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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomega
Iomega (later LenovoEMC) produced external, portable, and networked data storage products. Established in the 1980s in Roy, Utah, United States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system. Formerly a public company, it was acquired by EMC Corporation i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20verification
File verification is the process of using an algorithm for verifying the integrity of a computer file, usually by checksum. This can be done by comparing two files bit-by-bit, but requires two copies of the same file, and may miss systematic corruptions which might occur to both files. A more popular approach is to gen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20Gear%20Solid%202%3A%20Sons%20of%20Liberty
is a 2001 action-adventure stealth video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. Originally released on November 13, 2001, it is the fourth Metal Gear game produced by Hideo Kojima, the seventh overall game in the series and is a sequel to Metal Gear Solid (1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-Assisted%20Passenger%20Prescreening%20System
The Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (often abbreviated CAPPS) is a counter-terrorism system in place in the United States air travel industry. The United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) maintains a watchlist, pursuant to 49 USC § 114 (h)(2), of "individuals known to pose, or suspecte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20binary
A fat binary (or multiarchitecture binary) is a computer executable program or library which has been expanded (or "fattened") with code native to multiple instruction sets which can consequently be run on multiple processor types. This results in a file larger than a normal one-architecture binary file, thus the name....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice-county
A vice-county (vice county or biological vice-county) is a geographical division of the British Isles used for the purposes of biological recording and other scientific data-gathering. It is sometimes called a Watsonian vice-county as vice-counties were introduced for Great Britain, its offshore islands, and the Isle o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20Daybreak
Xerox Daybreak (also Xerox 6085 PCS, Xerox 1186) is a workstation computer marketed by Xerox from 1985 to 1989. Overview Daybreak is the final release in the D* (pronounced D-Star) series of machines, some of which share the Wildflower CPU design by Butler Lampson. Machines in this series include, in order, Dolphin, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Data%20Storage
Digital Data Storage (DDS) is a computer data storage technology that is based upon the Digital Audio Tape (DAT) format that was developed during the 1980s. DDS is primarily intended for use as off-line storage, especially for generating backup copies of working data. Design A DDS cartridge uses tape with a width of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Ohio
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Ohio, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations 1 Operating under a "Shared Time" agreement on the same frequency. Defunct KDPM Cleveland (1921–1927) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20collectible%20card%20games
This is a list of known collectible card games. Unless otherwise noted, all dates listed are the North American release date. This contains games backed by physical cards; computer game equivalents are generally called digital collectible card games and are catalogued at List of digital collectible card games. List ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20tree
The fat tree network is a universal network for provably efficient communication. It was invented by Charles E. Leiserson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. k-ary n-trees, the type of fat-trees commonly used in most high-performance networks, were initially formalized in 1997. In a tree data structu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%20system
Interstate system may refer to: A system for international relations Interstate Highway System, a network of controlled-access highways in the United States Interstate system (world-systems theory), a specific theory of state relationships within world-systems theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20radio%20programs
This is an incomplete list that is biased toward current and popular programming. 0-9 The 180 2 minutes du peuple 3 Guys on the Radio A À Propos Adler on Line Afghanada After Hours And Sometimes Y The Arts Tonight As It Happens B Backbencher (2010-2011) Backstage with Ben Heppner Bandwidth Basic Black ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden-line%20removal
In 3D computer graphics, solid objects are usually modeled by polyhedra. A face of a polyhedron is a planar polygon bounded by straight line segments, called edges. Curved surfaces are usually approximated by a polygon mesh. Computer programs for line drawings of opaque objects must be able to decide which edges or wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Brodie%20%28programmer%29
Richard Reeves Brodie (born November 10, 1959) is an American computer programmer and author. He wrote the first version of Microsoft Word. After leaving Microsoft, he became a motivational speaker and authored two books. Biography Early life Brodie was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the elder son of Mary Ann Brodie ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali (born 23 August 1954) is a computer scientist originally from Nigeria. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for price-performance in high-performance computing applications, in an oil reservoir modeling calculation using a novel mathematical formulation and implementation. He is known for making controver...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info
