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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20Night%20Sex%20Show
The Sunday Night Sex Show was a live call-in Canadian television show hosted by Sue Johanson, which ran from 1996 to 2005. It aired on the W Network and was one of their most popular programs. Every week, callers would line up on the phone to talk to Johanson, about various topics from how to spice up one's sex life, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Tables%20Project
The Mathematical Tables Project was one of the largest and most sophisticated computing organizations that operated prior to the invention of the digital electronic computer. Begun in the United States in 1938 as a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), it employed 450 unemployed clerks to tabulate higher ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics%20cartridge
Electronics cartridge may refer to: ROM cartridge, a removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices designed to be connected to a computer or games console RAM pack, a RAM expansion cartridge Data cartridge (tape), magnetic tape in a plastic enclosure Tape cartridge, for use in tape drives See also Car...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPI
Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is an API for Microsoft Windows which allows programs to become email-aware. While MAPI is designed to be independent of the protocol, it is usually used to communicate with Microsoft Exchange Server. Details MAPI uses functions loosely based on the X.400 XAPIA stand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS%20encoding
In computing, JIS encoding refers to several Japanese Industrial Standards for encoding the Japanese language. Strictly speaking, the term means either: A set of standard coded character sets for Japanese, notably: JIS X 0201, the Japanese version of ISO 646 (ASCII) containing the base 7-bit ASCII characters (with s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20Packet%20Reporting%20System
Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) is an amateur radio-based system for real time digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area. Data can include object Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, weather station telemetry, text messages, announcements, queries, and other telemetry....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Allen
Edward Reese Allen (born May 20, 1965) is an American author and television personality. He was the food and wine connoisseur on the Bravo network's television program Queer Eye, and has been the host of the TV cooking competition series Chopped since its launch in 2009, as well as Chopped Junior, which began in mid-20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai%20Rodriguez
Jai Rodriguez is an American actor and musician best known as the culture guide on the Bravo network's Emmy-winning American reality television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. He also co-wrote a book with the other Queer Eye hosts. Rodriguez starred as Geoffrey in the sitcom Malibu Country from 2012 to 2013. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%27s%20Humphrey
Here's Humphrey was an Australian children's television series produced by Banksia Productions for the Nine Network, which first aired on 24 May 1965 and last went to air in 2009. It features an anthropomorphic brown bear character (a person in a costume) known as Humphrey B. Bear, and was produced in Adelaide, South...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo%20subway
Two operate in Tokyo: Tokyo Metro and the Toei Subway. Most of the network is located in the 23 special wards, with portions extending into Chiba and Saitama Prefectures. The subways are one part of Greater Tokyo's passenger rail network, with through service further connecting the subway to suburban railways in Weste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29
Missing (originally titled 1-800-Missing) is a Canadian crime drama television series based on the 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU book series by Meg Cabot. The series aired on the A network and W Network in Canada, and on Lifetime in the United States from August 2003 to February 2006. Synopsis The series is centred on Jess Mastri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz%20%28disambiguation%29
Jazz is a style of music and its subgenres. Jazz may also refer to: Computing Jazz (computer), a development platform used by Microsoft Jazz (mobile network operator), a mobile network operator in Pakistan IBM Jazz, a team collaboration platform Lotus Jazz, a spreadsheet program for Macintosh Literature Jazz (m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20weapon
Smart weapon may refer to: Smart munition, or precision-guided munition Smart gun, a conceptual firearm that can detect its user Smart bullet, a bullet that can turn, change speed, or send data Smart bomb, also known as guided bomb, a bomb that can precisely target a location Smart mine, a next-generation land min...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%20%26%20Planet
People & Planet is a network of student campaign groups in the UK. It is "the largest student campaigning organisation in the country campaigning to alleviate world poverty, defend human rights and protect the environment." Organisation People & Planet is Britain's largest student network campaigning on global povert...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSTR
WSTR may refer to: WSTR (band), British pop punk band WSTR (FM) ("Star 94"), a radio station (94.1 FM) licensed to Smyrna, Georgia, United States WSTR-TV, MyNetworkTV's affiliate television station (channel 18, virtual 64) licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil%20Linux/GNU/X
Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, or LGX (pronounced igg-drah-sill), is an early Linux distribution developed by Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated, a company founded by Adam J. Richter in Berkeley, California. Yggdrasil was the first company to create a live CD Linux distribution. Yggdrasil Linux described itself as a "Plug-and-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque%20Corporation
