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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Hopper | USS Hopper (DDG-70) is an guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, named for the pioneering computer scientist Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.
Hopper is only the second US Navy warship to be named for a woman from the Navy's own ranks. This ship is the 20th destroyer of her class. Hopper was the 11th ship of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbridge%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a northbridge (also host bridge, or memory controller hub) is one of two chips comprising the core logic chipset architecture on older motherboards for personal computers. A northbridge is connected directly to a CPU via the front-side bus (FSB) to handle high-performance tasks, and is usually used in con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerQuest | PowerQuest was a software company that produced utility software. It was acquired by Symantec in 2003. PowerQuest's market focus was on management of computer data storage, especially file systems and disk partitions. Their products included PartitionMagic, DriveCopy, Drive Image, and ServerMagic.
PowerQuest was s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Progressive%20Communications | The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of organizations that was founded in 1990 to provide communication infrastructure, including Internet-based applications, to groups and individuals who work for peace, human rights, protection of the environment, and sustainability. Pionee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbridge%20%28computing%29 | The southbridge is one of the two chips in the core logic chipset on older personal computer (PC) motherboards, the other being the northbridge. As of 2023, most personal computer devices no longer use a set of two chips, and instead have a single chip acting as the 'chipset', for example Intel's Z790 chipset.
The sou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebirds | Freebirds may refer to:
The Fabulous Freebirds, a professional wrestling stable
Free Birds, a 2013 American 3D computer-animated buddy comedy film
See also
Free Bird, a song by the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%20Haskell | Template Haskell is an experimental language extension to the Haskell programming language implemented in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (version 6 and later). In early incarnations it was also known as Template Meta-Haskell.
It allows compile-time metaprogramming and generative programming by means of manipulating abst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk%20Alias | Autodesk Alias (formerly known as Alias StudioTools) is a family of computer-aided industrial design (CAID) software predominantly used in automotive design and industrial design for generating class A surfaces using Bézier surface and non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) modeling method.
The product is sold specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth%20Action%20Network | The Youth Action Network (formerly the National Federation of Youth Action Agencies) was a UK-wide youth organisation that promotes volunteering by young people in their communities.
The organisation was set up in 1989 under the name World Affairs Canada as a support network for Youth Action Agencies across the countr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-on-demand%20routing | Dial on Demand Routing (DDR) is a routing technique where a network connection to a remote site is established only when needed. In other words, if the router tries to send out data and the connection is off, then the router will automatically establish a connection, send the information, and close the connection when ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza | Eliza or ELIZA may refer to:
Eliza (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
ELIZA, a 1966 computer program designed to simulate a therapist or psychoanalyst
ELIZA effect, the tendency to relate computer behavior to human behavior
Eliza (magazine), an American fash... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlekamp%E2%80%93Massey%20algorithm | The Berlekamp–Massey algorithm is an algorithm that will find the shortest linear-feedback shift register (LFSR) for a given binary output sequence. The algorithm will also find the minimal polynomial of a linearly recurrent sequence in an arbitrary field. The field requirement means that the Berlekamp–Massey algorith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination%20Games | Destination Games was an American computer game development company created in April 2000 by Richard Garriott, Robert Garriott and Starr Long, following their departure from Origin Systems. ("Destination" is a play on "Origin", the company the Garriotts founded nearly two decades earlier.)
Destination was founded in A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSN | DSN may refer to:
Technology
Computing & Internet
Data set (IBM mainframe) Name, the name of a computer file having a record organization
Data source name, a data structure used to describe a connection to a data source
Delivery Status Notification message, an automated electronic mail message about a delivery pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical%20form | In mathematics and computer science, a canonical, normal, or standard form of a mathematical object is a standard way of presenting that object as a mathematical expression. Often, it is one which provides the simplest representation of an object and allows it to be identified in a unique way. The distinction between "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%20%28disambiguation%29 | A quark is an elementary particle.