Info is shorthand for "information". It may also refer to: Computing .info, a generic top-level domain info:, a URI scheme for information assets with identifiers in public namespaces info (Unix), a command used to view documentation produced by GNU Texinfo Info.com, a search engine aggregator , the filename exte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PQ%20tree
A PQ tree is a tree-based data structure that represents a family of permutations on a set of elements, discovered and named by Kellogg S. Booth and George S. Lueker in 1976. It is a rooted, labeled tree, in which each element is represented by one of the leaf nodes, and each non-leaf node is labelled P or Q. A P node ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20traversal
In computer science, tree traversal (also known as tree search and walking the tree) is a form of graph traversal and refers to the process of visiting (e.g. retrieving, updating, or deleting) each node in a tree data structure, exactly once. Such traversals are classified by the order in which the nodes are visited. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDP
TDP or tdp may refer to: Computing Thermal design power, a value describing the thermal limits of a computer system Transparent Distributed Processing, network distributed architecture in the QNX operating system Politics Telugu Desam Party, a regional political party in the South Indian states of Telangana and And...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popstars%20Live
Popstars Live was an Australian music talent show television program similar to Australian Idol that aired on the Seven Network in early 2004. It was an evolution of the original Popstars TV show which aired between 2000 and 2002 on Seven. The show spawned a single and album that made the ARIA charts in April that year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCSE%20%28disambiguation%29
GCSE is the initialism of General Certificate of Secondary Education. GCSE can also refer to: Global common subexpression elimination, an optimization technique used by some compilers. "Ghetto Children Sex Education", a single released by UK hip-hop artist Blak Twang. Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join%20%28Unix%29
join is a command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems that merges the lines of two sorted text files based on the presence of a common field. It is similar to the join operator used in relational databases but operating on text files. Overview The join command takes as input two text files and a number of options....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIBOL
DIBOL or Digital's Business Oriented Language is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that was designed for use in Management Information Systems (MIS) software development. It was developed from 1970 to 1993. DIBOL has a syntax similar to FORTRAN and BASIC, along with BCD arithmetic. It shar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGENTA
In cryptography, MAGENTA is a symmetric key block cipher developed by Michael Jacobson Jr. and Klaus Huber for Deutsche Telekom. The name MAGENTA is an acronym for Multifunctional Algorithm for General-purpose Encryption and Network Telecommunication Applications. (The color magenta is also part of the corporate identi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX%20System%20V
Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and first released in 1983. Four major versions of System V were released, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. System V Release 4 (SVR4) was commercially the most successful version, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20file%20system
Network file system may refer to: A distributed file system, which is accessed over a computer network Network File System (protocol), a specific brand of distributed file system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Bethke
Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author best known for his 1983 short story "Cyberpunk" which led to the widespread use of the term for the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. His novel, Headcrash, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1995 for SF original paperback published in the US. Bethke's collected thoughts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings%203D
Wings 3D is a free and open-source subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. Wings 3D is named after the winged-edge data structure it uses internally to store coordinate and adjacency data, and is commonly referred to by its users simply as Wings. Wings 3D is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMR%20%28cryptography%29
In cryptography, GMR is a digital signature algorithm named after its inventors Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali and Ron Rivest. As with RSA the security of the system is related to the difficulty of factoring very large numbers. But, in contrast to RSA, GMR is secure against adaptive chosen-message attacks, which is t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Liggio
Leonard P. Liggio (July 5, 1933 – October 14, 2014) was a classical liberal author, research professor of law at George Mason University and executive vice president of the Atlas Network in Fairfax, Virginia. Career In 1965, Liggio gave lectures with Russell Stetler on "Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism: The Ideologic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Museum
The Black Museum is a radio crime-drama program produced by Harry Alan Towers, which was broadcast in the USA on the Mutual network in 1952. It was then broadcast in Europe in 1953 on Radio Luxembourg, a commercial radio station, and was not broadcast by the BBC until 1991. Towers was based in London, but this series...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Scrambling%20Algorithm
The Common Scrambling Algorithm (CSA) is the encryption algorithm used in the DVB digital television broadcasting for encrypting video streams. CSA was specified by ETSI and adopted by the DVB consortium in May 1994. It is being succeeded by CSA3, based on a combination of 128-bit AES and a confidential block cipher, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-time%20type%20information
