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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rader%27s%20FFT%20algorithm | Rader's algorithm (1968), named for Charles M. Rader of MIT Lincoln Laboratory, is a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm that computes the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of prime sizes by re-expressing the DFT as a cyclic convolution (the other algorithm for FFTs of prime sizes, Bluestein's algorithm, also works b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniWeb | OmniWeb is a discontinued web browser that was developed and marketed by The Omni Group exclusively for Apple's macOS operating system. Though a stable version is no longer maintained, it is still available as a free download and unstable versions are still being released.
History
OmniWeb was originally developed by O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-factor%20FFT%20algorithm | The prime-factor algorithm (PFA), also called the Good–Thomas algorithm (1958/1963), is a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm that re-expresses the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of a size N = N1N2 as a two-dimensional N1×N2 DFT, but only for the case where N1 and N2 are relatively prime. These smaller transforms ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3 | Modula-3 is a programming language conceived as a successor to an upgraded version of Modula-2 known as Modula-2+. While it has been influential in research circles (influencing the designs of languages such as Java, C#, Python and Nim) it has not been adopted widely in industry. It was designed by Luca Cardelli, James... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian%20Simvastatin%20Survival%20Study | The Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (also known as the 4S study), was a multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, which provided the initial data that supported the use of the cholesterol-lowering drug, simvastatin, in people with a moderately raised cholesterol and coronary hear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour%20%28software%29 | Bonjour is Apple's implementation of zero-configuration networking (zeroconf), a group of technologies that includes service discovery, address assignment, and hostname resolution. Bonjour locates devices such as printers, other computers, and the services that those devices offer on a local network using multicast Dom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot | ReBoot is a Canadian computer-animated TV series that originally aired on YTV from 1994 until 2001. It was produced by Vancouver-based Mainframe Entertainment, Alliance Distribution and BLT Productions. The animated series was created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell, and John Grace, with the visuals designed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reboot%20%28disambiguation%29 | A reboot is the process of restarting a computer system.
Reboot may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Reboot (fiction), to discard all previous continuity in a fiction series and start anew
Music
Reboot (Brooks & Dunn album), 2019
Reboot (London album), 2012
ReBoot (Sam Brown album), 2000
Reboot (W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watto | Watto is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, featured in the films The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. He is computer-generated and is voiced by voice actor Andy Secombe. He is a mean-tempered, greedy Toydarian, and owner of a second-hand goods store in Mos Espa on the planet Tatooine. Among Watt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic%20CD%20interface | The Panasonic CD interface, also known as the MKE CD interface (for Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics), SLCD or simply Panasonic, is a proprietary computer interface for connecting a CD-ROM drive to an IBM PC compatible computer. It was used briefly in the early 1990s, and is no longer in production.
The interface is si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia%20Messaging%20Service | Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from a mobile phone over a cellular network. Users and providers may refer to such a message as a PXT, a picture message, or a multimedia message. The MMS standard extends the core SMS (Short Message Service) c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Botvinnik | Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik ( – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess.
Botvinnik was the first world-class player to develop within the Soviet Union. He also played a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized%20marketing | Personalized marketing, also known as one-to-one marketing or individual marketing, is a marketing strategy by which companies leverage data analysis and digital technology to deliver individualized messages and product offerings to current or prospective customers. Advancements in data collection methods, analytics, d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20customization | Mass customization makes use of flexible computer-aided systems to produce custom products. Such systems combine the low unit costs of mass production processes with the flexibility of individual customization.
Mass customization is the new frontier in business for both manufacturing and service industries. At its cor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20shaping | Traffic shaping is a bandwidth management technique used on computer networks which delays some or all datagrams to bring them into compliance with a desired traffic profile. Traffic shaping is used to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency, or increase usable bandwidth for some kinds of packets by delaying... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMS%20%28disambiguation%29 | Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a collection of physical, psychological and emotional symptoms related to a woman's menstrual cycle.