Quark may also refer to:
"Quark", a nonce word in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and the origin of the particle name
Computing
Quark (company), a software manufacturer
Quark (kernel), a microkernel used in the MorphOS operating system
QuArK or Quake Army Knife, a game editor
Qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20protection | Memory protection is a way to control memory access rights on a computer, and is a part of most modern instruction set architectures and operating systems. The main purpose of memory protection is to prevent a process from accessing memory that has not been allocated to it. This prevents a bug or malware within a pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Media%20Networks | Paramount Media Networks (founded as MTV Networks in 1984 and known under this name until 2011; thereafter known as Viacom Media Networks until 2019) is an American mass media division of Paramount Global that oversees the operations of many of its television channels and online brands. Its related international divisi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20EMC | Dell EMC (EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and Round Rock, Texas, United States. Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable organizations to store... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Computers%20Limited | International Computers Limited (ICL) was a British computer hardware, computer software and computer services company that operated from 1968 until 2002. It was formed through a merger of International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), English Electric Computers (EEC) and Elliott Automation in 1968. The company's most s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined%20behavior | In computer programming, undefined behavior (UB) is the result of executing a program whose behavior is prescribed to be unpredictable, in the language specification to which the computer code adheres. This is different from unspecified behavior, for which the language specification does not prescribe a result, and imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discretization%20error | In numerical analysis, computational physics, and simulation, discretization error is the error resulting from the fact that a function of a continuous variable is represented in the computer by a finite number of evaluations, for example, on a lattice. Discretization error can usually be reduced by using a more fine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20and%20Collections%20of%20Information%20Misappropriation%20Act | The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act, , was a proposed bill in the United States House of Representatives during the 108th United States Congress. It would have altered copyright law to permit assertion of copyright ownership over factual data.
Proponents argued that the bill was based on t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%20Office%20Limited | Post Office Limited is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of around 11,500 post office branches. Most of these branch post offices (%) are run by franchise partners or by independent ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xai | Xai, XAI or xAI may refer to:
Explainable Artificial Intelligence, in artificial intelligence technology
Xai-Xai, a city in the south of Mozambique
XAI, the IATA airport code for Xinyang Minggang Airport, in Xinyang, China
xai, the ISO 639-3 language code of Kaimbé language, an extinct language in Brazil.
xAI (co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%20quotient%20iteration | Rayleigh quotient iteration is an eigenvalue algorithm which extends the idea of the inverse iteration by using the Rayleigh quotient to obtain increasingly accurate eigenvalue estimates.
Rayleigh quotient iteration is an iterative method, that is, it delivers a sequence of approximate solutions that converges to a tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue%20algorithm | In numerical analysis, one of the most important problems is designing efficient and stable algorithms for finding the eigenvalues of a matrix. These eigenvalue algorithms may also find eigenvectors.
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Given an square matrix of real or complex numbers, an eigenvalue and its associated g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC | The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC, was an organization founded in 1971 best known for developing the edutainment video game series The Oregon Trail and its spinoffs. The goal of the organization was to coordinate and provide computer services to schools in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth%20BASIC | Dartmouth BASIC is the original version of the BASIC programming language. It was designed by two professors at Dartmouth College, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. With the underlying Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), it offered an interactive programming environment to all undergraduates as well as the larger u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset%20%28computer%29 | The Mindset is an Intel 80186-based MS-DOS personal computer. It was developed by the Mindset Corporation and released in spring 1984. Unlike other IBM PC compatibles of the time, it has custom graphics hardware supporting a 320x200 resolution with 16 simultaneous colors (chosen from a 512-shade palette) and hardware-a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20distributed%20problem%20solving | In computing cooperative distributed problem solving is a network of semi-autonomous processing nodes working together to solve a problem, typically in a multi-agent system. That is concerned with the investigation of problem subdivision, sub-problem distribution, results synthesis, optimisation of problem solver coher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20long-distance%20paths | The European long-distance paths (E-paths) are a network of long-distance footpaths that traverse Europe. While most long-distance footpaths in Europe are located in just one country or region, each of these numbered European long-distance paths passes through many countries.
The first long-distance hiking trail in Eu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher%20%28software%29 | Dasher is an input method and computer accessibility tool which enables users to compose text without using a keyboard, by entering text on a screen with a pointing device such as a mouse, touch screen, or mice operated by the foot or head. Such instruments could serve as prosthetic devices for disabled people who cann... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20viewer | An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth, display resolution, and color profile.
Although one may use a full-feat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currah | Currah was a British computer peripheral manufacturer, famous mainly for the speech synthesis ROM cartridges it designed for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and other 8-bit home computers of the 1980s.
