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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve%20fitting | Curve fitting is the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points, possibly subject to constraints. Curve fitting can involve either interpolation, where an exact fit to the data is required, or smoothing, in which a "smooth" function is constructed that ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKND-DT | CKND-DT (channel 9) is a television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. The station is owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, with studios on the 30th floor of 201 Portage in downtown Winnipeg, and transmitter atop the building.
History
Acquisition and lice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20%28genetic%20algorithm%29 | In genetic algorithms (GA), or more general, evolutionary algorithms (EA), a chromosome (also sometimes called a genotype) is a set of parameters which define a proposed solution of the problem that the evolutionary algorithm is trying to solve. The set of all solutions, also called individuals according to the biologi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WITN-TV | WITN-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Washington, North Carolina, United States, serving Eastern North Carolina as an affiliate of NBC and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Gray Television, the station has primary studio facilities on East Arlington Boulevard in Greenville, with an additional studio in New Bern. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone%20High | Clone High is an adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Bill Lawrence that premiered on Canadian cable channel Teletoon's late-night programming block The Detour On Teletoon on November 2, 2002. Set at a high school populated by the clones of well-known historical figures, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chameleon%20%28computing%29 | Chameleon is a computer workstation design produced at ETH Zurich running the Oberon operating system.
The Seequa Chameleon was also an older luggable computer from the early 1980s, distinguished by being able to run both the MS-DOS and CP/M-80 operating systems.
References
Computer workstations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong%20Olympiad%20in%20Informatics | Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics (HKOI; 香港電腦奧林匹克競賽) is an annual programming competition for secondary school students in Hong Kong, emphasizing on problem solving techniques and programming skills. It is co-organized by the Hong Kong Association for Computer Education (HKACE) and the Hong Kong Education Bureau (EDB).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Capellas | Michael David Capellas (born August 19, 1954) is an American executive in the computer and telecommunication industries. Capellas served as chairman and CEO of First Data Corporation, acting CEO of Serena Software, chairman and CEO of Compaq Computer Corporation until its merger with Hewlett-Packard where he became pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%20project | Star Trek is the code name that was given to a secret prototype project, running a port of Macintosh System 7 and its applications on Intel-compatible x86 personal computers. The project, starting in February 1992, was conceived in collaboration between Apple Computer, who provided the majority of engineers, and Novel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20World | Computer World () is the eighth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 11 May 1981.
The album deals with the themes of the rise of computers within society. In keeping with the album's concept, Kraftwerk showcased their music on an ambitious world tour. The compositions are credited to Ralf Hütt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFP | VFP may stand for:
VFP (instruction set), an extension to the ARM instruction set
Visual FoxPro, a programming language
All-Russia Fascist Party (1930s–1942)
Very Fast Picket, a class of fictional artificially intelligent starship in The Culture universe of late Scottish author Iain Banks
Veterans Freedom Party, a min... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKOLN | Formerly known as The United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking, UKOLN was a centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities. UKOLN was based at the University of Bath and was funded through ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Solutions | Network Solutions, LLC is an American-based technology company and a subsidiary of Web.com, the 4th largest .com domain name registrar with over 6.7 million registrations as of August 2018. In addition to being a domain name registrar, Network Solutions provides web services such as web hosting, website design and onli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial%20division | Trial division is the most laborious but easiest to understand of the integer factorization algorithms. The essential idea behind trial division tests to see if an integer n, the integer to be factored, can be divided by each number in turn that is less than n. For example, for the integer , the only numbers that div... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20Programmer%27s%20Workshop | Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW) is a software development environment for the Classic Mac OS operating system, written by Apple Computer. For Macintosh developers, it was one of the primary tools for building applications for System 7.x and Mac OS 8.x and 9.x. Initially MPW was available for purchase as part of A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendral | Dendral was a project in artificial intelligence (AI) of the 1960s, and the computer software expert system that it produced. Its primary aim was to study hypothesis formation and discovery in science. For that, a specific task in science was chosen: help organic chemists in identifying unknown organic molecules, by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20%28abstract%20data%20type%29 | In computer science, a graph is an abstract data type that is meant to implement the undirected graph and directed graph concepts from the field of graph theory within mathematics.