Cirque Corporation is an American company which developed and commercialized the first successful capacitive touchpad, now widely used in notebook computers. Cirque develops and sells a variety of touch input products, both in original equipment manufacturer and end-user retail form. Cirque was founded in 1991 by Geo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth%20generation%20of%20video%20game%20consoles
In the history of video games, the sixth generation era (in rare occasions called the 128-bit era; see "bits and system power" below) is the era of computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld gaming devices available at the turn of the 21st century, starting on November 27, 1998. Platforms in the sixth ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIDS
HIDS may refer to: Host-based intrusion detection system, in computing Hyper-IgD syndrome, in medicine See also HID (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Spencer%20%28computer%20engineer%29
Mark Spencer (born April 8, 1977) is an American computer engineer and is the original author of the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim (which has since been renamed to Pidgin), the L2TP daemon l2tpd and the Cheops Network User Interface. Mark Spencer is also the creator of Asterisk, a Linux-based open-sourced P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuto%20Expressway
is a network of toll expressways in the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan. It is operated and maintained by the . Most routes are grade-separated (elevated roads or tunnels) and central routes have many sharp curves and multi-lane merges that require caution to drive safely. The speed limit is 60 km/h on most routes, but 80...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, data that has several parts, known as a record, can be divided into fields (data fields). Relational databases arrange data as sets of database records, so called rows. Each record consists of several fields; the fields of all records form the columns. Examples of fields: name, gender, hair colour....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament%20selection
Tournament selection is a method of selecting an individual from a population of individuals in a genetic algorithm. Tournament selection involves running several "tournaments" among a few individuals (or "chromosomes") chosen at random from the population. The winner of each tournament (the one with the best fitness)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcode%20Address%20File
The Postcode Address File (PAF) is a database that contains all known "delivery points" and postcodes in the United Kingdom. The PAF is a collection of over 29 million Royal Mail postal addresses and 1.8 million postcodes. It is available in a variety of formats including FTP download and compact disc, and was previous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Computer%20Science%20League
ACSL, or the American Computer Science League, is an international computer science competition among more than 300 schools. Originally founded in 1978 as the Rhode Island Computer Science League, it then became the New England Computer Science League. With countrywide and worldwide participants, it became the America...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width%20non-joiner
The zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ, ) is a non-printing character used in the computerization of writing systems that make use of ligatures. When placed between two characters that would otherwise be connected into a ligature, a ZWNJ causes them to be printed in their final and initial forms, respectively. This is also a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency%20%28graphic%29
Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be fully transparent, or there would be nothing to s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Cordon%20Bleu
Le Cordon Bleu (; French for "The Blue Ribbon"; abbreviated LCB) is an international network of hospitality and culinary schools teaching French haute cuisine. Its educational focuses are hospitality management, culinary arts, and gastronomy. The institution consists of 35 institutes in 20 countries and has over 20,000...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20type
In computer science, a union is a value that may have any of several representations or formats within the same position in memory; that consists of a variable that may hold such a data structure. Some programming languages support special data types, called union types, to describe such values and variables. In other ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, a record (also called a structure, struct, or compound data) is a basic data structure. Records in a database or spreadsheet are usually called "rows". A record is a collection of fields, possibly of different data types, typically in a fixed number and sequence. The fields of a record may also b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Witbrock
Michael John Witbrock is a computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. Witbrock is a native of New Zealand and is the former Vice President of Research at Cycorp, which is carrying out the Cyc project in an effort to produce a genuine Artificial Intelligence. Background and affiliations Witbrock was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMPASS
COMPASS, COMPrehensive ASSembler, is any of a family of macro assembly languages for Control Data Corporation's 3000 series, and for the 60-bit CDC 6000 series, 7600 and Cyber 70 and 170 series mainframe computers. While the architectures are very different, the macro and conditional assembly facilities are similar. C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo%20%28programming%20language%29
