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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic%20Curve%20Digital%20Signature%20Algorithm
In cryptography, the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) offers a variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses elliptic-curve cryptography. Key and signature-size As with elliptic-curve cryptography in general, the bit size of the private key believed to be needed for ECDSA is about twice...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnorr%20signature
In cryptography, a Schnorr signature is a digital signature produced by the Schnorr signature algorithm that was described by Claus Schnorr. It is a digital signature scheme known for its simplicity, among the first whose security is based on the intractability of certain discrete logarithm problems. It is efficient an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza%20box%20form%20factor
In computing, a pizza box is a style of case design for desktop computers or network switches. Pizza box cases tend to be wide and flat, normally in height, resembling pizza delivery boxes and thus the name. This is in contrast to a tower system, whose case height is much greater than the width and has an "upright" ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca%2C%20Spain
Inca () is a town on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The population of the municipality is 32,137 (2018) in an area of 58.4 km². There is a junction station Mallorca rail network with trains to Palma, the island's capital, to Sa Pobla, and to Manacor. Inca is home of the footwear company "Camper". Inca is known fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTVD
WTVD (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Durham, North Carolina, United States, serving as the ABC outlet for the Research Triangle area. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, it maintains primary studios on Liberty Street in downtown Durham, with additional studios an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Netherlands%20Worldwide
Radio Netherlands (RNW; ) was a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands from 1947 to 2012. Its services in Dutch ended on 10 May 2012. English and Indonesian language services ceased on 29 June 2012 due to steep b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUVC-DT
WUVC-DT (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Research Triangle region. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Raleigh-licensed low-power UniMás station WTNC-LD (channel 26). Both stations...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avida
Avida is an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms). Avida is under active development by Charles Ofria's Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University; the first version of Avida was designed in 1993 by Ofria, Chris...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20attack
A passive attack on a cryptosystem is one in which the cryptanalyst cannot interact with any of the parties involved, attempting to break the system solely based upon observed data (i.e. the ciphertext). This can also include known plaintext attacks where both the plaintext and its corresponding ciphertext are known. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Miller%20%28North%20Carolina%20politician%29
Paul Miller is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-ninth House district, including constituents in Durham county. A computer consultant and investment advisor from Durham, North Carolina, Miller served almost three terms in the state House. Miller borrowed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20P.%20Johnson
Linda Kay Pennell Johnson (May 2, 1945 – February 18, 2020) was a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the state's 82nd district. She was a computer analyst from Kannapolis, North Carolina. Johnson graduated from A.L. Brown High School, in Kannapolis, North Carolina, in 1963....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareReactor
ShareReactor was an index site for files on the eDonkey network and Torrent files. ShareReactor did not host any files; instead, the links it contained were accessible through an eDonkey network and BitTorrent client. The site was taken down by Swiss Police on March 10, 2004, due to the suspicion of breach of copyright...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITY-DT
CITY-DT (channel 57) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the Citytv network. It is owned and operated by network parent Rogers Sports & Media alongside Omni Television outlets CFMT-DT (channel 47) and CJMT-DT (channel 40). The stations share studios at 33 Dundas Stree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Unicom
China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. () or China Unicom () (CUniq in short) is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator. Started as a wireless paging and GSM mobile operator, it currently provides a range of services including mobile network, long-distance, local calling, data communication, Int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking%20window%20manager
A stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws and allows windows to overlap, without using a compositing algorithm. All window managers that allow the overlapping of windows but are not compositing window managers are considered stacking window managers, although it is p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached%20storage
Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level (as opposed to block-level storage) computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients. The term "NAS" can refer to both the technology and systems involved, or a specialized device built for such function...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20definition%20language
In the context of SQL, data definition or data description language (DDL) is a syntax for creating and modifying database objects such as tables, indices, and users. DDL statements are similar to a computer programming language for defining data structures, especially database schemas. Common examples of DDL statement...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20Pattern%20Repository
