source stringlengths 32 199 | text stringlengths 26 3k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk%203ds%20Max | Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images. It is developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It has modeling capabilities and a flexible plugin architecture and must be used on the Microsoft W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamlico%20Sound | Pamlico Sound ( ) is a large estuarine lagoon in North Carolina. The largest lagoon along the North American East Coast, it extends long and wide. It is part of a large, interconnected network of similar lagoons that includes Albemarle Sound, Currituck Sound, Croatan Sound, Roanoke Sound, Pamlico Sound, Bogue Sound,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoroutes%20of%20Quebec | The Quebec Autoroute System or le système d'autoroute au Québec is a network of freeways within the province of Quebec, Canada, operating under the same principle of controlled access as the Interstate Highway System in the United States and the 400-series highways in neighbouring Ontario. The Autoroutes are the backbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20division | In arithmetic, long division is a standard division algorithm suitable for dividing multi-digit Hindu-Arabic numerals (Positional notation) that is simple enough to perform by hand. It breaks down a division problem into a series of easier steps.
As in all division problems, one number, called the dividend, is divided... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPC | HIPC may refer to:
International Conference on High Performance Computing
Heavily indebted poor countries
See also
HICP, Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian%20Multi%20Access%20Reservations%20for%20Travel%20Agents | SMART, Scandinavian Multi Access Reservations for Travel Agents, is a computerized system for ticket reservation.
History
It was created in 1979 by SAS, Braathens and Swedish State Railways. Many travel companies had computerized their systems at the time, and provided terminal interfaces for travel agencies. Each had... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Bus%20and%20Rail%20Company%20of%20Ticino | The Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino (, known by its Italian initials FART) is a limited company in the Swiss southern canton of Ticino, which provides the urban and suburban bus network in and around Locarno in Switzerland. It operates the cable cars between Verdasio and Rasa, Ticino, and between Intragna – Pil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20%28data%20storage%29 | In computing (specifically data transmission and data storage), a block, sometimes called a physical record, is a sequence of bytes or bits, usually containing some whole number of records, having a maximum length; a block size. Data thus structured are said to be blocked. The process of putting data into blocks is cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20size | Block size can refer to:
Block (data storage), the size of a block in data storage and file systems.
Block size (cryptography), the minimal unit of data for block ciphers.
Block (telecommunications)
Block size (mathematics)
The size of a city block |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobig | The Sobig Worm was a computer worm that infected millions of Internet-connected, Microsoft Windows computers in August 2003.
Although there were indications that tests of the worm were carried out as early as August 2002, Sobig.A was first found in the wild in January 2003. Sobig.B was released on May 18, 2003. It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom%20test | The Life in the United Kingdom test is a computer-based test constituting one of the requirements for anyone seeking Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK or naturalisation as a British citizen. It is meant to prove that the applicant has a sufficient knowledge of British life. The test is a requirement under the Nation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20large%20object | A binary large object (BLOB or blob) is a collection of binary data stored as a single entity. Blobs are typically images, audio or other multimedia objects, though sometimes binary executable code is stored as a blob. They can exist as persistent values inside some databases or version control system, or exist at runt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Kaye%20%28voice%20actor%29 | David Kaye is a Canadian-American voice actor. He is best known for animation roles such as Megatron in five of the Transformers series (Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron), Optimus Prime in Transformers: Animated, Professor X in X-Men: Evolution, Cronus in Class of the Titans, Khyber in Ben 10:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Uneasy%20Case%20for%20Copyright | "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Study of Copyright in Books, Photocopies, and Computer Programs" was an article in the Harvard Law Review by future United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in 1970, while he was still a legal academic. The article was a challenge to copyright expansionism, which was just en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E | RSTS () is a multi-user time-sharing operating system developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now part of Hewlett-Packard) for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers. The first version of RSTS (RSTS-11, Version 1) was implemented in 1970 by DEC software engineers that developed the TSS-8 time-sharing operat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20search%20%28optimization%29 | In computer science, local search is a heuristic method for solving computationally hard optimization problems. Local search can be used on problems that can be formulated as finding a solution maximizing a criterion among a number of candidate solutions. Local search algorithms move from solution to solution in the sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task | Task may refer to:
Task (computing), in computing, a program execution context
Task (language instruction) refers to a certain type of activity used in language instruction
Task (project management), an activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time
Task (teaching style)
TASK party, a seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nashville%20Network | The Nashville Network, usually referred to as TNN, was an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming included music videos, taped concerts, movies, game shows, syndicated programs, and numerous talk shows. On September 25, 2000, after an attempt to attract younger viewers failed, TNN's countr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNN | TNN may refer to:
The National Network, a former name of the U.S. TV channel Paramount Network
The Nashville Network, an American country music-oriented cable television network
Tainan Airport (airport code TNN)
Times News Network, a news agency started by The Times of India
TNN Bass Tournament of Champions, fish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemometrics | Chemometrics is the science of extracting information from chemical systems by data-driven means. Chemometrics is inherently interdisciplinary, using methods frequently employed in core data-analytic disciplines such as multivariate statistics, applied mathematics, and computer science, in order to address problems in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20long%20division | In algebra, polynomial long division is an algorithm for dividing a polynomial by another polynomial of the same or lower degree, a generalized version of the familiar arithmetic technique called long division. It can be done easily by hand, because it separates an otherwise complex division problem into smaller ones. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXRAD | NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel%20shifter | A barrel shifter is a digital circuit that can shift a data word by a specified number of bits without the use of any sequential logic, only pure combinational logic, i.e. it inherently provides a binary operation. It can however in theory also be used to implement unary operations, such as logical shift left, in cases... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow%20Central%20railway%20station | Glasgow Central () is one of two principal mainline rail terminals in Glasgow, Scotland. The railway station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 1 August 1879 and is one of 20 managed by Network Rail. It is the northern terminus of the West Coast Main Line ( north of London Euston). As well as being Glasgow's princ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GROMOS | GROningen MOlecular Simulation (GROMOS) is the name of a force field for molecular dynamics simulation, and a related computer software package. Both are developed at the University of Groningen, and at the Computer-Aided Chemistry Group at the Laboratory for Physical Chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHARMM | Chemistry at Harvard Macromolecular Mechanics (CHARMM) is the name of a widely used set of force fields for molecular dynamics, and the name for the molecular dynamics simulation and analysis computer software package associated with them. The CHARMM Development Project involves a worldwide network of developers workin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSR-74 | WSR-74 radars were Weather Surveillance Radars designed in 1974 for the National Weather Service. They were added to the existing network of the WSR-57 model to improve forecasts and severe weather warnings. Some have been sold to other countries like Australia, Greece, and Pakistan.
Radar properties
There are two ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSR-57 | WSR-57 radars were the USA's main weather surveillance radar for over 35 years. The National Weather Service operated a network of this model radar across the country, watching for severe weather.
History
The WSR-57 (Weather Surveillance Radar - 1957) was the first 'modern' weather radar. Initially commissioned at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective%20programming | In computer science, reflective programming or reflection is the ability of a process to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior.
Historical background
The earliest computers were programmed in their native assembly languages, which were inherently reflective, as these original architectures cou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield%20Supertram | The Sheffield Supertram is a tram and tram-train network covering Sheffield and Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. The infrastructure is owned by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE), with Stagecoach responsible for the operation and maintenance of rolling stock under a concession until 2024, u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoresistive%20RAM | Magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) is a type of non-volatile random-access memory which stores data in magnetic domains. Developed in the mid-1980s, proponents have argued that magnetoresistive RAM will eventually surpass competing technologies to become a dominant or even universal memory. Currently, memory ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM%20%28operating%20system%29 | VM (often: VM/CMS) is a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the Hercules emulator for personal computers.
