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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProSieben
ProSieben (, sieben is German for "seven"; often stylized as Pro7) is a German free-to-air television network owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media. It was launched on 1 January 1989. It is Germany's second-largest privately owned television company. Although ProSieben produces some of its programming itself, it also airs man...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-polio%20syndrome
Post-polio syndrome (PPS, poliomyelitis sequelae) is a group of latent symptoms of poliomyelitis (polio), occurring at about a 25–40% rate (latest data greater than 80%). These symptoms are caused by the damaging effects of the viral infection on the nervous system. Symptoms typically occur 15 to 30 years after an ini...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODI
ODI may refer to: Object Design, Incorporated, a defunct database software company One Day International, cricket match Open Data Institute, a UK not-for-profit company promoting open data Open Data-Link Interface, an implementation of the OSI model data link layer Oracle Data Integrator, software used in data tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambystomatidae
Ambystomatidae is a family of salamanders belonging to the order Caudata in the class Amphibia. It contains two genera, Ambystoma (the mole salamanders) and Dicamptodon (the Pacific giant salamanders). Ambystoma contains 32 species and are distributed widely across North America, while Dicamptodon contains four species...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy
NumPy (pronounced ) is a library for the Python programming language, adding support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, along with a large collection of high-level mathematical functions to operate on these arrays. The predecessor of NumPy, Numeric, was originally created by Jim Hugunin with contributio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP
OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) is an application programming interface (API) that supports multi-platform shared-memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran, on many platforms, instruction-set architectures and operating systems, including Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It cons...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Berry
Clifford Edward Berry (April 19, 1918 – October 30, 1963) helped John Vincent Atanasoff create the first digital electronic computer in 1939, the Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC). Biography Clifford Berry was born April 19, 1918, in Gladbrook, Iowa, to Fred and Grace Berry. His father owned an appliance repair shop, whe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20%28programming%29
In computer programming, a block or code block or block of code is a lexical structure of source code which is grouped together. Blocks consist of one or more declarations and statements. A programming language that permits the creation of blocks, including blocks nested within other blocks, is called a block-structure...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal%20Abelson
Harold Abelson (born April 26, 1947) is the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation, creator of the MIT A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eircell
Eircell was an Irish mobile cellular network provider which was established in 1984, with operations commencing in 1986. Its access code was 088 for the original analogue TACS system and 087 for the later GSM system. Following the abolition of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, Eircell fell under the remit of Tele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Syfy%20TV%20channels
Syfy (in some countries named Sci Fi) is a family of pay television channels that broadcast programming owned or licensed by entertainment NBCUniversal around the world using the Syfy brand which is focused on science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural and paranormal programming. The first such channel was launched...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaker
Streaker may refer to: Someone who engages in streaking, purposely appearing and running nude in public Streaker (dinghy), a sailing dinghy Streaker (video game), a 1987 computer game published by Bulldog Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (tracked), a high-mobility carrier vehicle named Streaker, from the United Kingdo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Recording%20Machine%2C%20Accounting
ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting) was a computer technology that automated bank bookkeeping and check processing. Developed at the nonprofit research institution SRI International under contract from Bank of America, the project began in 1950 and was publicly revealed in September 1955. Payments experts ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGS
IGS may stand for: Computers/Video Games Information Global Service, Japanese video game company Initial Graphics Exchange Specification, file extension .igs InteGraphics Systems a former chip manufacturer Interactive geometry software Internet Go server, for the game of Go IGS Go server, Japanese Go server Technolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ
CQ may refer to: Arts and entertainment CQ (film), a 2001 film La CQ, a Cartoon Network sitcom Cinémathèque québécoise, a Montreal film museum People CQ (playwright) or C. Quintana, a Cuban-American playwright, poet, and writer Charles Q. Brown Jr., current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Places Centra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF
DF or df may refer to: Gaming DeFRaG, a modification for the computer game Quake III Arena DragonFable, a 2006 video game by Artix Entertainment Dwarf Fortress, a 2006 sandbox-style computer game Places Distrito Federal (Brazil), or the Federal District Distrito Federal (Mexico), or the Federal District, now kno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20G.%20Neumann