In computer programming, run-time type information or run-time type identification (RTTI) is a feature of some programming languages (such as C++, Object Pascal, and Ada) that exposes information about an object's data type at runtime. Run-time type information may be available for all types or only to types that expli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTTE
WTTE (channel 28) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network TBD. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of ABC/MyNetworkTV/Fox affiliate WSYX (channel 6), for the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTN
RTN may refer to: Racetrack Television Network, North America Random telegraph noise Recursive transition network Register transfer notation for synchronous digital circuits Reticular thalamic nucleus Retro Television Network, US Routing Transit Number in US banking system Rowan Television Network Royal Thai N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF417
PDF417 is a stacked linear barcode format used in a variety of applications such as transport, identification cards, and inventory management. "PDF" stands for Portable Data File. The "417" signifies that each pattern in the code consists of 4 bars and spaces in a pattern that is 17 units (modules) long. The PDF417 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM%20image
A ROM image, or ROM file, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, or used to contain a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board. The term is frequently used in the context of emulation, whereby older games or firmware are copi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair-share%20scheduling
Fair-share scheduling is a scheduling algorithm for computer operating systems in which the CPU usage is equally distributed among system users or groups, as opposed to equal distribution of resources among processes. One common method of logically implementing the fair-share scheduling strategy is to recursively appl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer%20bias
Observer bias is one of the types of detection bias and is defined as any kind of systematic divergence from accurate facts during observation and the recording of data and information in studies. The definition can be further expanded upon to include the systematic difference between what is observed due to variation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPN
IPN may refer to: Payments Instant payment notification Chemistry Interpenetrating polymer network, form of chemical copolymer Isopropyl nitrate, a liquid monopropellant Industry IPN, a type of I-beam used on European standards Outer space Interplanetary Internet InterPlaNet InterPlanetary Network, a group o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprawl%20trilogy
The Sprawl trilogy (also known as the Neuromancer, Cyberspace, or Matrix trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novels, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). The novels are all set in the same fictional future, and are subtly interlinked by shared characters and themes (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKVU-DT
CKVU-DT (channel 10) is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the Citytv network. It is owned and operated by network parent Rogers Sports & Media alongside Omni Television station CHNM-DT (channel 42). Both stations share studios at the corner of West 2nd Av...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20segment%20size
The maximum segment size (MSS) is a parameter of the Options field of the TCP header that specifies the largest amount of data, specified in bytes, that a computer or communications device can receive in a single TCP segment. It does not count the TCP header or the IP header (unlike, for example, the MTU for IP datagr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20Nardi
Bonnie A. Nardi is an emeritus professor of the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where she led the TechDec research lab in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. She is well known for her work on activity theory, interaction design, games, soci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/32
The IBM System/32 (IBM 5320) introduced in January 1975 was a midrange computer with built-in display screen, disk drives, printer, and database report software. It was used primarily by small to midsize businesses for accounting applications. RPG II was the primary programming language for the machine. Overview The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision%20arithmetic
In computer science, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, also called bignum arithmetic, multiple-precision arithmetic, or sometimes infinite-precision arithmetic, indicates that calculations are performed on numbers whose digits of precision are limited only by the available memory of the host system. This contrasts with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis%20PbeM
Atlantis is a free open-ended multi-player computer moderated fantasy turn-based strategy game for any number of players. It is played via email. The game world is populated by many races and monsters. Players may attempt to carve out huge empires, become master magicians, intrepid explorers, rich traders or any other ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display%20resolution
The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube (CRT) displays, flat-pan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20security%20policy
A network security policy (NSP) is a generic document that outlines rules for computer network access, determines how policies are enforced and lays out some of the basic architecture of the company security/ network security environment. The document itself is usually several pages long and written by a committee. A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazu%20District