PMS may also refer to:
Computers
Process management system, a system for business process management
Philip's Music Scribe, music scorewriter software
Pop'n Music Script, a computer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfleet%20Command | Starfleet Command may refer to:
Video games
Star Trek: Starfleet Command, a computer game based on the table-top wargame Star Fleet Battles
Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War, the sequel to Starfleet Command and second in the series of real-time space combat games
Star Trek: Starfleet Command: Orion Pi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition%20table | A transposition table is a cache of previously seen positions, and associated evaluations, in a game tree generated by a computer game playing program. If a position recurs via a different sequence of moves, the value of the position is retrieved from the table, avoiding re-searching the game tree below that position.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20substructure | In computer science, a problem is said to have optimal substructure if an optimal solution can be constructed from optimal solutions of its subproblems. This property is used to determine the usefulness of greedy algorithms for a problem.
Typically, a greedy algorithm is used to solve a problem with optimal substruc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20method | Spectral methods are a class of techniques used in applied mathematics and scientific computing to numerically solve certain differential equations. The idea is to write the solution of the differential equation as a sum of certain "basis functions" (for example, as a Fourier series which is a sum of sinusoids) and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan%27s%20off-line%20lowest%20common%20ancestors%20algorithm | In computer science, Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm is an algorithm for computing lowest common ancestors for pairs of nodes in a tree, based on the union-find data structure. The lowest common ancestor of two nodes d and e in a rooted tree T is the node g that is an ancestor of both d and e and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uname | uname (short for unix name) is a computer program in Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems that prints the name, version and other details about the current machine and the operating system running on it.
History
The uname system call and command appeared for the first time in PWB/UNIX. Both are specified by P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20II%20family | The Macintosh II is a family of personal computers that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1987 to 1993. The Macintosh II was the initial model, representing the high-end of the Macintosh line for the time. Over the course of the next six years, seven more models were produced, culminatin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20interface%20controller | A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter or physical network interface, and by similar terms) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network.
Early network interface controllers were commonly implemented on expansion card... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine | Coroutines are computer program components that allow execution to be suspended and resumed, generalizing subroutines for cooperative multitasking. Coroutines are well-suited for implementing familiar program components such as cooperative tasks, exceptions, event loops, iterators, infinite lists and pipes.
They have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%20%28programming%20language%29 | D, also known as dlang, is a multi-paradigm system programming language created by Walter Bright at Digital Mars and released in 2001. Andrei Alexandrescu joined the design and development effort in 2007. Though it originated as a re-engineering of C++, D is a profoundly different language —features of D can be conside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix%20security | Unix security refers to the means of securing a Unix or Unix-like operating system. A secure environment is achieved not only by the design concepts of these operating systems, but also through vigilant user and administrative practices.
Design concepts
Permissions
A core security feature in these systems is the file... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20address | Direct address may refer to:
Vocative expression, a term or phrase used to directly address an individual
The direct addressing mode in computer programming
Breaking the fourth wall in theatre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtk-gnutella | gtk-gnutella is a peer-to-peer file sharing application which runs on the gnutella network. gtk-gnutella uses the GTK+ toolkit for its graphical user interface. Released under the GNU General Public License, gtk-gnutella is free software.
History
Initially gtk-gnutella was written to look like the original Nullsoft G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular%20%28software%29 | Singular (typeset Singular) is a computer algebra system for polynomial computations with special emphasis on the needs of commutative and non-commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory. Singular has been released under the terms of GNU General Public License. Problems in non-commutative algebra ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contention%20free%20pollable | Contention-free pollable (CF-Pollable) is a state of operation for wireless networking nodes. The condition is saying that the node is able to use the Point Coordination Function, as opposed to the Distributed Coordination Function, within a wireless LAN.
A device that is able to use point coordination function is one... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICS | ICS may refer to:
Computing
Image Cytometry Standard, a digital multidimensional image file format used in life sciences microscopy
Industrial control system, computer systems and networks used to control industrial plants and infrastructures
Information and computer science, the combined field of informatics and c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacency%20matrix | In graph theory and computer science, an adjacency matrix is a square matrix used to represent a finite graph. The elements of the matrix indicate whether pairs of vertices are adjacent or not in the graph.
