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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs%20and%20trigraphs | In computer programming, digraphs and trigraphs are sequences of two and three characters, respectively, that appear in source code and, according to a programming language's specification, should be treated as if they were single characters.
Various reasons exist for using digraphs and trigraphs: keyboards may not ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Hall%20%28computer%20programmer%29 | Jim Hall (James F. Hall) is a computer programmer and advocate of free software, best known for his work on FreeDOS. Hall began writing the free replacement for the MS-DOS operating system in 1994 when he was still a physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He remains active with FreeDOS, and is curr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPL | EPL may refer to:
Computing
Easy Programming Language
Eclipse Public License
Eltron Programming Language, a control language for various computer printers
Ethernet Powerlink, an Ethernet protocol
Early PL/I, a PL/I subset dialect used to write Multics
Anatomy
Extensor pollicis longus muscle
External plexiform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neats%20and%20scruffies | In the history of artificial intelligence, neat and scruffy are two contrasting approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) research. The distinction was made in the 70s and was a subject of discussion until the middle 80s.
"Neats" use algorithms based on a single formal paradigms, such as logic, mathematical optimizat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20Machinery%20and%20Intelligence | "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" is a seminal paper written by Alan Turing on the topic of artificial intelligence. The paper, published in 1950 in Mind, was the first to introduce his concept of what is now known as the Turing test to the general public.
Turing's paper considers the question "Can machines think... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20block%20addressing | Logical block addressing (LBA) is a common scheme used for specifying the location of blocks of data stored on computer storage devices, generally secondary storage systems such as hard disk drives. LBA is a particularly simple linear addressing scheme; blocks are located by an integer index, with the first block bein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeTDS | FreeTDS is a free software programming library, a re-implementation of the Tabular Data Stream protocol. It can be used in place of Sybase's db-lib or ct-lib libraries. It also includes an ODBC library. It allows many open source applications such as Perl and PHP (or any C or C++ program) to connect to Sybase ASE or Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabular%20Data%20Stream | Tabular Data Stream (TDS) is an application layer protocol used to transfer data between a database server and a client. It was initially designed and developed by Sybase Inc. for their Sybase SQL Server relational database engine in 1984, and later by Microsoft in Microsoft SQL Server.
History
During the early develo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply%E2%80%93accumulate%20operation | In computing, especially digital signal processing, the multiply–accumulate (MAC) or multiply-add (MAD) operation is a common step that computes the product of two numbers and adds that product to an accumulator. The hardware unit that performs the operation is known as a multiplier–accumulator (MAC unit); the operati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu%20Shinkansen | The is a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed railway network. It is an extension of the San'yō Shinkansen from Honshu connecting the city of Fukuoka (Hakata Station) in the north of Japan's Kyushu Island to the city of Kagoshima (Kagoshima-Chuo Station) in the south. The line runs parallel to the existing Kagoshima Main Li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen%20Schmidhuber | Jürgen Schmidhuber (born 17 January 1963) is a German computer scientist noted for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically artificial neural networks. He is a scientific director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Switzerland. He is also director of the Artificia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-complexity%20art | Low-complexity art, first described by Jürgen Schmidhuber in 1997 and now established as a seminal topic within the larger field of computer science, is art that can be described by a short computer program (that is, a computer program of small Kolmogorov complexity).
Overview
Schmidhuber characterizes low-complexity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20physics | Digital physics is a speculative idea that the universe can be conceived of as a vast, digital computation device, or as the output of a deterministic or probabilistic computer program. The hypothesis that the universe is a digital computer was proposed by Konrad Zuse in his 1969 book Rechnender Raum ("Calculating Spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Fredkin | Edward Fredkin (October 2, 1934 – June 13, 2023) was an American computer scientist, physicist and businessman who was an early pioneer of digital physics.