was a district located in southeastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003 (the last data available), the district had an estimated population of 58,921 with a density of 696.88 persons per km2. Its total area was . Municipalities Prior to its dissolution, the district consisted of three towns: Hazu Isshiki Kira ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikamo%20District
was a district located in Nishimikawa Region in central Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2004 (the last data available), the district had an estimated population of 16,703 with a density of 43.84 persons per km2. Its total area was 381.06 km2. Towns and villages Prior to its dissolution, the district consisted of only ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashikamo%20District
was a district located in Nishimikawa Region in central Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The entire district is now part of the city of Toyota. As of 2004 (the last data available), the district had an estimated population of 16,703 with a density of 43.84 persons per km2. Its total area was 381.06 km2. Municipalities Prior...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamishitara%20District
was a district located in eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2004 (the last data available), the district had an estimated population of 16,703 with a density of 43.84 persons per km2. Its total area was 381.06 km2. Municipalities Prior to its dissolution, the district consisted of only one town and one village: ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi%20District
was a district located in eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2008 (the last data available), the district had an estimated population of 21,766 with a density of 2,194 persons per km2. Its total area was 9.92 km2. Municipalities Prior to its dissolution, the district consisted of only one town: Kozakai Notes ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihara%20District%2C%20Shizuoka
was a rural district located in central Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of the end of 2008 (the last data available before its dissolution), the district had an estimated population of 26,859 and a population density of 497.85 persons per km2. Its total area was 53.95 km2. History Ihara District was created in the ear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shida%20District%2C%20Shizuoka
was a rural district located in central Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of the end of 2008 (the last data available before its dissolution), the district had an estimated population of 12,110 and a population density of . Its total area was . History Shida District was created in the early Meiji cadastral reforms of 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogasa%20District%2C%20Shizuoka
was a rural district located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of the end of 2003 (the last data available before its dissolution), the district had an estimated population of 82,248 and a population density of 472.47 persons per km2. Its total area was 174.08 km2. History Ogasa District was created on April ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inasa%20District%2C%20Shizuoka
was a rural district located in western Shizuoka, Japan. As of the end of 2003 (the last data available before its dissolution), the district had an estimated population of 52,485 and a population density of 227.20 persons per km2. Its total area was 231.01 km2. History Inasa District was created in the early Meiji c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%20Systems%20Research%20Center
The Systems Research Center (SRC) was a research laboratory created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1984, in Palo Alto, California. DEC SRC was founded by a group of computer scientists, led by Robert Taylor, who left the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) of Xerox PARC after an internal power struggle. SRC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20statistics%20for%20Israeli%20settlements%20in%20the%20West%20Bank
The population statistics for Israeli settlements in the West Bank are collected by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. As such, the data contains only population of settlements recognized by the Israeli authorities. Israeli outposts, which are illegal by Israeli law, are not tracked, and their population is hard ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop%20theft
Laptop theft is a significant threat to users of laptop and netbook computers. Many methods to protect the data and to prevent theft have been developed, including alarms, laptop locks, and visual deterrents such as stickers or labels. Victims of laptop theft can lose hardware, software, and essential data that has not...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreadMarks
TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory system created at Rice University in the 1990s. References External links TreadMarks official site Distributed computing architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hereditary%20and%20lineage%20organizations
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America. It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom-up
Bottom-up may refer to: Bottom-up analysis, a fundamental analysis technique in accounting and finance Bottom-up parsing, a computer science strategy Bottom-up processing, in Pattern recognition (psychology) Bottom-up theories of galaxy formation and evolution Bottom-up tree automaton, in data structures Bottom-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%20filter
A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970, that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not – in other words, a query returns either "possibly in set" or "definitely not in set"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McAfee
John David McAfee ( ; 18 September 1945 – 23 June 2021) was a British-American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time presidential candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and in 2020. In 1987, he wrote the first commercial anti-virus softwa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial%20recognition%20system
