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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS%20%28disambiguation%29
AWS is Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing and web services provider. AWS or Aws may also refer to: Technology Advanced Wireless Services, spectrum band used for mobile services in America Apple Workgroup Server Automatic Warning System, a train safety system used on railways Autonomous Web Services, via the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Spiegel
Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse. She also plays the guitar and lute. Spiegel is seen by some as a pioneer of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Natural%20Area
Research Natural Area is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States. Research Natural Areas (RNAs) are part of a nationwide network of ecological areas set aside for both research and education. The network includes areas managed by many Federal agencies. The United States Forest Service and other...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry%20Limited
BlackBerry Limited (formerly Research In Motion) is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it originally developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones and tablets. In 2016, it transitioned to a cybersecurity enterprise software and services company under CEO John...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20post%20offices%20abroad
The French post offices abroad were a global network of post offices in foreign countries established by France to provide mail service where the local services were deemed unsafe or unreliable. They were generally set up in cities with some sort of French commercial interest. They started appearing in the early 19th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8SVX
8-Bit Sampled Voice (8SVX) is an audio file format standard developed by Electronic Arts for the Amiga computer series. It is a data subtype of the IFF file container format. It typically contains linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) digital audio. Description The 8SVX subtype stores 8-bit audio data within chunks c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20time%20warping
In time series analysis, dynamic time warping (DTW) is an algorithm for measuring similarity between two temporal sequences, which may vary in speed. For instance, similarities in walking could be detected using DTW, even if one person was walking faster than the other, or if there were accelerations and decelerations...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Delay%20Format
Standard Delay Format (SDF) is an IEEE standard for the representation and interpretation of timing data for use at any stage of an electronic design process. It finds wide applicability in design flows, and forms an efficient bridge between dynamic timing verification and static timing analysis. It was originally dev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DG
DG may refer to: Arts and entertainment Death Grips, an American experimental hip hop group DG (character), in the science fiction series Tin Man Dial Global, a radio network Dragon Gate, a Japanese professional wrestling promotion Drain Gang, a Swedish rap group Business and organizations Data General, a minic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20ClearCase
Rational ClearCase is a family of computer software tools that supports software configuration management (SCM) of source code and other software development assets. It also supports design-data management of electronic design artifacts, thus enabling hardware and software co-development. ClearCase includes revision co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOB
Sob is a verb meaning cry. Sob and SoB may refer to: Souls on Board (sometimes POB for People on Board), used in Aviation communication Seventeen or Bust, a distributed computing project Special Operations Battalion (SOB), an elite unit of the Croatian army Society of Old Brooklynites Son of a bitch, an insult or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2
Internet2 is a not-for-profit United States computer networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government. The Internet2 consortium administrative headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices in Washington, D.C., and Emeryville, California. As of N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian%20Xuesen
Qian Xuesen, or Hsue-shen Tsien (; 11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a Chinese aerospace engineer and cyberneticist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics. Qian received his undergraduate education in mechanical engineering at National Chiao Tung...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear%20leveling
Wear leveling (also written as wear levelling) is a technique for prolonging the service life of some kinds of erasable computer storage media, such as flash memory, which is used in solid-state drives (SSDs) and USB flash drives, and phase-change memory. There are several wear leveling mechanisms that provide varying ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Space%20Grant%20College%20and%20Fellowship%20Program
The space-grant colleges are educational institutions in the United States that comprise a network of fifty-two consortia formed for the purpose of outer space-related research. Each consortium is based in one of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico, and each consists of multiple independent space...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Sea%20Grant%20College%20Program
The National Sea Grant College Program is a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is a national network of 34 university-based Sea Grant programs involved in scientific research, education, training, and extension projects geared toward the cons...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20cable
Digital cable is the distribution of cable television using digital data and video compression. The technology was first developed by General Instrument. By 2000, most cable companies offered digital features, eventually replacing their previous analog-based cable by the mid 2010s. During the late 2000s, broadcast tele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACH%20Network
In the United States, the ACH Network is the national automated clearing house (ACH) for electronic funds transfers established in the 1960s and 1970s. It processes financial transactions for consumers, businesses, and federal, state, and local governments. ACH processes large volumes of credit and debit transactions i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train%2048
