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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN
TGN may refer to: Tarragona, abbreviation of the city of Tarragona, in Catalonia Thai Global Network, a Thai satellite television channel Texas Government Newsletter, for college students Tyco Global Network, fiber optic network by Tyco International Trans Golgi network in biology IEEE 802.11n Task Group N Thyr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosome
Endosomes are a collection of intracellular sorting organelles in eukaryotic cells. They are parts of endocytic membrane transport pathway originating from the trans Golgi network. Molecules or ligands internalized from the plasma membrane can follow this pathway all the way to lysosomes for degradation or can be recyc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20programming
In the field of mathematical optimization, stochastic programming is a framework for modeling optimization problems that involve uncertainty. A stochastic program is an optimization problem in which some or all problem parameters are uncertain, but follow known probability distributions. This framework contrasts with d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Operational%20Art%20of%20War
The Operational Art of War (TOAW) is a series of computer wargames noted for their scope, detail, and flexibility in recreating, at an operational level, the major land battles of the 20th century. A Norm Koger design, TalonSoft published the first of the series in 1998. Matrix Games bought the rights to the franchise ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated%20values
Comma-separated values (CSV) is a text file format that uses commas to separate values. A CSV file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text, where each line of the file typically represents one data record. Each record consists of the same number of fields, and these are separated by commas in the CSV file....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs
xargs (short for "extended arguments" ) is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input. It converts input from standard input into arguments to a command. Some commands such as grep and awk can take input either as command-line arguments or from the sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Leestma
David Cornell Leestma (born May 6, 1949) is a former American astronaut and retired Captain in the United States Navy. Personal data Born May 6, 1949, in Muskegon, Michigan. He and his wife have six children. He enjoys golfing, tennis, aviation, and fishing. Education Graduated from Tustin High School in Tustin, Cali...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20kinematics
In computer animation and robotics, inverse kinematics is the mathematical process of calculating the variable joint parameters needed to place the end of a kinematic chain, such as a robot manipulator or animation character's skeleton, in a given position and orientation relative to the start of the chain. Given joint...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Ann%20Horton
Mary Ann Horton (born Mark R. Horton, on November 21, 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode, and led the growth of Usenet in the 1980s. Horton successfully requested the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passwd
passwd is a command on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and most Unix-like operating systems used to change a user's password. The password entered by the user is run through a key derivation function to create a hashed version of the new password, which is saved. Only the hashed version is stored; the entered password is not sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule%20%28programming%20language%29
Joule is a capability-secure massively-concurrent dataflow programming language, designed for building distributed applications. It is so concurrent that the order of statements within a block is irrelevant to the operation of the block. Statements are executed whenever possible, based on their inputs. Everything in Jo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20Democrats
College Democrats is an organization located on several college campuses. Their main focus is to elect Democratic Party candidates and provide networking and leadership opportunities for student members. The chapters have served as a way for college students to connect with the Democratic Party and Democratic campaign...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed
PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintain the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval. From 1971 to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VISCII
VISCII is an unofficially-defined modified ASCII character encoding for using the Vietnamese language with computers. It should not be confused with the similarly-named officially registered VSCII encoding. VISCII keeps the 95 printable characters of ASCII unmodified, but it replaces 6 of the 33 control characters wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing%20attack
In the context of information security, and especially network security, a spoofing attack is a situation in which a person or program successfully identifies as another by falsifying data, to gain an illegitimate advantage. Internet Spoofing and TCP/IP Many of the protocols in the TCP/IP suite do not provide mecha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20High%20Priests%20of%20Israel
This article gives a list of the High Priests (Kohen Gadol) of Ancient Israel up to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. Because of a lack of historical data, this list is incomplete and there may be gaps. The High Priests, like all Jewish priests, belonged to the Aaronic line. The Bible mentions the majorit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI%20%28protocol%29