A facial recognition system is a technology potentially capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces. Such a system is typically employed to authenticate users through ID verification services, and works by pinpointing and measuring facial features from a given imag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI%208080
The IMSAI 8080 was an early microcomputer released in late 1975, based on the Intel 8080 and later 8085 and S-100 bus. It was a clone of its main competitor, the earlier MITS Altair 8800. The IMSAI is largely regarded as the first "clone" microcomputer. The IMSAI machine ran a highly modified version of the CP/M operat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%20Railways
Israel Railways Ltd. (, Rakevet Yisra'el) is the state-owned principal railway company responsible for all inter-city, commuter, and freight rail transport in Israel. Israel Railways network consists of of track. All its lines are standard gauge. The network is centered in Israel's densely populated coastal plain, fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obliq
Obliq is an interpreted, object-oriented programming language designed to make distributed, and locally multithreaded, computing simpler and easier to program, while providing program safety and an implicit type system. The interpreter is written in Modula-3, and provides Obliq with full access to Modula-3's network ob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20safety
In computer science, type safety and type soundness are the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors. Type safety is sometimes alternatively considered to be a property of facilities of a computer language; that is, some facilities are type-safe and their usage will not result in type ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameSurge
GameSurge is a popular Internet Relay Chat network devoted to the online multiplayer gaming community. Games commonly seen referenced on GameSurge include many first person shooters (such as Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress Classic, Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat, Call of Duty, and Battlefield 2) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOIL%20%28programming%20language%29
FOIL was the name for two different programming languages. CAI style language The first FOIL was a CAI language developed at the University of Michigan in 1967. The acronym stood for File-Oriented Interpretive Language and it was very similar to other CAI languages like COURSEWRITER and PILOT. However, it tried to mak...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia%201
Italia 1 (Italian pronunciation ) is an Italian free-to-air television channel on the Mediaset network, owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It is oriented at both young and adult people. Italia 1 was launched on 3 January 1982 and, originally, was owned by Rusconi; after a few months, however, due to the aggressive dumping...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFMT-DT
CFMT-DT (channel 47) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two flagship stations of the Canadian multilingual network Omni Television. CFMT-DT is owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media alongside sister Omni outlet CJMT-DT (channel 40) and Citytv flagship CITY-DT (channel 57). The statio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJMT-DT
CJMT-DT (channel 40) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two flagship stations of the Canadian multilingual network Omni Television. CJMT-DT is owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media alongside sister Omni outlet CFMT-DT (channel 47) and Citytv flagship CITY-DT (channel 57). The statio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MERLIN
The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) is an interferometer array of radio telescopes spread across England. The array is run from Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire by the University of Manchester on behalf of Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The array consists of up to seve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Music
CBC Music (formerly known as CBC FM, CBC Stereo and CBC Radio 2) is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It used to concentrate on classical and jazz. In 2007 and 2008, the network transitioned towards a new "adult music" format with a variety of genres, with the classical genr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameterized%20complexity
In computer science, parameterized complexity is a branch of computational complexity theory that focuses on classifying computational problems according to their inherent difficulty with respect to multiple parameters of the input or output. The complexity of a problem is then measured as a function of those parameter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi%20%28instant%20messaging%20client%29
Psi is a free instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol (including such services as Google Talk) which uses the Qt toolkit. It runs on Linux (and other Unix-like operating systems), Windows, macOS and OS/2 (including eComStation and ArcaOS). User interface of program is very flexible in customization. For example...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Gelernter
David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an American computer scientist, artist, and writer. He is a professor of computer science at Yale University. Gelernter is known for contributions to parallel computation in the 1980s, and for books on topics such as computed worlds (Mirror Worlds). Gelernter is also know...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20Domain%20Environment%20for%20Operating%20Systems
