, pocket, or notch
Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob
Feature (software design) is an intentional distinguishing characteristic of a software item (in performance, portability, or—especially—functionality)
Feature (machin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation%20theory | In statistical physics and mathematics, percolation theory describes the behavior of a network when nodes or links are added. This is a geometric type of phase transition, since at a critical fraction of addition the network of small, disconnected clusters merge into significantly larger connected, so-called spanning c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end | End-to-end or End to End may refer to:
End-to-end auditable voting systems, a voting system
End-to-end delay, the time for a packet to be transmitted across a network from source to destination
End-to-end encryption, a cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20Layer%20Security | Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. The protocol is widely used in applications such as email, instant messaging, and voice over IP, but its use in securing HTTPS remains the most publicly visible.
The TLS protocol aims primari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DL | DL, dL, or dl may stand for:
In science and technology
In electronics and computing
, an HTML element used for a definition list
Deep learning, a branch of algorithm-based machine learning
Description logics, a family of knowledge representation languages
Delete Line (ANSI), an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence
Digital libr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBC%20%28disambiguation%29 | WNBC (channel 4) is the flagship station of the NBC television network, located in New York City.
WNBC may also refer to:
WFAN, a radio station (660 AM) in New York City, which held the call sign WNBC from 1946 to 1954 and from 1960 to 1988
WQHT, a radio station (97.1 FM) in New York City, which held the call sign ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20key | In computing, a Control key is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a special operation (for example, ). Similarly to the Shift key, the Control key rarely performs any function when pressed by itself. The Control key is located on or near the bottom left side of most keyboards ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPIX | WPIX (channel 11) is a television station in New York City, serving as the de facto flagship of The CW Television Network. Owned by Mission Broadcasting, the station is operated by CW majority owner Nexstar Media Group under a local marketing agreement (LMA). Since its inception in 1948, WPIX's studios and offices have... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc%20%28programming%20language%29 | Arc is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp, developed by Paul Graham and Robert Morris. It is free and open-source software released under the Artistic License 2.0.
History
In 2001, Paul Graham announced that he was working on a new dialect of Lisp named Arc. Over the years since, he has written se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSD | In Internet computing, NSD (for "name server daemon") is an open-source Domain Name System (DNS) server. It was developed by NLnet Labs of Amsterdam in cooperation with the RIPE NCC, from scratch as an authoritative name server (i.e., not implementing the recursive caching function by design). The intention of this de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconfigurable%20computing | Reconfigurable computing is a computer architecture combining some of the flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware by processing with very flexible high speed computing fabrics like field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The principal difference when compared to using ordinary microprocessors is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20file%20formats | This is a list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension it is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format name or abbreviation. Many operating systems do not limit filenames to one extension shorter than 4 characters, as was common with some operating systems that su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP%20%28file%20format%29 | ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common. This format was originally created in 1989 and was first implem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice%20World%20%28video%20game%29 | Spice World is a music video game starring English pop girl group the Spice Girls as animated characters. It was developed by SCE Studios Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation.
Content
With tracks like "Wannabe", "Who Do You Think You Are", "Move Over", "Spice Up Your Life" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI%20Advanced%20Scientific%20Computer | The Advanced Scientific Computer (ASC) is a supercomputer designed and manufactured by Texas Instruments (TI) between 1966 and 1973. The ASC's central processing unit (CPU) supported vector processing, a performance-enhancing technique which was key to its high-performance. The ASC, along with the Control Data Corporat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%20Guidance%20Computer | The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM) and Apollo Lunar Module (LM). The AGC provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft. The AGC was the first comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting%20Sheriff | Acting Sheriff is an unsold, half-hour television pilot sitcom created by Walt Disney Television for television network CBS that aired across the United States on Saturday, August 17, 1991. Identified as episode number 895 in Walt Disney Television season number 35, the 30-minute comedy drama featured Robert Goulet as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers%3A%20Principles%2C%20Techniques%2C%20and%20Tools | Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools is a computer science textbook by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman about compiler construction for programming languages. First published in 1986, it is widely regarded as the classic definitive compiler technology text.
It is known as the Dra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Rabin%20primality%20test | The Miller–Rabin primality test or Rabin–Miller primality test is a probabilistic primality test: an algorithm which determines whether a given number is likely to be prime, similar to the Fermat primality test and the Solovay–Strassen primality test.
