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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20%26%20Golem%2C%20Inc. | God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion is a book written by MIT cybernetician Norbert Wiener. It won the second annual U.S. National Book Award in category Science, Philosophy and Religion.
It is based on material from a series of lectures that Wiener gave at Yale in 1962... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Network | Paramount Network is an American basic cable television channel owned by the MTV Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global. The network's headquarters are located at the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Los Angeles.
The channel was originally founded by a partnership between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagonistas%20de%20Novela | Protagonistas de Novela () is a television series in Spanish that has been produced since 2002 by Telemundo Network USA, based on the Protagonistas... franchise.
Protagonistas de Novela has the same format and rules as Protagonistas de la Música, and that is because Protagonistas de Novela, a reality show where the wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarian | A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library providing access to information, and sometimes social or technical programming, or instruction on information literacy to users.
The role of the librarian has changed much over time, with the past century in particular bringing many new media and technologi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectron%20tube | The Selectron was an early form of digital computer memory developed by Jan A. Rajchman and his group at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) under the direction of Vladimir K. Zworykin. It was a vacuum tube that stored digital data as electrostatic charges using technology similar to the Williams tube storage devic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20computer | A portable computer is a computer designed to be easily moved from one place to another, as opposed to those designed to remain stationary at a single location such as desktops and workstations. These computers usually include a display and keyboard that are directly connected to the main case, all sharing a single po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20number%20identification | Automatic number identification (ANI) is a feature of a telecommunications network for automatically determining the origination telephone number on toll calls for billing purposes. Automatic number identification was originally created by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) for long distance service in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix%20File%20System | The Unix file system (UFS) is a family of file systems supported by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original filesystem used by Version 7 Unix.
Design
A UFS volume is composed of the following parts:
A few blocks at the beginning of the partition reserved for boot bloc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistor%20memory | Twistor memory is a form of computer memory formed by wrapping magnetic tape around a current-carrying wire. Operationally, twistor was very similar to core memory. Twistor could also be used to make ROM memories, including a re-programmable form known as piggyback twistor. Both forms were able to be manufactured using... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20framework | In computer programming, an application framework consists of a software framework used by software developers to implement the standard structure of application software.
Application frameworks became popular with the rise of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), since these tended to promote a standard structure for app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IChat | iChat (previously iChat AV) is a discontinued instant messaging software application developed by Apple Inc. for use on its Mac OS X operating system. It supported instant text messaging over XMPP/Jingle or OSCAR (AIM) protocol, audio and video calling, and screen-sharing capabilities. It also allowed for local network... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming%20regression | In statistics, Deming regression, named after W. Edwards Deming, is an errors-in-variables model which tries to find the line of best fit for a two-dimensional dataset. It differs from the simple linear regression in that it accounts for errors in observations on both the x- and the y- axis. It is a special case of tot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFT | DFT may refer to:
Businesses and organisations
Department for Transport, United Kingdom
Digital Film Technology, maker of the Spirit DataCine film digitising scanner
DuPont Fabros Technology, a US data center company (by NYSE ticker)
Science and mathematics
Decision field theory, a human cognitive decision-making m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodedColor%20PhotoStudio%20Pro | CodedColor is a bitmap graphics editor and image organizer for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is published by 1STEIN.
CodedColor contains different tools for image editing and viewing. Additionally, it has other features such as web album export, annotations, database and keyword searchi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%20Inc. | Be Inc. was an American computer company founded in 1990. It is best known for the development and release of BeOS, and the BeBox personal computer. Be was founded by former Apple Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassée with capital from Seymour Cray.
Be's corporate offices were located in Menlo Park, California, with re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linc | Linc, The Linc or LINC may refer to:
Science
LINC, Laboratory Instrument Computer
LINC 4GL, a programming language
LINC complex, a protein complex of the cytoskeleton
LINC complex, or simply LINC, another name for the DREAM complex
Organizations
MIT LINC, Learning International Networks Consortium of the Massachusett... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20Word | Electric Word was a bimonthly, English-language magazine published in Amsterdam between 1987 and 1990 that offered eclectic reporting on the translation industry, linguistic technology, and computer culture.