External Machine Interface (EMI), an extension to Universal Computer Protocol (UCP), is a protocol primarily used to connect to short message service centres (SMSCs) for mobile telephones. The protocol was developed by CMG Wireless Data Solutions, now part of Mavenir. Syntax A typical EMI/UCP exchange looks like thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIMD
Computer Interface to Message Distribution (CIMD) is a proprietary short message service centre protocol developed by Nokia for their SMSC (now: Nokia Networks). Syntax An example CIMD exchange looks like the following: <STX>03:007<TAB>021:12345678<TAB>033:hello<TAB><ETX> <STX>53:007<TAB>021:12345678<TAB>060:...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRP
LRP can refer to: Lateralized readiness potential, an electrophysiological brain response Layerwise Relevance Propagation, a method for understanding how artificial neural networks work Lead replacement petrol League for the Revolutionary Party The Linux Router Project Lipoprotein receptor-related proteins Lithu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg%20Terminal
The Bloomberg Terminal is a computer software system provided by the financial data vendor Bloomberg L.P. that enables professionals in the financial service sector and other industries to access Bloomberg Professional Services through which users can monitor and analyze real-time financial market data and place trades...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare%20de%20l%27Est%20%28Paris%20M%C3%A9tro%29
Gare de l'Est – Verdun () is a station of the Paris Métro, serving Lines 4, 5, and 7 is located in the 10th arrondissement in Paris, France. It is the fifth busiest station on the network. Location The metro station consisting of three lines is located in front of the Gare de l'Est at the intersection of Rue du 8-Mai-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%20canals
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was erroneously believed that there were "canals" on the planet Mars. These were a network of long straight lines in the equatorial regions from 60° north to 60° south latitude on Mars, observed by astronomers using early telescopes without photography. They were first...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CREN
The acronym CREN may refer to: Christian Real Estate Network, a private real estate association Club de Radioexperimentadores de Nicaragua, an amateur radio organization in Nicaragua Corporation for Research and Educational Networking, organizational home for the computer networks Bitnet and later CSNET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20Service%20%28video%20game%29
Silent Service is a submarine simulator video game designed by Sid Meier and published by MicroProse for various 8-bit home computers in 1985 and for 16-bit systems like the Amiga in 1987. A Nintendo Entertainment System version developed by Rare was published in 1989 by Konami in Europe and by Konami's Ultra Games sub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-information
Meta-information may refer to: Metadata Knowledge tagging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom%20Entertainment
Phantom Entertainment, Inc. (known as Infinium Labs, Inc. until 2006) was a company founded in 2002 by Tim Roberts which made computer keyboards. However, Phantom was best known for the Phantom, a video game console advertised for Internet gaming on demand in 2004; it was never marketed, leading to suggestions that it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20location
The point location problem is a fundamental topic of computational geometry. It finds applications in areas that deal with processing geometrical data: computer graphics, geographic information systems (GIS), motion planning, and computer aided design (CAD). In its most general form, the problem is, given a partition ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistically%20checkable%20proof
In computational complexity theory, a probabilistically checkable proof (PCP) is a type of proof that can be checked by a randomized algorithm using a bounded amount of randomness and reading a bounded number of bits of the proof. The algorithm is then required to accept correct proofs and reject incorrect proofs with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grands%20Boulevards%20station
Grands Boulevards (), formerly named Rue Montmartre (1931–1998), is a station on Lines 8 and 9 of the Paris Métro. In 2019, it was the 44th busiest station of the Métro network, with 6,807,424 yearly users. The section of both lines from just east of Richelieu–Drouot to west of République was built under the Grand Bou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsim
SUBSIM is an online publication founded by Neal Stevens in Jan. 1997 that focuses on naval and submarine computer game reviews, articles, and news. Subsim is short for Submarine simulator. Subsim's forums have been online since 1999, with archives back to 2001. Membership totals were 117,023 at August 2016, with approx...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%26C
D&C or D and C or variant, may refer to: Dilation and curettage, a medical procedure involving the dilation of the cervix to remove uterine contents Divide and conquer algorithm, a strategy for dynamic programming Doctrine and Covenants, part of the scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement Drill & Ceremony, a te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Corporation
Quantum Corporation is a data storage, management, and protection company that provides technology to store, manage, archive, and protect video and unstructured data throughout the data lifecycle. Their products are used by enterprises, media and entertainment companies, government agencies, big data companies, and lif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network%20theory
Actor–network theory (ANT) is a theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exists in constantly shifting networks of relationships. It posits that nothing exists outside those relationships. All the factors involved in a social situation are on the same le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation
In computer science, a continuation is an abstract representation of the control state of a computer program. A continuation implements (reifies) the program control state, i.e. the continuation is a data structure that represents the computational process at a given point in the process's execution; the created data s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register%20machine
In mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, a register machine is a generic class of abstract machines used in a manner similar to a Turing machine. All the models are Turing equivalent. Overview The register machine gets its name from its use of one or more "registers". In contrast to the tape and head us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNN
GNN can stand for: GNN (news network) Start in 2023. Building a news network in 13,000 cities around the world through the 'newsg' platform Platform news agency GNN (Global news Network) Global News Network Global news network that the Japanese government tried and failed to gain power about 40 years ago GNNradio, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla%20News%20Network
Guerrilla News Network, Inc. (GNN) was a privately owned news website and television production company that operated from 2000 to 2009. It declared as its mission to "expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming." This was accomplished through the production of original articl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM
HAKMEM, alternatively known as AI Memo 239, is a February 1972 "memo" (technical report) of the MIT AI Lab containing a wide variety of hacks, including useful and clever algorithms for mathematical computation, some number theory and schematic diagrams for hardware – in Guy L. Steele's words, "a bizarre and eclectic p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Greenblatt%20%28programmer%29
Richard D. Greenblatt (born December 25, 1944) is an American computer programmer. Along with Bill Gosper, he may be considered to have founded the hacker community, and holds a place of distinction in the communities of the programming language Lisp and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Artificial In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20segmentation
In digital image processing and computer vision, image segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple image segments, also known as image regions or image objects (sets of pixels). The goal of segmentation is to simplify and/or change the representation of an image into something that is more...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodicautom
Eurodicautom was the pioneering terminology database of the European Commission, created in 1975, initially for use by translators and other Commission staff. By 1980 it was consultable on line within the Commission. As the European Community grew it was expanded from six to seven, nine and finally eleven languages (pl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrum%20Wiskunde%20%26%20Informatica
The (abbr. CWI; English: "National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science") is a research centre in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and is located at the Amsterdam Science Park. This institute is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Duff
Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff (born December 8, 1952) is a computer programmer. Early life Duff was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was named for his putative ancestor, the fifth Earl of Selkirk. He grew up in Toronto and Leaside. In 1974 he graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.Math and, two years la...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptosystem
In cryptography, a cryptosystem is a suite of cryptographic algorithms needed to implement a particular security service, such as confidentiality (encryption). Typically, a cryptosystem consists of three algorithms: one for key generation, one for encryption, and one for decryption. The term cipher (sometimes cypher) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODCI
ODCI may refer to: Office of the Director of Central Intelligence, a historical post (1946-2005) in the United States of America Oracle Data Cartridge Interface, a component of Oracle Database
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Caesar%20Childers
Robert Caesar Childers (; 183825 July 1876) was a British Orientalist and the compiler of the first PaliEnglish dictionary to be published. He was the father of the Irish nationalist Erskine Childers and the paternal grandfather of the fourth president of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers. Life Early years Childers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit%20%28disambiguation%29
A bit is a symbol used for communication or, equivalently, a unit of information storage on a computer. A bit is also used as a unit of information. Bit or BIT may also refer to: Tools and engineering Drill bit, for drilling holes Screwdriver bit Tool bit, for lathe turning Bit key, a key with a distinct part tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot%20time
Slot time is a concept in computer networking. It is at least twice the time it takes for an electronic pulse (OSI Layer 1 - Physical) to travel the length of the maximum theoretical distance between two nodes. In CSMA/CD networks such as Ethernet, the slot time is an upper limit on the acquisition of the medium, a lim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upgrade
Upgrading is the process of replacing a product with a newer version of the same product. In computing and consumer electronics an upgrade is generally a replacement of hardware, software or firmware with a newer or better version, in order to bring the system up to date or to improve its characteristics. Computing an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20space