The following versions are known:
Virtual Machine Facility/370
VM/370, released in 1972, is a System/... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Filo | David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Rain | Douglas James Rain (May 9, 1928 – November 11, 2018) was a Canadian actor and narrator. Although primarily a stage actor, he is perhaps best known for his voicing of the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).
Early life
Rain was born in Winnipe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorthPoint%20Communications | NorthPoint Communications Group, Inc. was a competitive local exchange carrier focused on data transmission via digital subscriber lines. The company had relationships with Microsoft, Tandy Corporation, Intel, Verio, Cable & Wireless, Frontier Corporation, Concentric Network, ICG Communications, Enron, Network Plus, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 | The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with of France).
It was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C5%8D%20Tadataka | was a Japanese surveyor and cartographer. He is known for completing the first map of Japan using modern surveying techniques.
Early life
Inō was born in the small village of Ozeki in the middle of Kujūkuri beach, in Kazusa Province (in what is now Chiba Prefecture). He was born to the Jimbō family and his childhood n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iram | Iram or IRAM may refer to:
Computing
i-RAM, a solid-state drive based on volatile electronic memory (RAM)
Berkeley IRAM project, research into intelligent random access memory
Internal RAM, the memory range internal to a CPU
Organisations
Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique, operates two radio astronomical obse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-67 | CP-67 is a hypervisor, or Virtual Machine Monitor, from IBM for its System/360 Model 67 computer.
CP-67 is the control program portion of CP/CMS, a virtual machine operating system developed by IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a reimplementation of their earlier research system CP-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS | CP/CMS (Control Program/Cambridge Monitor System) is a discontinued time-sharing operating system of the late 1960s and early 1970s, known for its excellent performance and advanced features. Among its three versions, CP-40/CMS was an important "one-off" research system that established the CP/CMS virtual machine archi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFE | QFE is a three letter acronym which can have meanings in aviation, in software development, and in network usage. It can refer to
QFE, a Q code used by pilots and air traffic controllers that refers to atmospheric pressure and altimeter settings
Quick Fix Engineering, also known as "hotfix".
Quoted for emphasis, used o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetKernel | NetKernel is a British software company and software platform by the same name that is used for High Performance Computing, Enterprise Application Integration, and Energy Efficient Computation.
It allows developers to cleanly separate code from architecture. It can be used as an application server, embedded in a Java ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOD | EOD, EoD, or Eod may refer to:
Earth Overshoot Day
Education Opens Doors, in Dallas, Texas
Electric organ discharge
End of data, a control character in telecommunications
End of day, in business
End of days (disambiguation)
Esoteric Order of Dagon, a fictional cult in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft
Eve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20network | City networks can either refer to a membership organization city leaders join to connect their city to other municipalities, or to a geographical concept used to describe inter-connectivity of cities on different levels (trade, railways, culture etc.).
City networks in international cooperation
In the perspective of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Storage%20Access%20Method | Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) is an IBM DASD file storage access method, first used in the OS/VS1, OS/VS2 Release 1 (SVS) and Release 2 (MVS) operating systems, later used throughout the Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) architecture and now in z/OS. Originally a record-oriented filesystem, VSAM comprises four data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepycat%20Software | Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the software company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006.
Berkeley DB is freely-licensed database software originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley for 4.4BSD Unix. Developers from that project founded Sleepycat in 1996 to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20society | Network society is the expression coined in 1991 related to the social, political, economic and cultural changes caused by the spread of networked, digital information and communications technologies. The intellectual origins of the idea can be traced back to the work of early social theorists such as Georg Simmel who ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Radio%20Mystery%20Theater | CBS Radio Mystery Theater (a.k.a. Radio Mystery Theater and Mystery Theater, sometimes abbreviated as CBSRMT) is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed.