Its editor was Louis Rossetto and it featured avant-garde graphics by the Dutch graphic designer Max Kisman.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20technology | Language technology, often called human language technology (HLT), studies methods of how computer programs or electronic devices can analyze, produce, modify or respond to human texts and speech. Working with language technology often requires broad knowledge not only about linguistics but also about computer science.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Driver%20Model | In computing, the Windows Driver Model (WDM) also known at one point as the Win32 Driver Model is a framework for device drivers that was introduced with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 to replace VxD, which was used on older versions of Windows such as Windows 95 and Windows 3.1, as well as the Windows NT Driver Model.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM%20Coup%C3%A9 | The SAM Coupé (pronounced /sæm ku:peɪ/ from its original British English branding) is an 8-bit British home computer manufactured by Miles Gordon Technology (MGT), based in Swansea in the United Kingdom and released in December 1989.
It was based on and designed to have a compatibility mode with the ZX Spectrum 48K wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchannel | Microchannel can refer to
Basic structure used in microtechnology, see Microchannel (microtechnology).
Micro Channel architecture in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEEK%20and%20POKE | In computing, PEEK and POKE are commands used in some high-level programming languages for accessing the contents of a specific memory cell referenced by its memory address. PEEK gets the byte located at the specified memory address.
POKE sets the memory byte at the specified address. These commands originated with mac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyodo%20News | is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News' business arm, established in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Amiga%20games |
This is a list of games for the Amiga line of personal computers organised alphabetically by name. See Lists of video games for related lists.
This list has been split into multiple pages. It contains over 3000 games. Please use the Table of Contents to browse it.
List of Amiga games A through H
List of Amiga games... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM | ISAM, an acronym for indexed sequential access method, is a method for creating, maintaining, and manipulating computer files of data so that records can be retrieved sequentially or randomly by one or more keys. Indexes of key fields are maintained to achieve fast retrieval of required file records in indexed files. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad%20CPC%20464 | The CPC 464 is the first personal home computer built by Amstrad in 1984. It was one of the bestselling and best produced microcomputers, with more than 2 million units sold in Europe. The British microcomputer boom had already peaked before Amstrad announced the CPC 464 (which stood for Colour Personal Computer) which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Informix-4GL | Informix-4GL is a 4GL programming language developed by Informix during the mid-1980s. At the time of its initial release in 1986, supported platforms included Microsoft Xenix (on IBM PC AT), DEC Ultrix (running on Microvax II, VAX-11/750, VAX-11/785, VAX 8600), Altos 2086, AT&T 3B2, AT&T 3B5, AT&T 3B20 and AT&T Unix P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Perfect%20General | The Perfect General is a computer wargame published in 1991 by Quantum Quality Productions.
Publication
The game was designed by Peter Zaccagnino and published in 1991 for the Amiga and DOS. A sequel, The Perfect General II, was released in 1994. The original game was modified for the 3DO by Game Guild in 1996 and pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn%20A%20Gundam | , also stylized as ∀ Gundam, is a 1999 Japanese mecha anime series produced by Sunrise, and aired between 1999 and 2000 on Japan's FNN networks. It was created for the Gundam Big Bang 20th Anniversary celebration, and is the eighth installment in the Gundam franchise. It was later compiled in 2002 into two feature-leng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET | The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was established by the Advanced R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedLibre | RedLibre is a non-profit project in which a combination of people, groups, entities, administrations or companies interested in the development and/or use of networks create a free, community data network that allows users to contribute content and share resources, among other uses.
RedLibre has been connected mainly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93Pratt%20algorithm | In computer science, the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm (or KMP algorithm) is a string-searching algorithm that searches for occurrences of a "word" W within a main "text string" S by employing the observation that when a mismatch occurs, the word itself embodies sufficient information to determine where the next match c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Quality%20Productions | Quantum Quality Productions (also known by their initials QQP) was a computer games company specializing in strategy games and war games.
Run by Bruce Williams Zaccagnino and Mark Baldwin it produced a number of games that achieved "cult status", most prominently The Perfect General.