Peter Gabriel Neumann (born 1932) is a computer-science researcher who worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s. He edits the RISKS Digest columns for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM. He founded ACM SIGSOFT and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. Early life and education Neu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitel
Mitel Networks Corporation is a Canadian telecommunications company. The company previously produced TDM PBX systems and applications, but after a change in ownership in 2001, now focuses almost entirely on Voice-over-IP (VoIP), unified communications, collaboration and contact center products. Mitel is headquartered i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWR%20%28disambiguation%29
EWR is the IATA airport code for Newark Liberty International Airport. EWR may also refer to: Entwicklungsring Süd, a German aircraft manufacturer Extreme Warfare Revenge, a computer game Early-warning radar, a radar detection system Rail East West Rail, a proposed rail line in England Elkhart and Western Railroa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20learning%20theory
Algorithmic learning theory is a mathematical framework for analyzing machine learning problems and algorithms. Synonyms include formal learning theory and algorithmic inductive inference. Algorithmic learning theory is different from statistical learning theory in that it does not make use of statistical assumptions ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20model
In computing, the chaos model is a structure of software development. Its creator, who used the pseudonym L.B.S. Raccoon, noted that project management models such as the spiral model and waterfall model, while good at managing schedules and staff, didn't provide methods to fix bugs or solve other technical problems. A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20register
An index register in a computer's CPU is a processor register (or an assigned memory location) used for pointing to operand addresses during the run of a program. It is useful for stepping through strings and arrays. It can also be used for holding loop iterations and counters. In some architectures it is used for read...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC
is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) platform, and telecommunications equipment and software to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20defense%20contractors
The Top 100 Contractors Report on the Federal Procurement Data System lists the top 100 defense contractors by sales to the United States Armed Forces and Department of Defense. ('DoD 9700' worksheet). The Department of Defense announces contracts valued at $7 million or more each business day at 5 pm. All defense con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOBIDIC
Sylvania's MOBIDIC, short for "MOBIle DIgital Computer", was a transistorized computer intended to store, sort and route information as one part of the United States Army's Fieldata concept. Fieldata aimed to automate the distribution of battlefield data in any form, ensuring the delivery of reports to the proper recip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldata
FIELDATA (also written as Fieldata) was a pioneering computer project run by the US Army Signal Corps in the late 1950s that intended to create a single standard (as defined in MIL-STD-188A/B/C) for collecting and distributing battlefield information. In this respect it could be thought of as a generalization of the US...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20frequency%20modulation
Modified frequency modulation (MFM) is a run-length limited (RLL) line code used to encode data on most floppy disks and some hard disk drives. It was first introduced on hard disks in 1970 with the IBM 3330 and then in floppy disk drives beginning with the IBM 53FD in 1976. MFM is a modification to the original freq...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu%20Sudan
Madhu Sudan (born 12 September 1966) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He has been a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 2015. Career He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from IIT Delhi in 1987 and his docto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Level%207
Health Level Seven or HL7 is a range of global standards for the transfer of clinical and administrative health data between applications. The HL7 standards focus on the application layer, which is "layer 7" in the Open Systems Interconnection model. The standards are produced by Health Level Seven International, an in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B%20Standard%20Library
In the C++ programming language, the C++ Standard Library is a collection of classes and functions, which are written in the core language and part of the C++ ISO Standard itself. Overview The C++ Standard Library provides several generic containers, functions to use and manipulate these containers, function objects, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20dynamic%20memory%20allocation
C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions in the C standard library, namely , , , and . The C++ programming language includes these functions; however, the operators and provide similar functionality...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESER
ESER is an abbreviation for Einheitliches System Elektronischer Rechenmaschinen (German for standardized system of electronic computers), a term used in the GDR for ES EVM computers produced according to a treaty between the members of Comecon signed on December 23, 1968 covering the development of a standardized comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20UKTV
BBC UKTV is an Australian pay television channel in Australia and New Zealand, screening British entertainment programming, sourced mainly from the archives of the BBC, RTL Group (mainly Talkback Thames material) and ITV plc. The channel was originally a joint venture with Foxtel (60% ownership), the RTL Group (20% own...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith%20%28computer%29