The format was similar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile%20base%20class | The fragile base class problem is a fundamental architectural problem of object-oriented programming systems where base classes (superclasses) are considered "fragile" because seemingly safe modifications to a base class, when inherited by the derived classes, may cause the derived classes to malfunction. The programme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20IIx | The Macintosh IIx is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from September 1988 to October 1990. This model was introduced as an update to the original Macintosh II, replacing the 16 MHz Motorola 68020 CPU and 68881 FPU with a 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU running at the same clock speed. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20Centris | Macintosh Centris is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. in 1992 and 1993. They were introduced as a replacement for the six-year-old Macintosh II family of computers; the name was chosen to indicate that the consumer was selecting a Macintosh in the center of Apple's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20Quadra | The Macintosh Quadra is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from October 1991 to October 1995. The Quadra, named for the Motorola 68040 central processing unit, replaced the Macintosh II family as the high-end Macintosh model.
The first models were the Quadra 700 and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructor | Destructor may refer to:
Destructor (computer programming), in object-oriented programming, a method which is automatically invoked when an object is destroyed
Euronymous (1968–1993), guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem
Spanish warship Destructor (1886), a fast ocean-going torpedo gunbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%20record%20of%20the%20last%202%2C000%20years | The temperature record of the last 2,000 years is reconstructed using data from climate proxy records in conjunction with the modern instrumental temperature record which only covers the last 170 years at a global scale. Large-scale reconstructions covering part or all of the 1st millennium and 2nd millennium have show... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology | In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors.
In genre fiction, the term anthology typically categorizes collections of shorter works, such as short stories and short novels, by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Shaw | John Clifford Shaw (February 23, 1922 – February 9, 1991) was a systems programmer at the RAND Corporation. He is a coauthor of the first artificial intelligence program, the Logic Theorist, and was one of the developers of General Problem Solver (universal problem solver machine) and Information Processing Language (a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20airports%20by%20IATA%20airport%20code%3A%20O |
O
Notes
OSA is common IATA code for Kansai International Airport , Osaka International Airport and Kobe Airport .
References
- includes IATA codes
Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes
Great Circle Mapper - IATA, ICAO and FAA airport codes
O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20airports%20by%20IATA%20airport%20code%3A%20Q |
Q
References
- includes IATA codes
Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes
Great Circle Mapper - IATA, ICAO and FAA airport codes
Datahub complete list of IATA codes
Q |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20airports%20by%20IATA%20airport%20code%3A%20U |
U
References
- includes IATA codes
Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes
Great Circle Mapper - IATA, ICAO and FAA airport codes
U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20airports%20by%20IATA%20airport%20code%3A%20V |
V
References
- includes IATA codes
Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes
Great Circle Mapper - IATA, ICAO and FAA airport codes
V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20airports%20by%20IATA%20airport%20code%3A%20X |
X
References
- includes IATA codes
Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes
Great Circle Mapper - IATA, ICAO and FAA airport codes
X |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20airports%20by%20IATA%20airport%20code%3A%20Z |
Z
References
- includes IATA codes
Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes
Great Circle Mapper - IATA, ICAO and FAA airport codes
Z |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine%E2%80%93McCluskey%20algorithm | The Quine–McCluskey algorithm (QMC), also known as the method of prime implicants, is a method used for minimization of Boolean functions that was developed by Willard V. Quine in 1952 and extended by Edward J. McCluskey in 1956. As a general principle this approach had already been demonstrated by the logician Hugh Mc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSS | NSS may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
New Star Soccer, a computer game
Newsstand Specials, a spinoff of Playboy magazine
Nintendo Super System, an arcade game cabinet that plays Super NES games
Northern Sound System, a youth music education centre and venue in Adelaide, South Australia
NSS, a 1958 computer che... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects | WebObjects was a Java web application server and a server-based web application framework originally developed by NeXT Software, Inc.