In the special case of a finite simple graph, the adjacency matrix is a (0,1)-matrix with zeros on its diagonal.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS | SOCKS is an Internet protocol that exchanges network packets between a client and server through a proxy server. SOCKS5 optionally provides authentication so only authorized users may access a server. Practically, a SOCKS server proxies TCP connections to an arbitrary IP address, and provides a means for UDP packets to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20integrator | The Water Integrator ( Gidravlicheskiy integrator) was an early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936 by Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov. It functioned by careful manipulation of water through a room full of interconnected pipes and pumps. The water level in various chambers (with precision to fractions of a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive: a mechanism that enforces limits on access to a resource when there are many threads of execution. A lock is designed to enforce a mutual exclusion concurrency control policy, and with a variety of possible methods there exists... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase%20locking | In databases and transaction processing, two-phase locking (2PL) is a concurrency control method that guarantees serializability.
It is also the name of the resulting set of database transaction schedules (histories). The protocol uses locks, applied by a transaction to data, which may block (interpreted as signals to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinlock | In software engineering, a spinlock is a lock that causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply wait in a loop ("spin") while repeatedly checking whether the lock is available. Since the thread remains active but is not performing a useful task, the use of such a lock is a kind of busy waiting. Once acquired, spinloc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20function | In mathematics and computer science, a higher-order function (HOF) is a function that does at least one of the following:
takes one or more functions as arguments (i.e. a procedural parameter, which is a parameter of a procedure that is itself a procedure),
returns a function as its result.
All other functions are fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite | SQLite (, ) is a database engine written in the C programming language. It is not a standalone app; rather, it is a library that software developers embed in their apps. As such, it belongs to the family of embedded databases. It is the most widely deployed database engine, as it is used by several of the top web brows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-ahead%20logging | In computer science, write-ahead logging (WAL) is a family of techniques for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems.
It can be seen as an implementation of the "Event Sourcing" architecture, in which the state of a system is the result of the evolution of incoming events fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie | GEnie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was an online service created by a General Electric business, GEIS (now GXS), that ran from 1985 through the end of 1999. In 1994, GEnie claimed around 350,000 users. Peak simultaneous usage was around 10,000 users. It was one of the pioneering services in the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20delivery%20agent | A message delivery agent (MDA), or mail delivery agent, is a computer software component that is responsible for the delivery of e-mail messages to a local recipient's mailbox. It is also called a local delivery agent (LDA).
Within the Internet mail architecture, local message delivery is achieved through a process of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Young%20Doctors | The Young Doctors is an Australian early-evening soap opera originally broadcast on the Nine Network and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation, it aired from Monday 8 November 1976 until Wednesday 30 March 1983. The series is primarily set in the fictional Albert Memorial Hospital, as well as the restaurant/nightclub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheaf%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a sheaf (: sheaves) is a tool for systematically tracking data (such as sets, abelian groups, rings) attached to the open sets of a topological space and defined locally with regard to them. For example, for each open set, the data could be the ring of continuous functions defined on that open set. Such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSLAM | A digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM, often pronounced DEE-slam) is a network device, often located in telephone exchanges, that connects multiple customer digital subscriber line (DSL) interfaces to a high-speed digital communications channel using multiplexing techniques. Its cable internet (DOCSIS) co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARX%20%28operating%20system%29 | ARX was an unreleased Mach-like operating system written in Modula-2+ developed by Acorn Computers Ltd in the Acorn Research Centre (ARC) United Kingdom (UK) and later by Olivetti - which purchased Acorn - for Acorn's new Archimedes personal computers based on the ARM architecture reduced instruction set computer (RISC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Enforcers | The Chicago Enforcers were an American football team of the XFL based at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. The XFL was begun by Vince McMahon of the WWE and by NBC, a major television network in the United States. NBC dropped XFL broadcasts after the first season in 2001 due to dismal ratings, and the league was diss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando%20Rage | The Orlando Rage was an American football team based in Orlando, Florida as part of the XFL, begun by Vince McMahon of the World Wrestling Federation and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.