The DISER Lilith is a custom built workstation computer based on the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) 2901 bit slicing processor, created by a group led by Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zürich. The project began in 1977, and by 1984 several hundred workstations were in use. It has a high resolution full page portrait oriented catho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Sound%20Control
Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for networking sound synthesizers, computers, and other multimedia devices for purposes such as musical performance or show control. OSC's advantages include interoperability, accuracy, flexibility and enhanced organization and documentation. Its disadvantages include inefficient ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSC
OSC may refer to: Organizations Odborové sdružení československé, the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association Office of Special Counsel (in the United States of America) Ohio Supercomputer Center, a computing research facility in Columbus Onslow County Schools, a school district in Onslow County, North Carolina Ont...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Hayes%20%28businessman%29
Dennis C. Hayes (born 1950) is the inventor of PC modem and founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products, a manufacturer of modems mostly known for introducing the Hayes AT command set, which has subsequently been used in most modems produced to this day. Background Hayes had a student job at AT&T Long Lines, in an enginee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-form%20language
In computer programming, a free-form language is a programming language in which the positioning of characters on the page in program text is insignificant. Program text does not need to be placed in specific columns as on old punched card systems, and frequently ends of lines are insignificant. Whitespace characters a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Morton%20%28computer%20programmer%29
Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel. He is currently a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system, the journaling layer for block devices (JBD) and Memory Management. In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20address%20%28disambiguation%29
Virtual address refers to an address identifying a virtual, i.e. non-physical, entity. For example: Virtual address space in computing Virtual address translation to physical address in computing Virtual postal address, see virtual mailbox or commercial mail receiving agency Virtual business address, see Virtual of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution%E2%80%93permutation%20network
In cryptography, an SP-network, or substitution–permutation network (SPN), is a series of linked mathematical operations used in block cipher algorithms such as AES (Rijndael), 3-Way, Kalyna, Kuznyechik, PRESENT, SAFER, SHARK, and Square. Such a network takes a block of the plaintext and the key as inputs, and applie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2011404
ISO/IEC 11404, General Purpose Datatypes (GPD), are a collection of datatypes defined independently of any particular programming language or implementation. These datatypes can be used to describe interfaces to existing libraries without having to specify the language (such as Fortran or C). The first edition of thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20scattering%20problem
In mathematics and physics, the inverse scattering problem is the problem of determining characteristics of an object, based on data of how it scatters incoming radiation or particles. It is the inverse problem to the direct scattering problem, which is to determine how radiation or particles are scattered based on the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous%20Idaho%20Potato%20Bowl
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, previously the Humanitarian Bowl (1997–2003, 2007–2010) and the MPC Computers Bowl (2004–2006), is an NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually since 1997 at Albertsons Stadium on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. The game is t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc%20Steels
Luc Steels (born in 1952) is a Belgian scientist and artist. Steels is considered a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in Europe who has made contributions to expert systems, behavior-based robotics, artificial life and evolutionary computational linguistics. He was a fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical%20drive
A magneto-optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto-optical disc. Both 130 mm (5.25 in) and 90 mm (3.5 in) form factors exist. In 1983, just a year after the introduction of the compact disc, Kees Schouhamer Immink and Joseph Braat presented the first experiments...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.sex
alt.sex is a Usenet newsgroup – a discussion group within the Usenet network – relating to human sexual activity. It was popular in the 1990s. An October 1993 survey by Brian Reid reported an estimated worldwide readership for the newsgroup of 3.3 million, that being 8% of the total Usenet readership, with 67% of all ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPA
WPA may refer to: Computing Wi-Fi Protected Access, a wireless encryption standard Windows Product Activation, in Microsoft software licensing Wireless Public Alerting (Alert Ready), emergency alerts over LTE in Canada Windows Performance Analyzer Organizations Wisconsin Philosophical Association World Pool-Billiard...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitization
Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format. The result is the representation of an object, image, sound, document, or signal (usually an analog signal) obtained by generating a series of numbers that describe a discrete set of points or samples. The result is ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computing