Computer Gaming World reported in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Mathematician | The Automated Mathematician (AM) is one of the earliest successful discovery systems. It was created by Douglas Lenat in Lisp, and in 1977 led to Lenat being awarded the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award.
AM worked by generating and modifying short Lisp programs which were then interpreted as defining various mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester%20Metrolink | Manchester Metrolink is a tram/light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along of standard-gauge route, making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom. Metrolink is owned by the public body Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20computing | DNA computing is an emerging branch of unconventional computing which uses DNA, biochemistry, and molecular biology hardware, instead of the traditional electronic computing. Research and development in this area concerns theory, experiments, and applications of DNA computing. Although the field originally started wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerable | Vulnerable may refer to:
General
Vulnerability
Vulnerability (computing)
Vulnerable adult
Vulnerable species
Music
Albums
Vulnerable (Marvin Gaye album), 1997
Vulnerable (Tricky album), 2003
Vulnerable (The Used album), 2012
Songs
"Vulnerable" (Roxette song), 1994
"Vulnerable" (Selena Gomez song), 2020
"Vulnerab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon%20effect | The horizon effect, also known as the horizon problem, is a problem in artificial intelligence whereby, in many games, the number of possible states or positions is immense and computers can only feasibly search a small portion of them, typically a few plies down the game tree. Thus, for a computer searching only five ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENIX | USENIX is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization based in Berkeley, California and founded in 1975 that supports advanced computing systems, operating system (OS), and computer networking research. It organizes several highly respected conferences in these fields. Its stated mission is to foster techni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBUILD | COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham in 1980 and funded by Collins publishers.
The facility was initially led by Professor John Sinclair. The most important achievements of the COBUILD project have b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTX%20%28disambiguation%29 | FTX is a defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform that operated from 2019 to 2022.
FTX may also refer to:
Fault-Tolerant UNIX, a Stratus Technologies operating system
FTX Games, an American video game publisher
Field training exercise, a type of military exercise
Toyota FTX, a make of car
Ftx gene, a non-coding ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20ProDOS | ProDOS is the name of two similar operating systems for the Apple II series of personal computers. The original ProDOS, renamed ProDOS 8 in version 1.2, is the last official operating system usable by all 8-bit Apple II series computers, and was distributed from 1983 to 1993. The other, ProDOS 16, was a stop-gap solu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20DOS | Apple DOS is the family of disk operating systems for the Apple II series of microcomputers from late 1978 through early 1983. It was superseded by ProDOS in 1983. Apple DOS has three major releases: DOS 3.1, DOS 3.2, and DOS 3.3; each one of these three releases was followed by a second, minor "bug-fix" release, but o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20of%20the%20Beholder%20%28video%20game%29 | Eye of the Beholder is a role-playing video game for personal computers and video game consoles developed by Westwood Associates. It was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1991, for the MS-DOS operating system and later ported to the Amiga, the Sega CD and the SNES. The Sega CD version features a soundtrack co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Twins | Andrew Nicholas Oliver and Philip Edward Oliver, together known as the Oliver Twins, are British twin brothers and video game designers.
They developed computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of ye... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball%20%28video%20game%29 | Speedball is a 1988 video game based on a violent futuristic cyberpunk sport that draws on elements of handball and ice hockey, and rewards violent play as well as goals.
Speedball was released in November 1988 for the Amiga and Atari ST and later ported to MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and the Master System. SOFEL released a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1 | OSF/1 is a variant of the Unix operating system developed by the Open Software Foundation during the late 1980s and early 1990s. OSF/1 is one of the first operating systems to have used the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University, and is probably best known as the native Unix operating system for DEC Alpha ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/8 | OS/8 is the primary operating system used on the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 minicomputer.
PDP-8 operating systems which precede OS/8 include:
R-L Monitor, also referred to as MS/8.
P?S/8, requiring only 4K of memory.
PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System
PS/8 ("Programming System/8"), requiring 8K. This is what... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial%20heap | In computer science, a binomial heap is a data structure that acts as a priority queue but also allows pairs of heaps to be merged.