The Portland Pattern Repository (PPR) is a repository for computer programming software design patterns. It was accompanied by a companion website, WikiWikiWeb, which was the world's first wiki. The repository has an emphasis on Extreme Programming, and it is hosted by Cunningham & Cunningham (C2) of Portland, Oregon. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDL
DDL may refer to: Technology Data definition language or data description language, relating to databases Description Definition Language, part of the MPEG-7 standard Device Description Language, related to field devices for process and factory automation Digital data logger, a type of data logger, an electronic devi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterminism
Nondeterminism or nondeterministic may refer to: Computer science Nondeterministic programming Nondeterministic algorithm Nondeterministic model of computation Nondeterministic finite automaton Nondeterministic Turing machine Indeterminacy in computation (disambiguation) Other Indeterminism (philosophy) See also Ind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Multiplex%20System
Digital Multiplex System (DMS) is the name shared among several different telephony product lines from Nortel Networks for wireline and wireless operators. Among them are the DMS-1 (originally named the DMS-256) Rural/Urban digital loop carrier, the DMS-10 telephone switch, the DMS SuperNode family of telephone switche...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Bright
Walter G. Bright is an American computer programmer who created the D programming language, the Zortech C++ compiler, and the Empire computer game. Early life and education Bright is the son of the United States Air Force pilot Charles D. Bright. He taught himself computer programming from the type-in programs in BASI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20novo
In general usage, de novo (literally 'of new') is a Latin expression used in English to mean 'from the beginning', 'anew'. De novo may also refer to: Science and computers De novo mutation, a new germline mutation not inherited from either parent De novo protein design, the creation of a protein sequence that is no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai%20Jack
Samurai Jack is an American animated action-adventure dystopian television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. The show is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. Tartakovsky conceived Samurai Jack after finishing his work on his first Cartoon Network original series, Dexter's Laborato...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20corruption
Memory corruption occurs in a computer program when the contents of a memory location are modified due to programmatic behavior that exceeds the intention of the original programmer or program/language constructs; this is termed as violation of memory safety. The most likely causes of memory corruption are programming ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia%20Manor
Britannia Manor was the residence of game designer Richard Garriott. The name comes from the castle of Lord British, ruler of Britannia, the setting of the Ultima computer role playing game series, which he created. Britannia Manor was situated atop a large hill near Austin, Texas. The home was featured in a 2007 epi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
Arimaa () is a two-player strategy board game that was designed to be playable with a standard chess set and difficult for computers while still being easy to learn and fun to play for humans. It was invented between 1997 and 2002 by Omar Syed, an Indian-American computer engineer trained in artificial intelligence. S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles%20%28video%20game%29
Nibbles, also known by the source code's file name NIBBLES.BAS, is a variant of the snake video game concept used to demonstrate the QBasic programming language. Nibbles was written in QBasic by Rick Raddatz, who later went on to create small businesses such as Xiosoft and Bizpad. Gameplay The game's objective is to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromorphic%20engineering
Neuromorphic computing is an approach to computing that is inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. A neuromorphic computer/chip is any device that uses physical artificial neurons to do computations. In recent times, the term neuromorphic has been used to describe analog, digital, mixed-mode analog/d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Plouffe
Simon Plouffe (born June 11, 1956) is a mathematician who discovered the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP algorithm) which permits the computation of the nth binary digit of π, in 1995. His other 2022 formula allows extracting the nth digit of in decimal. He was born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec. He co-authored The Enc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged%20union
In computer science, a tagged union, also called a variant, variant record, choice type, discriminated union, disjoint union, sum type or coproduct, is a data structure used to hold a value that could take on several different, but fixed, types. Only one of the types can be in use at any one time, and a tag field expli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
Racter is an artificial intelligence program that generates English language prose at random. It was published by Mindscape for IBM PC compatibles in 1984, then later for the Apple II, Macintosh, and Amiga. An expanded version of the software, not the one released through Mindscape, was used to generate the text for th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%206
Sigma 6 may refer to: G.I. Joe: Sigma 6, a line of military-themed action figures and toys SDS Sigma 6, one of the SDS Sigma series of computers made by Scientific Data Systems Pink Floyd, a British rock group originally called Sigma 6 See also Six Sigma, a set of techniques and tools for process improvement 68–...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABC%201