Lingo is a verbose object-oriented (OO) scripting language developed by John H. Thompson for use in Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director). Lingo is used to develop desktop application software, interactive kiosks, CD-ROMs and Adobe Shockwave content. Lingo is the primary programming language on the Adobe Shock...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Sweden
This is a list of radio networks and stations in Sweden and elsewhere broadcasting exclusively or partly in the Swedish language. Sveriges Radio National networks Sveriges Radio P1, talk and news Sveriges Radio P2, classical music Sveriges Radio P3, CHR music Sveriges Radio P4, local news Other channels Private Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s%20My%20Line%3F
What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, starting in black and white and later in color, with subsequent U.S. revivals. The game uses celebrity panelists to question contestants in order to determine their occupation (i.e., their "lin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayauta%20District%2C%20Kagawa
is a district located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of the Takamatsu merger but using 2000 population data, the district has an estimated population of 41,598 and a density of 353 persons per km2. The total area is 117.74 km2. Towns and villages Ayagawa Utazu Mergers On March 22, 2005, the towns of Ayauta and H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query%20language
A query language, also known as data query language or database query language (DQL), is a computer language used to make queries in databases and information systems. In database systems, query languages rely on strict theory to retrieve information. A well known example is the Structured Query Language (SQL). Types ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it is the sec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quote
"Quote" is a clipped form of quotation or quotation mark. Computing String literals, computer programming languages' facility for embedding text in the source code Quoting in Lisp, the Lisp programming language's notion of quoting Quoted-printable, encoding method for data transmission Usenet quoting, the conventi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential%20library%20system
In the United States, the presidential library system is a nationwide network of 15 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These are repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, collections and ot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends%20of%20the%20People
Friends of the People is an American sketch comedy television series. It was slated to premiere on TruTV in summer 2014, but was pushed to October 28, 2014, as part of the network's shift in their programming direction. Many of the cast members (Jennifer Bartels, Jermaine Fowler, and Lil Rel Howery) were originally rep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-booting
Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer, and being able to choose which one to boot. The term dual-booting refers to the common configuration of specifically two operating systems. Multi-booting may require a custom boot loader. Usage Multi-booting allows more than one op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filing%20system
Filing system may refer to: Filing cabinet, a piece of office furniture File system, a method of storing and organizing computer files and their data Sorting, any process of arranging items systematically Taxonomy (general), the science and practice of classification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named%20parameter
In computer programming, named parameters, named-parameter arguments, named arguments or keyword arguments refer to a computer language's support for function calls to clearly associate each argument with a given parameter parameter within the function call. Overview A function call using named parameters differs fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized%20algorithm
A randomized algorithm is an algorithm that employs a degree of randomness as part of its logic or procedure. The algorithm typically uses uniformly random bits as an auxiliary input to guide its behavior, in the hope of achieving good performance in the "average case" over all possible choices of random determined by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nil
Nil often refers to the number zero. Nil or NIL may also refer to: Acronyms NIL (programming language), an implementation of the Lisp programming language Name, image and likeness, a set of rules for American college athletes to receive compensation Nanoimprint lithography, a method of fabricating nanometer scale ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20Data%20Products
Columbia Data Products, Inc. (CDP) is a company which produced the first legally reverse-engineered IBM PC clones. It faltered in that market after only a few years, and later reinvented itself as a software development company. History 1976–1986: As a hardware company Columbia Data Products was founded by William D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramification%20problem
In philosophy and artificial intelligence (especially, knowledge based systems), the ramification problem is concerned with the indirect consequences of an action. It might also be posed as how to represent what happens implicitly due to an action or how to control the secondary and tertiary effects of an action. It is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%201%20%28Australia%29
Australias Highway 1 is a network of highways that circumnavigate the country, joining all mainland capital cities except the national capital of Canberra. At a total length of approximately it is the longest national highway in the world, surpassing the Trans-Siberian Highway (over ) and the Trans-Canada Highway ()....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only%20language
In computer humor, a write-only language is a pejorative term for a programming language alleged to have syntax or semantics sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is too difficult to understand by other programmers and cannot be safely edited. Similarly, write-only code is source code so a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20%28operating%20system%29
