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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silmarils%20%28company%29
Silmarils was a French computer game software company founded in 1987 by Louis-Marie and André Rocques. It produced games for PC, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Macintosh, Atari ST and Atari Falcon. The company is most closely associated with its Ishar series. Crystals of Arborea was one of the first games to offer real-time 3D ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIS
LIS or LiS may refer to: Computing LIS (programming language) Lis (linear algebra library), library of iterative solvers for linear systems Laboratory information system, databases oriented towards medical laboratories Land information system, land mapping and cadastre GIS used by local governments Language-indep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet
The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) is "a system of interconnected computer networks used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State to transmit classified information (up to and including information classified SECRET) by packet switching over the 'completely secure' environme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%20algorithm
The forward algorithm, in the context of a hidden Markov model (HMM), is used to calculate a 'belief state': the probability of a state at a certain time, given the history of evidence. The process is also known as filtering. The forward algorithm is closely related to, but distinct from, the Viterbi algorithm. The f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20%26%20Rose
Bob & Rose is a British television drama, originally screened in six one-hour episodes on the ITV network in the UK in Autumn 2001. It was produced by the independent Red Production Company, and was that company's first prime-time drama for the ITV network. Bob & Rose was the inspiration for Jules & Mimi, the fictiona...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20key
Hash key may refer to: Number sign, also known as the number, pound or hash key, a key on a telephone keypad For its use in data structure, database and cryptographic applications, see hash function or unique key
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch%20%27em%20if%20You%20Can
"Catch 'em if You Can" is the eighteenth 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 April 25, 2004. Plot Bart lectures the other students on the bus on the topic of water balloons. After he hits Lisa with one she fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20forwarding
Packet forwarding is the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network. The network layer in the OSI model is responsible for packet forwarding. Models The simplest forwarding modelunicastinginvolves a packet being relayed from link to link along a chain leading from the pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Florida
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Florida, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct WAGE WAXA WBFT-LP WCFI WCFQ-LP WCNU WDDV WDSP WEAG WEKJ-LP WFAB WFHA-LP WFLA (Bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%20Holdings
Nielsen Holdings plc is an American information, data and market measurement firm. Nielsen operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 44,000 people worldwide. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and used to be a component of the S&P 500. History Formation Nielsen was founded in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistello
Logistello is a computer program that plays the game Othello, also known as Reversi. Logistello was written by Michael Buro and is regarded as a strong player, having beaten the human world champion Takeshi Murakami six games to none in 1997 — the best Othello programs are now much stronger than any human player. Logi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESDP
The acronym ESDP may refer to: European Security and Defence Policy the former name of the European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy The European Spatial Development Planning network European Spatial Development Perspective Essential Skills Development Program at Humber College - Lakeshore Campus Enhance...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20abstraction%20layer
A database abstraction layer (DBAL or DAL) is an application programming interface which unifies the communication between a computer application and databases such as SQL Server, IBM Db2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle or SQLite. Traditionally, all database vendors provide their own interface that is tailored to their prod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxPython
wxPython is a wrapper for the cross-platform GUI API (often referred to as a "toolkit") wxWidgets (which is written in C++) for the Python programming language. It is one of the alternatives to Tkinter. It is implemented as a Python extension module (native code). History In 1995, Robin Dunn needed a GUI application t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20Zork
Beyond Zork (full title: Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor) is an interactive fiction computer game written by Brian Moriarty and released by Infocom in 1987. It was one of the last games in the Zork series developed by Infocom (titles such as Zork Nemesis and Zork: Grand Inquisitor were created after Activision had ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDF
MMDF, the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility, is a message transfer agent (MTA), a computer program designed to transmit email. History MMDF was originally developed at the University of Delaware in the late 1970s, and provided the initial means of operating CSNET, the predecessor to NSFNET. It grew in popu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian%20Environmental%20NGOs%20Network
The Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGON) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with a mandate to protect the environment of Palestine by acting as a coordinating body for Palestinian environmental organizations located in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. PNGON was initiated after the 2000 al-Aqsa Intifada due to heig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20IP