It is important as an implementation of the mergeable heap abstract data type (also called meldable heap), which is a priority queue supporting merge operation. It is implemented as a heap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible%20Time-Sharing%20System | The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) was the first general purpose time-sharing operating system. Compatible Time Sharing referred to time sharing which was compatible with batch processing; it could offer both time sharing and batch processing concurrently.
CTSS was developed at the MIT Computation Center ("Comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci%20heap | In computer science, a Fibonacci heap is a data structure for priority queue operations, consisting of a collection of heap-ordered trees. It has a better amortized running time than many other priority queue data structures including the binary heap and binomial heap. Michael L. Fredman and Robert E. Tarjan developed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20C.%20R.%20Licklider | Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (; March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or "Lick", was an American psychologist and computer scientist who is considered to be among the most prominent figures in computer science development and general computing history.
He is particularly remembered for being one o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20RDOS | The Data General RDOS (Real-time Disk Operating System) is a real-time operating system released in 1970. The software was bundled with the company's popular Nova and Eclipse minicomputers.
Overview
RDOS is capable of multitasking, with the ability to run up to 32 tasks (similar to the current term threads) simultane... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard%20correspondence | In programming language theory and proof theory, the Curry–Howard correspondence (also known as the Curry–Howard isomorphism or equivalence, or the proofs-as-programs and propositions- or formulae-as-types interpretation) is the direct relationship between computer programs and mathematical proofs.
It is a generaliza... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Mac%20G5 | The Power Mac G5 is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 2003 to 2006 as part of the Power Mac series. When introduced, it was the most powerful computer in Apple's Macintosh lineup, and was marketed by the company as the world's first 64-bit desktop computer. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation%20Manager | Presentation Manager (PM) is the graphical user interface (GUI) that IBM and Microsoft introduced in version 1.1 of their operating system OS/2 in late 1988.
History
Microsoft began developing a graphic user interface (GUI) in 1981. After it persuaded IBM that the latter also needed a GUI, Presentation Manager (PM; c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Joseph | Richard Joseph (23 April 1953 – 4 March 2007) was an English computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He had a career spanning 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats.
Biography
Prior to working in games Richard Joseph had a fleeting career in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20administrator | Database administrators (DBAs) use specialized software to store and organize data. The role may include capacity planning, installation, configuration, database design, migration, performance monitoring, security, troubleshooting, as well as backup and data recovery.
Skills
Some common and useful skills for database ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy%20Rucker | Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (; born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which (Software and W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20McNealy | Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954) is an American businessman. He is most famous for co-founding the computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. In 2004, while still at Sun, McNealy founded Curriki, a free online education service. In 2011, he co-fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20%28operating%20system%29 | Coherent is a clone of the Unix operating system for IBM PC compatibles and other microcomputers, developed and sold by the now-defunct Mark Williams Company (MWC). Historically, the operating system was a proprietary product, but it became open source in 2015, released under the BSD-3-Clause license.
Development
Cohe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicemail | A voicemail system (also known as voice message or voice bank) is a computer-based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products, and services, using an ordinary phone. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering%20%28audio%29 | Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication). In recent years, digital mas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMAT%20%28disambiguation%29 | GMAT can stand for
Tan Tan Airport - ICAO code for Moroccan airport
Graduate Management Admission Test
General Mission Analysis Tool, an open source astrodynamics computer program developed by NASA
Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time - see Greenwich Mean Time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Open%20Letter%20to%20Hobbyists | "An Open Letter to Hobbyists" is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant software piracy taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.
In the letter, Gates e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate%20Management%20Admission%20Test | The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT ( ())) is a computer adaptive test (CAT) intended to assess certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate management program, such as a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. Answering th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20IIc | The Apple IIc, the fourth model in the Apple II series of personal computers, is Apple Computer's first endeavor to produce a portable computer. The result was a notebook-sized version of the Apple II that could be transported from place to place — a portable alternative and complement to the Apple IIe. The c in the n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20SOS | The Sophisticated Operating System, or SOS (), is the primary operating system of the Apple III computer. SOS was developed by Apple Computer and released in October 1980.