SABC 1 is a South African public television network operated by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) which carries programming in English and Nguni. It was created in 1996, after the SABC restructured its television channels. SABC 1 carried much of its programming over from the defunct CCV (Contemporary C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABC%203
SABC 3 (stylised as S3) is a South African free-to-air public television network owned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). It carries programming in English and, few in other South African languages. It has a number of its own reality and talk shows and had lately introduced a new series called “The E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABC%202
SABC 2 is a South African family public television channel owned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). SABC 2 broadcasts programming in English, Afrikaans, Venda, and Tsonga. As of August 2018, the channel started broadcasting in high definition. History SABC began trialling its first television servi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement%20for%20a%20New%20Society
The Movement for a New Society (MNS) was a U.S.-based network of social activist collectives, committed to the principles of nonviolence, who played a key role in social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. According to a description from the MNS publication, Building Social Change Communities (1979), Movement for a New...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark%20printing
Spark printing is an obsolete form of computer printing and before that fax and chart recorder printing which uses a special paper coated with a conductive layer over a contrasting backing, originally black carbon over white paper but later aluminium over black paper. Printing on this paper uses pulses of electric cur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASSIVE%20%28software%29
MASSIVE (Multiple Agent Simulation System in Virtual Environment) is a high-end computer animation and artificial intelligence software package used for generating crowd-related visual effects for film and television. Overview Massive is a software package developed by Stephen Regelous for use in the visual effects in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada%20%28miniseries%29
Masada is an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in April 1981. Advertised by the network as an "ABC Novel for Television," it was a fictionalized account of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Israel by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. The TV series' script is based on the 1971 novel The An...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20important%20publications%20in%20computer%20science
This is a list of important publications in computer science, organized by field. Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important: Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly Influence – A publication which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%209x
Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced from 1995 to 2000, which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS-DOS, both of which were updated in subsequent versions. The first version in the 9x series was Windows 95, which wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20software
An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, typically to be used by end-users. Word processors, media players, and accounting software are examples. The collec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20management%20software
Reference management software, citation management software, or bibliographic management software is software that stores a database of bibliographic records and produces bibliographic citations (references) for those records, needed in scholarly research. Once a record has been stored, it can be used time and again in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling%20gateway
A signaling gateway is a network component responsible for transferring signaling messages (i.e. information related to call establishment, billing, location, short messages, address conversion, and other services) between Common Channel Signaling (CCS) nodes that communicate using different protocols and transports. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20point
In mathematics, an extreme point of a convex set in a real or complex vector space is a point in that does not lie in any open line segment joining two points of In linear programming problems, an extreme point is also called vertex or corner point of Definition Throughout, it is assumed that is a real or complex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Based%20Application%20Recognition
Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) is the mechanism used by some Cisco routers and switches to recognize a dataflow by inspecting some packets sent. The networking equipment which uses NBAR does a deep packet inspection on some of the packets in a dataflow, to determine which traffic category the flow belong...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20packet%20inspection
Deep packet inspection (DPI) is a type of data processing that inspects in detail the data being sent over a computer network, and may take actions such as alerting, blocking, re-routing, or logging it accordingly. Deep packet inspection is often used for baselining application behavior, analyzing network usage, troubl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket%20370
Socket 370, also known as PGA370, is a CPU socket first used by Intel for Pentium III and Celeron processors to first complement and later replace the older Slot 1 CPU interface on personal computers. The "370" refers to the number of pin holes in the socket for CPU pins. Socket 370 was replaced by Socket 423 in 2000....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20engineering