In computing, an address space defines a range of discrete addresses, each of which may correspond to a network host, peripheral device, disk sector, a memory cell or other logical or physical entity. For software programs to save and retrieve stored data, each datum must have an address where it can be located. The n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Forbus
Kenneth Dale "Ken" Forbus is an American computer scientist working as the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University. Education Forbus earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science, Master of Science in computer science, and PhD in artificial intelligence...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Fahlman
Scott Elliott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948) is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural netw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Hinton
Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards%20Play%20Network
The Wizards Play Network (WPN) is the official sanctioning body for competitive play in Magic: The Gathering (Magic) and various other games produced by Wizards of the Coast and its subsidiaries, such as Avalon Hill. Originally, it was known as the DCI (formerly Duelists' Convocation International) but was rebranded i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/0
PL/0 is a programming language, intended as an educational programming language, that is similar to but much simpler than Pascal, a general-purpose programming language. It serves as an example of how to construct a compiler. It was originally introduced in the book, Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, by Niklaus ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAE
PAE may refer to: Science and technology Predicted Aligned Error, AlphaFold output file format for errors of protein structure prediction Physical Address Extension, an x86 computer processor feature for accessing more than 4 gigabytes of RAM Power added efficiency, a percentage that rates the efficiency of a power...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observational%20astronomy
Observational astronomy is a division of astronomy that is concerned with recording data about the observable universe, in contrast with theoretical astronomy, which is mainly concerned with calculating the measurable implications of physical models. It is the practice and study of observing celestial objects with the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco%20%28programming%20language%29
Draco was a shareware programming language created by Chris Gray. First developed for CP/M systems, Amiga version followed in 1987. Although Draco, a blend of Pascal and C, was well suited for general purpose programming, its uniqueness as a language was its main weak point. Gray used Draco for the Amiga to create a p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL-11
PL-11 is a high-level machine-oriented programming language for the PDP-11, developed by R.D. Russell of CERN in 1971. Written in Fortran IV, it is similar to PL360 and is cross-compiled on other machines. PL-11 was originally developed as part of the Omega project, a particle physics facility operational at CERN (Gen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film%20recorder
A film recorder is a graphical output device for transferring images to photographic film from a digital source. In a typical film recorder, an image is passed from a host computer to a mechanism to expose film through a variety of methods, historically by direct photography of a high-resolution cathode ray tube (CRT) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20speaker
A PC speaker is a loudspeaker built into some IBM PC compatible computers. The first IBM Personal Computer, model 5150, employed a standard 2.25 inch magnetic driven (dynamic) speaker. More recent computers use a tiny moving-iron or piezo speaker instead. The speaker allows software and firmware to provide auditory fee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%201996
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplays. The year started out with "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%201995
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplays. Twelve singles topped the chart during the year. "On Bended Knee" by Boyz II ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Project
The Andrew Project was a distributed computing environment developed at Carnegie Mellon University beginning in 1982. It was an ambitious project for its time and resulted in an unprecedentedly vast and accessible university computing infrastructure. The project was named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, the fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%201997
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplay. There were ten singles that peaked atop the charts, but if "Un-Break My Heart" ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20and%20towns%20in%20Uganda
This is a list of cities and towns in Uganda: The population data are for 2014, except where otherwise indicated. The references from which the estimated populations are sourced are listed in each article for the cities and towns where the population estimates are given. Twenty largest cities by population The followi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECstation
The DECstation was a brand of computers used by DEC, and refers to three distinct lines of computer systems—the first released in 1978 as a word processing system, and the latter (more widely known) two both released in 1989. These comprised a range of computer workstations based on the MIPS architecture and a range of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno%20%28operating%20system%29
Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs and now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software under the MIT License. Inferno was based on the experience gained with Plan 9 from Bell Labs, and the further research of Bell Labs into operating systems, languages, on-the-fly compil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys
Linksys Holdings, Inc., is an American brand of data networking hardware products mainly sold to home users and small businesses. It was founded in 1988 by the couple Victor and Janie Tsao, both Taiwanese immigrants to the United States. Linksys products include Wi-Fi routers, mesh Wi-Fi systems, Wifi extenders, access...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddo
The Caddo people comprise the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma. They speak the Caddo language. The Caddo Confederacy was a network of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands, who historically inhabited much of what is northeast Texas, west Louisiana, sou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Exchange%20Server
Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft. It runs exclusively on Windows Server operating systems. The first version was called Exchange Server 4.0, to position it as the successor to the related Microsoft Mail 3.5. Exchange initially used the X.400 directory service but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Groovy
Apache Groovy is a Java-syntax-compatible object-oriented programming language for the Java platform. It is both a static and dynamic language with features similar to those of Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk. It can be used as both a programming language and a scripting language for the Java Platform, is compiled to Java ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion%20%28programming%20language%29
Clarion is a commercial, proprietary, fourth-generation programming language (4GL), multi-paradigm, programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from SoftVelocity used to program database applications. It is compatible with indexed sequential access method (ISAM), Structured Query Language (SQL), a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESN
New England Sports Network, popularly known as NESN , is an American regional sports cable and satellite television network owned by a joint venture of Fenway Sports Group (which owns a controlling 80% interest, and is the owner of the Boston Red Sox, Liverpool Football Club, and the Pittsburgh Penguins) and Delaware N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Wallace%20%28scientist%29
Richard S. Wallace is an American author of AIML and Botmaster of A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity). He is also the founder of the A.L.I.C.E Artificial Intelligence Foundation. Dr. Wallace's work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, CNN, ZDTV and in numerous foreign language publication...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad%20Street%20railway%20station%20%28England%29
Broad Street was a major rail terminal in the City of London, adjacent to Liverpool Street station. It served as the main terminus of the North London Railway (NLR) network, running from 1865 to 1986. During its lifetime, it catered for mainly local suburban services around London, and over time struggled to compete wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-FIT
Electronic Facial Identification Technique (E-FIT, e-fit, efit) is a computer-based method of producing facial composites of wanted criminals, based on eyewitness descriptions. Uses The system first appeared in the late 1980s, programmed by John Platten and has since been progressively refined by Platten and latterly...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20Salton
Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton (8 March 1927 – 28 August 1995) was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time, and "the father of Information Retrieval". His group at Cornell developed the SMART Inform...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza%20%28programming%20language%29
Pizza is an open-source superset of Java 1.4, prior to the introduction of generics for the Java programming language. In addition to its own solution for adding generics to the language, Pizza also added function pointers and algebraic types with case classes and pattern matching. In August 2001, the developers made...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs%20sampling
In statistics, Gibbs sampling or a Gibbs sampler is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for obtaining a sequence of observations which are approximated from a specified multivariate probability distribution, when direct sampling is difficult. This sequence can be used to approximate the joint distribution (e.g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Aylett
Ruth S. Aylett (born 1951) is a British author, computer scientist, professor, poet, and political activist. She is a professor of computer science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where she specialises in affective computing, social computing, software agents, and human–robot interaction. Research Aylett's res...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20object
In computer programming, a function object is a construct allowing an object to be invoked or called as if it were an ordinary function, usually with the same syntax (a function parameter that can also be a function). In some languages, particularly C++, function objects are often called functors (not related to the fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20pointer
A function pointer, also called a subroutine pointer or procedure pointer, is a pointer referencing executable code, rather than data. Dereferencing the function pointer yields the referenced function, which can be invoked and passed arguments just as in a normal function call. Such an invocation is also known as an "i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack%20machine
In computer science, computer engineering and programming language implementations, a stack machine is a computer processor or a virtual machine in which the primary interaction is moving short-lived temporary values to and from a push down stack. In the case of a hardware processor, a hardware stack is used. The use o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20in%20video%20games
