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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Heath%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael Thomas Heath (born December 11, 1946) is a retired computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing. He is the director of the Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, a Department of Energy-sponsored computing center at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and the former Fulton Watso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimized%20Link%20State%20Routing%20Protocol | The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) is an IP routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks, which can also be used on other wireless ad hoc networks. OLSR is a proactive link-state routing protocol, which uses hello and topology control (TC) messages to discover and then disseminate link state inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided%20differences | In mathematics, divided differences is an algorithm, historically used for computing tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions. Charles Babbage's difference engine, an early mechanical calculator, was designed to use this algorithm in its operation.
Divided differences is a recursive division process. Given a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX%2C%20Inc. | DivX, Inc. (; now DivX, LLC and also formerly known as DivXNetworks, Inc.) is a privately held video technology company based in San Diego, California. DivX, LLC is best known as a producer of three codecs: an MPEG-4 Part 2-based codec, the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC DivX Plus codec and the High Efficiency Video Coding DivX HEVC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation%201 | The SPARCstation 1 (Sun 4/60, code-named Campus) is the first of the SPARCstation series of SPARC-based computer workstations sold by Sun Microsystems. The design originated in 1987 by a Sun spin-off company, Unisun, which was soon re-acquired. The SPARCstation 1 has a distinctive slim enclosure (a square 3-inch-high "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALT%20Linux | ALT Linux is a set of Russian operating systems based on RPM Package Manager (RPM) and built on a Linux kernel and Sisyphus package repository. ALT Linux has been developed collectively by ALT Linux Team developers community and ALT Linux Ltd.
History
ALT Linux Team arose from the merger of IPLabs Linux Team and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Spafford | Eugene Howard Spafford (born 1956), known as Spaf, is an American professor of computer science at Purdue University and a computer security expert.
Spafford serves as an advisor to U.S. government agencies and corporations. In 1998, he founded and was the first director of the Center for Education and Research in Inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20President%20Wore%20Pearls | "The President Wore Pearls" is the third episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 16, 2003. The episode was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Music (by Alf Clausen) And Lyrics (by Dana Gould). The epis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20loss | Information loss may refer to:
Data loss in information systems
lossy compression
Digital obsolescence
Black hole information paradox in theoretical physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20the%20Heretic | "Homer the Heretic" is the third episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 8, 1992. In the episode, Homer decides to forgo going to church and has an excellent time staying home. His behavior quickly attra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroman | Zeroman is a Canadian animated television series produced by Amberwood Entertainment that aired on the Canadian cartoon network Teletoon (in English) and on Télétoon (in French). It tells the adventures of incompetent sixty-three-year-old postman Les Mutton (voiced by Leslie Nielsen) who also happens to be the superher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20North%20Lancashire%20%26%20Cumbria | Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria (formerly The Bay) was an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to north Lancashire and south Cumbria from studios in Lancaster.
History
The Bay
The station's original name, The Bay, derived from the sand banks of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNI%20Global%20Union | UNI Global Union, formerly Union Network International (UNI), is a global union federation for the skills and services sectors, gathering national and regional trade union. It has affiliated unions in 150 countries representing 20 million workers. The head office is in Nyon, Switzerland. UNI Global Union ratified over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem-and-leaf%20display | A stem-and-leaf display or stem-and-leaf plot is a device for presenting quantitative data in a graphical format, similar to a histogram, to assist in visualizing the shape of a distribution. They evolved from Arthur Bowley's work in the early 1900s, and are useful tools in exploratory data analysis. Stemplots became ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRM | SRM may refer to:
Organizations
Schoberer Rad Meßtechnik, a manufacturer of bicycle accessories
SRM University (disambiguation), several universities in India
In computing
srm (Unix), a secure file deletion tool for POSIX systems
Scalable Reliable Multicast, a framework for reliable multicast network protocols
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayparting | In broadcast programming, dayparting is the practice of dividing the broadcast day into several parts, in which a different type of radio programming or television show appropriate for that time period is aired. Television programs are most often geared toward a particular demography, and what the target audience typic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge%20qubit | In quantum computing, a charge qubit (also known as Cooper-pair box) is a qubit whose basis states are charge states (i.e. states which represent the presence or absence of excess Cooper pairs in the island). In superconducting quantum computing, a charge qubit is formed by a tiny superconducting island coupled by a Jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper%20%28computing%29 | A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device. On a computer, wallpapers are generally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicktoons%20Film%20Festival | The Nicktoons Film Festival (also known as the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival) was an annual event that was created by producer Fred Seibert and produced for its first three years by his Frederator Studios.