Currah μSource for the ZX Spectrum
Currah μSource from Quadhouse. In a self-contained ROM cartridge it has a full-func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction%20protocol | Within the fields of computer science and robotics, interaction protocols are possible communication scenarios between individual agents in multi-agent systems. Some protocols are described quite qualitatively (for example, many parts of the traffic code), but others have a formal model, whose implementations can be te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LonWorks | LonWorks or Local Operating Network is an open standard (ISO/IEC 14908) for networking platforms specifically created to address the needs of control applications. The platform is built on a protocol created by Echelon Corporation for networking devices over media such as twisted pair, power lines, fiber optics, and wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20keyboard | A membrane keyboard is a computer keyboard whose "keys" are not separate, moving parts, as with the majority of other keyboards, but rather are pressure pads that have only outlines and symbols printed on a flat, flexible surface. Very little, if any, tactile feedback is felt when using such a keyboard.
Membrane keybo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Sakamura | , as of April 2017, is a Japanese professor and dean of the Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design at Toyo University, Japan. He is a former professor in information science at the University of Tokyo (through March 2017). He is the creator of the real-time operating system (RTOS) architecture TRON... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiomatic%20semantics | Axiomatic semantics is an approach based on mathematical logic for proving the correctness of computer programs. It is closely related to Hoare logic.
Axiomatic semantics define the meaning of a command in a program by describing its effect on assertions about the program state. The assertions are logical statements—p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9-Qu%C3%A9bec | The Société de télédiffusion du Québec (; ), branded as Télé-Québec () (formerly known as Radio-Québec), is a Canadian French-language public educational television network in the province of Quebec. It is a provincial Crown corporation owned by the Government of Quebec. The network's main studios and headquarters are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft | Cruft is a jargon word for anything that is left over, redundant and getting in the way. It is used particularly for defective, superseded, useless, superfluous, or dysfunctional elements in computer software.
History
Around 1958, the term was used in the sense of "garbage" by students frequenting the Tech Model Rail... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific%20language | A domain-specific language (DSL) is a computer language specialized to a particular application domain. This is in contrast to a general-purpose language (GPL), which is broadly applicable across domains. There are a wide variety of DSLs, ranging from widely used languages for common domains, such as HTML for web pages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnecentralen | Regnecentralen (RC) was the first Danish computer company, founded on October 12, 1955. Through the 1950s and 1960s, they designed a series of computers, originally for their own use, and later to be sold commercially. Descendants of these systems sold well into the 1980s. They also developed a series of high-speed pap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20iteration | In numerical analysis, inverse iteration (also known as the inverse power method) is an iterative eigenvalue algorithm. It allows one to find an approximate
eigenvector when an approximation to a corresponding eigenvalue is already known.
The method is conceptually similar to the power method.
It appears to have origi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectravideo | Spectravideo International Limited (SVI) was an American computer manufacturer and software house. It was originally called SpectraVision, a company founded by Harry Fox in 1981. The company produced video games and other software for the VIC-20 home computer, the Atari 2600 home video game console, and its CompuMate p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20archive%20formats | This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files.
Archiving only
Compression only
Archiving and compression
Data recovery
Comparison
Containers and compression
Notes
While the original tar format uses the ASCII character encoding, current implementations use the UTF... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON%20project | TRON (acronym for The Real-time Operating system Nucleus) is an open architecture real-time operating system kernel design. The project was started by Professor Dr. Ken Sakamura of the University of Tokyo in 1984. The project's goal is to create an ideal computer architecture and network, to provide for all of society'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL | curl (pronounced like "curl", , ) is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various network protocols. The name stands for "Client for URL".
History
curl was first released in 1996. It was originally named httpget and then became urlget befor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Transfer%20Part | The Message Transfer Part (MTP) is part of the Signaling System 7 (SS7) used for communication in Public Switched Telephone Networks. MTP is responsible for reliable, unduplicated and in-sequence transport of SS7 messages between communication partners.
