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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw
Raw is an adjective usually describing: Raw materials, basic materials from which products are manufactured or made Raw food, uncooked food Raw or RAW may also refer to: Computing and electronics .RAW, a proprietary mass spectrometry data format Raw audio format, a file type used to represent sound in uncompresse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20programming
Evolutionary programming is one of the four major evolutionary algorithm paradigms. It is similar to genetic programming, but the structure of the program to be optimized is fixed, while its numerical parameters are allowed to evolve. It was first used by Lawrence J. Fogel in the US in 1960 in order to use simulated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20%28telecommunication%29
In the context of telecommunications, a terminal is a device which ends a telecommunications link and is the point at which a signal enters or leaves a network. Examples of terminal equipment include telephones, fax machines, computer terminals, printers and workstations. An end instrument is a piece of equipment conn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face%20the%20Nation
Face the Nation is a weekly news and morning public affairs program airing Sundays on the CBS radio and television network. Created by Frank Stanton in 1954, Face the Nation is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television. Typically, the program features interviews with prominent American offi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHex
PiHex was a distributed computing project organized by Colin Percival to calculate specific bits of . 1,246 contributors used idle time slices on almost two thousand computers to make its calculations. The software used for the project made use of Bellard's formula, a faster version of the BBP formula. History To calc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay%20Kumar%20%28business%20executive%29
Sanjay Kumar (born 1962) is the former chairman and CEO of Computer Associates International (now CA Technologies), serving from 2000 until April 2004. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in connection with the 35 day month accounting scandal and released in 2017. Early childhood He immigrated with his family to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersix
Cybersix is an Argentinean comic book series published in 1991, created by the Argentine authors Carlos Trillo (story) and Carlos Meglia (art) for the comics magazine Skorpio (Eura Editoriale). The series first appeared in Spanish in November 1993. It follows the eponymous leather-clad genetic engineering survivor who ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Wang
Charles B. Wang (; August 19, 1944 – October 21, 2018) was a Chinese-American billionaire, businessman, and philanthropist, who was a co-founder and CEO of Computer Associates International, Inc. (later renamed CA Technologies). He was a minority owner (and past majority owner) of the NHL's New York Islanders ice hocke...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegard
Telegard is an early bulletin board system (BBS) software program written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS and OS/2. Telegard was written in Pascal with routines written in C++ and assembly language, based on a copy of the WWIV source code. Telegard has several features that make it attractive to BBS sys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%20%28computer%29
Loki was the code name for a cancelled home computer developed at Sinclair Research during the mid-1980s. The name came from the Norse god Loki, god of mischief and thieves. Loki was based on the ZX Spectrum, but intended to rival the Amiga for video games. Loki followed two earlier, aborted research projects from Sin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20data%20processing
Electronic data processing (EDP) can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data. Typically, this uses relatively simple, repetitive activities to process large volumes of similar information. For example: stock updates applied to an inventory, banking transactions applied to account and customer m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICO
FICO (legal name: Fair Isaac Corporation), originally Fair, Isaac and Company, is a data analytics company based in Bozeman, Montana, focused on credit scoring services. It was founded by Bill Fair and Earl Isaac in 1956. Its FICO score, a measure of consumer credit risk, has become a fixture of consumer lending in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20%28computer%20programming%29
In computer science, conditionals (that is, conditional statements, conditional expressions and conditional constructs) are programming language commands for handling decisions. Specifically, conditionals perform different computations or actions depending on whether a programmer-defined Boolean condition evaluates to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20UltraPort
IBM UltraPort was a nonstandard USB 1.1 port used by IBM on its range of ThinkPad laptop computers. Description Electronically the UltraPort connector is identical to the standard USB port. UltraPort uses a proprietary mechanical connection, so UltraPort devices cannot be plugged into a normal USB interface. However,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme%20music
Theme music is a musical composition which is often written specifically for radio programming, television shows, video games, or films and is usually played during the title sequence, opening credits, closing credits, and in some instances at some point during the program. The purpose of a theme song is often similar ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayscale
In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colorimetry, a grayscale image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light; that is, it carries only intensity information. Grayscale images, a kind of black-and-white or gray monochrome, are composed exclusively...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken%20Interchange%20Format
Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) is an open specification for reading and writing financial data to media (i.e. files). Background Although still widely used, QIF is a format older than Open Financial Exchange (OFX). The inability to reconcile imported transactions against the current account information is one of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Financial%20Exchange
Open Financial Exchange (OFX) is a data-stream format for exchanging financial information that evolved from Microsoft's Open Financial Connectivity (OFC) and Intuit's Open Exchange file formats. History Microsoft, Intuit and CheckFree announced the OFX standard on 16 January 1997. The first OFX specification, version...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitzer%20Ebb
Nitzer Ebb () is a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday (drums). The band was originally named La Comédie De La Mort but soon discarded that and chose the name Nitzer Ebb by cutting up words ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20POSIX%20Thread%20Library
The Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) is an implementation of the POSIX Threads specification for the Linux operating system. History Before the 2.6 version of the Linux kernel, processes were the schedulable entities, and there were no special facilities for threads. However, it did have a system call — — which cre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvips
dvips is a computer program that converts the Device Independent file format (DVI) output of TeX typography into a printable or otherwise presentable form. was written by Tomas Rokicki to produce printable PostScript files from DVI input, and is now commonly used for general DVI conversion. The TeX typesetting syste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration%20file
In computing, configuration files (commonly known simply as config files) are files used to configure the parameters and initial settings for some computer programs. They are used for user applications, server processes and operating system settings. Some applications provide tools to create, modify, and verify the sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Train%20III
A-Train III, known internationally as A-Train, is a 1992 computer game, is the third game in the A-Train series. It was originally developed and published by Japanese game developer Artdink for Japan, and was later published by Maxis for the United States. Overview The game places players in command of a railway compa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko
Eurisko (Gr., I discover) is a discovery system written by Douglas Lenat in RLL-1, a representation language itself written in the Lisp programming language. A sequel to Automated Mathematician, it consists of heuristics, i.e. rules of thumb, including heuristics describing how to use and change its own heuristics. Len...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRM114%20%28program%29
CRM114 (full name: "The CRM114 Discriminator") is a program based upon a statistical approach for classifying data, and especially used for filtering email spam. Origin of the name The name comes from the CRM-114 Discriminator in the Stanley Kubrick movie Dr. Strangelove - a piece of radio equipment designed to fil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth%20Air%20Force
The Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) (16 AF) is a United States Air Force (USAF) organization responsible for information warfare, which encompasses intelligence gathering and analysis, surveillance, reconnaissance, cyber warfare and electronic warfare operations. Its headquarters is at Joint Base San Antonio-Lac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He is a long-tenured professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theory to model delays in message switching networks in hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20hoc%20network
An ad hoc network refers to technologies that allow network communications on an ad hoc basis. Associated technologies include: Wireless ad hoc network Mobile ad hoc network Vehicular ad hoc network Intelligent vehicular ad hoc network Protocols associated with ad hoc networking Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead-code%20elimination
In compiler theory, dead-code elimination (DCE, dead-code removal, dead-code stripping, or dead-code strip) is a compiler optimization to remove dead code (code that does not affect the program results). Removing such code has several benefits: it shrinks program size, an important consideration in some contexts, and i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk%20Cloner
Elk Cloner is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread "in the wild", i.e., outside the computer system or laboratory in which it was written. It attached itself to the Apple II operating system and spread by floppy disk. It was written around 1982 by programmer and entrepreneur Rich Skrenta as a 15-yea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20McKinstry
Kenneth Christopher McKinstry (February 12, 1967 – January 23, 2006) was a researcher in artificial intelligence. He led the development of the MISTIC project which was launched in May 1996. He founded the Mindpixel project in July 2000, and closed it in December 2005. McKinstry's AI work and similar early death dovet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational%20assessment
Educational assessment or educational evaluation is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning. Assessment data can be obtained from directly examining student work to assess the achievement of l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzen
Buzen may refer to: Buzen, Fukuoka, a city located in Fukuoka, Japan Buzen Province, an old province of Japan in northern Kyushu Jeffrey P. Buzen, a computer scientist and businessman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelland%20Canal