It is of historical significance in the search for a polynomial-tim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20generation%20%28compiler%29 | In computing, code generation is part of the process chain of a compiler and converts intermediate representation of source code into a form (e.g., machine code) that can be readily executed by the target system.
Sophisticated compilers typically perform multiple passes over various intermediate forms. This multi-stag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20software | System software is software designed to provide a platform for other software. Examples of system software include operating systems (OS) (like macOS, Linux, Android, and Microsoft Windows).
Application software is software that allows users to do user-oriented tasks such as create text documents, play or develop gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnatha | Agnatha (; ) is an infraphylum of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, consisting of both present (cyclostomes) and extinct (conodonts and ostracoderms) species. Among recent animals, cyclostomes are sister to all vertebrates with jaws, known as gnathostomes.
Recent molecular data, both from rRNA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20analysis%20%28compilers%29 | Semantic analysis or context sensitive analysis is a process in compiler construction, usually after parsing, to gather necessary semantic information from the source code. It usually includes type checking, or makes sure a variable is declared before use which is impossible to describe in the extended Backus–Naur form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20analytical%20processing | Online analytical processing, or OLAP (), is an approach to answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries swiftly in computing. OLAP is part of the broader category of business intelligence, which also encompasses relational databases, report writing and data mining. Typical applications of OLAP include business r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN%20TV | MSN TV (formerly WebTV) was a web access product consisting of a thin client device that used a television for display (instead of using a computer monitor), and the online service that supported it. The original WebTV device design and service were developed by WebTV Networks, Inc., a company started in 1995. The Web... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDM | CDM may refer to:
Organizations
College of Dental Medicine, US dental schools
DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media, in Chicago, Illinois, US
Corona del Mar High School, a high school located in Newport Beach, California, US
Science and technology
Cash deposit machine, in banks
Clean Developme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS | In the Star Trek fictional universe, LCARS (; an acronym for Library Computer Access/Retrieval System) is a computer operating system. Within Star Trek chronology, the term was first used in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series.
Production
The LCARS graphical user interface was designed by scenic art supervisor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20APIs%20for%20Integrated%20Networks | Java APIs for Integrated Networks (JAIN) is an activity within the Java Community Process, developing APIs for the creation of telephony (voice and data) services. Originally, JAIN stood for Java APIs for Intelligent Network. The name was later changed to Java APIs for Integrated Networks to reflect the widening scope ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Cox | Brad J. Cox (May 2, 1944 – January 2, 2021) was an American computer scientist who was known mostly for creating the Objective-C programming language with his business partner Tom Love and for his work in software engineering (specifically software reuse) and software componentry.
Biography
Cox received his Bachelor o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20McIlroy | Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College.
McIlroy is best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level%20programming%20language | In computer science, a high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer. In contrast to low-level programming languages, it may use natural language elements, be easier to use, or may automate (or even hide entirely) significant areas of computing system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-level%20programming%20language | A low-level programming language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture—commands or functions in the language map that are structurally similar to processor's instructions. Generally, this refers to either machine code or assembly language. Becaus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20paradigm | Programming paradigms are a way to classify programming languages based on their features. Languages can be classified into multiple paradigms.
Some paradigms are concerned mainly with implications for the execution model of the language, such as allowing side effects, or whether the sequence of operations is defined ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20programming | Constraint programming (CP) is a paradigm for solving combinatorial problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, and operations research. In constraint programming, users declaratively state the constraints on the feasible solutions for a set of decision variables. C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally%20unique%20identifier | A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a 128-bit label used for information in computer systems. The term Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) is also used, mostly in Microsoft systems.
When generated according to the standard methods, UUIDs are, for practical purposes, unique. Their uniqueness does not depend on a ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim | Guggenheim may refer to:
Buildings
Guggenheim Building, in Rochester, Minnesota
Guggenheim Museums, global network of museums established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Murry Guggenheim House, also known as the Guggenheim Library of Monmouth University, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Other uses
Guggenheim (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Software%20Foundation | The Open Software Foundation (OSF) was a not-for-profit industry consortium for creating an open standard for an implementation of the operating system Unix. It was formed in 1988 and merged with X/Open in 1996, to become The Open Group.