Fredkin's primary contributions included work on reversible computing and cellular automata. While Konrad Zuse's book, Calculating Space (1969), mentioned the impo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s%20theory%20of%20inductive%20inference | Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference is a mathematical theory of induction introduced by Ray Solomonoff, based on probability theory and theoretical computer science. In essence, Solomonoff's induction derives the posterior probability of any computable theory, given a sequence of observed data. This posterior pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthStation%205 | Earth Station 5 (ES5) was a peer-to-peer network active between 2003 and 2005, operated by a company of the same name. The user client application also shared this name. Earth Station 5 was notable for its strong, if overstated, emphasis on user anonymity, and for its bold advocacy of piracy and copyright infringement.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Feature%20Service | In computing, the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service (WFS) Interface Standard provides an interface allowing requests for geographical features across the web using platform-independent calls. One can think of geographical features as the "source code" behind a map, whereas the WMS interface or online til... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27d%20Rather%20Be%20Right | They'd Rather Be Right (also known as The Forever Machine) is a science fiction novel by American writers Mark Clifton and Frank Riley.
Plot
Two professors create an advanced cybernetic brain, which they call "Bossy." Bossy can "optimise your mind...and give you eternal youth into the bargain, but only if you're read... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20drive | A flash drive is a portable computer drive that uses flash memory. Flash drives are the larger memory modules consisting of a number of flash chips. A flash chip is used to read the contents of a single cell, but it can write entire block of cells. They connect to a USB port and function as a folder.
Specific flash dr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS%20primality%20test | The AKS primality test (also known as Agrawal–Kayal–Saxena primality test and cyclotomic AKS test) is a deterministic primality-proving algorithm created and published by Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena, computer scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, on August 6, 2002, in an article ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20dispatch | Computer-aided dispatch (CAD), also called computer-assisted dispatch, is a method of dispatching taxicabs, couriers, field service technicians, mass transit vehicles or emergency services assisted by computer. It can either be used to send messages to the dispatchee via a mobile data terminal (MDT) and/or used to stor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20data%20terminal | A mobile data terminal (MDT) or mobile digital computer (MDC) is a computerized device used in emergency services, public transport, taxicabs, package delivery, roadside assistance, and logistics, among other fields, to communicate with a central dispatcher. They are also used to display mapping and information relevan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20complexity | In theoretical computer science, the time complexity is the computational complexity that describes the amount of computer time it takes to run an algorithm. Time complexity is commonly estimated by counting the number of elementary operations performed by the algorithm, supposing that each elementary operation takes a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu%20%28computing%29 | In user interface design, a menu is a list of options presented to the user.
Navigation
A user chooses an option from a menu by using an input device. Some input methods require linear navigation: the user must move a cursor or otherwise pass from one menu item to another until reaching the selection. On a computer t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein%20distance | In information theory, linguistics, and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. Informally, the Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit%20distance | In computational linguistics and computer science, edit distance is a string metric, i.e. a way of quantifying how dissimilar two strings (e.g., words) are to one another, that is measured by counting the minimum number of operations required to transform one string into the other. Edit distances find applications in n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20network | A terrestrial network (or broadcast network in the United States) is a group of radio stations, television stations, or other electronic media outlets, that form an agreement to air, or broadcast, content from a centralized source. For example, (U.S.), (Canada), the (UK), the (Australia), (Germany), (South Korea)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20series | In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Examples of time series are heights of ocean tides, counts of sunspots, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Planet | Animal Planet (stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American multinational pay television channel, and associated AnimalPlanet.com website content, owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. First established on June 1, 1996, the channel is primarily devoted to series and docume... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20call | A telephone call or telephone conversation (or telcon), also known as a phone call or voice call (or simply a call), is a connection over a telephone network between the called party and the calling party. Telephone calls started in the late 19th century. As technology has improved, a majority of telephone calls are ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write | Copy-on-write (COW), sometimes referred to as implicit sharing or shadowing, is a resource-management technique used in computer programming to efficiently implement a "duplicate" or "copy" operation on modifiable resources. If a resource is duplicated but not modified, it is not necessary to create a new resource; the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation | Implementation is the realization of an application, execution of a plan, idea, model, design, specification, standard, algorithm, policy, or the administration or management of a process or objective.
Industry-specific definitions
Computer science
In computer science, an implementation is a realization of a technic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrapper | Wrapper generally refers to a type of packaging. It may also refer to:
Computing
Wrapper (data mining), a technique used in data mining
Wrapper function, a function whose main purpose is to call a second function
Wrapper library
Driver wrapper, software that functions as an adapter between an operating system and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN | IDN can refer to:
Internationalized domain names
Institut Industriel du Nord, the former name of École Centrale de Lille
Indonesia, the ISO 3-letter country code
International Data Number, in the context of an X.121 address
Identity driven networking
Integrated data network, the digital data network developed by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving%20average%20%28disambiguation%29 | A moving average is a calculation to analyze data points by creating a series of averages of different subsets of the full data set.