WebObject's hallmark features are its object-orientation, database connectivity, and prototyping tools. Applications created with WebObjects can be deployed as web sites, Java WebStart ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20request%20broker | In distributed computing, an object request broker (ORB) is a concept of a middleware, which allows program calls to be made from one computer to another via a computer network, providing location transparency through remote procedure calls. ORBs promote interoperability of distributed object systems, enabling such sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCPH%20Department%20of%20Computer%20Science | The UCPH Department of Computer Science () is a department in the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). It is the longest established department of Computer Science in Denmark and was founded in 1970 by Turing Award winner Peter Naur. As of 2021, it employs 82 academic staff, 126 research staff and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac | The eMac (short for education Mac) is a discontinued all-in-one Mac desktop computer that was produced and designed by Apple Computer. Released in 2002, it was originally aimed at the education market but was later made available as a cheaper mass-market alternative to Apple's "Sunflower" iMac G4. The eMac was pulled f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20East | , also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles. Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo. The American subsidiary, Data East USA, was headquartered in San Jose, California... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20News | ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight with David Muir; other programs include morning news-talk show Good Morning America, Nightline, Primetime, and 20/20, and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice%20Basic | OpenOffice Basic (formerly known as StarOffice Basic or StarBasic or OOoBasic) is a dialect of the programming language BASIC that originated with the StarOffice office suite and spread through OpenOffice.org and derivatives such as Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice (where it is known as LibreOffice Basic). The languag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Institute%20for%20Research%20in%20Computer%20Science%20and%20Automation | The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics.
It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (IRIA) () in 1967 at Rocquencourt near Paris, p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20mining | Text mining, text data mining (TDM) or text analytics is the process of deriving high-quality information from text. It involves "the discovery by computer of new, previously unknown information, by automatically extracting information from different written resources." Written resources may include websites, books, em... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20BASIC | Commodore BASIC, also known as PET BASIC or CBM-BASIC, is the dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Commodore International's 8-bit home computer line, stretching from the PET (1977) to the Commodore 128 (1985).
The core is based on 6502 Microsoft BASIC, and as such it shares many characteristics with othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%201013 | The IBM 1013 Card Transmission Terminal was a device manufactured by IBM in 1961 which transmitted the data held on 80-column cards to a remote computer or another 1013.
The speed was generally considered 100 cards per minute but could be faster if programmed to send/receive only a portion of the cards if all 80 col... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-test | An F-test is any statistical test in which the test statistic has an F-distribution under the null hypothesis. It is most often used when comparing statistical models that have been fitted to a data set, in order to identify the model that best fits the population from which the data were sampled. Exact "F-tests" mainl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20computation | Pulse computation is a hybrid of digital & analog computation that uses aperiodic electrical spikes, as opposed to the periodic voltages in a digital computer or the continuously varying voltages in an analog computer. Pulse streams are unclocked, so they can arrive at arbitrary times and can be generated by analog pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict%20function | In computer science and computer programming, a function f is said to be strict if, when applied to a non-terminating expression, it also fails to terminate. A strict function in the denotational semantics of programming languages is a function f where . The entity , called bottom, denotes an expression that does not ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict%20programming%20language | A strict programming language is a programming language which employs a strict programming paradigm, allowing only strict functions (functions whose parameters must be evaluated completely before they may be called) to be defined by the user. A non-strict programming language allows the user to define non-strict functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewpoint | Viewpoint may refer to:
Scenic viewpoint, a high place where people can gather to view scenery
In computing
Viewpoint model, a computer science technique for making complex systems more comprehensible to human engineers
Viewpoint Corporation, a digital media company known for its subsidiary Fotomat
Viewpoint Media... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous%20%28Plan%209%29 | Rendezvous is a data synchronization mechanism in Plan 9 from Bell Labs. It is a system call that allows two processes to exchange a single datum while synchronizing.