MTP is formally defined primarily in ITU-T recommendations
Q.701... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript | ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. (later acquired by Adobe). It is influenced by HyperTalk, the scripting language for HyperCard. It is now an implementation of ECMAScript (meaning it is a superset of the syntax and semantics of the language more widely know... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Collegiate%20Programming%20Contest | The International Collegiate Programming Contest, known as the ICPC, is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world. Directed by ICPC Executive Director and Baylor Professor Dr. William B. Poucher, the ICPC operates autonomous regional contests covering six continents... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Perry%20%28game%20developer%29 | David Perry (born 4 April 1967) is a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer. He became prominent for programming platform games for 16-bit home consoles in the early to mid 1990s, including Disney's Aladdin, Cool Spot, and the Earthworm Jim series. He founded Shiny Entertainment, where he worked from 1993 t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20ergonomic%20keyboards | Microsoft has designed and sold a variety of ergonomic keyboards for computers. The oldest is the Microsoft Natural Keyboard, released in 1994, the company's first computer keyboard. The newest models are the Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard (2013), the Surface Ergonomic Keyboard (2016), and the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D | 2D or 2-D may refer to:
Two-dimensional Euclidean space
2D geometric model
2D computer graphics
2-D (character), a member of the virtual band Gorillaz
Index finger, the second digit (abbreviated 2D) of the hand
Oflag II-D
Stalag II-D
Transcription factor II D
Two Dickinson Street Co-op, a student dining coope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-bit%20computing | 4-bit computing is the use of computer architectures in which integers and other data units are 4 bits wide. 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU) architectures are those that are based on registers or data buses of that size. Memory addresses (and thus address buses) for 4-bit CPUs are ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix%20%28database%29 | Helix is a database management system for the Apple Macintosh platform, created in 1983. Helix uses a graphical "programming language" to add logic to its applications, allowing non-programmers to construct sophisticated applications. Helix was the first multiuser database on any PC platform, the first object-based, vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRSDOS | TRSDOS (which stands for the Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System) is the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of eight-bit Zilog Z80 microcomputers that were sold through Radio Shack from 1977 through 1991. Tandy's manuals recommended that it be pronounced triss-doss. TRSDOS should not be confused with Tandy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanga | Xanga () was a website that hosted weblogs, photoblogs, and social networking profiles. It was operated by Xanga.com, Inc. and based in New York City.
History
Xanga began in 1999 as a site for sharing book and music reviews. It became public in 2000, following a series of e-mail recruitment methods via GeoCities. Ov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%20LARC | The UNIVAC LARC, short for the Livermore Advanced Research Computer, is a mainframe computer designed to a requirement published by Edward Teller in order to run hydrodynamic simulations for nuclear weapon design. It was one of the earliest supercomputers.
LARC supported multiprocessing with two CPUs (called Computers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20War%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | Total War is a series of strategy games developed by British developer Creative Assembly for personal computers. They combine turn-based strategy and resource management with real-time tactical control of battles. Rather uniquely for real-time strategy games, flanking manoeuvers and formations factor heavily into gamep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority%20inversion | In computer science, priority inversion is a scenario in scheduling in which a high-priority task is indirectly superseded by a lower-priority task effectively inverting the assigned priorities of the tasks. This violates the priority model that high-priority tasks can only be prevented from running by higher-priority ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS | WinFS (short for Windows Future Storage) was the code name for a canceled data storage and management system project based on relational databases, developed by Microsoft and first demonstrated in 2003 as an advanced storage subsystem for the Microsoft Windows operating system, designed for persistence and management o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph | Prograph is a visual, object-oriented, dataflow, multiparadigm programming language that uses iconic symbols to represent actions to be taken on data. Commercial Prograph software development environments such as Prograph Classic and Prograph CPX were available for the Apple Macintosh and Windows platforms for many yea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Central%20Trains | South Central Trains may refer to one of the following organisations that has operated the South Central franchise in England:
Network SouthCentral
Connex South Central
Southern (train operating company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMSP-TV | KMSP-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving as the Fox network outlet for the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV station WFTC (channel 9.2). Both stations share studios on Viking Dr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%20channel | B channel (bearer) is a telecommunications term which refers to the ISDN channel in which the primary data or voice communication is carried. It has a bit rate of 64 kbit/s in full duplex.
The term is applied primarily in relation to the ISDN access interfaces (PRA or PRI and BRA or BRI), since deeper in the PSTN netw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer%20service | In telecommunications, Bearer Service or data service is a service that allows transmission of information signals between network interfaces. These services give the subscriber the capacity required to transmit appropriate signals between certain access points, i.e. user network interfaces.