Moving average may also refer to:
Moving-average model, an approach for modeling univariate time series models
Moving average filter, a finite impulse response filter in digital signa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Music%20Awards | The American Music Awards (AMAs) is an annual American music awards show, generally held in the fall, created by Dick Clark in 1973 for American Broadcasting Company, when the network's contract to air the Grammy Awards expired. It is produced by Dick Clark Productions. From 1973 to 2005, both the winners and the nomi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice%20League%20%28TV%20series%29 | Justice League is an American animated television series which ran from November 17, 2001, to May 29, 2004, on Cartoon Network. The show was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It is based on the Justice League of America and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics. It serves as a sequel to Batman: The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.20 | IEEE 802.20 or Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA) was a specification by the standard association of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for mobile broadband networks. The main standard was published in 2008. MBWA is no longer being actively developed.
This wireless broadband technology i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Duration%20Exposure%20Facility | NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility, or LDEF (pronounced "eldef"), was a cylindrical facility designed to provide long-term experimental data on the outer space environment and its effects on space systems, materials, operations and selected spores' survival. It was placed in low Earth orbit by in April 1984. The o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper%20chip | The Clipper chip was a chipset that was developed and promoted by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) as an encryption device that secured "voice and data messages" with a built-in backdoor that was intended to "allow Federal, State, and local law enforcement officials the ability to decode intercepted voi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight | iSight is a brand name used by Apple Inc. to refer to cameras on various devices. The name was originally used for the external iSight webcam, which retailed for US$149, connected to a computer via a FireWire cable, and came with a set of mounts to place it atop any then current Apple display, laptop computer, all-in-o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20X%20Jaguar | Mac OS X Jaguar (version 10.2) is the third major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system. It superseded Mac OS X 10.1 and preceded Mac OS X Panther. The operating system was released on August 23, 2002 either for single-computer installations, and in a "family pack", which allowed five installati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Label%20%28Mac%20OS%29 | In Apple's Macintosh operating systems, labels are a type of seven distinct colored and named parameters of metadata that can be attributed to items (files, folders and disks) in the filesystem. Labels were introduced in Macintosh System 7, released in 1991, and they were an improvement of the ability to colorize items... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watershed%20%28broadcasting%29 | In broadcasting, the watershed is the time of day after which programming with content deemed suitable only for mature or adult audiences is permitted.
In the same way that a geological watershed divides two drainage basins, a broadcasting watershed serves as a dividing line in a schedule between family-oriented conte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive | Directive may refer to:
Directive (European Union), a legislative act of the European Union
Directive (programming), a computer language construct that specifies how a compiler should process input
"Directive" (poem), a poem by Robert Frost
Directive speech act, a particular kind of speech act which causes the hear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akalabeth%3A%20World%20of%20Doom | Akalabeth: World of Doom () is a role-playing video game released in 1979 for the Apple II. It was published by California Pacific Computer Company in 1980. Richard Garriott designed the game as a hobbyist project, which is now recognized as one of the earliest known examples of a role-playing video game and as a pred... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS%20file%20format | A GIS file format is a standard for encoding geographical information into a computer file, as a specialized type of file format for use in geographic information systems (GIS) and other geospatial applications. Since the 1970s, dozens of formats have been created based on various data models for various purposes. They... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20standard%20deviation | In probability theory and statistics, the geometric standard deviation (GSD) describes how spread out are a set of numbers whose preferred average is the geometric mean. For such data, it may be preferred to the more usual standard deviation. Note that unlike the usual arithmetic standard deviation, the geometric stan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%20%28disambiguation%29 | Loki is the god of mischief in Norse mythology.
Loki may also refer to:
Computing
LOKI, a family of cryptographic block ciphers
Loki (C++), a C++ software library
Loki (computer), a proposed home computer
Loki Software, a software firm
Loki, an open source logging platform available through Grafana
Fictional ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20programming | An integer programming problem is a mathematical optimization or feasibility program in which some or all of the variables are restricted to be integers. In many settings the term refers to integer linear programming (ILP), in which the objective function and the constraints (other than the integer constraints) are lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebasing | In computing, rebasing is the process of modifying data based on one reference to another. It can be one of the following:
Shared libraries
Rebasing is the process of creating a shared library image in such a way that it is guaranteed to use virtual memory without conflicting with any other shared libraries loadable i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20RPG%20II | RPG II is a very early and popular version of the IBM RPG programming language.