A graph data structure consists of a finite (and possibly mutable) set of vertices (also called nodes or points), together with a set of u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Javier%20Zald%C3%BAa | Francisco Javier Martínez de Zaldúa y Racines was a Colombian, lawyer and politician, elected President of Colombia in 1882.
Biographic data
Zaldúa was born in Bogotá, Cundinamarca, on December 3, 1811. He died in the same city, in the Government Palace, on December 21, 1882. He was the first Colombian President to d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaclass | In object-oriented programming, a metaclass is a class whose instances are also classes. Just as an ordinary class defines the behavior of certain objects, a metaclass defines the behavior of certain classes and their instances. Not all object-oriented programming languages support metaclasses. Among those that do, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Grand%20%28roboticist%29 | Steve Grand OBE (born 12 February 1958) is a British computer scientist and roboticist. He was the creator and lead programmer of the Creatures artificial life simulation, which he discussed in his first book Creation: Life and How to Make It, a finalist for the 2001 Aventis Prize for Science Books. He is also an Offic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrez | The Entrez () Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a federated search engine, or web portal that allows users to search many discrete health sciences databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. The NCBI is a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is itself a dep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CML | CML may refer to:
Computing
Chemical Markup Language, a representation of chemistry using XML
Column Managed Lengths, a representation of data in columns
Concurrent Mapping and Localization, a technique for building and utilizing maps by autonomous robots
Concurrent ML, a high-level language for concurrent progr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick | The backtick is a typographical mark used mainly in computing. It is also known as backquote, grave, or grave accent.
The character was designed for typewriters to add a grave accent to a (lower-case) base letter, by overtyping it atop that letter. On early computer systems, however, this physical dead key+overtype f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioJava | BioJava is an open-source software project dedicated to provide Java tools to process biological data. BioJava is a set of library functions written in the programming language Java for manipulating sequences, protein structures, file parsers, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) interoperability, Distribu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Bioinformatics%20Foundation | The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics. The mission of the foundation is to support the development of open source toolkits for bioinformatics, organise developer-centric hackathon events and generally assist in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXGA | WXGA may refer to:
Wide Extended Graphics Array, a computer graphics display resolution
WXGA-TV, a television station in the U.S. state of Georgia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATASCII | The ATASCII character set, from ATARI Standard Code for Information Interchange, alternatively ATARI ASCII, is the variation on ASCII used in the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. The first of this family are the Atari 400 and 800, released in 1979, and later models were released throughout the 1980s. The last com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHWI-DT | CHWI-DT (channel 16) is a television station licensed to Wheatley, Ontario, Canada, broadcasting CTV 2 programming to the Windsor area. Owned and operated by Bell Media, the station has studios at the Bell Canada Building in downtown Windsor with a secondary office in Chatham; its transmitter is located on Zion Road (b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zendstation%20Smilde | Zendstation Smilde, also known as the CJ2 Data tower (Dutch: CJ2 Datatoren) is a tall partially guyed tower in Hoogersmilde, the Netherlands, built in 1959, for directional radio services and TV and FM-transmissions. The structure is similar to the Gerbrandy Tower (IJsselstein), and consists of an 80-metre (262') high ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealVNC | RealVNC is a company that provides remote access software. Their VNC Connect software consists of a server (VNC Server) and client (VNC Viewer) application, which exchange data over the RFB protocol to allow the Viewer to control the Server's screen remotely. The application is used, for example, by IT support engineer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%27%20Yellow%20Eyes%20Is%20Back | Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back is an album by Brent Spiner, best known for his role as Data in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, first released in June 1991. The title is a parodic reference both to Frank Sinatra's Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back and the Data character, whose eyes are golden yellow. On the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%20critique | The Lucas critique argues that it is naive to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historical data, especially highly aggregated historical data. More formally, it states that the decision rules of Keynesian models—such as the consumption function—... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20theorem%20%28analysis%20of%20algorithms%29 | In the analysis of algorithms, the master theorem for divide-and-conquer recurrences provides an asymptotic analysis (using Big O notation) for recurrence relations of types that occur in the analysis of many divide and conquer algorithms. The approach was first presented by Jon Bentley, Dorothea Blostein (née Haken), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandeis | Brandeis is a surname.