Bearer Services are catego... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew | Homebrewing mainly refers to small-scale, non-commercial manufacture of a drink, typically beer.
Homebrew or home brew may also refer to:
Computing
Homebrew Computer Club
Homebrew (package manager), for macOS and Linux
Homebrew (video games), software written by hobbyists for proprietary game consoles
Atari 2600 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistate%20Anti-Terrorism%20Information%20Exchange | The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program, also known by the acronym MATRIX, was a U.S. federally funded data mining system originally developed for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement described as a tool to identify terrorist subjects.
The system was reported to analyze government and commercia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20numeral%20system%20topics | This is a list of Wikipedia articles on topics of numeral system and "numeric representations"
See also: computer numbering formats and number names.
Arranged by base
Radix, radix point, mixed radix, base (mathematics)
Unary numeral system (base 1)
Binary numeral system (base 2)
Negative base numeral system (ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Hudson%20%28electrical%20engineer%29 | Raymond Scott Hudson (born 1959) is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Washington State University. Hudson was educated at Caltech, where he received his bachelor's degree in engineering and applied science in 1985, his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1986, and his PhD in electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20America%20%28radio%20network%29 | Air America (formerly Air America Radio and Air America Media) was an American radio network specializing in progressive talk radio. It was on the air from March 2004 to January 2010.
The network was founded as a left–wing alternative to counter talk radio with a right–wing perspective. Air America featured programs w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome%20sort | Gnome sort (nicknamed stupid sort) is a variation of the insertion sort sorting algorithm that does not use nested loops. Gnome sort was originally proposed by Iranian computer scientist Hamid Sarbazi-Azad (professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Sharif University of Technology) in 2000. The sort was first cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo%20Diaries | Zoo Diaries is a Canadian documentary television series airing on Life Network. The series documents the live of animals and people at a zoo with a record of breeding endangered species. 74 episodes have been produced since 2000 by DocuTainment Productions. The final episode aired in 2007.
Each episode opens with a br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIA | BIA or Bia may refer to:
Acronym or abbreviation
Organizations and companies
Board of Immigration Appeals, an American immigration appellate court
Bohemia Interactive Australia, a computer simulation software company
Border and Immigration Agency, a defunct British government agency
Braille Institute of America, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirements%20analysis | In systems engineering and software engineering, requirements analysis focuses on the tasks that determine the needs or conditions to meet the new or altered product or project, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, analyzing, documenting, validating and managing software ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selector | Selector may refer to:
Selector, electrical or mechanical component, a switch
Selector, music scheduling software for radio stations created by Radio Computing Services
Selector, of music, otherwise known as a disc jockey
Selector, a person who made a selection of crown land in some Australian colonies
Selector (spor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20system | In mathematics, computer science and physics, a deterministic system is a system in which no randomness is involved in the development of future states of the system. A deterministic model will thus always produce the same output from a given starting condition or initial state.
In physics
Physical laws that are desc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Shoe%20Diaries | Red Shoe Diaries is an American anthology erotic drama series that aired on Showtime cable network from 1992 to 1997 and was distributed by Playboy Entertainment overseas. It is a spinoff of the television film of the same name, directed by Zalman King. Most episodes were directed by either King or Rafael Eisenman.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune%20%28Unix%29 | fortune is a program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations that first appeared in Version 7 Unix. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune, originally written by Ken Arnold. Distributions of fortune are usually bundled with a collection of themed files, containing saying... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20on%20a%20stick | COASt, an acronym for "cache on a stick", is a packaging standard for modules containing SRAM used as an L2 cache in a computer. COASt modules look like somewhat oversized SIMM modules. These modules were somewhat popular in the Apple and PC platforms during early to mid-1990s, but with newer computers cache is built i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Bianconi | Charles Bianconi (24 September 1786 – 22 September 1875) was an Italo-Irish entrepreneur. Sometimes described as the "man who put Ireland on wheels", he developed a network of horse-drawn coaches that became Ireland's "first regular public transport" system. He eventually became known for his innovations in transport a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%2C%20She%20and%20It | He, She and It (retitled Body of Glass in the United Kingdom) is a 1991 cyberpunk novel by Marge Piercy. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1993. The novel's setting is post-apocalyptic America and follows a romance between a human woman and a cyborg created to protect her community fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanimate | Scanimate is an analog computer animation (video synthesizer) system developed from the late 1960s to the 1980s by Computer Image Corporation of Denver, Colorado.