The history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables. Concrete devices Digital computing is intimately tied to the representation of numbers. But...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook
A brook is a small river or natural stream of fresh water. It may also refer to: Computing Brook, a programming language for GPU programming based on C Brook+, an explicit data-parallel C compiler BrookGPU, a framework for GPGPU programming People Brook (surname) People with the given name Brook, or nickname Brook Be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20key
A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program. It certifies that the copy of the program is original. Product keys consist of a series of numbers and/or letters. This sequence is typically entered by the user during the installation o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source%20intelligence
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is the collection and analysis of data gathered from open sources (covert sources and publicly available information (PAI)) to produce actionable intelligence. OSINT is primarily used in national security, law enforcement, and business intelligence functions and is of value to analysts ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20fault
On the x86 computer architecture, a triple fault is a special kind of exception generated by the CPU when an exception occurs while the CPU is trying to invoke the double fault exception handler, which itself handles exceptions occurring while trying to invoke a regular exception handler. x86 processors beginning with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20DNS%20root
The Internet uses the Domain Name System (DNS) to associate numeric computer IP addresses with human-readable names. The top level of the domain name hierarchy, the DNS root, contains the top-level domains that appear as the suffixes of all Internet domain names. The most widely used (and first) DNS root is administere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20learning%20theory
In computer science, computational learning theory (or just learning theory) is a subfield of artificial intelligence devoted to studying the design and analysis of machine learning algorithms. Overview Theoretical results in machine learning mainly deal with a type of inductive learning called supervised learning. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology in which a single IP address is shared by devices (generally servers) in multiple locations. Routers direct packets addressed to this destination to the location nearest the sender, using their normal decision-making algorithms, typically the lowest number of BGP ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTD
RTD may refer to: Science and technology Real-time data Residence time distribution Resonant-tunneling diode Round-trip delay time, in telecommunications Research and development, Research and Technical (or Technological) Development Resistance Temperature Detector, a resistance thermometer; RTD is also used to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Pacific%20Transportation%20Company
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the names Southern Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Company and Southern Pacific Tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20bomb%20plot%20in%20Europe
In 2001, a network of interconnected terrorist cells in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands was uncovered by law enforcement. The network had connections to al-Qaeda and was planning to commit one or more bombings. Plot Three cells were involved: one in Rotterdam, one in Brussels, and one in a suburb of Paris. Accor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Woltman
George Woltman (born November 10, 1957) is the founder of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a distributed computing project researching Mersenne prime numbers using his software Prime95. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in computer science. He lives in Nort...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Robinett
Joseph Warren Robinett Jr. (born December 25, 1951) is a designer of interactive computer graphics software, notable as the developer of the Atari 2600's Adventure — the first graphical adventure video game — and as a founder of The Learning Company, where he designed Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey. More recently he h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20research
Quantitative research is a research strategy that focuses on quantifying the collection and analysis of data. It is formed from a deductive approach where emphasis is placed on the testing of theory, shaped by empiricist and positivist philosophies. Associated with the natural, applied, formal, and social sciences thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWM
IWM may refer to: Imperial War Museum, British national museum organisation Information Warfare Monitor iShares Russell 2000, NYSE Arca symbol Integrated Woz Machine, Apple computer floppy drives Intelligent workload management of computing resources International Woman Master, now Woman International Master, ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPITBOL
SPITBOL (Speedy Implementation of SNOBOL) is a compiled implementation of the SNOBOL4 programming language. Originally targeted for the IBM System/360 and System/370 family of computers, it has now been ported to most major microprocessors including the SPARC. It was created by Robert Dewar and Ken Belcher, who were th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20space
Search space may refer to one of the following: In mathematical optimization and computer science, the set of all possible points of an optimization problem that satisfy the problem's targets or goals. It may also refer to the optimization of the domain of the function. In artificial intelligence search algorithms, th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20system