The festival featured a selection of animated shorts (10 minutes and under) from around the world. Shorts ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberduck | Cyberduck is an open-source client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage (OpenStack Swift, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2 and Microsoft Azure), available for macOS and Windows (as of version 4.0) licensed under the GPL. Cyberduck is written in Java and C# using the Cocoa user interface framework on macOS and Windows For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 1st Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Tuesday, May 28, 1974, to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1973). It was hosted by Barbara Walters and Peter Marshall at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York City and televised on NBC. They were introduced to the stage by game and variety show h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 2nd Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, May 15, 1975, and broadcast on ABC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1974). The event was hosted by Monty Hall and Stephanie Edwards. It was uniquely held on board the S.S. Dayliner in the Hudson River between New York City and Ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 3rd Daytime Emmy Awards were held Tuesday, May 11, 1976 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1975). The third awards only had three categories, and thus three awards were given. Hosted by Bob Barker, the telecast aired from 3-4:30 p.m. EST on CBS and preempted reruns of All in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 4th Daytime Emmy Awards were held Thursday, May 12, 1977, on NBC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1976). The live coverage held from Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park, New York. The fourth awards only had three categories, and thus three awards were given. Hosts ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 5th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Wednesday, June 7, 1978, on ABC, to commemorate excellence in American daytime programming from the previous year (1977). The awards were hosted by Family Feud host Richard Dawson, who also won an award for best game show host. Airing from 3 to 4:30 p.m. EST, the telecast preemp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 6th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1979 to commemorate excellence in American daytime programming from the previous year (1978). The 1979 Emmy awards introduced the supporting actor and actress categories, meaning that five awards were given out that year, a first in the awards show's history. The outstanding ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 7th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1980 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1979). The seventh awards included a cameo appearance category, giving an award to a memorable soap cameo. Six awards were given.
The ceremony was telecast at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 4 on NBC. It pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record%20linkage | Record linkage (also known as data matching, data linkage, entity resolution, and many other terms) is the task of finding records in a data set that refer to the same entity across different data sources (e.g., data files, books, websites, and databases). Record linkage is necessary when joining different data sets b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/V | DOS/V is a Japanese computing initiative starting in 1990 to allow DOS on IBM PC compatibles with VGA cards to handle double-byte (DBCS) Japanese text via software alone. It was initially developed from PC DOS by IBM for its PS/55 machines (a localized version of the PS/2), but IBM gave the driver source code to Micros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice%20League%20Unlimited | Justice League Unlimited (JLU) is an American superhero animated television series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and aired on Cartoon Network. Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 8th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, May 21, 1981, to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from March 6, 1980 to March 5, 1981. The eighth awards did not include the cameo category from the previous year, so only five awards were given, like in previous years.
The ceremony was telecast from 3 to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digicel | Digicel is a Jamaican and Caribbean mobile phone network and home entertainment provider operating in 25 markets worldwide.
Digicel has operated in several countries, including Guyana, Fiji, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Samoa, St. Lucia, Suriname, and Jamaica.
History
Digicel was founded in 2001 by Irish entrepreneur ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 9th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Friday, June 11, 1982, to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1981). The telecast aired from 3-4:30 p.m. on CBS, preempting Guiding Light and Tattletales.
Winners in each category are in bold.
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series
All My Children
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 10th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Wednesday, June 8, 1983, to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1982). Unlike previous years, the ceremony was not telecast, although NBC had the option to do so.
Winners in each category are in bold.
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series
All My ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 11th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Wednesday, June 27, 1984, to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1983). Once again, the ceremony was not telecast.
Winners in each category are in bold.
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series
All My Children
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
Out... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 12th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, August 1, 1985, on CBS to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from March 6, 1984 to March 5, 1985. Two new categories were added: Outstanding Young Man in a Daytime Drama Series and Outstanding Ingenue in a Daytime Drama Series. Of the 13 categories (includi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 13th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, July 17, 1986, on NBC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from March 6, 1985 to March 5, 1986. The telecast, lasting from 3-4:30 p.m., preempted Santa Barbara.