The 8 Scanimate systems were used to produce much of the video-based animation seen on television between most of the 1970s and early 1980s in commercials, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHFD-DT | CHFD-DT (channel 4) is a television station in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, affiliated with the Global Television Network. It is owned by locally based Dougall Media alongside CTV affiliate CKPR-DT (channel 2). Both stations share studios on Hill and Van Norman Streets in central Thunder Bay, while CHFD-DT's transmitt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZN | KZN may refer to:
KwaZulu-Natal, a province of South Africa
Kantonsschule Zürich Nord, a school in Switzerland
Kazan International Airport, Tatarstan, Russia (IATA code: KZN)
KSL (radio network), Utah, United States (original call sign: KZN) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisect | Bisect, or similar, may refer to:
Mathematics
Bisection, in geometry, dividing something into two equal parts
Bisection method, a root-finding algorithm
Equidistant set
Other uses
Bisect (philately), the use of postage stamp halves
Bisector (music), a half octave in diatonic set theory
Bisection (software engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasso%20%28programming%20language%29 | Lasso is an application server and server management interface used to develop internet applications and is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. Originally a web datasource connection tool for Filemaker and later included in Apple Computer's FileMaker 4.0 and Claris Homepage as CDML, it has since evolved... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlighting%20%28TV%20series%29 | Moonlighting is an American comedy drama television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 67 episodes. Starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis as private detectives, Allyce Beasley as their quirky receptionist, and Curtis Armstrong as a temp worker (and later junio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species%20diversity | Species diversity is the number of different species that are represented in a given community (a dataset). The effective number of species refers to the number of equally abundant species needed to obtain the same mean proportional species abundance as that observed in the dataset of interest (where all species may no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARNET | CARNET (Croatian Academic and Research Network, ) is the national research and education network of Croatia. It is funded from the government budget and it operates from offices in Zagreb and five other cities.
CARNET was established in 1991 as a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Cro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20science%20and%20engineering | Computer science and engineering (CSE) is an academic program at many universities which comprises computer science classes (e.g. data structures and algorithms) and computer engineering classes (e.g computer architecture). There is no clear division in computing between science and engineering, just like in the field ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet | Tymnet was an international data communications network headquartered in Cupertino, California that used virtual call packet-switched technology and X.25, SNA/SDLC, BSC and Async interfaces to connect host computers (servers) at thousands of large companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Users typi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak%20%26%20Spell%20%28toy%29 | The Speak & Spell line is a series of electronic hand-held child computers by Texas Instruments that consisted of a TMC0280 linear predictive coding speech synthesizer, a keyboard, and a receptor slot to receive one of a collection of ROM game library modules. The first Speak & Spell was introduced at the summer Consum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARNES | The Academic and Research Network of Slovenia () is a public institute in Slovenia, established in May 1992. Its main task is development, operation and management of the communication and information network for education and research. ARNES also operates the Slovenian Internet Exchange.
The members of its management... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expander | Expander may refer to:
Dynamic range compression operated in reverse
Part of the process of signal compression
Part of the process of companding
A component used to connect SCSI computer data storage, devices together
Turboexpander, a turbine for high-pressure gas
Expander graph, a sparse graph used in the combinatori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitech | Hitech may refer to:
high tech, an abbreviation of the term "high technology"
HITECH, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act)
HiTech, a late 1980s computer chess machine
Hi-Tech Automotive is a low volume car builder and design house located in Port Elizabeth.
High Technology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda%20%28disambiguation%29 | A barracuda is a predatory fish found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
Barracuda or Baracuda may also refer to:
Computing
Barracuda (web framework), an MVC web framework for Java
Seagate Barracuda, a line of computer hard drives
Barracuda Networks, a company specializing in e-mail spam firewalls, web filters, e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locking | Locking may refer to:
Locking (computer science)
Locking, Somerset, a village and civil parish in the United Kingdom
RAF Locking, a former Royal Air Force base
Locking Castle, a former castle
Brian Locking (born 1938), rock guitarist
Norm Locking (1911–1995), National Hockey League player
Locking (dance), a sty... |
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