The Mittelland Canal, also known as the Midland Canal, (, ) is a major canal in central Germany. It forms an important link in the waterway network of that country, providing the principal east-west inland waterway connection. Its significance goes beyond Germany as it links France, Switzerland and the Benelux countrie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20library
A distributed library is a collection of materials available for borrowing by members of a group, yet not maintained or owned by a single entity. The library catalog is maintained on a database that is made accessible to users through the Internet. This style of library is still in its infancy. Administrative software ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Avenger
Dark Avenger was the pseudonym of a computer virus writer from Sofia, Bulgaria. He gained considerable notoriety during the early 1990s when his viruses spread internationally. Background and origins During the Cold War, the Bulgarian government authorized projects to reverse engineer Western technology. This eventu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniM%C3%A1s
UniMás (, stylized as UNIMÁS, and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The network's programming, which is aimed at Hispanic Americans in the 18-34 age range, includes telenovela...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20public%20access%20catalog
The online public access catalog (OPAC), now frequently synonymous with library catalog, is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Online catalogs have largely replaced the analog card catalogs previously used in libraries. History Early online Although a handful of experimental sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stub%20network
A stub network, or pocket network, is a somewhat casual term describing a computer network, or part of an internetwork, with no knowledge of other networks, that will typically send much or all of its non-local traffic out via a single path, with the network aware only of a default route to non-local destinations. As a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC%20operator
An IRC operator (often abbreviated as IRCop or oper) is a user on an Internet Relay Chat network who has privileged access. IRC operators are charged with the task of enforcing the network's rules, and in many cases, improving the network in various areas. The permissions available to an IRC operator vary according to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POKEY
POKEY, an acronym for Pot Keyboard Integrated Circuit, is a digital I/O chip designed by Doug Neubauer at Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. It was first released with the Atari 400 and Atari 800 in 1979 and is included in all later models and the Atari 5200 console. POKEY combines functions for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door%20%28bulletin%20board%20system%29
In a bulletin board system (BBS), a door is an interface between the BBS software and an external application. The term is also used to refer to the external application, a computer program that runs outside of the main bulletin board program. Sometimes called external programs, doors are the most common way to add gam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileVault
FileVault is a disk encryption program in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (2003) and later. It performs on-the-fly encryption with volumes on Mac computers. Versions and key features FileVault was introduced with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, and could only be applied to a user's home directory, not the startup volume. The operating s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbeat
A heartbeat is one cardiac cycle of the heart. Heartbeat, heart beat, heartbeats, and heart beats may refer to: Computing Heartbeat (computing), a periodic signal to indicate normal operation or to synchronize parts of a system Heartbeat, clustering software from the Linux-HA project a piece of software by Edward Sn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Perl
Programming Perl, best known as the Camel Book among programmers, is a book about writing programs using the Perl programming language, revised as several editions (1991-2012) to reflect major language changes since Perl version 4. Editions have been co-written by the creator of Perl, Larry Wall, along with Randal L. S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20Perl
Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly Media. The first edition (1993) was authored solely by Randal L. Schwartz, and covered Perl 4. All subsequent editions have covered Perl 5. The second (1997) edition was coauthored with Tom Ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction%20inversion
In computer programming, abstraction inversion is an anti-pattern arising when users of a construct need functions implemented within it but not exposed by its interface. The result is that the users re-implement the required functions in terms of the interface, which in its turn uses the internal implementation of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idols%20South%20Africa
Idols is a television show on the South African television network Mzansi Magic, and previously on M-Net, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in South Africa. The general format of the show is that thousands of hopeful performers from across South Africa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCA%20%28computer%20virus%29
The SCA virus is the first computer virus created for the Amiga and one of the first to gain public notoriety. It appeared in November 1987. The SCA virus is a boot sector virus. It features a line of text that appears at every 15th copy after a warm reboot: Something wonderful has happened Your AMIGA is alive !!! and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thee%20Temple%20ov%20Psychick%20Youth
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, abbreviated as TOPY, was a British magical organization, fellowship and chaos magic network founded in 1981 by Genesis P-Orridge, lead member of multimedia group Psychic TV. The network, including later members of Coil and Current 93, was a loosely federated organization of members and in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512