Train 48 was a Canadian improvised soap opera, broadcast on Global Television Network and CH from 2003 until 2005. The series was based on the format of an Australian television program called Going Home. Characters Liz Irwin-Gallo (Krista Sutton) (seasons 1–2, guest season 3) is a marketing expert and a senior execu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average%20absolute%20deviation
The average absolute deviation (AAD) of a data set is the average of the absolute deviations from a central point. It is a summary statistic of statistical dispersion or variability. In the general form, the central point can be a mean, median, mode, or the result of any other measure of central tendency or any referen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%20no%20Tsurayuki
was a Japanese author, poet and court noble of the Heian period. He is best known as the principal compiler of the Kokin Wakashū, also writing its Japanese Preface, and as a possible author of the Tosa Diary, although this was published anonymously. He is well known for his waka poetry and is counted as one of the Thir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer programming, an assignment statement sets and/or re-sets the value stored in the storage location(s) denoted by a variable name; in other words, it copies a value into the variable. In most imperative programming languages, the assignment statement (or expression) is a fundamental construct. Today, the mos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Provincial%20Highway%20Network
The Provincial Highway Network consists of all the roads in Ontario maintained by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO), including those designated as part of the King's Highway, secondary highways, and tertiary roads. Components of the system—comprising of roads and 2,880 bridges —range in scale from Highwa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCchi%20automaton
In computer science and automata theory, a deterministic Büchi automaton is a theoretical machine which either accepts or rejects infinite inputs. Such a machine has a set of states and a transition function, which determines which state the machine should move to from its current state when it reads the next input cha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution%20of%20augmenting%20topologies
NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) is a genetic algorithm (GA) for the generation of evolving artificial neural networks (a neuroevolution technique) developed by Kenneth Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen in 2002 while at The University of Texas at Austin. It alters both the weighting parameters and structures...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Barford
Little Barford is a hamlet and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England about northeast of the county town of Bedford. The 2011 census combines other data for Little Barford with Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden civil parish but its population is separately shown as 44. Little Barford Power Sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C.%20Sniper%3A%2023%20Days%20of%20Fear
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (also known as Sniper: 23 Days of Fear in Washington D.C.) is a 2003 TV movie created by USA Network based on the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002. The films chronicles the period when John Allen Muhammad (played by Bobby Hosea) and Lee Boyd Malvo (played by Trent Cameron) went on a serial k...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEGAS%20algorithm
The VEGAS algorithm, due to G. Peter Lepage, is a method for reducing error in Monte Carlo simulations by using a known or approximate probability distribution function to concentrate the search in those areas of the integrand that make the greatest contribution to the final integral. The VEGAS algorithm is based on i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Schaeffer
Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer (born 1957) is a Canadian researcher and professor at the University of Alberta and the former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence. He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM
FM or Fm may refer to: Technology and computing Frequency modulation, the carrying of information over an electromagnetic wave by varying its frequency. Its most common applications are: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies via radio FM broadcast band, frequency band used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartford%20warbler
The Dartford warbler (Curruca undata) is a typical warbler from the warmer parts of western Europe and northwestern Africa. It is a small warbler with a long thin tail and a thin pointed bill. The adult male has grey-brown upperparts and is dull reddish-brown below except for the centre of the belly which has a dirty w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%207
System 7, codenamed "Big Bang", and later (as of version 7.6) also known as Mac OS 7, is a graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers and is part of the classic Mac OS series of operating systems. It was introduced on May 13, 1991, by Apple Computer It succeeded System 6, and was the main M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk%20accessory
A desk accessory (DA) in computing is a small transient or auxiliary application that can be run concurrently in a desktop environment with any other application on the system. Early examples, such as Sidekick and Macintosh desk accessories, used special programming models to provide a small degree of multitasking on s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%207%20%28disambiguation%29
System 7 or System/7 may refer to: Computing IBM System/7, a minicomputer developed by IBM; premiered in 1971 Operating systems: Macintosh System 7, the Apple operating system introduced in 1991 Operating System/7, the UNIVAC operating system introduced in 1974 System Manager 7, a successor to Multiuser DOS by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwun%20Tong%20line
The Kwun Tong line () is a rapid transit line of the MTR network in Hong Kong, coloured green on the MTR map. Starting at Whampoa in Hung Hom and ending at Tiu Keng Leng in Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung, the route has 17 stations and takes 35 minutes to complete. The Kwun Tong line is one of the busiest railway lines on the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%26R
K&R may refer to: Kernighan and Ritchie (Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie) The C Programming Language (book), a book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie K&R C, the original dialect of the C programming language, introduced by the first edition of the book K&R indent style, used in the book K&R Insuran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Computer%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Microsoft%20Corp.