It was developed in the late 1960s and designed to work on the smallest IBM systems of the time such as the IBM 1130, IBM System/3, System/32, System/34, System/36. It was also available for the System/370, The Singer System 10, Sperry Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20lock | Spin lock may refer to:
Spin lock, a part of artillery fuze mechanism which arms the munition upon firing
Spinlock, a concept in multithread programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRISC | OpenRISC is a project to develop a series of open-source hardware based central processing units (CPUs) on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. It includes an instruction set architecture (ISA) using an open-source license. It is the original flagship project of the OpenCores community.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urpmi | urpmi is a package management tool for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media. It wraps around the RPM Package Manager in the role of a smart package manager. It uses repositories and will resolve dependencies so that the user will not suffer from dependency h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20accessibility | Computer accessibility (also known as accessible computing) refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability type or severity of impairment. The term accessibility is most often used in reference to specialized hardware or software, or a combination of both, designed to enable th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Toboso | El Toboso is a town and municipality located in the Mancha Alta de Toledo comarca, province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, central Spain. According to the 2009 data, El Toboso has a total population of 2,219 inhabitants. The economy of the town is based on wine production and cattle, and sheep.
El Toboso is famous for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk%20family%20of%20computers | Minsk family of mainframe computers was developed and produced in the Byelorussian SSR from 1959 to 1975.
Models
The MINSK-1 was a vacuum-tube digital computer that went into production in 1960.
The MINSK-2 was a solid-state digital computer that went into production in 1962.
The MINSK-22 was a modified version of M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge%E2%80%93response%20authentication | In computer security, challenge–response authentication is a family of protocols in which one party presents a question ("challenge") and another party must provide a valid answer ("response") to be authenticated.
The simplest example of a challenge–response protocol is password authentication, where the challenge is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errno.h | errno.h is a header file in the standard library of the C programming language. It defines macros for reporting and retrieving error conditions using the symbol errno (short for "error number").
errno acts like an integer variable. A value (the error number) is stored in errno by certain library functions when they de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4 | Reiser4 is a computer file system, successor to the ReiserFS file system, developed from scratch by Namesys and sponsored by DARPA as well as Linspire. Reiser4 was named after its former lead developer Hans Reiser. , the Reiser4 patch set is still being maintained, but according to Phoronix, it is unlikely to be merged... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20displays | Apple Inc. sold a variety of LCD and CRT computer displays in the past. Apple paused production of their own standalone displays in 2016 and partnered with LG to design displays for Macs. In June 2019, the Pro Display XDR was introduced, however it was expensive and targeted for professionals. Nearly three years later,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%40home | Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project aimed to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases by the means of simulating protein dynamics. This includes the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins, and is reliant on simulations run on volunteers' personal comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20largest%20municipalities%20in%20Canada%20by%20population | The table below lists the 100 largest census subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 census for census subdivisions.
This list includes only the population within a census subdivision's boundaries as defined at the time of the census. Many census subdivi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20census%20metropolitan%20areas%20and%20agglomerations%20in%20Canada | This is a list of the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census and the 2016 Canadian census. Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA) as defined by Statistics Canada.