History
The team's colors were scarlet, yellow, navy blue and white with jersey numbers in a unique jagged ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20paging | In computer science, shadow paging is a technique for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems. A page in this context refers to a unit of physical storage (probably on a hard disk), typically of the order of 1 to 64 KiB.
Shadow paging is a copy-on-write technique for avoid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20Thrive%20Worldwide | Women Thrive Alliance, formerly Women Thrive Worldwide and Women's Edge, is a global feminist advocacy network created in 1998 that advocates for gender equality. Working with the grassroots organizations in 53 countries.
Emily Bove is the Executive Director of Women Thrive Alliance.
Women Thrive Alliance's total sup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durability%20%28database%20systems%29 | In database systems, durability is the ACID property that guarantees that the effects of transactions that have been committed will survive permanently, even in case of failures, including incidents and catastrophic events. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20for%20Environment%20%26%20Sustainability | Artificial Intelligence for Environment & Sustainability (ARIES) is an international non-profit research project hosted by the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) headquartered in Bilbao, Spain. It was created to integrate scientific computational models for environmental sustainability assessment and policy-making,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms%20for%20Recovery%20and%20Isolation%20Exploiting%20Semantics | In computer science, Algorithms for Recovery and Isolation Exploiting Semantics, or ARIES is a recovery algorithm designed to work with a no-force, steal database approach; it is used by IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server and many other database systems. IBM Fellow Dr. C. Mohan is the primary inventor of the ARIES family of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction-level%20parallelism | Instruction-level parallelism (ILP) is the parallel or simultaneous execution of a sequence of instructions in a computer program. More specifically ILP refers to the average number of instructions run per step of this parallel execution.
Discussion
ILP must not be confused with concurrency. In ILP there is a single... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction%20log | In the field of databases in computer science, a transaction log (also transaction journal, database log, binary log or audit trail) is a history of actions executed by a database management system used to guarantee ACID properties over crashes or hardware failures. Physically, a log is a file listing changes to the da... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination%20theory | In commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, elimination theory is the classical name for algorithmic approaches to eliminating some variables between polynomials of several variables, in order to solve systems of polynomial equations.
Classical elimination theory culminated with the work of Francis Macaulay on mult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction | A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dicere, "to say"), or forecast, is a statement about a future event or data. They are often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge. There is no universal agreement about the exact difference from "estimation"; different authors and disciplines ascribe different conno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictor | Predictor may refer to:
Branch predictor, a part of many modern processors
Kerrison Predictor, a military fire-control computer
Predictor variable, also known as an independent variable
A type of railway level crossing, circuit that tries to achieve a constant warning time by predicting the speed of the approachin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forecasting | Forecasting is the process of making predictions based on past and present data. Later these can be compared (resolved) against what happens. For example, a company might estimate their revenue in the next year, then compare it against the actual results creating a variance actual analysis. Prediction is a similar but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop%20SQL | NonStop SQL is a commercial relational database management system that is designed for fault tolerance and scalability, currently offered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The latest version is SQL/MX 3.4.
The product was originally developed by Tandem Computers. Tandem was acquired by Compaq in 1997. Compaq was later a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jose%20CyberRays | San Jose CyberRays was a professional soccer team that played in the Women's United Soccer Association. The team played at Spartan Stadium on the South Campus of San José State University in San Jose, California. Stars included U.S. National Team star Brandi Chastain, WUSA Goalkeeper of the Year LaKeysia Beene, and lea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper%20%28programming%20language%29 | Clipper is an xBase compiler that implements a variant of the xBase computer programming language. It is used to create
or extend software programs that originally operated primarily under MS-DOS. Although it is a powerful general-purpose programming
language, it was primarily used to create database/business programs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele%20Goldberg%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is an American computer scientist. She was one of the co-developers of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and of various concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s.