The Amstrad PC1512 was Amstrad's mostly IBM PC-compatible computer system, first manufactured in 1986. Next year a slight updated version named PC1640 was introduced. It was also marketed as PC6400, and Sinclair PC500. Schneider branded machines for the German market also exists. Features Whereas IBM's PC (and almost ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol%20%28Polish%20TV%20series%29
Idol is a television show on the Polish television network Polsat, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Poland. It is hosted by Maciej Rock. In the show, people first audition but eventually the performers are narrowed down to 10 finalists, with each c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idols%20%28Dutch%20TV%20series%29
Idols was a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idols series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands. The show is divided in two sections, the first being the audition round, an open audition where ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram%20Delivery%20Protocol
Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) is a member of the AppleTalk networking protocol suite. Its main responsibility is for socket-to-socket delivery of datagrams over an AppleTalk network. Note: All application-level protocols, including the infrastructure protocols NBP, RTMP and ZIP were built on top of DDP. External ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20inspection
Inspection in software engineering, refers to peer review of any work product by trained individuals who look for defects using a well defined process. An inspection might also be referred to as a Fagan inspection after Michael Fagan, the creator of a very popular software inspection process. Introduction An inspecti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC
DMC may refer to: Computer science and information technology Data Matrix Code, laser etched square code, often used for marking products in the production area Diffusion Monte Carlo method Digital Media Controller, a category within the DLNA standard (for sharing digital media among multimedia devices) tasked wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%209241
ISO 9241 is a multi-part standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) covering ergonomics of human-computer interaction. It is managed by the ISO Technical Committee 159. It was originally titled Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals (VDTs). From 2006 onwards, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20clustering
In bioinformatics, sequence clustering algorithms attempt to group biological sequences that are somehow related. The sequences can be either of genomic, "transcriptomic" (ESTs) or protein origin. For proteins, homologous sequences are typically grouped into families. For EST data, clustering is important to group se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aso%20District%2C%20Kumamoto
is a district located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of the Aso and Yamato mergers (but with 2003 population data), the district has an estimated population of 40,841 and a density of 58.1 persons per square kilometer. The total area is 703.01 km2. The comes from it Towns and villages Minamioguni Oguni Takamori ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask%20%28computing%29
In computer science, a mask or bitmask is data that is used for bitwise operations, particularly in a bit field. Using a mask, multiple bits in a byte, nibble, word, etc. can be set either on or off, or inverted from on to off (or vice versa) in a single bitwise operation. An additional use of masking involves predica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely%20functional
Purely functional may refer to: Computer science Pure function, a function that does not have side effects Purely functional data structure, a persistent data structure that does not rely on mutable state Purely functional programming, a programming paradigm that does not rely on mutable state Law Functionality...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20switched%20telephone%20network
The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony operators. It provides infrastructure and services for public telephony. The PSTN consists of telephone lines, fiber optic cables, microwave transmission links, cel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon%20%28mobile%20network%29
Verizon is an American wireless network operator that previously operated as a separate division of Verizon Communications under the name Verizon Wireless. In a 2019 reorganization, Verizon moved the wireless products and services into the divisions Verizon Consumer and Verizon Business, and stopped using the Verizon W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20dimensioning%20and%20tolerancing
Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) is a system for defining and communicating engineering tolerances via a symbolic language on engineering drawings and computer-generated 3D models that describes a physical object's nominal geometry and the permissible variation thereof. GD&T is used to define the nominal (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/While%20loop
In most computer programming languages, a while loop is a control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly based on a given Boolean condition. The while loop can be thought of as a repeating if statement. Overview The while construct consists of a block of code and a condition/expression. The conditio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20loop
In computer science a for-loop or for loop is a control flow statement for specifying iteration. Specifically, a for loop functions by running a section of code repeatedly until a certain condition has been satisfied. For-loops have two parts: a header and a body. The header defines the iteration and the body is the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII
PETSCII (PET Standard Code of Information Interchange), also known as CBM ASCII, is the character set used in Commodore Business Machines' 8-bit home computers, starting with the PET from 1977 and including the CBM-II, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 16, Commodore 116, Plus/4, and Commodore 128. History The character...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Developers%20Conference
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like the Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent Games Festival, and a variety of tutorials, lectures, and roundtables by industry professionals on game-related t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden-surface%20determination
In 3D computer graphics, hidden-surface determination (also known as shown-surface determination, hidden-surface removal (HSR), occlusion culling (OC) or visible-surface determination (VSD)) is the process of identifying what surfaces and parts of surfaces can be seen from a particular viewing angle. A hidden-surface d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooling
In computing, spooling is a specialized form of multi-programming for the purpose of copying data between different devices. In contemporary systems, it is usually used for mediating between a computer application and a slow peripheral, such as a printer. Spooling allows programs to "hand off" work to be done by the p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuikAir
QuikAir (QuikAir Airline Service) was a small Canadian regional airline based in Calgary, Alberta, serving business travellers. QuikAir ceased its operations on October 24, 2006. Code data IATA Code: Q9 Services QuikAir was launched in 2001, operating over 25,000 flights between Calgary and Edmonton until its closu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print%20job
In computing, a print job is a file or set of files that has been submitted to be printed with a printer. Jobs are typically identified by a unique number, and are assigned to a particular destination, usually a printer. Jobs can also have options associated with them such as media size, number of copies and priority....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer%20driver
In computers, a printer driver or a print processor is a piece of software on a computer that converts the data to be printed to a format that a printer can understand. The purpose of printer drivers is to allow applications to do printing without being aware of the technical details of each printer model. Printer dri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSLIOP
In distributed computing, SSLIOP is an Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), providing confidentiality and authentication. , SSLIOP is implemented by (at least) TAO, JacORB, OpenORB , and MICO . See also CSIv2 SECIOP Common Object Request Broker Architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Inter-ORB%20Protocol
In distributed computing, General Inter-ORB Protocol (GIOP) is the message protocol by which object request brokers (ORBs) communicate in CORBA. Standards associated with the protocol are maintained by the Object Management Group (OMG). The current version of GIOP is 2.0.2. The GIOP architecture provides several concre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIv2
In distributed computing, CSIv2 (Common Secure Interoperability Protocol Version 2) is a protocol implementing security features for inter-ORB communication. It intends, in part, to address limitations of SSLIOP. CSIv2 also facilitates secure EJB-CORBA interoperability. External links OMG Website CSIv2 Specificati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIOP
In distributed computing, SECIOP (SECure Inter-ORB Protocol) is a protocol for secure inter-ORB communication. References Inter-process communication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instantaneously%20trained%20neural%20networks
Instantaneously trained neural networks are feedforward artificial neural networks that create a new hidden neuron node for each novel training sample. The weights to this hidden neuron separate out not only this training sample but others that are near it, thus providing generalization. This separation is done using t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20etymologies
This is a list of etymological lists. General List of company name etymologies List of computer term etymologies List of band name etymologies List of chemical element name etymologies English word origins Non-loanwords Proto-Indo-European — Proto-Germanic — Anglo-Saxon How words have been loaned from variou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximization%20algorithm
In statistics, an expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm is an iterative method to find (local) maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimates of parameters in statistical models, where the model depends on unobserved latent variables. The EM iteration alternates between performing an expectation (E) step,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Spaceborne%20Thermal%20Emission%20and%20Reflection%20Radiometer
The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is a Japanese remote sensing instrument onboard the Terra satellite launched by NASA in 1999. It has been collecting data since February 2000. ASTER provides high-resolution images of Earth in 14 different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane%20Sawyer
Lila Diane Sawyer (; born December 22, 1945) is an American television broadcast journalist known for anchoring major programs on two networks including ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Primetime newsmagazine while at ABC News. During her tenure at CBS News she hosted CBS Morning and was the fir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick%20operating%20system
The Pick Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick, is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system based around a MultiValue database. Pick is used primarily for business data processing. It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick. The term "Pick syst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua%20%28user%20interface%29
Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple's macOS operating system. It was originally based on the theme of water, with droplet-like components and a liberal use of reflection effects and translucency. Its goal is to "incorporate color, depth, translucence, and complex textures int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-8
The Mark-8 is a microcomputer design from 1974, based on the Intel 8008 CPU (which was the world's first 8-bit microprocessor). The Mark-8 was designed by Jonathan Titus, a Virginia Tech graduate student in chemistry. After building the machine, Titus decided to share its design with the community and reached out to Ra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker%20interface%20pattern
The marker interface pattern is a design pattern in computer science, used with languages that provide run-time type information about objects. It provides a means to associate metadata with a class where the language does not have explicit support for such metadata. To use this pattern, a class implements a marker in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Geer
Dan Geer is a computer security analyst and risk management specialist. He is recognized for raising awareness of critical computer and network security issues before the risks were widely understood, and for ground-breaking work on the economics of security. Career Geer is currently the chief information security of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS
HFS may refer to: Computing Hierarchical file system, a system for organizing directories and files Hierarchical File System (Apple), a file system introduced in 1985 for the classic Mac OS Hierarchical File System (IBM MVS), a file system introduced in 1993 for MVS/ESA and subsequent operating systems Hi Performa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhurra
Alhurra ( , "the Free One") is a U.S. government-owned Arabic-language satellite TV channel that broadcasts news and current affairs programming to audiences in the Middle East and North Africa. Alhurra is funded by the U.S. government and is barred from broadcasting within the United States itself under the 1948 Smit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Admission%20Test
The Common Admission Test (CAT) is a computer based test for admission in graduate management programs. The test consists of three sections: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Ability.The exam is taken online over a period of three hours, with one hour p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-file%20support
Large-file support (LFS) is the term frequently applied to the ability to create files larger than either 2 or 4 GiB on 32-bit filesystems. Details Traditionally, many operating systems and their underlying file system implementations used 32-bit integers to represent file sizes and positions. Consequently, no file co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20islands%20of%20the%20British%20Isles
This article is a list of some of the islands that form the British Isles that have an area of one kilometre squared (247 acres) or larger, listing area and population data. The total area of the islands is 314,965 km2 (121,608 sq. mi.). Great Britain accounts for the larger part of this area at 66%, with Ireland accou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20LaFontaine
Donald LeRoi LaFontaine (August 26, 1940 – September 1, 2008) was an American voice actor who recorded more than 5,000 film trailers and hundreds of thousands of television advertisements, network promotions, and video game trailers over four decades. He became identified with the phrase "In a world...", used in so ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse%20Design
Lighthouse Design Ltd. was an American software company that operated from 1989 to 1996. Lighthouse developed software for NeXT computers running the NeXTSTEP operating system. The company was founded in 1989 by Alan Chung, Roger Rosner, Jonathan Schwartz, Kevin Steele and Brian Skinner, in Bethesda, Maryland. Lighthou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Header%20%28computing%29
In information technology, header refers to supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted. In data transmission, the data following the header is sometimes called the payload or body. It is vital that header composition follows a clear and unambiguous specification or format,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Wilkes
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers, and who invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic to operate the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26E%20%28TV%20network%29
A&E is an American basic cable network, the flagship television property of A&E Networks. The network was originally founded in 1984 as the Arts & Entertainment Network, initially focusing on fine arts, documentaries, dramas, and educational entertainment. Today, the network deals primarily in non-fiction programming, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System%20R
IBM System R is a database system built as a research project at IBM's San Jose Research Laboratory beginning in 1974. System R was a seminal project: it was the first implementation of SQL, which has since become the standard relational data query language. It was also the first system to demonstrate that a relationa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20programming%20language
A system programming language is a programming language used for system programming; such languages are designed for writing system software, which usually requires different development approaches when compared with application software. Edsger Dijkstra refers to these languages as machine oriented high order language...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syskey
The SAM Lock Tool, better known as Syskey (the name of its executable file), is a discontinued component of Windows NT that encrypts the Security Account Manager (SAM) database using a 128-bit RC4 encryption key. Introduced in the Q143475 hotfix for Windows NT 4.0 SP3, the tool was removed in Windows 10's Fall Creator...