The V operating system (sometimes written V-System) is a discontinued microkernel distributed operating system that was developed by faculty and students in the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University from 1981 to 1988, led by Professors David Cheriton and Keith A. Lantz. V was the successor to the Thoth opera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince%20Carter
Vincent Lamar Carter Jr. (born January 26, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player who serves as a basketball analyst for YES Network and formerly ESPN. He primarily played the shooting guard and small forward positions, but occasionally played power forward later in his NBA career. He was an eight-t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animutation
Animutation or fanimutation is a form of web-based computer animation, typically created in Adobe Flash and characterized by unpredictable montages of pop-culture images set to music, often in a language foreign to the intended viewers. It is not to be confused with manual collage animation (e.g., the work of Stan Vand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based%20user%20interface
In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals and not just text), is a retronym describing a type of user interface (UI) common as an early form of human–computer interaction, before the advent of bitmapped display...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUHash
UUHash is a hash algorithm employed by clients on the FastTrack network. It is employed for its ability to hash very large files in a very short period of time, even on older computers. However, this is achieved by only hashing a fraction of the file. This weakness makes it trivial to create a hash collision, allowing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20link
In computing, a hard link is a directory entry (in a directory-based file system) that associates a name with a file. Thus, each file must have at least one hard link. Creating additional hard links for a file makes the contents of that file accessible via additional paths (i.e., via different names or in different dir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didaktik
The Didaktik was a series of 8-bit home computers based on the clones of Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 processors produced by Didaktik in Skalica, in the former Czechoslovakia. Initially the company produced PMD 85 compatible machines aimed at schools, then switching to the home market with ZX Spectrum clones. Didaktik's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bus%20routes%20in%20Melbourne
This is a list of bus routes that are part of the bus network, in Melbourne, Australia. Kinetic Melbourne operate approximately 30% of the bus network, signing contracts in 2021 as part of the Melbourne Metropolitan Bus Franchise. The remaining 70% of the network is operated under 23 contracts with other bus operators...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSNET
The Computer Science Network (CSNET) was a computer network that began operation in 1981 in the United States. Its purpose was to extend networking benefits, for computer science departments at academic and research institutions that could not be directly connected to ARPANET, due to funding or authorization limitation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague%20Metro
The Prague Metro () is the rapid transit network of Prague, Czech Republic. Founded in 1974, the system consists of three lines (A, B and C) serving 61 stations (predominantly with island platforms), and is long. The system served 568 million passengers in 2021 (about 1.55 million daily). Two types of rolling stock a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%208100
The IBM 8100 Information System, announced Oct. 3, 1978, was at one time IBM’s principal distributed processing engine, providing local processing capability under two incompatible operating systems (DPPX and DPCX) and was a follow-on to the IBM 3790. The 8100, when used with the Distributed Processing Programming Ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gams%20%28disambiguation%29
Gams may be: Acronyms General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS), a mathematical optimization computer program Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS), a project of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Graduate of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (GAMS), a degree in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderfalls
Wonderfalls is an American comedy-drama television series created by Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller that was broadcast on the Fox television network in 2004. The show centers on Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas), a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5CRK
In cryptography, MD5CRK was a volunteer computing effort (similar to distributed.net) launched by Jean-Luc Cooke and his company, CertainKey Cryptosystems, to demonstrate that the MD5 message digest algorithm is insecure by finding a collision two messages that produce the same MD5 hash. The project went live on March ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-satisfiability
In computer science, 2-satisfiability, 2-SAT or just 2SAT is a computational problem of assigning values to variables, each of which has two possible values, in order to satisfy a system of constraints on pairs of variables. It is a special case of the general Boolean satisfiability problem, which can involve constrain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Radio
CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which (regardless of language) are outlined below. English CBC Radio operates three English language networks. CBC Radio O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-29