The rendezvous call takes a tag and a value as its arguments. The tag is typically an address in memory shared by both processes. Calling rendezvous cau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration%20networking | Zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) is a set of technologies that automatically creates a usable computer network based on the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) when computers or network peripherals are interconnected. It does not require manual operator intervention or special configuration servers. Without zeroco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative%20execution | Speculative execution is an optimization technique where a computer system performs some task that may not be needed. Work is done before it is known whether it is actually needed, so as to prevent a delay that would have to be incurred by doing the work after it is known that it is needed. If it turns out the work was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign | Verisign Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and generic top-level domains and the country-code top-level domains, and the back-e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20pointer | In computer science, a smart pointer is an abstract data type that simulates a pointer while providing added features, such as automatic memory management or bounds checking. Such features are intended to reduce bugs caused by the misuse of pointers, while retaining efficiency. Smart pointers typically keep track of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20label%20placement | Automatic label placement, sometimes called text placement or name placement, comprises the computer methods of placing labels automatically on a map or chart. This is related to the typographic design of such labels.
The typical features depicted on a geographic map are line features (e.g. roads), area features (coun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20notation | In mathematics and computer programming, index notation is used to specify the elements of an array of numbers. The formalism of how indices are used varies according to the subject. In particular, there are different methods for referring to the elements of a list, a vector, or a matrix, depending on whether one is w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterkeeper%20Alliance | Waterkeeper Alliance is a worldwide network of environmental organizations founded in 1999 that work to protect bodies of water around the United States and the world. By December 2019, the group said it had grown to 350 members in 46 countries, with half the membership outside the U.S.; the alliance had added 200 grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed%20input%E2%80%93output | Programmed input–output (also programmable input/output, programmed input/output, programmed I/O, PIO) is a method of data transmission, via input/output (I/O), between a central processing unit (CPU) and a peripheral device, such as a Parallel ATA storage device. Each data item transfer is initiated by an instruction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20encoding | Delta encoding is a way of storing or transmitting data in the form of differences (deltas) between sequential data rather than complete files; more generally this is known as data differencing. Delta encoding is sometimes called delta compression, particularly where archival histories of changes are required (e.g., in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Network%20Operators%27%20Group | The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) is an educational and operational forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices. It runs meetings, talks, surveys, and an influential mailing list for Internet se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20H.%20Moore | Charles Havice Moore II (born 9 September 1938), better known as Chuck Moore, is an American computer engineer and programmer, best known for inventing the Forth programming language in 1968. He cofounded FORTH, Inc., with Elizabeth Rather in 1971 and continued to evolve the language with an emphasis on simplicity. Beg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmallBASIC | SmallBASIC is a BASIC programming language dialect with interpreters released as free software under the GNU General Public License version 3 for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Android.
Description
The dialect is described by the authors as a second generation BASIC, and has a lot in common with QBasic. SmallBASIC incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20%281980%20video%20game%29 | Adventure is a video game developed by Warren Robinett for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1980 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice and return it to the golden castle. The game world i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-mediated%20communication | Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is defined as any human communication that occurs through the use of two or more electronic devices. While the term has traditionally referred to those communications that occur via computer-mediated formats (e.g., instant messaging, email, chat rooms, online forums, social networ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes%20Clark | Wes Clark may refer to:
Wes Clark (basketball), American basketball player
Wesley Clark, American army general, retired
Wesley A. Clark, computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard%20Bell | Packard Bell Electronics, Inc., was an American computer company independently active from 1986 to 1996, now a Dutch-registered computer manufacturing brand and subsidiary of Acer Inc. The company was originally founded in 1986, after Israeli-American investors bought the trademark rights to the Packard Bell Corporatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20checking | In computer science, model checking or property checking is a method for checking whether a finite-state model of a system meets a given specification (also known as correctness). This is typically associated with hardware or software systems, where the specification contains liveness requirements (such as avoidance of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preview%20%28macOS%29 | Preview is the built-in image viewer and PDF viewer of the macOS operating system. In addition to viewing and printing digital images and Portable Document Format (PDF) files, it can also edit these media types. It employs the Aqua graphical user interface, the Quartz graphics layer, and the ImageIO and Core Image fram... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level%20assembler | A high-level assembler in computing is an assembler for assembly language that incorporate features found in a high-level programming language.
The earliest high-level assembler was probably Burroughs' Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language (ESPOL) in about 1960, which provided an ALGOL-like syntax around explici... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.