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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20Data
Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works. While Puckette is the main author of the program, Pd is an open-source project with a large developer base working on new extensions. It is released under BSD-3-Clause....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register%20window
In computer engineering, register windows are a feature which dedicates registers to a subroutine by dynamically aliasing a subset of internal registers to fixed, programmer-visible registers. Register windows are implemented to improve the performance of a processor by reducing the number of stack operations required ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiiN
BiiN Corporation was a company created out of a joint research project by Intel and Siemens to develop fault tolerant high-performance multi-processor computers build on custom microprocessor designs. BiiN was an outgrowth of the Intel iAPX 432 multiprocessor project, ancestor of iPSC and nCUBE. The company was close...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paillier%20cryptosystem
The Paillier cryptosystem, invented by and named after Pascal Paillier in 1999, is a probabilistic asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography. The problem of computing n-th residue classes is believed to be computationally difficult. The decisional composite residuosity assumption is the intractability hypothesis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%27%20WB
Kids' WB (stylized as Kids' WB!) was an American children's programming service and brand of The WB that aired on the network from September 9, 1995, to September 16, 2006. The block moved to The CW (a result of the merger of Time Warner's The WB and CBS Corporation's UPN), where it aired from September 23, 2006, to Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA2000
CDMA2000 (also known as C2K or IMT Multi‑Carrier (IMT‑MC)) is a family of 3G mobile technology standards for sending voice, data, and signaling data between mobile phones and cell sites. It is developed by 3GPP2 as a backwards-compatible successor to second-generation cdmaOne (IS-95) set of standards and used especiall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent%20Technologies%20Operating%20System
The Convergent Technologies Operating System, also known variously as CTOS, BTOS and STARSYS, is a discontinued modular, message-passing, multiprocess-based operating system. Overview CTOS had many innovative features for its time. System access was controlled with a user password and Volume or disk passwords. If one ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STARSYS
Starsys as a term could refer to the following: Convergent Technologies Operating System Starsys Company - Merging with SpaceDev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent%20Technologies
Convergent Technologies, Inc., was an American computer company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation and Xerox PARC in 1979. Among the founders were CEO Allen Michels, VP Engineering Bob Garrow, head of marketing Kal Hubler, and operating system architect Ben Wegbreit. Convergent was primarily a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIL%20%28programming%20language%29
SAIL, the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language, was developed by Dan Swinehart and Bob Sproull of the Stanford AI Lab. It was originally a large ALGOL 60-like language for the PDP-10 and DECSYSTEM-20. The language combined the earlier PDP-6/-10 language GOGOL compiler, essentially an integer-only version of ALGOL,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Powell%20%28game%20designer%29
Adam James Powell (born 20 December 1976) is a Welsh computer programmer, game designer and businessman. He is the co-founder of Neopets and Meteor Games. Career Powell attended the University of Nottingham from 1995 to 1998 studying for a computer science degree. During his time at Nottingham, Powell created Dark H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita
ArsDigita, LLC, was a web development company founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997. The company produced a popular open source toolkit, the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), for building database-backed community websites, and flourished at the peak of the dot-com bubble. ACS was also the roots of OpenACS, which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stale%20pointer%20bug
A stale pointer bug, otherwise known as an aliasing bug, is a class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic memory allocation, especially via the malloc function or equivalent. If several pointers address (are "aliases for") a given chunk of storage, it may happen that the storage is free...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCnet
IRCnet is currently the third largest IRC network with around 25,000 users using it daily. An early 2005 record had approximately 123,110 users simultaneously connected to the network. History Initially, most IRC servers formed a single IRC network, to which new servers could join without restriction, but this was so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Win32
In computing, X-Win32 is a proprietary implementation of the X Window System for Microsoft Windows, produced by StarNet Communications. It is based on X11R7.4. X- Win32 allows remote display of UNIX windows on Windows machines in a normal window alongside the other Windows applications Version History X-Win32 was fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai%20Technologies
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. The company operates a network of servers worldwide and rents the capacity of the servers to customers wanting to increase the efficiency of their websites by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%206620
The 6620 is a smartphone created by Nokia, announced in 2005, running on Series 60 2nd Edition and the Symbian operating system. It was the first EDGE-capable phone for the Americas' market. It is a version of Nokia's 6600 smartphone for the North American market, with all the features of the 6600 such as the VGA came...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTRUEncrypt
The NTRUEncrypt public key cryptosystem, also known as the NTRU encryption algorithm, is an NTRU lattice-based alternative to RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and is based on the shortest vector problem in a lattice (which is not known to be breakable using quantum computers). It relies on the presumed diffic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20network%20operator
A mobile network operator, also known as a wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, or mobile network carrier, is a provider of wireless communications services that owns or controls all the elements necessary to sell and deliver services to an end user, including radio spectrum allocation, wirele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTRU
NTRU is an open-source public-key cryptosystem that uses lattice-based cryptography to encrypt and decrypt data. It consists of two algorithms: NTRUEncrypt, which is used for encryption, and NTRUSign, which is used for digital signatures. Unlike other popular public-key cryptosystems, it is resistant to attacks using S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lum%20and%20Abner
Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was aired from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to "Pine Ridge" after the sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing%20attack
In cryptography, a timing attack is a side-channel attack in which the attacker attempts to compromise a cryptosystem by analyzing the time taken to execute cryptographic algorithms. Every logical operation in a computer takes time to execute, and the time can differ based on the input; with precise measurements of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leased%20line
A leased line is a private telecommunications circuit between two or more locations provided according to a commercial contract. It is sometimes also known as a private circuit, and as a data line in the UK. Typically, leased lines are used by businesses to connect geographically distant offices. Unlike traditional te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20a%20typewriter
In computing, "Not a typewriter" or ENOTTY is an error code defined in the errno.h found on many Unix systems. This code is now used to indicate that an invalid ioctl (input/output control) number was specified in an ioctl system call. Details This error originated in early UNIX. In Version 6 UNIX and earlier, I/O c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCN
RCN may refer to: Radio Cadena Nacional (disambiguation), a broadcast network in Colombia RCN Radio RCN TV RCN Corporation (formerly Residential Communications Network), a cable television, telephone, and Internet service provider in the United States Radiowe Centrum Nadawcze, Polish designation for a broadcasting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroisation
In cryptography, zeroisation (also spelled zeroization) is the practice of erasing sensitive parameters (electronically stored data, cryptographic keys, and critical security parameters) from a cryptographic module to prevent their disclosure if the equipment is captured. This is generally accomplished by altering or d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beep%20%28sound%29
A beep is a short, single tone, typically high-pitched, generally made by a computer or other machine. The term has its origin in onomatopoeia. The word "beep-beep" is recorded for the noise of a car horn in 1929, and the modern usage of "beep" for a high-pitched tone is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in 1951. Use in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder%20surfing
Shoulder surfing may refer to: Shoulder surfing (computer security) Shoulder surfing (surfing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20attention%20key
A secure attention key (SAK) or secure attention sequence (SAS) is a special key or key combination to be pressed on a computer keyboard before a login screen which must, to the user, be completely trustworthy. The operating system kernel, which interacts directly with the hardware, is able to detect whether the secur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Vercoe
Barry Lloyd Vercoe (born 1937) is a New Zealand-born computer scientist and composer. He is best known as the inventor of Csound, a music synthesis language with wide usage among computer music composers. SAOL, the underlying language for the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard, is also historically derived from Csound. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ici%20Radio-Canada%20Premi%C3%A8re
Ici Radio-Canada Première (formerly Première Chaîne) is a Canadian French-language radio network, the news and information service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known as Société Radio-Canada in French), the public broadcaster of Canada. It is the French counterpart of CBC Radio One, the CBC's similar Englis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNI
TNI or Tni may refer to: Satna Airport, IATA code TNI Tahitian Noni International, Inc. Taqramiut Nipingat Inc., an Inuit broadcasting organization in Quebec, Canada Telephone Network Interface; see Network interface device (NID) Tentara Nasional Indonesia; abbreviation of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectPlay
DirectPlay is part of Microsoft's DirectX API. It is a network communication library intended for computer game development, although it can be used for other purposes. DirectPlay is a high-level software interface between applications and communication services that allows games to be connected over the Internet, a m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlaw
Westlaw is an online legal research service and proprietary database for lawyers and legal professionals available in over 60 countries. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINPACK
LINPACK is a software library for performing numerical linear algebra on digital computers. It was written in Fortran by Jack Dongarra, Jim Bunch, Cleve Moler, and Gilbert Stewart, and was intended for use on supercomputers in the 1970s and early 1980s. It has been largely superseded by LAPACK, which runs more efficie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%20Corporation
Amdahl Corporation was an information technology company which specialized in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products, some of which were regarded as supercomputers competing with those from Cray Research. Founded in 1970 by Gene Amdahl, a former IBM computer engineer best known as chief architect of System/360, it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%20Network
W Network (often shortened to W) is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts general entertainment programming oriented towards a female audience. W Network was established in 1995 as the Women's Television Network (WTN), which had a foc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20Music%20Specification%20Language
The Hierarchical Music Specification Language (HMSL) is a music programming language written in the 1980s by Larry Polansky, Phil Burk, and David Rosenboom at Mills College. Written on top of Forth, it allowed for the creation of real-time interactive music performance systems, algorithmic composition software, and an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loader%20%28computing%29
In computer systems a loader is the part of an operating system that is responsible for loading programs and libraries. It is one of the essential stages in the process of starting a program, as it places programs into memory and prepares them for execution. Loading a program involves either memory-mapping or copying t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Music%20Center
The Computer Music Center (CMC) at Columbia University is the oldest center for electronic and computer music research in the United States. It was founded in the 1950s as the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Location The CMC is housed in Prentis Hall, 632 West 125th Street, New York City, across the stree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMC
ICMC may refer to: International Catholic Migration Commission International Computer Music Conference The Indiana College Mathematics Competition International Cryptographic Module Conference Integrated Currency Management Centre Inter College Music Competition Integrated Call Management Centre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Computer%20Music%20Conference
The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA). History In 1986, the Institute of Sonology institute was moved to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Mike%20with%20Mike%20Bullard
Open-Mike with Mike Bullard was a Canadian late-night talk show which was broadcast live from 1997 to 2003 on CTV and on The Comedy Network in primetime. It was hosted by comedian Mike Bullard and initially taped at a studio at the back of Wayne Gretzky's restaurant in Toronto, Ontario before CTV moved the show to Toro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20R.%20Cook
Perry R. Cook (born September 25, 1955) is an American computer music researcher and professor emeritus of computer science and music at Princeton University. He was also founder and head of the Princeton Sound Lab. Cook has worked in the areas of physical modeling, singing voice synthesis, music information retrieval...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Melbourne%20tram%20routes
This is a list of tram routes on the tram network in Melbourne, Australia, operated by Yarra Trams. Current routes Services that deviate from the regular routes below (by diversion or early-termination) are suffixed with the letter 'a', while services diverting to and/or terminating at the depot are suffixed with 'd'....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20audio
Computer audio may refer to: Computer music, music generated by computers; Sound card, computer hardware for producing sound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20generator
Unit generators (or ugens) are the basic formal units in many MUSIC-N-style computer music programming languages. They are sometimes called opcodes (particularly in Csound), though this expression is not accurate in that these are not machine-level instructions. Unit generators form the building blocks for designing s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob%20%28programming%29
In computer programming, glob () patterns specify sets of filenames with wildcard characters. For example, the Unix Bash shell command mv *.txt textfiles/ moves (mv) all files with names ending in .txt from the current directory to the directory textfiles. Here, * is a wildcard standing for "any string of characters ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8%20%28disambiguation%29
A V8 is an engine with eight cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of four cylinders. V8 may also refer to: Computers V8 (JavaScript engine), an open-source JavaScript engine ITU-T V.8, a telecommunications recommendation V8 Unix, the eighth edition of Research Unix from 1985 Vehicles Aston Martin V8, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wol
Wol, WoL or WOL may refer to: Computing Wake-on-LAN, (/wɒl/) an Ethernet standard that allows computers to be powered on by a network message An unofficial initialism for Web Ontology Language .wol, file extension for the WOLF eBook file format World Online, a defunct European internet service provider Write-only...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20array
In computer science, a Judy array is a data structure implementing a type of associative array with high performance and low memory usage. Unlike most other key-value stores, Judy arrays use no hashing, leverage compression on their keys (which may be integers or strings), and can efficiently represent sparse data; tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20address