Data engineering refers to the building of systems to enable the collection and usage of data. This data is usually used to enable subsequent analysis and data science; which often involves machine learning. Making the data usable usually involves substantial compute and storage, as well as data processing History Ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20game%20art
Video game art is a specialized form of computer art employing video games as the artistic medium. Video game art often involves the use of patched or modified video games or the repurposing of existing games or game structures, however it relies on a broader range of artistic techniques and outcomes than artistic modi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20storage
In computing, mass storage refers to the storage of large amounts of data in a persisting and machine-readable fashion. In general, the term is used as large in relation to contemporaneous hard disk drives, but it has been used large in relation to primary memory as for example with floppy disks on personal computers....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.15.4
IEEE 802.15.4 is a technical standard which defines the operation of a low-rate wireless personal area network (LR-WPAN). It specifies the physical layer and media access control for LR-WPANs, and is maintained by the IEEE 802.15 working group, which defined the standard in 2003. It is the basis for the Zigbee, ISA10...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-ITX
Mini-ITX is a motherboard form factor developed by VIA Technologies in 2001. Mini-ITX motherboards have been traditionally used in small-configured computer systems. Originally, Mini-ITX was a niche standard designed for fanless cooling with a low power consumption architecture, which made them useful for home theater...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense%20Switched%20Network
The Defense Switched Network (DSN) is a primary information transfer network for the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) of the United States Department of Defense. The DSN provides the worldwide non-secure voice, secure voice, data, facsimile, and video teleconferencing services for DOD Command and Control (C2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolWebSearch
CoolWebSearch (also known as CoolWWWSearch or abbreviated as CWS) is a spyware or virus program that installs itself on Microsoft Windows based computers. It first appeared in May 2003. Effects CoolWebSearch has numerous capabilities when it is successfully installed on a user's computer. The program can change an in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV%20plc
ITV plc is a British media company that holds 13 of the 15 regional television licences that make up the ITV network (Channel 3), the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom. ITV plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stax
Stax can refer to: StAX, (Computer Programming) Streaming API for reading and writing XML in Java Stax Ltd, a Japanese brand of electrostatic headphones Stax Records, an American record company Lay's Stax, a brand of potato snack chips sold by Lay's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Feet
Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his 1997 Comedy Premiere special of the same name. The series follows three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance, origina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20engineering
Computer-aided engineering can be defined as the general usage of technology to aid in tasks related to engineering analysis. Any use of technology to solve or assist engineering issues falls under this umbrella. Overview Following alongside the consistent improvement in computer graphics and speed, computer aid assi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s%20device
In the C programming language, Duff's device is a way of manually implementing loop unrolling by interleaving two syntactic constructs of C: the - loop and a switch statement. Its discovery is credited to Tom Duff in November 1983, when Duff was working for Lucasfilm and used it to speed up a real-time animation progra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20syntax
The syntax of the C programming language is the set of rules governing writing of software in C. It is designed to allow for programs that are extremely terse, have a close relationship with the resulting object code, and yet provide relatively high-level data abstraction. C was the first widely successful high-level l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YDS
YDS or yds may refer to: YDS (Language Proficiency Test administered in Turkey) Yards YDS algorithm in computer science Yosemite Decimal System Young Democratic Socialists, US Yiddish Sign Language's ISO 639 code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning%20tree%20%28disambiguation%29
Spanning tree is a term in the mathematical field of graph theory Spanning tree may also refer to: Spanning tree protocol, a network protocol for Ethernet networks Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol See also Minimum spanning tree Capacitated minimum spanning tree Distributed minimum spanning tree Euclidean minimum sp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Estuarine%20Research%20Reserve
The National Estuarine Research Reserve System is a network of 30 protected areas established by partnerships between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and coastal states. The reserves represent different biogeographic regions of the United States. The National Estuarine Research Reserve Syst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gathering%20%28LAN%20party%29
The Gathering (abbreviated as "TG" for short) is the second largest computer party in the world (second to DreamHack). It is held annually in Vikingskipet Olympic Arena in Hamar, Norway, and lasts for five consecutive days (starting on the Wednesday in Easter each year). Each year, TG attracts more than 5200 (mostly yo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%206
System 6 (or System Software 6) is a graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers, made by Apple Computer. It was released in 1988, and is part of the classic Mac OS series. It is a monolithic operating system, with cooperative multitasking based on an improved MultiFinder. The boxed version ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIRCH%20%28IRC%20client%29