In 1985, Steve Wozniak, while critical of the Apple III's hardware flaws, called SOS "the finest operating system on any microcomputer ever".
Tech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheez%20TV | Cheez TV was an Australian children's cartoon show, hosted by Ryan Lappin and Jade Gatt, that aired on weekday mornings on Network Ten. It began broadcasting on 17 July 1995 and it ended on 31 December 2004 with the presenters leaving. After eight months of being without presenters, it officially ended on 20 August 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDraw | LDraw is a system of freeware tools for modeling Lego creations in 3D on a computer. The LDraw file format and original program were written by James Jessiman, although the file format has since evolved and extended. He also modeled many of the original parts in the parts library, which is under continuous maintenance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20Game%20Notation | Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a standard plain text format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data), which can be read by humans and is also supported by most chess software.
History
PGN was devised around 1993, by Steven J. Edwards, and was first popularized and specified via the Usenet newsgroup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway%20Open%20House | Broadway Open House is network television's first late-night comedy-variety series. It was telecast live on NBC from May 29, 1950, to August 24, 1951, airing weeknights from 11pm to midnight. One of the pioneering TV creations of NBC president Pat Weaver, it demonstrated the potential for late-night programming and le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adium | Adium is a free and open-source instant messaging client for macOS that supports multiple IM networks, including XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more. In the past, it has also supported AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. Adium is written using macOS's Cocoa API, and it is released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Link | Quantum Link (or Q-Link) was an American and Canadian online service for the Commodore 64 and 128 personal computers that operated starting November 5, 1985. It was operated by Quantum Computer Services of Vienna, Virginia, which later became America Online.
In October 1989 the service was renamed America Online, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Do%20Not%20Call%20Registry | The National Do Not Call Registry is a database maintained by the United States federal government, listing the telephone numbers of individuals and families who have requested that telemarketers not contact them. Certain callers are required by federal law to respect this request. Separate laws and regulations apply t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20Dvorak | John C. Dvorak (; born 1952) is an American columnist and broadcaster in the areas of technology and computing. His writing extends back to the 1980s, when he was a regular columnist in a variety of magazines. He was vice president of Mevio, and has been a host on TechTV and TWiT.tv. He is currently a co-host of the No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/34 | The IBM System/34 was an IBM midrange computer introduced in 1977. It was withdrawn from marketing in February 1985. It was a multi-user, multi-tasking successor to the single-user System/32. It included two processors, one based on the System/32 and the second based on the System/3. Like the System/32 and the System/... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickDraw | QuickDraw was the 2D graphics library and associated application programming interface (API) which is a core part of classic Mac OS. It was initially written by Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld. QuickDraw still existed as part of the libraries of macOS, but had been largely superseded by the more modern Quartz graphics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rivers%20of%20Albania | Albania has an extensive hydrographic network of 152 rivers and streams, including 10 large rivers flowing from southeast to northwest, mainly discharging towards the Adriatic Sea. Combined, they produce a total annual flow rate of .
In the mountainous regions, the rivers meander through narrow valleys with steep bank... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20problem | A mathematical problem is a problem that can be represented, analyzed, and possibly solved, with the methods of mathematics. This can be a real-world problem, such as computing the orbits of the planets in the solar system, or a problem of a more abstract nature, such as Hilbert's problems. It can also be a problem ref... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20K.%20Dewdney | Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (born August 5, 1941) is a Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. Dewdney is the son of Canadian artist and author Selwyn Dewdney, and brother of poet Christopher Dewdney.
He was born in London, Ontario.
Art and fiction
In his student days, D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalstar | Globalstar, Inc. is an American satellite communications company that operates a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation for satellite phone and low-speed data communications. The Globalstar second-generation constellation consists of 25 low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites.
History
The Globalstar project was lau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz%20%28programming%20language%29 | Oz is a multiparadigm programming language, developed in the Programming Systems Lab at Université catholique de Louvain, for programming language education. It has a canonical textbook: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming.