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994), was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) sought to prevent Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were similar to those in Apple's Lisa and Macint...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhaul%20%28broadcasting%29
In the context of broadcasting, backhaul refers to uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television station or radio station, broadcast network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished TV show or radio show. The term is independent of the medium being use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20in%20the%20Shell%202%3A%20Innocence
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known in Japan as just , is a 2004 Japanese animated cyberpunk film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. The film serves as a standalone sequel to Oshii's 1995 film Ghost in the Shell and is loosely based on the manga by Masamune Shirow. The film was co-produced by Production I.G and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20schema
The database schema is the structure of a database described in a formal language supported typically by a relational database management system (RDBMS). The term "schema" refers to the organization of data as a blueprint of how the database is constructed (divided into database tables in the case of relational databas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication%20circuit
A telecommunication circuit is a path in a telecommunications network used to transmit information. Circuits have evolved from generally being built on physical connections between individual hardware cables, as in an analog phone switch, to virtual circuits established over packet switching networks. Definitions A te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20logic%20topics
This is a list of mathematical logic topics. For traditional syllogistic logic, see the list of topics in logic. See also the list of computability and complexity topics for more theory of algorithms. Working foundations Peano axioms Giuseppe Peano Mathematical induction Structural induction Recursive definition Nai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMC
TMC may stand for: Companies and brands Thinking Machines Corporation, a defunct supercomputer company Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese automobile manufacturer Trans Mountain Corporation Transportation Management Center, a division of American shipping company C.H. Robinson Transportation Manufacturing Corporatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%2013h
Mode 13h is the standard 256-color mode on VGA graphics hardware introduced in 1987 with the IBM PS/2. It has a resolution of 320×200 pixels. It was used extensively in computer games and art/animation software of the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s. "13h" refers to the number of the mode in the VGA BIOS. The "h" s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20buffering
In computer science, multiple buffering is the use of more than one buffer to hold a block of data, so that a "reader" will see a complete (though perhaps old) version of the data, rather than a partially updated version of the data being created by a "writer". It is very commonly used for computer display images. It i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20of%20presence
A point of presence (PoP) is an artificial demarcation point or network interface point between communicating entities. A common example is an ISP point of presence, the local access point that allows users to connect to the Internet with their Internet service provider (ISP). A PoP typically houses servers, routers, n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20retrieval
An image retrieval system is a computer system used for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. Most traditional and common methods of image retrieval utilize some method of adding metadata such as captioning, keywords, title or descriptions to the images so that retrieval can...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reusability
In computer science and software engineering, reusability is the use of existing assets in some form within the software product development process; these assets are products and by-products of the software development life cycle and include code, software components, test suites, designs and documentation. The opposi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimethodology
Multimethodology or multimethod research includes the use of more than one method of data collection or research in a research study or set of related studies. Mixed methods research is more specific in that it includes the mixing of qualitative and quantitative data, methods, methodologies, and/or paradigms in a resea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine%20Computer%20Systems
Tangerine Computer Systems was a British microcomputer company founded in 1979 by Dr. Paul Johnson, Mark Rainer and Nigel Penton Tilbury in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire. The very first product was the successful TAN1648 VDU kit which received much acclaim in the technical press. The home computer market was beginning to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown
The command , an abbreviation of change owner, is used on Unix and Unix-like operating systems to change the owner of file system files, directories. Unprivileged (regular) users who wish to change the group membership of a file that they own may use . The ownership of any file in the system may only be altered by a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20%28object-oriented%20programming%29
In object-oriented programming, association defines a relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. This relationship is structural, because it specifies that objects of one kind are connected to objects of another and does not represent beh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Things%20Considered