A particle system is a technique in game physics, motion graphics, and computer graphics that uses many minute sprites, 3D models, or other graphic objects to simulate certain kinds of "fuzzy" phenomena, which are otherwise very hard to reproduce with conventional rendering techniques – usually highly chaotic systems, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%E2%80%93Mandelbrot%20law
In probability theory and statistics, the Zipf–Mandelbrot law is a discrete probability distribution. Also known as the Pareto–Zipf law, it is a power-law distribution on ranked data, named after the linguist George Kingsley Zipf who suggested a simpler distribution called Zipf's law, and the mathematician Benoit Mande...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Austin
Larry Don Austin (September 12, 1930 – December 30, 2018) was an American composer noted for his electronic and computer music works. He was a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant Garde. Austin gained additional international recognition when he realized a completion of C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keihin%E2%80%93T%C5%8Dhoku%20Line
The is a railway line in Japan which connects the cities of Saitama, Kawaguchi, Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Yokohama. It is part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network. The line's name is derived from the characters for Tokyo (), Yokohama () and the Tōhoku Main Line (). The line runs parallel with the Tōkaidō Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics%20processing%20unit
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed to accelerate computer graphics and image processing (either on a video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles). After their initial design, GPUs were found to be useful ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor
Ratfor (short for Rational Fortran) is a programming language implemented as a preprocessor for Fortran 66. It provides modern control structures, unavailable in Fortran 66, to replace GOTOs and statement numbers. Features Ratfor provides the following kinds of flow-control statements, described by Kernighan and Plau...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS
BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later. Since then, C became popular and common, and BLISS faded into obscurity. When C was in its ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jython
Jython is an implementation of the Python programming language designed to run on the Java platform. The implementation was formerly known as JPython until 1999. Overview Jython programs can import and use any Java class. Except for some standard modules, Jython programs use Java classes instead of Python modules. Jyt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy%202000
The Tandy 2000 is a personal computer introduced by Radio Shack in September 1983 based on the 8 MHz Intel 80186 microprocessor running MS-DOS. By comparison, the IBM PC XT (introduced in March 1983) used the older 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor, and the IBM PC/AT (introduced in 1984) would later use the newer 6 MHz Int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20term%20etymologies
This is a list of the origins of computer-related terms or terms used in the computing world (i.e., a list of computer term etymologies). It relates to both computer hardware and computer software. Names of many computer terms, especially computer applications, often relate to the function they perform, e.g., a compil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overloading
The term overloading may refer to: Function overloading, a software engineering process whereby multiple functions of different types are defined with the same name Operator overloading, a software engineering process whereby operators (e.g. + or -) are treated as polymorphic functions having different behaviors depend...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20introspection
In computing, type introspection is the ability of a program to examine the type or properties of an object at runtime. Some programming languages possess this capability. Introspection should not be confused with reflection, which goes a step further and is the ability for a program to manipulate the values, metadata...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20hoc%20polymorphism
In programming languages, ad hoc polymorphism is a kind of polymorphism in which polymorphic functions can be applied to arguments of different types, because a polymorphic function can denote a number of distinct and potentially heterogeneous implementations depending on the type of argument(s) to which it is applied....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Classpath
GNU Classpath is a free software implementation of the standard class library for the Java programming language. Most classes from J2SE 1.4 and 5.0 are implemented. Classpath can thus be used to run Java-based applications. GNU Classpath is a part of the GNU Project. It was originally developed in parallel with libgcj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-order%20buffer
A re-order buffer (ROB) is a hardware unit used in an extension to the Tomasulo algorithm to support out-of-order and speculative instruction execution. The extension forces instructions to be committed in-order. The buffer is a circular buffer (to provide a FIFO instruction ordering queue) implemented as an array/ve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTL
PTL may refer to: The PTL Club, a former television program PTL Satellite Network Pass transistor logic in digital electronic circuits Pittsburgh Today Live, program on KDKA-TV Propositional temporal logic (Linear temporal logic) "PTL", a song by Relient K from the album Collapsible Lung Paschall Truck Lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo%27s%20algorithm