Despite the similarities in name, OSF was unrelated to the Free Software Foundati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20algorithm | In computational intelligence (CI), an evolutionary algorithm (EA) is a subset of evolutionary computation, a generic population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithm. An EA uses mechanisms inspired by biological evolution, such as reproduction, mutation, recombination, and selection. Candidate solutions to the op... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20catalog | A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog. A bibliographic item can be any information entity (e.g.,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20George%20Hohman | John George Hohman (also spelled Johann Georg Hohman, and his surname sometimes misspelled as Hoffman), who was active between 1802 and 1846, was a German-American printer, book seller and compiler of collections of herbal remedies, magical healings, and charms. He immigrated to the USA from Germany in 1802, settled in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse%20Rock%21 | Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, music videos) which aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on the U.S. television network ABC. The themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20dispatch | Multiple dispatch or multimethods is a feature of some programming languages in which a function or method can be dynamically dispatched based on the run-time (dynamic) type or, in the more general case, some other attribute of more than one of its arguments. This is a generalization of single-dispatch polymorphism whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Lisp%20Object%20System | The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) is the facility for object-oriented programming which is part of ANSI Common Lisp. CLOS is a powerful dynamic object system which differs radically from the OOP facilities found in more static languages such as C++ or Java. CLOS was inspired by earlier Lisp object systems such as MI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20function | In computer programming, a generic function is a function defined for polymorphism.
In statically typed languages
In statically typed languages (such as C++ and Java), the term generic functions refers to a mechanism for compile-time polymorphism (static dispatch), specifically parametric polymorphism. These are func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS | 86-DOS (known internally as QDOS, for Quick and Dirty Operating System) is a discontinued operating system developed and marketed by Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for its Intel 8086-based computer kit.
86-DOS shared a few of its commands with other operating systems like OS/8 and CP/M, which made it easy to port pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Border%20network | The No Border Network (In the United Kingdom also called "No Borders Network" or "Noborders Network") refers to loose associations of autonomous organisations, groups, and individuals in Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and beyond. They support freedom of movement and resist human migration control by coo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name%20binding | In programming languages, name binding is the association of entities (data and/or code) with identifiers. An identifier bound to an object is said to reference that object. Machine languages have no built-in notion of identifiers, but name-object bindings as a service and notation for the programmer is implemented by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile%20time | In computer science, compile time (or compile-time) describes the time window during which a language's statements are converted into binary instructions for the processor to execute.
The term is used as an adjective to describe concepts related to the context of program compilation, as opposed to concepts related to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20Device%20Markup%20Language | The Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) is a markup language intended for display on handheld computers, information appliances, smartphones, etc.. It is similar to HTML, but for wireless and handheld devices with small displays, like PDA, mobile phones and so on.
It was originally developed in about 1996 by Unwi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino%20%28web%20browser%29 | Camino (from the Spanish word meaning "path") is a discontinued free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the OS X operating system. In place of an XUL-based user interface used by most Mozilla-based applications, Camino used Mac-native Cocoa APIs. O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that provides centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) management for users who connect and use a network service. RADIUS was developed by Livingston Enterprises in 1991 as an access server authentication and accounting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20quantum%20computing%20and%20communication | This is a timeline of quantum computing.
1960s
1968
Stephen Wiesner invented conjugate coding (published in ACM SIGACT News 15(1):78–88).
1970s
1970
James Park articulated the no-cloning theorem.
1973
Alexander Holevo published a paper showing that n qubits can carry more than n classical bits of information, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20Image%20Animation%20System | The Electric Image Animation System (EIAS) is a 3D computer graphics package published by EIAS3D. It currently runs on the macOS and Windows platforms.
History
Electric Image, Inc. was initially a visual effects production company. They developed their own in-house 3D animation and rendering package for the Macintosh ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20player | A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format. CD players were first sold to consumers in 1982. CDs typically contain recordings of audio material such as music or audiobooks. CD players may be part of home stereo systems, car audio systems, per... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting | Self-hosting may refer to:
Self-hosting (compilers), a computer program that produces new versions of that same program
Self-hosting (web services), the practice of running and maintaining a website using a private web server
See also
Self-booting disk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runtime%20%28program%20lifecycle%20phase%29 | In computer science, runtime, run time, or execution time is the final phase of a computer programs life cycle, in which the code is being executed on the computer's central processing unit (CPU) as machine code. In other words, "runtime" is the running phase of a program.