PIRCH or pIRCh is a shareware Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client published by Northwest Computer Services. Its name is an acronym – PolarGeek's IRC Hack. The last version of the program, known as PIRCH98, was released in 1998. PIRCH has in the past been considered to be the number-two Windows IRC client behind mIRC. P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint%27s%20Advanced%20Systems%20Language
DASL (Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language) was a programming language and compiler proprietary to Datapoint. Primarily influenced by Pascal with some C touches, it was created in the early 1980s by Gene Hughes. The compiler output was assembly language, which was typically processed through a peep-hole optimizer be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20modeling
Solid modeling (or solid modelling) is a consistent set of principles for mathematical and computer modeling of three-dimensional shapes (solids). Solid modeling is distinguished within the broader related areas of geometric modeling and computer graphics, such as 3D modeling, by its emphasis on physical fidelity. Toge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm%20%28disambiguation%29
A paradigm, in science and epistemology, is a distinct concept or thought pattern. Paradigm may also refer to: Science and medicine Paradigm, an experimental setup Programming paradigm, a style of programming, usually enforced by the programming language used Minimed Paradigm, an insulin pump made by Minimed/Medtr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-quinary%20coded%20decimal
Bi-quinary coded decimal is a numeral encoding scheme used in many abacuses and in some early computers, including the Colossus. The term bi-quinary indicates that the code comprises both a two-state (bi) and a five-state (quinary) component. The encoding resembles that used by many abacuses, with four beads indicating...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberchase
Cyberchase is an animated sci-fi children's television series that airs on PBS Kids. The series centers around three children from Earth: Jackie, Matt and Inez, who are brought into Cyberspace, a digital universe, in order to protect the world from the villainous Hacker (Christopher Lloyd). They are able to prevent Hac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAIN
CHAIN may refer to: CHAIN (industry standard), an acronym for Ceced Home Appliances Interoperating Network, a standard for a multi-brands home network of interactive household appliances. Controlled and Harmonised Aeronautical Information Network, a concept of EUROCONTROL to improve the quality of aeronautical data. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASL
DASL may mean: Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language Distributed Application Specification Language, developed by Sun Microsystems DAV Searching and Locating, a WebDAV project Director of American Sign Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite%20%28operating%20system%29
Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group between 1984 and 1992. Its notable features include support for single system image on computer clusters and the introduction of the log-structured filesystem. The Tcl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation%20%28disambiguation%29
Rotation is a circular motion of a body about a center. Rotation may also refer to: Science, mathematics and computing Rotation (anatomy) Rotation (mathematics) Rotation (medicine), medical student training Rotation (physics), ratio between a given angle and a full turn of 2π radians Bitwise rotation, a mathema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20University%20School%20of%20Engineering
Stanford University School of Engineering is one of the schools of Stanford University. The current dean is Jennifer Widom, the former senior associate dean of faculty affairs and computer science chair. She is the school's 10th dean. Organization and academics The school of engineering was established in 1925, when S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20alternative%20shells%20for%20Windows
This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is the Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager. The programs in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European%20Networks
The Trans-European Networks (TEN) were created by the European Union by Articles 154–156 of the Treaty of Rome (1957), with the stated goals of the creation of an internal market and the reinforcement of economic and social cohesion. To various supporters of this policy, it made little sense to talk of a big EU market,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon%20%28computing%29
In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon ( or ) is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Traditionally, the process names of a daemon end with the letter d, for clarification that the process is in fact a daemon, and for diff...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibusuki%20District%2C%20Kagoshima
was a district located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. As of June 30, 2005 population data (following the January 1, 2006 merger), the district had an estimated population of 14,761 and a density of 134 persons per km2. The total area was 110.31 km2. The day before the dissolution on November 30, 2007, the district h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer%20%28computer%20programming%29
In computer science, a pointer is an object in many programming languages that stores a memory address. This can be that of another value located in computer memory, or in some cases, that of memory-mapped computer hardware. A pointer references a location in memory, and obtaining the value stored at that location is k...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid%20Technology