Oz was first designed by Gert Smolka and his students in 1991. In 1996, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Highway%20%28Australia%29 | The National Highway (part of the National Land Transport Network) is a system of roads connecting all mainland states and territories of Australia, and is the major network of highways and motorways connecting Australia's capital cities and major regional centres.
History
Legislation
National funding for roads began... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20key | In the relational model of databases, a primary key is a specific choice of a minimal set of attributes (columns) that uniquely specify a tuple (row) in a relation (table). Informally, a primary key is "which attributes identify a record," and in simple cases constitute a single attribute: a unique ID. More formally, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20key | A foreign key is a set of attributes in a table that refers to the primary key of another table. The foreign key links these two tables. Another way to put it: In the context of relational databases, a foreign key is a set of attributes subject to a certain kind of inclusion dependency constraints, specifically a const... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrics%20%28company%29 | Quadrics was a supercomputer company formed in 1996 as a joint venture between Alenia Spazio and the technical team from Meiko Scientific. They produced hardware and software for clustering commodity computer systems into massively parallel systems. Their highpoint was in June 2003 when six out of the ten fastest super... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20E.%20Iverson | Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 – 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork%20bomb | In computing, a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus or wabbit) is a denial-of-service attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvation.
History
Around 1978, an early variant of a fork bomb called wabbit was rep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20finance | Transport finance is the subject that explores how transport networks are paid for.
The timing of the money required to finance transport is a principal issue. Many projects are "pay-as-you-go", that is infrastructure, which lasts many years, is expected to be paid out of ongoing cash flow. Other projects are financ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Together%20We%20Stand | Together We Stand, also known as Nothing Is Easy, is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS network from 1986 to 1987. It was written by Stephen Sustarsic and directed by Andrew D. Weyman.
Together We Stand is about a married couple, David (Elliott Gould) and Lori Randall (Dee Wallace), and their array of adopted ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet%20Synthesis%20Machine | The Alphabet Synthesis Machine (2002) is a work of interactive art which makes use of genetic algorithms to "evolve" a set of glyphs similar in appearance to a real-world alphabet. Users create initial glyphs and the program takes over. As the creators of the project put it, their goal was "to bring about the specific ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT | DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group in 1997, described by RFC 2229. Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol to allow clients to access a variety of dictionaries via a uniform interface.
In section 3.2 of the DICT protocol RFC, queries and definitions are sent in clear-text, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/36 | The IBM System/36 (often abbreviated as S/36) was a midrange computer marketed by IBM from 1983 to 2000 - a multi-user, multi-tasking successor to the System/34.
Like the System/34 and the older System/32, the System/36 was primarily programmed in the RPG II language. One of the machine's optional features was an off-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPN | TPN may refer to:
Science and Medicine
Total parenteral nutrition
Triphosphopyridine nucleotide, the previous name for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP+)
Task Positive Network, see Dorsal attention network
Organisations
Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk (Society of Friends of Science) in Warsaw
Other
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal%20Cave%20Adventure | Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as Adventure or ADVENT) is a text-based adventure game, released in 1976 by developer Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don Woods. In the game, the player explores a cave system rumored to be filled with treasure and gold. The game is co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism%20%28computer%20science%29 | In programming language theory and type theory, polymorphism is the provision of a single interface to entities of different types or the use of a single symbol to represent multiple different types. The concept is borrowed from a principle in biology where an organism or species can have many different forms or stages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAP%20%28computer%20algebra%20system%29 | GAP (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) is a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory.
History
GAP was developed at Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik (LDFM), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany from 1986 to 1997. After the reti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.6 | IEEE 802.6 is a standard governed by the ANSI for Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). It is an improvement of an older standard (also created by ANSI) which used the Fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) network structure. The FDDI-based standard failed due to its expensive implementation and lack of compatibility with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Grid%20Services%20Architecture | Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) describes a service-oriented architecture for a grid computing environment for business and scientific use.
It was developed within the Open Grid Forum, which was called the Global Grid Forum (GGF) at the time, around 2002 to 2006.
Description
OGSA is a distributed interaction an... |
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