People
Antonietta Brandeis (1848–1926), Czech-born Italian painter
Brandeis Marshall, American data scientist
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Austrian artist and Holocaust victim
Irma Brandeis, American Dante scholar
Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Named for Louis Brandeis
Brandeis Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTL | GTL may refer to:
Organisations
GTL Ltd, an Indian network service provider
Georgia Tech Lorraine, a campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Metz, France
Glenvale Transport, an English bus company
Global Tel Link, an American telecommunications company
Groupe Tactique Lorraine, a French resistance force ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasumasa%20Kanada | was a Japanese computer scientist most known for his numerous world records over the past three decades for calculating digits of . He set the record 11 of the past 21 times.
Kanada was a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan until 2015.
From 2002 until 2009, Ka... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsilon%20Pi%20Epsilon | Upsilon Pi Epsilon (): International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, is the first honor society dedicated to the discipline of the computing and information disciplines. Informally known as UPE, Upsilon Pi Epsilon was founded on January 10, 1967 at Texas A&M University and has chartered ov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting%20network | In computer science, comparator networks are abstract devices built up of a fixed number of "wires", carrying values, and comparator modules that connect pairs of wires, swapping the values on the wires if they are not in a desired order. Such networks are typically designed to perform sorting on fixed numbers of value... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NECTEC | Thailand's National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) is a statutory government organization under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. Its main responsibilities are to undertake, support, and promote the develo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMG | TMG may refer to:
Computing
TMG (language)
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway
The Master Genealogist, software
Science and technology
Tensiomyography, for detecting muscle properties
Tetramethylguanidine, a superbase
Trimethylglycine, an amino acid derivative
Trimethylgallium, Ga(CH3)3
Touring m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean%20Disaster%20Emergency%20Management%20Agency | The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) is an inter-regional supportive network of independent emergency units throughout the Caribbean region. Formed on September 1, 2005, as the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA), it underwent a name change to CDEMA in September 2009.
Members
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHMI-DT | CHMI-DT (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, broadcasting the Citytv network to the Winnipeg area. Owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media, the station has studios at 8 Forks Market Road (near Fort Gibraltar Trail and Waterfront Drive) in downtown Winnipeg, and its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Kids%20%28TV%20programming%20block%29 | ABC Kids (originally titled Disney's One Saturday Morning until 2002) was an American Saturday morning children's programming block that aired on ABC from September 13, 1997 to August 27, 2011. It featured a mixture of animated and live-action series from Walt Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel, aimed at ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulink | Simulink is a MATLAB-based graphical programming environment for modeling, simulating and analyzing multidomain dynamical systems. Its primary interface is a graphical block diagramming tool and a customizable set of block libraries. It offers tight integration with the rest of the MATLAB environment and can either dri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathWorks | MathWorks is an American privately held corporation that specializes in mathematical computing software. Its major products include MATLAB and Simulink, which support data analysis and simulation.
History
The company's key product, MATLAB, was created in the 1970s by Cleve Moler, who was chairman of the computer scie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleve%20Moler | Cleve Barry Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He invented MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20cover | In graph theory, a vertex cover (sometimes node cover) of a graph is a set of vertices that includes at least one endpoint of every edge of the graph.
In computer science, the problem of finding a minimum vertex cover is a classical optimization problem. It is NP-hard, so it cannot be solved by a polynomial-time alg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Smith%20%28games%20programmer%29 | Matthew Smith (born 1966) is a British computer game programmer. He created the games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy for the ZX Spectrum, released in 1983 and 1984 respectively. Smith left the games industry in 1988 and later moved to the Netherlands. He has since returned to the UK and has worked on some games as well ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP-11 | POP-11 is a reflective, incrementally compiled programming language with many of the features of an interpreted language. It is the core language of the Poplog programming environment developed originally by the University of Sussex, and recently in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugs%20%28interpreter%29 | Hugs (Haskell User's Gofer System), also Hugs 98, is a bytecode interpreter for the functional programming language Haskell. Hugs is the successor to Gofer, and was originally derived from Gofer version 2.30b. Hugs and Gofer were originally developed by Mark P. Jones, now a professor at Portland State University.
Hugs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vista | Vista usually refers to a distant view.