At the beginning of the 1970s, video games existed almost entirely as novelties passed around by programmers and technicians with access to computers, primarily at research institutions and large companies. The history of video games transitioned into a new era early in the decade, however, with the rise of the commerc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomatics
Geomatics is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as the "discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information". Under another definition, it consists of products, services and tools involved in the collection, integrat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireframe
Wireframe or wire-frame may refer to: Wire-frame model, visual model of a three-dimensional object in computer graphics Website wireframe, a basic visual guide used in web design See also Wire sculpture, used in plastic arts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPoint
PayPoint plc is a British business offering a system for paying bills in United Kingdom, Ireland and Romania. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. History The PayPoint network was set up in 1996 with the aim of enabling customers to load gas and electricity onto their pre-paid energy meters in cash at their loc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20number%20theory
In mathematics and computer science, computational number theory, also known as algorithmic number theory, is the study of computational methods for investigating and solving problems in number theory and arithmetic geometry, including algorithms for primality testing and integer factorization, finding solutions to di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityLink
CityLink is a network of tollways in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, linking the Tullamarine, West Gate and Monash Freeways and incorporating Bolte Bridge, Burnley Tunnel and other works. In 1996, Transurban was awarded the contract to augment two existing freeways and construct two new toll roads – labelled the Wester...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%208
Mac OS 8 is an operating system that was released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997. It includes the largest overhaul of the classic Mac OS experience since the release of System 7, approximately six years before. It places a greater emphasis on color than prior versions. Released over a series of updates, Mac OS 8 re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy%20Jewell
Buddy Jewell Jr. (born April 2, 1961) is an American country music singer who was the first winner on the USA Network talent show Nashville Star. Signed to Columbia Records in 2003, Jewell made his debut on the American country music scene with the release of his self-titled album, which produced the singles "Help Pou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville%20Star
Nashville Star is an American reality television singing competition program that aired for six seasons, from 2003 to 2008. Its first five seasons aired on USA Network, while the last season aired on NBC. Its five seasons on USA made it the longest-running competition series on cable television at the time. In Canada, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTH
PTH may refer to: Biology and Medicine Parathyroid hormone phenylthiohydantoin, an amino acid derivative formed by the Edman degradation Computing GNU Portable Threads in computing Pass the hash attack in computing Languages Pataxó language, by ISO 639 code Standard Chinese, also known as putonghua and abbrevi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TasWireless
TasWireless is a group of wireless networking enthusiasts in Tasmania, Australia. Between them they have set up wireless community networks in both Hobart and Launceston. The group has gone through many names, tas.air, www.tas.air.net.au, TPAN (Tasmanian Public Airwave Network) and now TasWireless. With users from s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross-Rosen%20concentration%20camp
Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. The main camp was located in the German village of Gross-Rosen, now the modern-day Rogoźnica in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland; directly on the rail-line between the towns of Jawor (Jauer) and Strzegom (Str...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDL%20%28programming%20language%29
IDL, short for Interactive Data Language, is a programming language used for data analysis. It is popular in particular areas of science, such as astronomy, atmospheric physics and medical imaging. IDL shares a common syntax with PV-Wave and originated from the same codebase, though the languages have subsequently div...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPL%20%28programming%20language%29
RPL is a handheld calculator operating system and application programming language used on Hewlett-Packard's scientific graphing RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculators of the HP 28, 48, 49 and 50 series, but it is also usable on non-RPN calculators, such as the 38, 39 and 40 series. Internally, it was also utilized ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor%20Star
The Windsor Star is a daily newspaper based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Postmedia Network, it is published Tuesdays through Saturdays. History The paper began as the weekly Windsor Record in 1888, changing its name to the Border Cities Star in 1918, when it was bought by W. F. Herman. The Border Cities Star ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krohn%E2%80%93Rhodes%20theory
In mathematics and computer science, the Krohn–Rhodes theory (or algebraic automata theory) is an approach to the study of finite semigroups and automata that seeks to decompose them in terms of elementary components. These components correspond to finite aperiodic semigroups and finite simple groups that are combined ...