Winners in each category are in bold.
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series
All My Children
As th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Ireland%20Electricity | Northern Ireland Electricity Networks Limited (NIE Networks) is the electricity asset owner of the transmission and distribution infrastructure in Northern Ireland, established in 1993 when the business was privatised. NIE Networks does not generate or supply electricity. Since 2010 it has been a subsidiary of ESB Grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exatron%20Stringy%20Floppy | The Exatron Stringy Floppy (or ESF) is a continuous-loop tape drive developed by Exatron.
History
The company introduced an S-100 stringy floppy drive at the 1978 West Coast Computer Faire, and a version for the Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1979. Exatron sold about 4,000 TRS-80 drives by August 1981 for $249.50 each, stati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperBASIC | SuperBASIC is an advanced variant of the BASIC programming language with many structured programming additions. It was developed at Sinclair Research by Jan Jones during the early 1980s.
Originally SuperBASIC was intended as the BASIC interpreter for a home computer code-named SuperSpectrum, then under development. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Perry | Dave Perry (born 21 May 1966) was co-commentator on the UK computer and video games television shows GamesMaster and Games World. Perry was most famous for walking off GamesMaster.
He was responsible for launching many games magazines, including Games World, Play, PowerStation, X-Gen, STATION and Mega Power. He has si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSMAC%20VIP | The COSMAC VIP (1977) was an early microcomputer that was aimed at video games. Essentially, it was a COSMAC ELF with a supplementary CDP1861/CDP1864 video display chip. For a price of US$275, it could be purchased from RCA by mail order. It came in kit form, and had to be assembled. Its dimensions were 22 x 28 cm, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compukit%20UK101 | The Compukit UK101 microcomputer (1979) is a kit clone of the Ohio Scientific Superboard II single-board computer, with a few enhancements for the UK market - notably replacing the 24×24 (add guardband kit to give 32×32) screen display with a more useful 48×16 layout working at UK video frequencies. The video output is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag%20Team%20Wrestling | Tag Team Wrestling, known as in Japan, is a wrestling video game developed by Technōs Japan and released for arcades in 1983. The arcade version was published by Data East both in Japan and North America, but only the North American version mentions the name of Data East in-game. It was later ported in the mid-1980s t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFP | JFP may refer to:
Media
Jackson Free Press, an alternative weekly newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi
Journal of Functional Programming, a scientific journal
Other
Jacketed flat point, a type of soft-point bullet
Justice and Freedom Party, a former political party in Fiji
Japan Future Party, Japanese political party. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris%20%28operating%20system%29 | Idris is a discontinued multi-tasking, Unix-like, multi-user, real-time operating system released by Whitesmiths, of Westford, Massachusetts. The product was commercially available from 1979 through 1988.
Background
Idris was originally written for the PDP-11 by P. J. Plauger, who started working on Idris in August 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX%20file%20system | The Minix file system is the native file system of the Minix operating system. It was written from scratch by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the 1980s and aimed to replicate the structure of the Unix File System while omitting complex features, and was intended to be a teaching aid. It largely fell out of favour among Linux us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20lines%20in%20New%20Zealand | The railway network in New Zealand consists of four main lines, six secondary lines and numerous short branch lines in almost every region. It links all major urban centres except Nelson, Taupō, Queenstown, Whakatane and (since 2012) Gisborne. The network is owned and managed by KiwiRail. The network was constructed st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaksija%20%28computer%29 | The Galaksija (; , meaning "Galaxy") was a build-it-yourself computer designed by Voja Antonić. It was featured in the special edition Računari u vašoj kući (Computers in your home, written by Dejan Ristanović) of a popular eponymous science magazine, published late December 1983 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Kits were avai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20News%20Network | The Japan News Network (JNN; ) is a Japanese commercial television network run by TBS Television, owned by TBS Holdings (which is a part of the major conglomerate Mitsui Group). The network's responsibility includes the syndication of national television news bulletins to its regional affiliates, and news exchange betw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETV%20Network | ETV Network is a network of Telugu language news and entertainment satellite television channels in India. It is based in Hyderabad, Telangana. It also had some non Telugu language satellite television channels. All non-Telugu language satellite television channels were acquired by Reliance Industries-owned TV18 for ₹2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20operating%20systems | These tables provide a comparison of operating systems, of computer devices, as listing general and technical information for a number of widely used and currently available PC or handheld (including smartphone and tablet computer) operating systems. The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP-2 | POP-2 (also referred to as POP2) is a programming language developed around 1970 from the earlier language POP-1 (developed by Robin Popplestone in 1968, originally named COWSEL) by Robin Popplestone and Rod Burstall at the University of Edinburgh. It drew roots from many sources: the languages LISP and ALGOL 60, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji%20News%20Network | Fuji News Network (FNN) is a Japanese commercial television network run by Fuji Television Network, Inc. (Fuji TV), part of the Fujisankei Communications Group. The network's responsibility includes the syndication of national television news bulletins to its regional affiliates, and news exchange between the stations.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TX%20Network | TX Network (TXN) is a commercial television network in Japan owned by Nikkei, Inc. The "TX" is taken from the callsign of its flagship station, TV Tokyo. It is also known as TV Tokyo Network.