A broadcast address is a network address used to transmit to all devices connected to a multiple-access communications network. A message sent to a broadcast address may be received by all network-attached hosts. In contrast, a multicast address is used to address a specific group of devices, and a unicast address is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Michigan%20Executive%20System
The University of Michigan Executive System, or UMES, a batch operating system developed at the University of Michigan in 1958, was widely used at many universities. Based on the General Motors Executive System for the IBM 701, UMES was revised to work on the mainframe computers in use at the University of Michigan dur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20%28disambiguation%29
Software usually refers to instructions for computer hardware to execute. Software may also refer to: IEEE Software, a magazine Software (novel), part of the Ware Tetralogy, a 1982 cyber-punk novel by Rudy Rucker Software (album), 1999 album by Grace Slick Software (band), a German electronic duo active between 1984 a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%20Night%20at%20the%20Movies
Saturday Night at the Movies was a weekly television series on TVOntario, the public educational television network in Ontario, Canada. The series presented classic movies, followed by interviews and feature segments with directors, actors and other people involved in making the films presented. The show was initially...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register%20allocation
In compiler optimization, register allocation is the process of assigning local automatic variables and expression results to a limited number of processor registers. Register allocation can happen over a basic block (local register allocation), over a whole function/procedure (global register allocation), or across f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20machine%20%28disambiguation%29
Sex Machine may refer to: Human sexuality Sex machine, a mechanized apparatus that acts as an automated erotic stimulation device Virtual sex machine or teledildonics, computer-controlled sex toys Sex Machines Museum, a sex museum in Prague, Czech Republic Music "Sex Machine", a song on the 1969 album Stand! by S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QMC
QMC may refer to: Quaid e Azam Medical College, a medical college in Bahawalpur, Pakistan Quantum Monte Carlo, a class of computer algorithms Quartermaster Corporal, a type of appointment in the British Household Cavalry Quasi-Monte Carlo method, an integration method in mathematics Queen Margaret College, now Qu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Statute%20Book
The Irish Statute Book, also known as the electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB), is a database produced by the Office of the Attorney General of Ireland. It contains copies of Acts of the Oireachtas and statutory instruments. It also contains a Legislation Directory which includes chronological tables of pre-1922 legisl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Boolean%20Expression%20Language
The Advanced Boolean Expression Language (ABEL) is an obsolete hardware description language (HDL) and an associated set of design tools for programming programmable logic devices (PLDs). It was created in 1983 by Data I/O Corporation, in Redmond, Washington. ABEL includes both concurrent equation and truth table logi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlib
Netlib is a repository of software for scientific computing maintained by AT&T, Bell Laboratories, the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Netlib comprises many separate programs and libraries. Most of the code is written in C and Fortran, with some programs in other languages. History The proj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/SL%20programming%20language
The Syntax/Semantic Language (S/SL) is an executable high level specification language for recursive descent parsers, semantic analyzers and code generators developed by James Cordy, Ric Holt and David Wortman at the University of Toronto in 1980. S/SL is a small programming language that supports cheap recursion and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR%20%28programming%20language%29
SR (short for Synchronizing Resources) is a programming language designed for concurrent programming. Resources encapsulate processes and the variables they share, and can be separately compiled. Operations provide the primary mechanism for process interaction. SR provides a novel integration of the mechanisms for in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20generation%20of%20video%20game%20consoles
The fifth generation era (also known as the 32-bit era, the 64-bit era, or the 3D era) refers to computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld gaming consoles dating from approximately October 4, 1993, to March 23, 2006. For home consoles, the best-selling console was the Sony PlayStation, followed by the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20closed%20railway%20stations%20in%20Melbourne
A number of railway lines and stations which formed part of the greater Melbourne railway network have been closed over time, either in part or in full. The decision to close a railway station has historically been made by the department responsible for rail transport within the Government of Victoria. Over the histor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder%20Dash%20%28video%20game%29
Boulder Dash is a 2D maze-puzzle video game released in 1984 by First Star Software for Atari 8-bit computers. It was created by Canadian developers Peter Liepa and Chris Gray. The player controls Rockford, who collects treasures while evading hazards. Boulder Dash was ported to many 8-bit and 16-bit systems and turne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula%20editor
A formula editor is a computer program that is used to typeset mathematical formulas and mathematical expressions. Formula editors typically serve two purposes: They allow word processing and publication of technical content either for print publication, or to generate raster images for web pages or screen presentat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charting%20application