Vista may also refer to:
Software
Windows Vista, the line of Microsoft Windows client operating systems released in 2006 and 2007
VistA, (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) a medical records system of the United States Department of Veterans Affair... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow%20Haskell%20Compiler | The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is a native or machine code compiler for the functional programming language Haskell. It provides a cross-platform software environment for writing and testing Haskell code and supports many extensions, libraries, and optimisations that streamline the process of generating and executi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc%20%28computer%20program%29 | dc (desk calculator) is a cross-platform reverse-Polish calculator which supports arbitrary-precision arithmetic. Written by Lorinda Cherry and Robert Morris at Bell Labs, it is one of the oldest Unix utilities, preceding even the invention of the C programming language. Like other utilities of that vintage, it has a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoon Network (formerly Teletoon) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts animated series aimed at children and teenagers.
It was launched on October 17, 1997, by Teletoon Canada, Inc., a consortium of Western International Communi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20patents | This is a list of software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent). Software patents cover a wide range of topics and there is therefore important debate about whether such subject-matter should be excluded from patent protection. How... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sat.1 | Sat.1 () is a German free-to-air television channel that is a part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group.
It is considered the first privately owned television network in Germany, having been launched in January 1984 as PKS (Programmgesellschaft für Kabel- und Satellitenrundfunk), initially a joint venture of various pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximation%20algorithm | In computer science and operations research, approximation algorithms are efficient algorithms that find approximate solutions to optimization problems (in particular NP-hard problems) with provable guarantees on the distance of the returned solution to the optimal one. Approximation algorithms naturally arise in the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitatory%20synapse | An excitatory synapse is a synapse in which an action potential in a presynaptic neuron increases the probability of an action potential occurring in a postsynaptic cell. Neurons form networks through which nerve impulses travels, each neuron often making numerous connections with other cells of neurons. These electri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeTap | An EyeTap is a concept for a wearable computing device that is worn in front of the eye that acts as a camera to record the scene available to the eye as well as a display to superimpose computer-generated imagery on the original scene available to the eye. This structure allows the user's eye to operate as both a moni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISCiPLE | The DISCiPLE is a floppy disk interface for the ZX Spectrum home computer. Designed by Miles Gordon Technology, it was marketed by Rockfort Products and launched in 1986.
Like Sinclair's own ZX Interface 1, the DISCiPLE was a wedge-shaped unit fitting underneath the Spectrum. It was designed as a super-interface, prov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2BD | The +D (or Plus D) was a floppy disk and printer interface for the ZX Spectrum home computer, developed as a successor to Miles Gordon Technology's earlier product, the DISCiPLE. It was designed to be smaller, cheaper, simpler and thus more reliable.
It discarded a number of the less important features of the earlier ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTech%20Laser%20200 | The VTech Laser 200 is an 8-bit home computer from 1983, also sold as the Salora Fellow (mainly in Fennoscandia, particularly Finland), the Seltron 200 in Hungary and Italy, the Smart-Alec Jr. by Dynasty Computer Corporation in Dallas, Texas for the USA, the Texet TX8000A (in the United Kingdom), and the Dick Smith VZ ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX%20Interface%201 | A peripheral from Sinclair Research for its ZX Spectrum home computer, the ZX Interface 1 was launched in 1983. Originally intended as a local area network interface for use in school classrooms, it was revised before launch to also act as the controller for up to eight ZX Microdrive high-speed tape-loop cartridge driv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stooge%20sort | Stooge sort is a recursive sorting algorithm. It is notable for its exceptionally bad time complexity of =
The running time of the algorithm is thus slower compared to reasonable sorting algorithms, and is slower than bubble sort, a canonical example of a fairly inefficient sort. It is however more efficient than Slo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20Classic | Mac Classic may refer to:
Macintosh Classic, a model of Macintosh computer
Classic Environment, a compatibility layer for Mac OS 9 included in Mac OS X
Classic Mac OS, versions of Mac OS before Mac OS X |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraway%20Hill | Faraway Hill was the first soap opera broadcast on an American television network, airing on the DuMont Television Network on Wednesday nights at 9:00 PM between October 2 and December 18, 1946. A Variety article stated the Caples advertising agency bought time on DuMont for "experimentation purposes," and had "walked ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour%20Glass%20%28TV%20series%29 | Hour Glass is the first regularly scheduled variety show shown on American network television. The Encyclopedia of Television noted that the program "is historically important because it exemplified the issues faced by networks, sponsors, and advertising agencies in television's formative years."