Overview
It is named "TXN" because of the call sign of TV Tokyo, its key station, JOTX-DTV. The official name of the network i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot%20Digital%20Coding%20System | The Sloot Digital Coding System was an alleged data sharing technique that its inventor claimed could store a complete digital movie file in 8 kilobytes of data — violating Shannon's source coding theorem by many orders of magnitude. The alleged technique was developed in 1995 by Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (27 August 194... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDE | The Unix Desktop Environment (UDE) is a desktop environment for the X Window System. Given its efficient and lightweight design it can be used on almost any Unix-like operating system, mostly without any porting effort.
User interface
UDE's user interface philosophy is quite different from that of other desktop envir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20New%20Zealand | Rail transport in New Zealand is an integral part of New Zealand's transport network, with a nationwide network of of track linking most major cities in the North and South Islands, connected by inter-island rail and road ferries. Rail transport in New Zealand has a particular focus on bulk freight exports and imports... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20to%20the%20Future | "Bart to the Future" is the seventeenth episode of the eleventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 19, 2000. In the episode, after their picnic in the park is cut short due to a mosquito infestation, the Simpsons stop by a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20automation | Broadcast automation incorporates the use of broadcast programming technology to automate broadcasting operations. Used either at a broadcast network, radio station or a television station, it can run a facility in the absence of a human operator. They can also run in a live assist mode when there are on-air personne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s%20Wedding | "Lisa's Wedding" is the nineteenth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 19, 1995. The plot focuses on Lisa visiting a carnival fortune teller and learning about her future love. It was written by Greg Da... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Frontal%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Full Frontal was an Australian sketch comedy series which ran on the Seven Network from 1993 to 1997. It launched the television careers of Eric Bana, Shaun Micallef, Kitty Flanagan, Julia Morris and Denise Scott.
In 1998 a spin-off of the show moved to Network Ten under the name Totally Full Frontal, losing most of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanter%20%28video%20game%29 | Enchanter is a 1983 interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling and published by Infocom. The first fantasy game published by Infocom after the Zork trilogy, it was originally intended to be Zork IV. The game has a parser that understands over 700 words, making it the most advanced interact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac%20G5 | The iMac G5 is an all-in-one personal computer that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from August 2004 to March 2006. It is the final iMac to use a PowerPC processor, making it the last model that could natively run Mac OS 9 (Classic) applications.
The iMac G5 was announced at the Apple Expo 2004 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20server | A video server is a computer-based device that is dedicated to delivering video. Video servers are used in a number of applications, and often have additional functions and capabilities that address the needs of particular applications. For example, video servers used in security, surveillance and inspection applicatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20%28English%20former%20radio%20network%29 | Magic was an AM radio network based in Northern England.
History
The Magic brand in UK radio originated with Magic 828, the sister station of Radio Aire in Leeds which was launched in July 1990, although no other stations were branded 'Magic' until the Emap group purchased the Metro Radio group in 1995. It can be reg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fon | Fon or FON may refer to:
Terms
Fon (title), a traditional title for a ruler in Cameroon
Fiber-optic network
Freedom of navigation
The chemistry mnemonic "FON", used for determining which elements hydrogen forms hydrogen bonds with.