A city's metropolitan area in c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Force%20%28video%20game%29 | is a free-roaming scrolling shooter computer game released by Technosoft in 1983. It is the first game in the Thunder Force series. It was initially released for the X1 computer, and later appeared on the Sharp MZ-1500, PC-6001 mkII, and in 1985 on the PC-8801 mkII. In 1984, it was released for the FM-7 and PC-9801 com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Printing%20Protocol | The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is a specialized communication protocol for communication between client devices (computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc.) and printers (or print servers). It allows clients to submit one or more print jobs to the network-attached printer or print server, and perform tasks such as q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS | CUPS (formerly an acronym for Common UNIX Printing System) is a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems which allows a computer to act as a print server. A computer running CUPS is a host that can accept print jobs from client computers, process them, and send them to the appropriate printer.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20comedy | Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve variety show, sitcom elements, sketches, and various types of comedy found in other media. It may also include more surreal or fantastic elements, as these can be conveyed on a small budget with just a few sound effects or some simple dia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefield | Bluefield may refer to:
Bluefield, Virginia, US
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Nvidia BlueField, a line of computer hardware
See also
Bluefields, Nicaragua
Bluefields, Jamaica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booklet | Booklet may refer to:
A small book or group of pages
A pamphlet
A type of tablet computer
Postage stamp booklet, made up of one or more small panes of postage stamps in a cardboard cover
Liner notes, writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc or DVD jewel case or the equivalent packaging... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20RISC%20pipeline | In the history of computer hardware, some early reduced instruction set computer central processing units (RISC CPUs) used a very similar architectural solution, now called a classic RISC pipeline. Those CPUs were: MIPS, SPARC, Motorola 88000, and later the notional CPU DLX invented for education.
Each of these classi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs | tmpfs (short for Temporary File System) is a temporary file storage paradigm implemented in many Unix-like operating systems. It is intended to appear as a mounted file system, but data is stored in volatile memory instead of a persistent storage device. A similar construction is a RAM disk, which appears as a virtua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosedale%20Network%20of%20Churches | The Rosedale Network of Churches is a Christian body of Mennonite churches in the Anabaptist tradition. Rosedale Network of Churches was originally formed in 1910 by a group of Amish Mennonites to promote unity while preserving autonomy of the local congregation.
History
For the early history see History of Anabapti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff%20Collyer | Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is the senior author of C News, a protocol-neutral news transport, and the designer of NOV, the News Overview database (article index) used by all modern newsreaders. He contributed the code that allowed to convert the Bourne Shell from using the non-portab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphCalc | GraphCalc is an open-source computer program that runs in Microsoft Windows and Linux that provides the functionality of a graphing calculator.
GraphCalc includes many of the standard features of graphing calculators, but also includes some higher-end features:
High resolution
Graphing calculator screens have a reso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewriting | In mathematics, computer science, and logic, rewriting covers a wide range of methods of replacing subterms of a formula with other terms. Such methods may be achieved by rewriting systems (also known as rewrite systems, rewrite engines, or reduction systems). In their most basic form, they consist of a set of objects,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tukey | John Wilder Tukey (; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20predictor | In computer architecture, a branch predictor is a digital circuit that tries to guess which way a branch (e.g., an if–then–else structure) will go before this is known definitively. The purpose of the branch predictor is to improve the flow in the instruction pipeline. Branch predictors play a critical role in achievin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIL | RIL may refer to:
Radio Interface Layer, a software interface used in a mobile device to communicate via mobile networks
RDF Inference Language, a means of expressing expert systems rules and queries that operate on RDF models
Reliance Industries Limited, a corporation in India
Rice Lane railway station, England; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTV%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | YTV is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by YTV Canada, Inc., a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment. The channel and its programming is targeted at children and young teenagers; consisting of original live action and animated television series, movies, and third party shows from various U.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory%20data%20analysis | In statistics, exploratory data analysis (EDA) is an approach of analyzing data sets to summarize their main characteristics, often using statistical graphics and other data visualization methods. A statistical model can be used or not, but primarily EDA is for seeing what the data can tell us beyond the formal modelin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncomfortable%20science | Uncomfortable science, as identified by statistician John Tukey, comprises situations in which there is a need to draw an inference from a limited sample of data, where further samples influenced by the same cause system will not be available. More specifically, it involves the analysis of a finite natural phenomenon f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneword | Oneword Radio was a British commercial digital radio station featuring books, drama, comedy, children's programming, and discussion. The station was available in the UK via digital radio (DAB) and digital television (Freeview DVB-T and Sky Digital DVB-S) and was streamed on the internet 24 hours a day worldwide. It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullane%20Entertainment | Gullane Entertainment PLC was a British independent production company which produced children's programming, including Thomas & Friends (1984–2021), Shining Time Station (1989–1995), and The Magic Adventures of Mumfie (1994–1998). The company was purchased by HIT Entertainment in July 2002, and went defunct within the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20checkpointing | Checkpointing is a technique that provides fault tolerance for computing systems. It basically consists of saving a snapshot of the application's state, so that applications can restart from that point in case of failure. This is particularly important for long running applications that are executed in failure-prone co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20algorithms | The following timeline of algorithms outlines the development of algorithms (mainly "mathematical recipes") since their inception.