STS-29 was the 28th NASA Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Discovery inserted a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) into Earth orbit. It was the third shuttle mission following the Challenger disaster in 1986, and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on March 13, 1989. STS-29R was the eight...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad%20%28monitors%29
In cathode-ray tube (CRT) terms, a triad is a group of 3 phosphor dots coloured red, green, and blue on the inside of the CRT display of a computer monitor or television set. By directing differing intensities of cathode rays onto the 3 phosphor dots, the triad will display a colour by combining the red, green and blue...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Opening
The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: 1. c4 A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases, one of the four most successful of White's twenty possible first moves. White begins the fight for the by staking a claim to the d5-square from the wing, in hyper...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20Supervisor
The Atlas Supervisor was the program which managed the allocation of processing resources of Manchester University's Atlas Computer so that the machine was able to act on many tasks and user programs concurrently. Its various functions included running the Atlas computer's virtual memory (Atlas Supervisor paper, secti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood%20One%20%281976%E2%80%932011%29
Westwood One was an American radio network that was based in New York City. At one time, it was managed by CBS Radio, and was later purchased by the private equity firm, The Gores Group. Due to purchases, mergers and other forms of consolidation in the 1980s and 1990s, at one time or another, it had ownership stakes in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as , is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network. It is owned and operated by itself a subsidiary of in turn a subsidiary of Nikkei, Inc. It is headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo. TV Tokyo is one of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20radio%20networks
The following is a list of commercial radio broadcasters and radio networks in the United States. Table of broadcasters and networks Major English-language commercial broadcasters and networks Other commercial radio broadcasters and networks American Urban Radio Networks Associated Press Radio Network Bloomberg R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20synthesis
In computer science, program synthesis is the task to construct a program that provably satisfies a given high-level formal specification. In contrast to program verification, the program is to be constructed rather than given; however, both fields make use of formal proof techniques, and both comprise approaches of di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Order
The Order may refer to: Comics The Order (comics), the name of two fictional comic-book superhero teams in the Marvel Comics universe Computer and video games The Order: 1886, a video game The Order, a fictional terrorist faction in the video game Freelancer (2003) The Order (Deus Ex), a fictional pseudo-religiou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification%20key
In biology, an identification key, taxonomic key, or biological key is a printed or computer-aided device that aids the identification of biological entities, such as plants, animals, fossils, microorganisms, and pollen grains. Identification keys are also used in many other scientific and technical fields to identify...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20path
Critical path may refer to: The longest series of sequential operations in a parallel computation; see analysis of parallel algorithms Critical path method, an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities Critical path drag, a project management metric Critical path network diagram, a network diagram highlighti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans%E2%80%93Asian%20railway
The Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) is a project to create an integrated freight railway network across Europe and Asia. The project is of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). The project was initiated in the 1950s, with the objective of providing a continuous rail link betw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Bowl%20XXXVIII%20halftime%20show%20controversy
The Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show, which was broadcast live on February 1, 2004, from Houston, Texas, on the CBS television network, is notable for a moment in which Janet Jackson's right breast—adorned with a nipple shield—was exposed by Justin Timberlake to the viewing public. The incident, sometimes referred to a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduce%20%28computer%20algebra%20system%29
Reduce is a general-purpose computer algebra system geared towards applications in physics. The development of the Reduce computer algebra system was started in the 1960s by Anthony C. Hearn. Since then, many scientists from all over the world have contributed to its development under his direction. Reduce is written...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGC
CGC may stand for: Companies Computer generated character Co-operative Grocer Chain Japan, known as CGC Japan Cambridge Gliding Centre Canada Games Centre Canada Games Company Canopy Growth Corporation, medical marijuana company in Smiths Falls, Ontario Capital Group Companies, an investment management organiza...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Tennessee
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Tennessee, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct W4XA WCLC WEMG, Knoxville WFWL WHER, Memphis WLYY WMRO WNTT WOCV WSM-FM (1941–195...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20programming%20language
In computing, a visual programming language (visual programming system, VPL, or, VPS) or block coding is a programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually. A VPL allows programming with visual expressions, spatial arrangements of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma
Enigma may refer to: Riddle, someone or something that is mysterious or puzzling Biology ENIGMA, a class of gene in the LIM domain Computing and technology Enigma (company), a New York–based data-technology startup Enigma machine, a family of German electro-mechanical encryption machines Enigma, the codename for Red ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Integer%20Sequences
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an online database of integer sequences. It was created and maintained by Neil Sloane while researching at AT&T Labs. He transferred the intellectual property and hosting of the OEIS to the OEIS Foundation in 2009. Sloane is the chairman of the OEIS Foundation. O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caps
Caps are flat headgear. Caps or CAPS may also refer to: Science and technology Computing CESG Assisted Products Service, provided by the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters Composite Application Platform Suite, by Java Caps, a Java framework Computer Animation Production System, a film animation post-prod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositional%20data
In statistics, compositional data are quantitative descriptions of the parts of some whole, conveying relative information. Mathematically, compositional data is represented by points on a simplex. Measurements involving probabilities, proportions, percentages, and ppm can all be thought of as compositional data. Tern...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20X%2010.1
Mac OS X 10.1 (code named Puma) is the second major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system. It superseded Mac OS X 10.0 and preceded Mac OS X Jaguar. Mac OS X 10.1 was released on September 25, 2001, as a free update for Mac OS X 10.0 users. The operating system was handed out for no charge by A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20X%2010.0
Mac OS X 10.0 (code named Cheetah) is the first major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system. It was released on March 24, 2001, for a price of $129 after a public beta. Mac OS X was Apple's successor to the classic Mac OS. It was derived from NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD, and featured a new user int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Grubb
Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957) is an author of novels, short stories, and comics, as well as a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre. Grubb worked on the Dragonlance campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the Forgotten Realms setting with Ed Greenwood. His written works include The Finder's...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Store
The Apple Store is a chain of retail stores owned and operated by Apple Inc. The stores sell various Apple products, including Mac personal computers, iPhone smartphones, iPad tablet computers, Apple Watch smartwatches, Apple TV digital media players, software, and both Apple-branded and selected third-party accessorie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Washington%20%28state%29
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Washington, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct KAPY-LP KBNO-FM KBVU KCFL-LP KCKO KEYG KFC KFKB KFWY KGRU-LP KIKN KISN KKZU ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDI
PDI may refer to: Organisations Investigations Police of Chile (), the state police force of Chile Party for Justice and Integration (), an Albanian political party Pacific Data Images, former American computer animation production company Philippine Daily Inquirer, a broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines and th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20poker%20player
A computer poker player is a computer program designed to play the game of poker (generally the Texas hold 'em version), against human opponents or other computer opponents. It is commonly referred to as pokerbot or just simply bot. As of 2019, computers can beat any human player in poker. On the Internet These bots ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabreman
The Sabreman series of games was released by Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum in the 1980s. Some of the instalments were also released on other popular home microcomputers, namely the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and MSX. The series stars Sabreman, who is depicted wearing khakis and a pith helmet. G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20game
An audio game is an electronic game played on a device such as a personal computer. It is similar to a video game save that there is audible and tactile feedback but not visual. Audio games originally started out as 'blind accessible'-games and were developed mostly by amateurs and blind programmers. But more and more...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, resource starvation is a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work. Starvation may be caused by errors in a scheduling or mutual exclusion algorithm, but can also be caused by resource leaks, and can be intentionally ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix%20wars
The Unix wars were struggles between vendors to set a standard for the Unix operating system in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Origins Although AT&T Corporation created Unix, by the 1980s, the University of California, Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group was the leading non-commercial Unix developer. In the mid-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux%20naming%20controversy
Within the free software and the open-source software communities there is controversy over whether to refer to computer operating systems that use a combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel as "GNU/Linux" or "Linux" systems. Proponents of the term Linux argue that it is far more commonly used by the public an...