Early life and education
Goldbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmics%20Inc. | Algorithmics was a Toronto, Ontario based company founded by Ron Dembo that provided risk management software to financial institutions. Founded in 1989, Algorithmics employed over 850 people in 23 global offices, and served more than 350 clients, including 25 of the 30 largest banks in the world, and over two thirds o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Dog%20Linux | Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is a discontinued free and open-source operating system for high-performance computing on multi-core processor computer architectures, focusing on GPU systems and computers using the POWER7 processor. The original developer was Terra Soft Solutions, which was acquired by Fixstars in October 2008.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%20%28TV%20series%29 | Prisoner (known in the UK and the US as Prisoner: Cell Block H) is an Australian television soap opera, which broadcast on Network Ten (originally The 0-10 Network) from February 27 (Melbourne) February 26 (Sydney) 1979 to December 1986 (Melbourne), though the series finale would not screen until September 1987 in Sydn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA%20C3 | The VIA C3 is a family of x86 central processing units for personal computers designed by Centaur Technology and sold by VIA Technologies. The different CPU cores are built following the design methodology of Centaur Technology.
In addition to x86 instructions, VIA C3 CPUs contain an undocumented Alternate Instruction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMS | MMS may refer to:
Science and technology
Network communication protocols
Multimedia Messaging Service for mobile phones
Microsoft Media Server, a content-streaming protocol (mms://)
Manufacturing Message Specification for real time process data
Other
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, NASA
Massachusetts Medi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS12 | BS12 may refer to:
IBM Business System 12, an early relational database management system
BS 12 Specification for Portland Cement, a British Standard
Bonomi BS.12 Roma, a primary glider
Omega BS-12, a utility helicopter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADS | ADS or Ads may refer to:
Advertising
In arts and entertainment
ADS (TV station), Adelaide, South Australia
"Aiming Down Sights", video game term
In science and technology
In computing
Advanced Design System, electronic design automation software
Alternate data stream in Microsoft NTFS
Automated decision sup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%201720 | The IBM 1720 was a pilot project to create a real-time process control computer based on the IBM 1620 Model I.
Only three 1720 systems were ever built: one for the Amoco oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana; one for the Socal oil refinery in El Segundo, California; and one for E. I. du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. All w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20database%20model | A hierarchical database model is a data model in which the data are organized into a tree-like structure. The data are stored as records which are connected to one another through links. A record is a collection of fields, with each field containing only one value. The type of a record defines which fields the record ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating%20sequential%20processes | In computer science, communicating sequential processes (CSP) is a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems. It is a member of the family of mathematical theories of concurrency known as process algebras, or process calculi, based on message passing via channels. CSP was highly influ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggested%20Upper%20Merged%20Ontology | The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) is an upper ontology intended as a foundation ontology for a variety of computer information processing systems. SUMO defines a hierarchy of classes and related rules and relationships. These are expressed in a version of the language SUO-KIF, a higher-order logic that has a L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Amdahl | Gene Myron Amdahl (November 16, 1922 – November 10, 2015) was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20operating%20systems | This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems.
1950s
1951
LEO I 'Lyons Electronic Office' was the commercial development of EDSAC computing platform, suppo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Ontology%20Language | The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. Ontologies are a formal way to describe taxonomies and classification networks, essentially defining the structure of knowledge for various domains: the nouns representing classes of objects and the verbs represe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20i | IBM i (the i standing for integrated) is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as the sole operating system of the IBM AS/400 line of systems. It was renamed to i5/OS in 2004, before being renamed a second time to IBM i in 2008. It is an evolution of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20IIGS | The Apple IIGS (styled as II), the fifth and most powerful of the Apple II family, is a 16-bit personal computer produced by Apple Computer. While featuring the Macintosh look and feel, and resolution and color similar to the Amiga and Atari ST, it remains compatible with earlier Apple II models. The "GS" in the name ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Radio%20One | CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial-free and offers local and national programming. It is available on AM and FM to 98 percent of Canadians and overseas over the Internet, and through mobile apps. CBC Radio On... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechTV | TechTV was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet. In 2004, it merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming. At the height of its six-year run, TechTV was broadcast in 70 countries, reached 43... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSTN | HSTN (an acronym for High School Television Network) was a short-lived Canadian English language category 2 digital cable specialty channel aimed at high school students.