All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR, premiering on May 3, 1971. It is broadcast live on NPR affiliated stations in the United States, and worldwide through several different outlets, formerly including the NPR...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual%20graph
A conceptual graph (CG) is a formalism for knowledge representation. In the first published paper on CGs, John F. Sowa used them to represent the conceptual schemas used in database systems. The first book on CGs applied them to a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, computer science, and cognitive scienc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modeling%20language
A modeling language is any artificial language that can be used to express data, information or knowledge or systems in a structure that is defined by a consistent set of rules. The rules are used for interpretation of the meaning of components in the structure Programing language. Overview A modeling language can be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.1X
IEEE 802.1X is an IEEE Standard for port-based network access control (PNAC). It is part of the IEEE 802.1 group of networking protocols. It provides an authentication mechanism to devices wishing to attach to a LAN or WLAN. IEEE 802.1X defines the encapsulation of the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) over wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Open%20Infrastructure%20for%20Network%20Computing
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced – rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed computing). Developed originally to support SETI@home, it became the platform for many other applications in areas as diverse as medicine, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCollider
SuperCollider is an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. Since then it has been evolving into a system used and further developed by both scientists and artists working with sound. It is a dynamic programming lang...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser%20exploit
A browser exploit is a form of malicious code that takes advantage of a flaw or vulnerability in an operating system or piece of software with the intent to breach browser security to alter a user's browser settings without their knowledge. Malicious code may exploit ActiveX, HTML, images, Java, JavaScript, and other ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELAX%20NG
In computing, RELAX NG (REgular LAnguage for XML Next Generation) is a schema language for XML—a RELAX NG schema specifies a pattern for the structure and content of an XML document. A RELAX NG schema is itself an XML document but RELAX NG also offers a popular compact, non-XML syntax. Compared to other XML schema lang...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT
ZZT is a 1991 action-adventure puzzle video game and game creation system developed and published by Potomac Computer Systems for MS-DOS. It was later released as freeware in 1997. It is an early game allowing user-generated content using object-oriented programming. Players control a smiley face to battle various crea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restart
Restart may refer to: Computing Reboot (computing), the act of restarting a computer Reset (computing), bringing the system to normal condition or an initial state Music Restart (band), a Brazilian band Restart (Restart album), Restart's debut studio album Restart (Newsboys album), 2013 Restart (Bilal song), ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removable%20media
In computing, a removable media is a data storage media that is designed to be readily inserted and removed from a system. Most early removable media, such as floppy disks and optical discs, require a dedicated read/write device (i.e. a drive) to be installed in the computer, while others, such as USB flash drives, are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon%20%28operating%20system%29
The Oberon System is a modular, single-user, single-process, multitasking operating system written in the programming language Oberon. It was originally developed in the late 1980s at ETH Zurich. The Oberon System has an unconventional visual text user interface (TUI) instead of a conventional command-line interface (C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TCP%20and%20UDP%20port%20numbers
This is a list of TCP and UDP port numbers used by protocols for operation of network applications. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) only need one port for duplex, bidirectional traffic. They usually use port numbers that match the services of the corresponding TCP or UDP imp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint
Datapoint Corporation, originally known as Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC), was a computer company based in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Founded in July 1968 by Phil Ray and Gus Roche, its first products were, as the company's initial name suggests, computer terminals intended to replace Teletype machines con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPR
RPR may refer to: Computing RPR FOM, a distributed computer simulation standard Science RPR problem diagnosis, to find the cause of IT problems RPRD2 gene, which encodes the KIAA0460 protein RprA RNA, a gene Flopristin or RPR 132552A, an antibiotic Rapid plasma reagin, a screening test for syphilis Politics R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20key
A function key is a key on a computer or terminal keyboard that can be programmed so as to cause an operating system command interpreter or application program to perform certain actions, a form of soft key. On some keyboards/computers, function keys may have default actions, accessible on power-on. Function keys on a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance%20%28genetic%20algorithm%29