Mobile IP (or MIP) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard communications protocol that is designed to allow mobile device users to move from one network to another while maintaining a permanent IP address. Mobile IP for IPv4 is described in IETF RFC 5944, and extensions are defined in IETF RFC 4721. Mobi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGain
WebGain was a jointly funded venture between Warburg Pincus and BEA Systems. The objective of the company was to acquire existing Java EE /Java programming language development tools and roll them together into a single application development environment: WebGain studio. In April 2000, WebGain acquired the company The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPL
AMPL (A Mathematical Programming Language) is an algebraic modeling language to describe and solve high-complexity problems for large-scale mathematical computing (i.e., large-scale optimization and scheduling-type problems). It was developed by Robert Fourer, David Gay, and Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories. AMPL s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20Binary%20Meta%20Language
Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML) is a generalized file format for any kind of data, aiming to be a binary equivalent to XML. It provides a basic framework for storing data in XML-like tags. It was originally developed for the Matroska audio/video container format. EBML is not extensible in the same way that XML ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tog
Tog(s) or TOG(s) may refer to: ACM Transactions on Graphics, a scientific journal covering computer graphics Bruce Tognazzini's nickname Clothing, sometimes referred to as "togs" Tog, short for "togman", a cloak or loose coat Swimming togs, a swimsuit, sometimes shortened to "togs" TOG (hackerspace), a hackerspa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Schank
Roger Carl Schank (March 12, 1946 – January 29, 2023) was an American artificial intelligence theorist, cognitive psychologist, learning scientist, educational reformer, and entrepreneur. Beginning in the late 1960s, he pioneered conceptual dependency theory (within the context of natural language understanding) and ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20sensor%20network
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental conditions such as temperature, sound, pollution levels, humidity and win...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer%20registry
A cancer registry is a systematic collection of data about cancer and tumor diseases. The data are collected by Cancer Registrars. Cancer Registrars capture a complete summary of patient history, diagnosis, treatment, and status for every cancer patient in the United States, and other countries. The Surveillance, Epid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Protocol%20television
Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This is in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable television formats. Unlike downloaded media, IPTV offers the ability to stream the source media continuously. As a result,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ittijah
Ittijah or "Union of Arab Community-Based Associations" is a network for Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) founded in 1995 in Israel. The organization's stated goals are promoting the Palestinian Arab civil society and advocating political, economic and social change for Palestinians who are denied acce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2000
R2000 or R-2000 might refer to: R2000 (microprocessor), a microprocessor developed by MIPS Computer Systems Pratt & Whitney R-2000, an aircraft engine R-2000 program, a Natural Resources Canada program for the construction of energy efficient homes Robin R2000, a French aircraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Democrat%20Network
The New Democrat Network is an American think tank that promotes centrist candidates for the Democratic Party. NDN is a 501(c)(4) membership organization that functions in conjunction with its two subsidiary organizations, the NDN Political Fund, a non-federal political organization (527), and NDN PAC, a federal politi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence%20gathering%20network
An intelligence gathering network is a system through which information about a particular entity is collected for the benefit of another through the use of more than one, inter-related source. Such information may be gathered by a military intelligence, government intelligence, or commercial intelligence network. Int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W5%20%28TV%20program%29
W5 is a Canadian news magazine television program produced by CTV News. The program is broadcast Friday nights at 10 p.m. on the CTV Television Network, with repeat broadcasts at later times on CTV as well as co-owned channels CTV 2, CTV News Channel, and Investigation Discovery. The program also airs in a radio simulc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow%20programming
In computer programming, dataflow programming is a programming paradigm that models a program as a directed graph of the data flowing between operations, thus implementing dataflow principles and architecture. Dataflow programming languages share some features of functional languages, and were generally developed in or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivision%20surface
In the field of 3D computer graphics, a subdivision surface (commonly shortened to SubD surface or Subsurf) is a curved surface represented by the specification of a coarser polygon mesh and produced by a recursive algorithmic method. The curved surface, the underlying inner mesh, can be calculated from the coarse mesh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20code-excited%20linear%20prediction