History
On June 4, 2001, Frank Rogers, on behalf of a company to be incorporated, was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Teleco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Agent | Microsoft Agent was a technology developed by Microsoft which employed animated characters, text-to-speech engines, and speech recognition software to enhance interaction with computer users. Thus it was an example of an embodied agent. It came pre-installed as part of Windows 2000 through Windows Vista. It was not in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique%20problem | In computer science, the clique problem is the computational problem of finding cliques (subsets of vertices, all adjacent to each other, also called complete subgraphs) in a graph. It has several different formulations depending on which cliques, and what information about the cliques, should be found. Common formulat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20terminal | A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer or a computing system. The teletype was an example of an early-day hard-copy terminal and predated the use of a computer screen by decades.
Early terminals were inex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss%20%28video%20games%29 | In video games, a boss is a significant computer-controlled opponent. A fight with a boss character is commonly referred to as a boss battle or boss fight. Bosses are generally far stronger than other opponents the player has faced up to that point. Boss battles are generally seen at climax points of particular section... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XT | XT may refer to:
Science and technology
Computing and electronics
XT Mobile Network, a Telecom New Zealand mobile network
IBM PC/XT, a personal computer
XT bus architecture
Crosstalk, an electrical interference caused by a wire carrying an electrical signal
the XT versions of Radeon graphics cards
XT (or XT[2])... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Ring%20%28computer%20network%29 | The Cambridge Ring was an experimental local area network architecture developed at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge starting in 1974 and continuing into the 1980s. It was a ring network with a theoretical limit of 255 nodes (though such a large number would have badly affected performance), around whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Development%20Labs | Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) was a non-profit organization supported by a consortium to promote Linux for enterprise computing. Founded in 2000, OSDL positioned itself as an independent, non-profit lab for developers who are adding enterprise capabilities to Linux. The headquarters was first incorporated in San ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex | Ampex Data Systems Corporation is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor. The name AMPEX is a portmanteau, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence. Ampex operates as Ampex Data Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Delta ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treap | In computer science, the treap and the randomized binary search tree are two closely related forms of binary search tree data structures that maintain a dynamic set of ordered keys and allow binary searches among the keys. After any sequence of insertions and deletions of keys, the shape of the tree is a random variabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Adleman | Leonard Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist. He is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award. He is also known for the creation of the field of DNA computing.
Biography
Leonard M. Adleman was born to a Jewish family in California. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adleman | Adleman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Leonard Adleman (born 1945), American theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology
Robert H. Adleman (1919–1995), American novelist and historian
Tim Adleman (born 1987), American baseball player
See also
Ade... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun | Setun () was a computer developed in 1958 at Moscow State University. It was built under the leadership of Sergei Sobolev and Nikolay Brusentsov. It was the most modern ternary computer, using the balanced ternary numeral system and three-valued ternary logic instead of the two-valued binary logic prevalent in other c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20clock | The molecular clock is a figurative term for a technique that uses the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce the time in prehistory when two or more life forms diverged. The biomolecular data used for such calculations are usually nucleotide sequences for DNA, RNA, or amino acid sequences for proteins. The benchmark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20and%20South%20Western%20Railway | The London and South Western Railway (LSWR, sometimes written L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Originating as the London and Southampton Railway, its network extended to Dorchester and Weymouth, to Salisbury, Exeter and Plymouth, and to Padstow, Ilfracombe and Bude. It developed a network of r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cos | Cos, COS, CoS, coS or Cos. may refer to:
Mathematics, science and technology
Carbonyl sulfide
Class of service (CoS or COS), a network header field defined by the IEEE 802.1p task group
Class of service (COS), a parameter in telephone systems
Cobalt sulfide
COS cells, cell lines COS-1 and COS-7
Cosine, a trigono... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shading | Shading refers to the depiction of depth perception in 3D models (within the field of 3D computer graphics) or illustrations (in visual art) by varying the level of darkness. Shading tries to approximate local behavior of light on the object's surface and is not to be confused with techniques of adding shadows, such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation%20point | In telephony, the demarcation point is the point at which the public switched telephone network ends and connects with the customer's on-premises wiring. It is the dividing line which determines who is responsible for installation and maintenance of wiring and equipment—customer/subscriber, or telephone company/provid... |
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