Medieval Period
Before – writing about "recipes" (on cooking, rituals, agriculture and other themes)
c. 1700–2000 BC – Egyptians develop earliest known algorithms for multiplying two num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20Address%20Extension | In computing, Physical Address Extension (PAE), sometimes referred to as Page Address Extension,
is a memory management feature for the x86 architecture. PAE was first introduced by Intel in the Pentium Pro, and later by AMD in the Athlon processor. It defines a page table hierarchy of three levels (instead of two), wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing%20hypotheses%20suggested%20by%20the%20data | In statistics, hypotheses suggested by a given dataset, when tested with the same dataset that suggested them, are likely to be accepted even when they are not true. This is because circular reasoning (double dipping) would be involved: something seems true in the limited data set; therefore we hypothesize that it is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20LC%20II | The Macintosh LC II is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from March 1992 to March 1993. The LC II is an update to the original Macintosh LC, replacing its Motorola 68020 processor with a 68030 and increasing the onboard memory to 4 MB. The LC II was priced at US$1,699, fully $800 le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Marr%20%28neuroscientist%29 | David Courtenay Marr (19 January 1945 – 17 November 1980) was a British neuroscientist and physiologist. Marr integrated results from psychology, artificial intelligence, and neurophysiology into new models of visual processing. His work was very influential in computational neuroscience and led to a resurgence of inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20Weight%20Kernel%20Threads | Light Weight Kernel Threads (LWKT) is a computer science term and from DragonFly BSD in particular. LWKTs differ from normal kernel threads in that they can preempt normal kernel threads. According to Matt Dillon, DragonFlyBSD creator:
See also
Light-weight process
Thread (computing)
Sources
Matt Dillon's post about... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal%20Engine | Unreal Engine (UE) is a series of 3D computer graphics game engines developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter video game Unreal. Initially developed for PC first-person shooters, it has since been used in a variety of genres of games and has seen adoption by other industries, most notabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakazoid%21 | Freakazoid! is an American superhero comedy animated television series created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini and developed by Tom Ruegger for the Kids' WB programming block of The WB. The series chronicles the adventures of the title character, Freakazoid, a crazy teenage superhero who fights crime in Washington, D.C. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20%28boxing%29 | In boxing, a straight or cross (also commonly called or a rear hand punch) are punches usually thrown with the dominant hand
and are power punches like the uppercut and hook. Compubox, a computerized punch scoring system, counts the straight and cross as power punches.
The Straight/Cross remains one of the most commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuBox | CompuBox is the name of a computerized punches scoring system run by two operators. CompuBox is used in boxing matches around the world.
Background
The system is based on a computer program, originally named FightStat, developed by Jon Gibbs in 1984–85 when Gibbs worked with Logan Hobson and Robert Canobbio at Sports ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler-32 | Adler-32 is a checksum algorithm written by Mark Adler in 1995, modifying Fletcher's checksum. Compared to a cyclic redundancy check of the same length, it trades reliability for speed. Adler-32 is more reliable than Fletcher-16, and slightly less reliable than Fletcher-32.
History
The Adler-32 checksum is part of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor%E2%80%93transistor%20logic | Resistor–transistor logic (RTL), sometimes also known as transistor–resistor logic (TRL), is a class of digital circuits built using resistors as the input network and bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) as switching devices. RTL is the earliest class of transistorized digital logic circuit; it was succeeded by diode–t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemRescue | SystemRescue (Previously known as "SystemRescueCD") is a Linux distribution for x86 64 and x86 computers. The primary purpose of SystemRescue is to repair unbootable or otherwise damaged computer systems after a system crash. SystemRescue is not intended to be used as a permanent operating system. It runs from a Live C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular | Cellular may refer to:
Cellular automaton, a model in discrete mathematics
Cell biology, the evaluation of cells work and more
Cellular (film), a 2004 movie
Cellular frequencies, assigned to networks operating in cellular RF bands
Cellular manufacturing
Cellular network, cellular radio networks
U.S. Cellular Field, al... |
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