Distribution
Hour Gla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne%20Vixen | The Osborne Vixen is a "luggable" portable computer announced by the Osborne Computer Corporation in November 1984, as a follow-up to their Osborne 1 and Osborne Executive system.
The Vixen has a 4 MHz Zilog Z80 microprocessor with 64 KB dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and 4 KB EPROM. It has a 7-inch diagonal amb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSGS | The initialism BSGS has two meanings, both related to group theory in mathematics:
Baby-step giant-step, an algorithm for solving the discrete logarithm problem
The combination of a base and strong generating set (SGS) for a permutation group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby-step%20giant-step | In group theory, a branch of mathematics, the baby-step giant-step is a meet-in-the-middle algorithm for computing the discrete logarithm or order of an element in a finite abelian group by Daniel Shanks. The discrete log problem is of fundamental importance to the area of public key cryptography.
Many of the most com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAL | OpenAL (Open Audio Library) is a cross-platform audio application programming interface (API). It is designed for efficient rendering of multichannel three-dimensional positional audio. Its API style and conventions deliberately resemble those of OpenGL. OpenAL is an environmental 3D audio library, which can add realis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20reduction | In computer science, graph reduction implements an efficient version of non-strict evaluation, an evaluation strategy where the arguments to a function are not immediately evaluated. This form of non-strict evaluation is also known as lazy evaluation and used in functional programming languages. The technique was first... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20Act%201947 | The Transport Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 49) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Under the terms of the Act, the railway network, long-distance road haulage and various other types of transport were nationalised and came under the administration of the British Transport Commission. The BTC was respons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter | A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text, mathematical expressions or other data streams. An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values. Another example ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime7 | Prime7, formerly Prime Television and other names, was an Australian television network. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN-8 in Orange, and later expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory. It was initially an independent affiliate owned by Prime Media Grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered%20Carbon | Altered Carbon is a 2002 cyberpunk novel by the English writer Richard K. Morgan. Set in a future in which interstellar travel and relative immortality is facilitated by transferring consciousnesses between bodies ("sleeves"), it follows the attempt of Takeshi Kovacs, a former U.N. elite soldier turned private investig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Al%20Franken%20Show | The Al Franken Show was the flagship talk show of the former talk radio network, Air America Radio. Hosted by Al Franken, it featured commentary and interviews arguing for liberal positions on the issues of the day, and comically poking fun at the George W. Bush Administration. Franken had been a comedian, satirist, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20control | Digital control is a branch of control theory that uses digital computers to act as system controllers.
Depending on the requirements, a digital control system can take the form of a microcontroller to an ASIC to a standard desktop computer.
Since a digital computer is a discrete system, the Laplace transform is replac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20system | In theoretical computer science, a discrete system is a system with a countable number of states. Discrete systems may be contrasted with continuous systems, which may also be called analog systems. A final discrete system is often modeled with a directed graph and is analyzed for correctness and complexity according ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floptical | Floptical refers to a type of floppy disk drive that combines magnetic and optical technologies to store data on media similar to standard -inch floppy disks. The name is a portmanteau of the words "floppy" and "optical". It refers specifically to one brand of drive and disk system, but is also used more generically to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nslookup | nslookup (from "name server lookup") is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) to obtain the mapping between domain name and IP address, or other DNS records.
Overview
nslookup was a member of the BIND name server software. Early in the development of BIND 9, the Internet ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Khachiyan | Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan (; ; May 3, 1952April 29, 2005) was a Soviet and American mathematician and computer scientist.