In genetic algorithms, inheritance is the ability of modeled objects to mate, mutate (similar to biological mutation), and propagate their problem solving genes to the next generation, in order to produce an evolved solution to a particular problem. The selection of objects that will be inherited from in each successiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, boxing (a.k.a. wrapping) is the transformation of placing a primitive type within an object so that the value can be used as a reference. Unboxing is the reverse transformation of extracting the primitive value from its wrapper object. Autoboxing is the term for automatically applying boxing and/or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECTS
ECTS may refer to: Elementary cognitive tasks, from psychometrics Engine coolant temperature sensor European Calcified Tissue Society European Computer Trade Show European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System, a higher education standard ECTS grading scale a misspelling of ETCS, the European Train Control Sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20Generation%20Computer%20Systems
The Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS; ) was a 10-year initiative begun in 1982 by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to create computers using massively parallel computing and logic programming. It aimed to create an "epoch-making computer" with supercomputer-like performance and to pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20fly
On the fly is a phrase used to describe something that is being changed while the process that the change affects is ongoing. It is used in the automotive, computer, and culinary industries. In cars, on the fly can be used to describe the changing of the cars configuration while it is still driving. Processes that can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20most%20popular%20names%20in%20the%201910s%20in%20the%20United%20States
These are the most popular given names in the United States for all years of the 1910s. Data from the Social Security Administration. 1910 Males John William James Robert Joseph Charles; George (tie) Edward Frank Henry ----- Females Mary Helen Margaret Dorothy; Ruth (tie) Anna Mildred Elizabeth Alice Ethel ----- 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleLink
AppleLink was the name of both Apple Computer's online service for its dealers, third-party developers, and users, and the client software used to access it. Prior to the commercialization of the Internet, AppleLink was a popular service for Mac and Apple IIGS users. The service was offered from about 1986 to 1994 to v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20video%20recorder
A digital video recorder (DVR) is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device. The term includes set-top boxes with direct to disk recording, portable media players and TV gateways with recording capabi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop%20metaphor
In computing, the desktop metaphor is an interface metaphor which is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users interact more easily with the computer. The desktop metaphor treats the computer monitor as if it is the top of the user's desk, upon which objects such as documents and folder...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitzi
Bitzi was a website, operating from 2001 to 2013, where volunteers shared reports about any kind of digital file, with identifying metadata, commentary, and other ratings. Information contributed and rated by volunteers was compiled into the Bitpedia data set and reference work, described by Bitzi as a "digital media ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20Broadcasting%20Network
The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN; legally Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.) is an international Christian-based broadcast television network and the world's largest religious television network. TBN was headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, until March 3, 2017, when it sold its highly visible office park, Tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBN
TBN may mean: Media Trinity Broadcasting Network, an international religious television network The Baseball Network, former US television network The Buffalo News, a newspaper Other The Barter Network, a commercial trading network Toronto Bicycling Network, a recreational cycling organization Total base number...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorder
A tricorder is a fictional handheld sensor that exists in the Star Trek universe. The tricorder is a multifunctional hand-held device that can perform environmental scans, data recording, and data analysis; hence the word "tricorder" to refer to the three functions of sensing, recording, and computing. In Star Trek sto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Basic%20Extension
In computer programming, a Visual Basic Extension (commonly abbreviated VBX) or custom control, was the component model used in Microsoft Visual Basic versions 1.0 to 3.0. It is still supported in the 16-bit version of version 4.0, but was made obsolete by OCXs. VBX has also been supported in the first, 16-bit version ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%20warehouse
In the field of data warehouses, a document warehouse is a software framework for analysis, sharing, and reuse of unstructured data, such as textual or multimedia documents. This is different from data warehouses that focuses on structured data, such as tabularized sales reports. On the other hand, Document Warehouse ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
An eigenface () is the name given to a set of eigenvectors when used in the computer vision problem of human face recognition. The approach of using eigenfaces for recognition was developed by Sirovich and Kirby and used by Matthew Turk and Alex Pentland in face classification. The eigenvectors are derived from the cov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawler
Crawler may refer to: Web crawler, a computer program that gathers and categorizes information on the World Wide Web A first-instar nymph of a scale insect that has legs and walks around before it attaches itself and becomes stationary Crawler (BEAM) in robotics A type of crane on tracks "Crawlers" (Into the Dar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Personal%20Computer%20AT
The IBM Personal Computer AT (model 5170, abbreviated as IBM AT or PC/AT) was released in 1984 as the fourth model in the IBM Personal Computer line, following the IBM PC/XT and its IBM Portable PC variant. It was designed around the Intel 80286 microprocessor. Name IBM did not specify an expanded form of "AT" on the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Biham
Eli Biham () is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst who is a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science department. From 2008 to 2013, Biham was the dean of the Technion Computer Science department, after serving for two years as chief of CS graduate school. Biham invented (public...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi%20%28software%29
Delphi is a general-purpose programming language and a software product that uses the Delphi dialect of the Object Pascal programming language and provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software, currently developed and maintained by E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party%20software%20component
In computer programming, a third-party software component is a reusable software component developed to be either freely distributed or sold by an entity other than the original vendor of the development platform. The third-party software component market thrives because many programmers believe that component-oriented...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20the%20Hellenic%20Broadcasting%20Corporation
The following is a list of programs broadcast by ERT (Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi) television stations. ERT was the Greek television network before the launch of ANT1 and Mega Channel in 1989 as well as ERT2. Children's Alvin and the Chipmunks (dubbed in Greek) (1993) [ΕΤ-2] Andy Pandy Animals Antics – [ET-1] Big W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex%20algorithm
In mathematical optimization, Dantzig's simplex algorithm (or simplex method) is a popular algorithm for linear programming. The name of the algorithm is derived from the concept of a simplex and was suggested by T. S. Motzkin. Simplices are not actually used in the method, but one interpretation of it is that it oper...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment%20variable
An environment variable is a user-definable value that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. Environment variables are part of the environment in which a process runs. For example, a running process can query the value of the TEMP environment variable to discover a suitable location to store t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob%20Nielsen%20%28usability%20consultant%29
Jakob Nielsen (born 5 October 1957) is a Danish web usability consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, and co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group. He was named the “guru of Web page usability” in 1998 by The New York Times and the “king of usability” by Internet Magazine. Background Jakob Nielsen was born 5 Octo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download
In computer networks, download means to receive data from a remote system, typically a server such as a web server, an FTP server, an email server, or other similar systems. This contrasts with uploading, where data is sent to a remote server. A download is a file offered for downloading or that has been downloaded, or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20requirements
To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer. These prerequisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Most software defines two sets of system requirements...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20neuron
An artificial neuron is a mathematical function conceived as a model of biological neurons in a neural network. Artificial neurons are the elementary units of artificial neural networks. The artificial neuron receives one or more inputs (representing excitatory postsynaptic potentials and inhibitory postsynaptic potent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server%20Message%20Block
Server Message Block (SMB) is a communication protocol mainly used by Microsoft Windows equipped computers normally used to share files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. SMB implementation consists of two vaguely named Windows services: "Server" (ID: LanmanServer) and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona%20Lisa%20Overdrive
Mona Lisa Overdrive is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, published in 1988. It is the final novel of the cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy, following Neuromancer and Count Zero, taking place eight years after the events of the latter. The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIP
MIP may refer to: Science Mixed integer programming, linear programming where some variables are constrained to be integers Minimum Ionizing Particle, in particle physics Maximum intensity projection, a computer visualization method Molecularly imprinted polymer, polymers processed using the molecular imprinting ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLX
The acronym CLX can refer to a number of things: 160 in Roman numerals Cargolux, an airline using the ICAO code CLX Clorox stock ticker CLX (Common Lisp), a Common Lisp computer library CLX Communications, a telecommunications and cloud communications platform as a service company, based in Stockholm, Sweden Component...