Fon language, spoken by the Fon people
Funding Opportunity Number, assigned by Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20controller%20%28Windows%29 | On Microsoft Servers, a domain controller (DC) is a server computer that responds to security authentication requests (logging in, etc.) within a Windows domain. A domain is a concept introduced in Windows NT whereby a user may be granted access to a number of computer resources with the use of a single username and pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBN | CBN, or cbn, may refer to:
Broadcasting organizations
Radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland:
CBN (AM), CBC Radio One
CBN-FM, CBC Music
Chronicle Broadcasting Network, the predecessor of ABS-CBN
CBN (Australian TV station), a TV station in southern New South Wales, Australia
Central Brasileira de Notícias, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typecasting%20%28disambiguation%29 | Typecasting is the process by which an actor is strongly identified with a specific character, role, or trait.
Typecast, typecasting, or type casting may also refer to:
Type casting (computer programming), the act or result of changing an entity of one data type into another
Type casting (typography), a technique f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knick%20Knack | Knick Knack is a 1989 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar that was written and directed by John Lasseter. The short is about a snow globe snowman who wants to join the other travel souvenirs in a summer-themed party. However, the glass dome that surrounds him prevents him from doing so, thus leading... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguasphere%20Observatory | The Linguasphere Observatory (or the Observatoire, based on its original French and legal title: Observatoire Linguistique) is a non-profit transnational research network, devoted (alongside related programs) to the gathering, study, classification, editing and free distribution online of the updatable text (initially ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20sociology | Computational sociology is a branch of sociology that uses computationally intensive methods to analyze and model social phenomena. Using computer simulations, artificial intelligence, complex statistical methods, and analytic approaches like social network analysis, computational sociology develops and tests theories ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Society%20of%20Southern%20Africa | The Computer Society of South Africa is a representative association for ICT practitioners and professionals throughout South Africa.
The Computer Society of South Africa focuses its activities, events and publications in five primary areas:
ICT Policy representing industry practitioners at a local level.
Education... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20NT%203.1 | Windows NT 3.1 is the first major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, released on July 27, 1993.
At the time of Windows NT's release, Microsoft's Windows 3.1 desktop environment had established brand recognition and market share; but Windows 3.1 relied on the DOS operating system for ess... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20NT%203.5 | Windows NT 3.5 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It was released on September 21, 1994, as the successor to Windows NT 3.1 and the predecessor to Windows NT 3.51.
One of the primary goals during Windows NT 3.5 development was to improve the op... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20NT%203.51 | Windows NT 3.51 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the third version of Windows NT and was released on May 30, 1995, eight months following the release of Windows NT 3.5. The most significant enhancement offered in this release was that it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos%20Aires%20Underground | The Buenos Aires Underground (), locally known as Subte (), is a rapid transit system that serves the area of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first section of this network (Plaza de Mayo–Plaza Miserere) opened in 1913, making it the 13th subway in the world and the first underground railway in Latin America, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20GCD%20algorithm | The binary GCD algorithm, also known as Stein's algorithm or the binary Euclidean algorithm, is an algorithm that computes the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two nonnegative integers. Stein's algorithm uses simpler arithmetic operations than the conventional Euclidean algorithm; it replaces division with arithmetic s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20society | An artificial society is an agent-based computational model for computer simulation in social analysis. It is mostly connected to the themes of complex systems, emergence, the Monte Carlo method, computational sociology, multi-agent systems, and evolutionary programming. While the concept was simple, actually realizin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting%20Consumer%20Protection%20Act | The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d),(passed as part of ) is a U.S. law enacted in 1999 that established a cause of action for registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name confusingly similar to, or dilutive of, a trademark or personal name. The law was designed to thwart "c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus%20%28typography%20software%29 | Ikarus is a type design and production software developed by URW and Brendel Informatik foundries, for converting existing typefaces and logos into digital format for use on computer driven printing, plotting and sign cutting devices.