He was most famous for his ellipsoid algorithm (1979) for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this algorithm was shown to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20method | In mathematics, the symbolic method in invariant theory is an algorithm developed by Arthur Cayley, Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold, Alfred Clebsch, and Paul Gordan in the 19th century for computing invariants of algebraic forms. It is based on treating the form as if it were a power of a degree one form, which correspond... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beos | Beos may refer to:
BeOS, an operating system
Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature Profiling
Beos Station, rail station in Indonesia
See also
BEO (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Twentieth%20Century | The Twentieth Century was a documentary television program that ran on the CBS network from 1957 until 1966. The series produced 112 historical compilation films and 107 "originally photographed documentaries" or contemporary documentaries, each running a half-hour. Productions were narrated by Walter Cronkite and dre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookahead | Lookahead or Look Ahead may refer to:
A parameter of some combinatorial search algorithms, describing how deeply the graph representing the problem is explored
A parameter of some parsing algorithms; the maximum number of tokens that a parser can use to decide which rule to use
In dynamic range compression, a signa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%201130 | The IBM 1130 Computing System, introduced in 1965, was IBM's least expensive computer at that time. A binary 16-bit machine, it was marketed to price-sensitive, computing-intensive technical markets, like education and engineering, succeeding the decimal IBM 1620 in that market segment. Typical installations included a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%201800%20Data%20Acquisition%20and%20Control%20System | The IBM 1800 Data Acquisition and Control System (DACS) was a process control variant of the IBM 1130 with two extra instructions (CMP and DCM), extra I/O capabilities, 'selector channel like' cycle-stealing capability and three hardware index registers.
IBM announced and introduced the 1800 Data Acquisition and Contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distcc | In software development, distcc is a tool for speeding up compilation of source code by using distributed computing over a computer network. With the right configuration, distcc can dramatically reduce a project's compilation time.
It is designed to work with the C programming language (and its derivatives like C++ an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSN | CSN may refer to:
Companies
CSN Stores, former name of Wayfair, American e-commerce company
CSN International (Christian Satellite Network), religious radio broadcaster based on radio station KAWZ in Twin Falls, Idaho
Centrala Studiestödsnämnden, Swedish national student loans and grants authority
Columbus Sports... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Public%20Broadcasting | Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary television and radio public broadcasting network for most of the U.S. state of Oregon as well as southern Washington. OPB consists of five full-power television stations, dozens of VHF or UHF translators, and over 20 radio stations and frequencies. Broadcasts include loca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piconet | A piconet is an ad hoc network that links a wireless user group of devices using Bluetooth technology protocols. A piconet consists of two or more devices occupying the same physical channel (synchronized to a common clock and hopping sequence). It allows one master device to interconnect with up to seven active slave ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatternet | A scatternet is a type of ad hoc computer network consisting of two or more piconets. The terms "scatternet" and "piconet" are typically applied to Bluetooth wireless technology.
Description
A piconet is the type of connection that is formed between two or more Bluetooth-enabled devices such as modern cell phones. Blu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMT | NMT may refer to:
Science and technology
Nordic Mobile Telephone, an analogue mobile phone system
Neurologic Music Therapy
Neural machine translation
Network management protocols, in the CANopen communication protocol
3-hydroxy-16-methoxy-2,3-dihydrotabersonine N-methyltransferase, an enzyme
N-Methyltryptamine, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20link%20connection%20identifier | A data link connection identifier (DLCI) is a Frame Relay 10-bit-wide link-local virtual circuit identifier used to assign frames to a specific PVC or SVC. Frame Relay networks use DLCIs to statistically multiplex frames. DLCIs are preloaded into each switch and act as road signs to the traveling frames.
The standard ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDC | TDC may refer to:
Organisations
Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Taiwan Design Center, an art organization based in Taipei, Taiwan
TDC A/S, a Danish telecommunications company
Teradata Corporation (U.S. ticker symbol)
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, formerly the Texas Department of Corrections
Type Dire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Norvig | Peter Norvig (born December 14, 1956) is an American computer scientist and Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He previously served as a director of research and search quality at Google. Norvig is the co-author with Stuart J. Russell of the most popular textbook in the fiel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%3A%20A%20Modern%20Approach | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (AIMA) is a university textbook on artificial intelligence, written by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig. It was first published in 1995 and the fourth edition of the book was released on 28 April 2020. It is used in over 1400 universities worldwide and has been called "the m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20J.%20Russell | Stuart Jonathan Russell (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1worldspace | 1worldspace, known for most of its existence simply as WorldSpace, is a defunct satellite radio network that in its heyday provided service to over 170,000 subscribers in eastern, southern and northern Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia with 96% coming from India. It was profitable in India, with 450,000 subscri... |
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