Pyramid Technology Corporation was a computer company that produced a number of RISC-based minicomputers at the upper end of the performance range. It was based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California They also became the second company to ship a multiprocessor UNIX system (branded DC/OSx), in 1985, which formed ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms.%20Pac-Man
is a 1982 maze arcade video game developed by General Computer Corporation and published by Midway. It is the first sequel to Pac-Man (1980) and the first entry in the series to not be made by Namco. Controlling the title character, Pac-Man's wife, the player is tasked with eating all of the pellets in an enclosed maze...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20highways%20in%20California
The state highway system of the U.S. state of California is a network of highways that are owned and maintained by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Each highway is assigned a Route (officially State Highway Route) number in the Streets and Highways Code (Sections 300–635). Most of these are numb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su%20%28Unix%29
The Unix command , which stands for 'substitute user' (or historically 'superuser'), is used by a computer user to execute commands with the privileges of another user account. When executed it invokes a shell without changing the current working directory or the user environment. When the command is used without spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20transfer%20system
A value transfer system refers to any system, mechanism, or network of people that receives money for the purpose of making the funds or an equivalent value payable to a third party in another geographic location, whether or not in the same form. The average size of the payment is an indicator of the system's use. Sp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary%20operation
In mathematics, a ternary operation is an n-ary operation with n = 3. A ternary operation on a set A takes any given three elements of A and combines them to form a single element of A. In computer science, a ternary operator is an operator that takes three arguments as input and returns one output. Examples The fun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up%20display
A head-up display, or heads-up display, also known as a HUD () or head-up guidance system (HGS), is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints. The origin of the name stems from a pilot being able to view information with the head positioned "up" and look...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20operator%20notation
In programming languages, scientific calculators and similar common operator notation or operator grammar is a way to define and analyse mathematical and other formal expressions. In this model a linear sequence of tokens are divided into two classes: operators and operands. Operands are objects upon which the operato...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator%20associativity
In programming language theory, the associativity of an operator is a property that determines how operators of the same precedence are grouped in the absence of parentheses. If an operand is both preceded and followed by operators (for example, ^ 3 ^), and those operators have equal precedence, then the operand may b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mac%20software
The following is a list of Mac software – notable computer applications for current macOS operating systems. For software designed for the classic Mac OS, see List of old Macintosh software. Audio software Digital audio workstations Ableton Live Ardour Cubase Digital Performer GarageBand Logic Pro and MainStage RE...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UserLinux
UserLinux was a project to create an operating system based on Debian, and targeted at business customers. The goal was to provide businesses with a freely available, high quality operating system accompanied by certifications, service, and support options. The project was initiated by Bruce Perens in late 2003. Subse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral%20combat%20ship
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is either of two classes of relatively small surface vessels designed for operations near shore by the United States Navy. It was "envisioned to be a networked, agile, stealthy surface combatant capable of defeating anti-access and asymmetric threats in the littorals", although their abil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20assets%20owned%20by%20Warner%20Bros.%20Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in New York City. The company works in the following areas: film, television, cable networks and publishing operations. The following is a list of major assets that are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Warner Bros. Ent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Multiple%20Access%20System
The Edinburgh Multi-Access System (EMAS) was a mainframe computer operating system at the University of Edinburgh. The system went online in 1971. EMAS was a powerful and efficient general purpose multi-user system which coped with many of the computing needs of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Kent (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QVC
QVC (short for "Quality Value Convenience") is an American free-to-air television network and a flagship shopping channel specializing in televised home shopping, owned by Qurate Retail Group. Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, QVC broadcasts to more than 350 million household...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTRR
MTRR may refer to: 5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase reductase, a human gene Memory Type Range Registers, in computer hardware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runtime
Runtime, run-time, or run time may refer to: Computing Runtime (program lifecycle phase), the period during which a computer program is executing Runtime library, a program library designed to implement functions built into a programming language Runtime system, software designed to support the execution of computer...