A charting application is a computer program that is used to create a graphical representation (a chart) based on some non-graphical data that is entered by a user, most often through a spreadsheet application, but also through a dedicated specific scientific application (such as through a symbolic mathematics computin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor%20register
A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor. Registers usually consist of a small amount of fast storage, although some registers have specific hardware functions, and may be read-only or write-only. In computer architecture, registers are typically addressed by mechanisms ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMachines
eMachines was a brand of economical personal computers. In 2004, it was acquired by Gateway, Inc., which was in turn acquired by Acer Inc. in 2007. The eMachines brand was discontinued in 2013. History eMachines was founded in September 1998 by Lap Shun Hui as a joint venture of South Korean companies Korea Data Syst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-access%20stratum
Non-access stratum (NAS) is a functional layer in the NR, LTE, UMTS and GSM wireless telecom protocol stacks between the core network and user equipment. This layer is used to manage the establishment of communication sessions and for maintaining continuous communications with the user equipment as it moves. The NAS ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWARF
DWARF is a widely used, standardized debugging data format. DWARF was originally designed along with Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), although it is independent of object file formats. The name is a medieval fantasy complement to "ELF" that had no official meaning, although the backronym "Debugging With Arbitrary ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20semantics
Action semantics is a framework for the formal specification of semantics of programming languages invented by David Watt and Peter D. Mosses in the 1990s. It is a mixture of denotational, operational and algebraic semantics. Action Semantics aims to be pragmatic. Action-Semantic Descriptions (ASDs) are designed to sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%2BG
CD+G (also known as CD-G, CD+Graphics and TV-Graphics) is an extension of the compact disc standard that can present low-resolution graphics alongside the audio data on the disc when played on a compatible device. CD+G discs are often used for karaoke machines, which use this functionality to present on-screen lyrics f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics%20Data%20System
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is an online database of over 16 million astronomy and physics papers that are both from peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources. Abstracts are available online for free for almost all articles, and fully scanned articles are available in Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANL%20Research%20Library
The LANL Research Library is a research library at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It contains a substantial collection of books, journals, databases, patents along with technical reports. Additionally it offers literature searching, training, and outreach services. The library has a research and development (R&D) comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G
4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology, succeeding 3G and preceding 5G. A 4G system must provide capabilities defined by ITU in IMT Advanced. Potential and current applications include amended mobile web access, IP telephony, gaming services, high-definition mobile TV, video conferencing, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20engineering
Language engineering involves the creation of natural language processing systems, whose cost and outputs are measurable and predictable. It is a distinct field contrasted to natural language processing and computational linguistics. A recent trend of language engineering is the use of Semantic Web technologies for the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20Kimball%20%28computer%20programmer%29
Spencer Kimball is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and business executive. He is the CEO of Cockroach Labs, a company he co-founded in 2014. His work as a programmer includes creating GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) while still in college, and assisting the source code development of CockroachDB, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounds%20checking
In computer programming, bounds checking is any method of detecting whether a variable is within some bounds before it is used. It is usually used to ensure that a number fits into a given type (range checking), or that a variable being used as an array index is within the bounds of the array (index checking). A failed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapyramidal%20system
In anatomy, the extrapyramidal system is a part of the motor system network causing involuntary actions. The system is called extrapyramidal to distinguish it from the tracts of the motor cortex that reach their targets by traveling through the pyramids of the medulla. The pyramidal tracts (corticospinal tract and cort...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K3b
K3b (from KDE Burn Baby Burn) is a CD, DVD and Blu-ray authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burnin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytics
Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. It also entails applying data patterns toward effective decision-making. It can be valuable in areas rich with recorded information; analytics relies ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer
Printer may refer to: Technology Printer (publishing), a person or a company Printer (computing), a hardware device Optical printer for motion picture films People Nariman Printer (fl. c. 1940), Indian journalist and activist James Printer (1640–1709), Native American from the Nipmuc tribe who worked as a printe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC%20services