It was licensed by major foundries such as Agfa-Compugraphic, Autologic, Berthold, I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram | n-gram is a series of n adjacent letters (including punctuation marks and blanks), syllables, or rarely whole words found in a language dataset; or adjacent phonemes extracted from a speech-recording dataset, or adjacent base pairs extracted from a genome. They are collected from a text or speech corpus. If Latin nume... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20SouthEast | Network SouthEast (NSE) was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail created in 1982. NSE mainly operated commuter rail trains within Greater London and inter-urban services in densely populated South East England, although the network went as far west as Exeter and also covered the inner East of England. Bef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IX%20%28magazine%29 | iX is a German monthly computer magazine, published by the Heise Verlag publishing house since 1988. The magazine focuses primarily on professional IT. Within this area it deals with a broad range of issues, ranging from various programming topics, server hardware reviews and virtualization, computer security to articl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBP | SBP may refer to:
Science, medicine and technology
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Scannerless Boolean Parser, a software development tool
Serial Bus Protocol 2, a computer interconnect specification
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
SBP-tag (Streptavidin-Binding Peptide-tag), an amino acid seq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20file%20system | The extended file system, or ext, was implemented in April 1992 as the first file system created specifically for the Linux kernel. It has metadata structure inspired by traditional Unix filesystem principles, and was designed by Rémy Card to overcome certain limitations of the MINIX file system. It was the first imple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20the%20Great | "Homer the Great" is the twelfth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 8, 1995. In the episode, Homer joins an ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters.
The episode was written by John Swartzwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20breaking | In computer and video games, sequence breaking is the act of performing actions or obtaining items out of the intended linear order or of skipping "required" actions or items entirely. Sequence breaking is often used to beat a game unusually quickly (see speedrunning), to beat it while only completing a few objectives ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate%20limiting | In computer networks, rate limiting is used to control the rate of requests sent or received by a network interface controller. It can be used to prevent DoS attacks and limit web scraping.
Research indicates flooding rates for one zombie machine are in excess of 20 HTTP GET requests per second, legitimate rates much ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext | Ext, ext or EXT may refer to:
Ext functor, used in the mathematical field of homological algebra
Ext (JavaScript library), a programming library used to build interactive web applications
Exeter Airport (IATA airport code), in Devon, England
Exeter St Thomas railway station (station code), in Exeter, England
Exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasi%C3%B3n%20de%20Gavilanes | Pasión de Gavilanes (international title: Hidden Passion) is a Colombian telenovela written by Julio Jiménez. It is produced by RTI Colombia in conjunction with the Telemundo network and with the participation of Caracol TV company. The telenovela is based on the 1994 telenovela Las aguas mansas, also written by Jiméne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicative%20programming%20language | In the classification of programming languages, an applicative programming language is built out of functions applied to arguments. Applicative languages are functional, and applicative is often used as a synonym for functional. However, concatenative languages can be functional, while not being applicative.
The seman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL%20Computer%20Systems | HAL Computer Systems, Inc was a Campbell, California-based computer manufacturer founded in 1990 by Andrew Heller, a principal designer of the original IBM POWER architecture. His idea was to build computers based on a RISC architecture for the commercial market. The inspiration of the name comes from the novel 2001: A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberman%20%28film%29 | Cyberman is a 2001 documentary film about Steve Mann, inventor of the EyeTap. It was directed by Peter Lynch, but much of the material in the film was also shot by Mann himself, through his EyeTap. Thus Cyberman may well have been the first film in which the subject incidentally or existentially (i.e. just by being him... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20logger | A data logger (also datalogger or data recorder) is an electronic device that records data over time or about location either with a built-in instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors. Increasingly, but not entirely, they are based on a digital processor (or computer), and called digital data loggers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrcher%20Verkehrsverbund | The Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV, Zürich Transport Network) is the largest public transportation network in Switzerland. It covers the canton of Zürich and adjacent areas. All public transportation means (rail, light rail, bus, trolleybus, lake passenger liner, cable car) within the chosen area can be used indiscrimina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon%20mesh | In 3D computer graphics and solid modeling, a polygon mesh is a collection of , s and s that defines the shape of a polyhedral object. The faces usually consist of triangles (triangle mesh), quadrilaterals (quads), or other simple convex polygons (n-gons), since this simplifies rendering, but may also be more generally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Spritz%20Goes%20to%20Washington | "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" is the fourteenth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 9, 2003. In this episode, the Simpsons' home becomes uninhabitable because of airplane noise. Krusty is elected... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich%20S-Bahn | The Zürich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zürich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, St. Gallen, Thurgau and Zug), with a few lines extending into or crossing the territo... |
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