A runtime error is detected after or during t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20access%20point | In computer networking, a wireless access point, or more generally just access point (AP), is a networking hardware device that allows other Wi-Fi devices to connect to a wired network. As a standalone device, the AP may have a wired connection to a router, but, in a wireless router, it can also be an integral componen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation | In several fields, especially computing, deprecation is the discouragement of use of some terminology, feature, design, or practice, typically because it has been superseded or is no longer considered efficient or safe, without completely removing it or prohibiting its use. Typically, deprecated materials are not compl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHT | DHT may refer to:
Science and technology
Discrete Hartley transform, in mathematics
Distributed hash table, lookup service in computing
Chemistry
Dihydrotestosterone, hormone derived from testosterone
Dihydrotachysterol, synthetic vitamin D analog
Other
DHT (band), Belgian dance duo
Dr Hadwen Trust, UK charity p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20Crimes%20Enforcement%20Network | The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions in order to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes.
Mission
FinCEN's director ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20701 | The IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine, known as the Defense Calculator while in development, was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer and its first series production mainframe computer, which was announced to the public on May 21, 1952. It was invented and developed by Jerrier Haddad and Nathaniel Roches... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20British%20canal%20system | The canal network of the United Kingdom played a vital role in the Industrial Revolution. The UK was the first country to develop a nationwide canal network which, at its peak, expanded to nearly in length. The canals allowed raw materials to be transported to a place of manufacture, and finished goods to be transport... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Winograd | Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human–Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program.
Ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit%20%28graphics%20API%29 | Fahrenheit was an effort to create a unified high-level API for 3D computer graphics to unify Direct3D and OpenGL. It was designed primarily by Microsoft and SGI and also included work from an HP-MS joint effort.
Direct3D and OpenGL are low-level APIs that concentrate primarily on the rendering steps of the 3D renderi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate%E2%80%93distortion%20theory | Rate–distortion theory is a major branch of information theory which provides the theoretical foundations for lossy data compression; it addresses the problem of determining the minimal number of bits per symbol, as measured by the rate R, that should be communicated over a channel, so that the source (input signal) ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%20and%20Vehicle%20Licensing%20Agency | The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA; ) is the organisation of the UK government responsible for maintaining a database of drivers in Great Britain and a database of vehicles for the entire United Kingdom. Its counterpart for drivers in Northern Ireland is the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA). The agency issues... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus | Gnus (), or Gnus Network User Services, is a message reader which is part of GNU Emacs. It supports reading and composing both e-mail and news and can also act as an RSS reader, web processor, and directory browser for both local and remote filesystems.
Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlay%20Group | The Parlay Group was a technical industry consortium (founded 1998, ended around 2007) that specified APIs for the telephone network. These APIs enable the creation of services by organizations both inside and outside of the traditional carrier environment. In fact, it is hoped that services can be created by IT develo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched%20card%20sorter | A punched card sorter is a machine for sorting decks of punched cards.
Sorting was a major activity in most facilities that processed data on punched cards using unit record equipment. The work flow of many processes required decks of cards to be put into some specific order as determined by the data punched in the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I486SL | The Intel i486SL is the power-saving variant of the i486DX microprocessor. The SL was designed for use in mobile computers. It was produced between November 1992 and June 1993. Clock speeds available were 20, 25 and 33 MHz. The i486SL contained all features of the i486DX.
In addition, the System Management Mode (SMM) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faxanadu | is an action role-playing platform video game developed by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The name was licensed by computer game developer Nihon Falcom ("Falcom") and was developed and released in Japan by Hudson Soft for the Famicom in 1987. Nintendo released the game in the United States and Europ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji%20Television | , also known as , with the call sign JOCX-DTV, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is the key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). Fuji Television is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo''.
Fuji Television also operates three ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBN | SBN can mean:
Naval Aircraft Factory SBN, a scout/torpedo bomber from the mid-1930s
Sehar Broadcasting Network, a television channel in Pakistan
Servizio bibliotecario nazionale, the National Library Service of Italy
Small Business Network, by PCM, Inc.
Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Sonlife Broadcast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Sherren%20Brewer | John Sherren Brewer, Jr. (March 1809 – February 1879) was an English clergyman, historian and scholar. He was a brother of E. Cobham Brewer, compiler of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.
Birth and education
Brewer was born in Norwich, the son of a Baptist schoolmaster. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford ... |
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