Tomasulo's algorithm is a computer architecture hardware algorithm for dynamic scheduling of instructions that allows out-of-order execution and enables more efficient use of multiple execution units. It was developed by Robert Tomasulo at IBM in 1967 and was first implemented in the IBM System/360 Model 91’s floating ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard%20%28computer%20architecture%29
In the domain of central processing unit (CPU) design, hazards are problems with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, and can potentially lead to incorrect computation results. Three common types of hazards are data hazards, structural...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP%20%28code%29
In computer science, a NOP, no-op, or NOOP (pronounced "no op"; short for no operation) is a machine language instruction and its assembly language mnemonic, programming language statement, or computer protocol command that does nothing. Machine language instructions Some computer instruction sets include an instruct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Hat%20%28disambiguation%29
Red Hat is an American software company that provides open source software products. Red hat or Red Hat may also refer to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a computer operating system Red Hat Linux, a computer operating system Red Hat, a site in Project 112, an American biological and chemical weapon experimentation proj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth%20For%20Understanding
Youth For Understanding (YFU) is an international educational exchange organization. A network of over 50 independent national organizations worldwide, YFU representatives work together to advance learning across cultures. Each year, YFU exchanges approximately 4,500 students worldwide. Organization YFU conducts its ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Information%20Management%20System
The IBM Information Management System (IMS) is a joint hierarchical database and information management system that supports transaction processing. History IBM designed the IMS with Rockwell and Caterpillar starting in 1966 for the Apollo program, where it was used to inventory the very large bill of materials (BOM)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric
Parametric may refer to: Mathematics Parametric equation, a representation of a curve through equations, as functions of a variable Parametric statistics, a branch of statistics that assumes data has come from a type of probability distribution Parametric derivative, a type of derivative in calculus Parametric model,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20Control%20Language
Job Control Language (JCL) is a name for scripting languages used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem. The purpose of JCL is to say which programs to run, using which files or devices for input or output, and at times to also indicate under what condi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis%20Gass%C3%A9e
Jean-Louis Gassée (born March 1944 in Paris, France) is a business executive. He is best known as a former executive at Apple Computer, where he worked from 1981 to 1990. He also founded Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. After leaving Be, he became Chairman of PalmSource, Inc. in November 2004. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIST
CLIST (Command List) (pronounced "C-List") is a procedural programming language for TSO in MVS systems. It originated in OS/360 Release 20 and has assumed a secondary role since the availability of Rexx in TSO/E Version 2. The term CLIST is also used for command lists written by users of NetView. In its basic form, a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
The KiddiComp concept, envisioned by Alan Kay in 1968 while a PhD candidate, and later developed and described as the Dynabook in his 1972 proposal "A personal computer for children of all ages", outlines the requirements for a conceptual portable educational device that would offer similar functionality to that now su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Plant%20Names%20Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It includes basic bibliographical details associated with the names. Its goals inc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20manipulation%20interface
In computer science, human–computer interaction, and interaction design, direct manipulation is an approach to interfaces which involves continuous representation of objects of interest together with rapid, reversible, and incremental actions and feedback. As opposed to other interaction styles, for example, the comma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20Data%20Representation
External Data Representation (XDR) is a standard data serialization format, for uses such as computer network protocols. It allows data to be transferred between different kinds of computer systems. Converting from the local representation to XDR is called encoding. Converting from XDR to the local representation is ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacency%20list
In graph theory and computer science, an adjacency list is a collection of unordered lists used to represent a finite graph. Each unordered list within an adjacency list describes the set of neighbors of a particular vertex in the graph. This is one of several commonly used representations of graphs for use in computer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbarium
A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called exsiccatum, plur. exsiccata) but, depending upon the material, may also be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-H
4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development". Its name is a reference to the occurrence of the initial letter H four times in the organization's original motto head, heart, hands, and health, which wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCF
PCF may refer to: 1+3 Computing PC Format, a monthly magazine Percentage-closer filtering, a shadow mapping technique in computer graphics Pivotal Cloud Foundry, a version of the open source Cloud Foundry software supported by Pivotal Software Point coordination function, a media access control technique used i...