Internet Relay Chat services (usually called IRC services) is a name for a set of features implemented on many modern Internet Relay Chat networks. Services are automated bots with special status which are generally used to provide users with access with certain privileges and protection. They usually implement some so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Agent%20header
In computing, the User-Agent header is an HTTP header intended to identify the user agent responsible for making a given HTTP request. Whereas the character sequence User-Agent comprises the name of the header itself, the header value that a given user agent uses to identify itself is colloquially known as its user ag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%207950%20Harvest
The IBM 7950, also known as Harvest, was a one-of-a-kind adjunct to the Stretch computer which was installed at the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Built by IBM, it was delivered in 1962 and operated until 1976, when it was decommissioned. Harvest was designed to be used for cryptanalysis. Development In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micron%20Technology
Micron Technology, Inc. is an American producer of computer memory and computer data storage including dynamic random-access memory, flash memory, and USB flash drives. It is headquartered in Boise, Idaho. Its consumer products, including the Ballistix line of memory modules, are marketed under the Crucial brand. Micro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20source
A source or sender is one of the basic concepts of communication and information processing. Sources are objects which encode message data and transmit the information, via a channel, to one or more observers (or receivers). In the strictest sense of the word, particularly in information theory, a source is a process...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20Construction%20Act
The was promulgated by the Diet of Japan on June 21, 1892, and designated government support for a network of thirty-three railway lines covering most of Japan, with the exception of Hokkaidō. On April 11, 1922, the Diet amended the law to add an additional network of regional and local routes. Today, these lines form...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst%20mode
Burst mode may refer to: Science and technology Burst mode (computing), a data transmission mode Burst mode (weapon), a firing mode Burst mode (photography), a camera mode Bursting or burst mode, a mode in neurons Other uses Burst mode, a type of creature in Digimon Data Squad in the Digimon fictional universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20National%20Railways
The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 prefectures of Japan. This figure expanded to in 1981 (excluding Shinkansen), ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-pair%20high-speed%20digital%20subscriber%20line
Single-pair high-speed digital subscriber line (SHDSL) is a form of symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL), a data communications technology for equal transmit and receive (i.e. symmetric) data rate over copper telephone lines, faster than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. As opposed to other DSL technologi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wiki%20software
Standard wiki programs, by programming language JavaScript-based TiddlyWiki is a HTML-JavaScript-based server-less wiki in which the entire site/wiki is contained in a single file, or as a Node.js-based wiki application. It is designed for maximum customization possibilities. Wiki.js is an open-source, Node.js-ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20%28computer%20algebra%20system%29
Axiom is a free, general-purpose computer algebra system. It consists of an interpreter environment, a compiler and a library, which defines a strongly typed hierarchy. History Two computer algebra systems named Scratchpad were developed by IBM. The first one was started in 1965 by James Griesmer at the request of R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%202049er
Miner 2049er is a platform game developed for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers by Bill Hogue and released by his company, Big Five Software, in 1982. The player controls Bounty Bob through multiple levels of a mine, with the goal of traversing all of the platforms while avoiding or defeating enemy mutants. At a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd%27s%2012%20rules
Codd's twelve rules are a set of thirteen rules (numbered zero to twelve) proposed by Edgar F. Codd, a pioneer of the relational model for databases, designed to define what is required from a database management system in order for it to be considered relational, i.e., a relational database management system (RDBMS). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu%20Lifebook
Lifebook is a line of laptop computers made by Fujitsu, which also offers a range of notebooks and tablet PCs within the same Lifebook family. History In partnership with Poqet Computer Corporation, Fujitsu launched the world's first hand-held, one-pound, IBM/PC-XT-compatible computer in 1989. It launched its first ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simics
Simics is a full-system simulator or virtual platform used to run unchanged production binaries of the target hardware. Simics was originally developed by the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), and then spun off to Virtutech for commercial development in 1998. Virtutech was acquired by Intel in 2010. Current...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousepad
A mousepad or mousemat is a surface for placing and moving a computer mouse. A mousepad enhances the usability of the mouse compared to using a mouse directly on a table by providing a surface to allow it to measure movement accurately and without jitter. Some mousepads increase ergonomics by providing a padded wrist r...