Adeos (Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems) is a nanokernel hardware abstraction layer (HAL), or hypervisor, that operates between computer hardware and the operating system (OS) that runs on it. It is distinct from other nanokernels in that it is not only a low level layer for an outer kernel. Instead, i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Protection%20Act%201998
The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA, c. 29) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom designed to protect personal data stored on computers or in an organised paper filing system. It enacted provisions from the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive 1995 on the protection, processing, and movement of data. U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logger
Logger may refer to: Lumberjack, a woodcutter, a person who harvests lumber Data logger, software that records sequential data to a log file Keystroke logger, software that records the keys struck on a computer keyboard logger, a command line utility that can send messages to the syslog See also Logbook Logging...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegation%20%28object-oriented%20programming%29
In object-oriented programming, delegation refers to evaluating a member (property or method) of one object (the receiver) in the context of another original object (the sender). Delegation can be done explicitly, by passing the sending object to the receiving object, which can be done in any object-oriented language; ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Wisconsin
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct WAWA WCCX WDLB-FM WEBC-FM WFMR WGBP-FM WGLR WOKW WRNC-LP WRZC-LP WXXD-LP WZRK ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCY%20America
VCY America, is a traditional, evangelical, conservative Christian ministry based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The VCY America Radio Network maintains a format of Christian talk and teaching, as well as traditional Christian music through its broadcast outlets. History Originally known as "Milwaukee Youth For Christ", and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20systems%20analysis%20and%20design%20method
Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM) is a systems approach to the analysis and design of information systems. SSADM was produced for the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, a UK government office concerned with the use of technology in government, from 1980 onwards. Overview SSADM is a wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluejacking
Bluejacking is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers, sending a vCard which typically contains a message in the name field (i.e., for bluedating) to another Bluetooth-enabled device via the OBEX protocol. Bluetooth has a very...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan
OS-tan is an Internet meme consisting of moe anthropomorphs of popular operating systems, originating on the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel. The designs of OS-tan, which were created by various amateur Japanese artists, are typically female; for example, the personifications of Microsoft Windows operating systems a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crepes%20of%20Wrath
"The Crepes of Wrath" is the eleventh episode of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 15, 1990. It was written by George Meyer, Sam Simon, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti, and directed by Wes Archer and Milton Gray. Bart is sent to F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside independent WSBK-TV (channel 38). Both stations share studios on Soldiers Field Road in the Allston–Brighton section ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOR
WOR or wor may refer to: Wake-on-ring, in computer network terminology Water-to-oil ratio, in oil drilling WEPN-FM, a radio station (98.7 FM) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WOR-FM from 1948 to October 1972 Wired OR, in Verilog semantics Wor, a traditional song and dance ge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20Another%20Completely%20Heuristic%20Operating%20System
Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System, or Nachos, is instructional software for teaching undergraduate, and potentially graduate level operating systems courses. It was developed at the University of California, Berkeley, designed by Thomas Anderson, and is used by numerous schools around the world. Origi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMWIN
The Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) is a system for distributing a live stream of weather information in the United States. The backbone of the system is operated via satellite by the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), but data are transmitted over radio repeaters by the NWS, citizens, and oth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side%20rule
A computer programming language is said to adhere to the off-side rule of syntax if blocks in that language are expressed by their indentation. The term was coined by Peter Landin, possibly as a pun on the offside rule in association football. This is contrasted with free-form languages, notably curly-bracket programmi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation%20%28typesetting%29
In the written form of many languages, an indentation or indent is an empty space at the beginning of a line to signal the start of a new paragraph. Many computer languages have adopted this technique to designate "paragraphs" or other logical blocks in the program. For example, the following lines are indented, usin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira%20%281988%20film%29
is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name. Set in a dystopian 2019, it tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, the leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%2C%20Dear%20Data
"Elementary, Dear Data" is the third episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 29th episode overall. It was written by Brian Alan Lane and directed by Rob Bowman. It was originally released on December 5, 1988, in broadcast syndication. Set in th...