Algebraic code-excited linear prediction (ACELP) is a speech coding algorithm in which a limited set of pulses is distributed as excitation to a linear prediction filter. It is a linear predictive coding (LPC) algorithm that is based on the code-excited linear prediction (CELP) method and has an algebraic structure. AC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.729
G.729 is a royalty-free narrow-band vocoder-based audio data compression algorithm using a frame length of 10 milliseconds. It is officially described as Coding of speech at 8 kbit/s using code-excited linear prediction speech coding (CS-ACELP), and was introduced in 1996. The wide-band extension of G.729 is called G.7...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Silverman
Fred Silverman (September 13, 1937 – January 30, 2020) was an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at all of the Big Three television networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (the original incarnation of the Scooby-Doo franchis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Baby%20Food%20Action%20Network
The International Baby Food Action Network, IBFAN, consists of public interest groups working around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality. IBFAN aims to improve the health and well-being of babies and young children, their mothers and their families through the protection, promotion and su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky%20Campbell
Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell OBE (born Nicholas Lackey, 10 April 1961) is a Scottish broadcaster and journalist. He has worked in television and radio since 1981 and as a network presenter with BBC Radio since 1987. Early life Campbell was born in Portobello, Edinburgh, in April 1961, and was taken for adoption at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz
Viz or VIZ may refer to: Aerovis Airlines (ICAO: VIZ), a cargo airline based in Kyiv, Ukraine Viz., a synonym for “namely” Viz (comics), a British adult comic magazine Viz: The Game, a computer game based on the comic Viz Media, an American manga and anime distribution and entertainment company "Viz", a song from th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20bunny
The Stanford bunny is a computer graphics 3D test model developed by Greg Turk and Marc Levoy in 1994 at Stanford University. The model consists of 69,451 triangles, with the data determined by 3D scanning a ceramic figurine of a rabbit. This figurine and others were scanned to test methods of range scanning physical o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Turk
Greg Turk is an American-born researcher in the field of computer graphics and a professor at the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His paper "Zippered polygon meshes from range images", concerning the reconstruction of surfaces from point...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMR%20%28magazine%29
GMR was a monthly magazine on video games that was published by Ziff-Davis — the publisher of such magazines as PC Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and Computer Gaming World (later Games for Windows: The Official Magazine). GMR was launched in February 2003, being sold in only the Electronics Boutique (EB) chain of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customized%20Applications%20for%20Mobile%20networks%20Enhanced%20Logic
Customized Applications for Mobile networks Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) is a set of standards designed to work on either a GSM core network or the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network. The framework provides tools for operators to define additional features for standard GSM services/UMTS services. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkeden
DarkEden is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game in isometric projection or 3/4 perspective developed and published by SOFTON (formerly Metrotech). The game has a horror theme based on a war between humans (Slayers), vampires and Ousters in a region called Helea located in a fictional ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Channel%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29
Family Channel (commonly or simply known as Family) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by WildBrain. The network primarily airs children's television series, teen dramas, as well as other programming targeting a family audience. Despite having its own headquarters in the Brookfield Pla...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute%21
Compute! (), often stylized as COMPUTE!, was an American home computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994. Its origins can be traced to 1978 in Len Lindsay's PET Gazette, one of the first magazines for the Commodore PET computer. In its 1980s heyday, Compute! Covered all major platforms, and several single-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Performance%20Fortran
High Performance Fortran (HPF) is an extension of Fortran 90 with constructs that support parallel computing, published by the High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF). The HPFF was convened and chaired by Ken Kennedy of Rice University. The first version of the HPF Report was published in 1993. Building on the array s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20program%2C%20multiple%20data
In computing, single program, multiple data (SPMD) is a term that has been used to  refer to computational models for exploiting parallelism where-by multiple processors cooperate in the execution of a program in order to obtain results faster. The term SPMD was introduced in 1983 and was used to denote two differen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20polygon
The term complex polygon can mean two different things: In geometry, a polygon in the unitary plane, which has two complex dimensions. In computer graphics, a polygon whose boundary is not simple. Geometry In geometry, a complex polygon is a polygon in the complex Hilbert plane, which has two complex dimensions. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBQC-LD
WBQC-LD (channel 25) is a low-power television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Fox affiliate WXIX-TV (channel 19). The two stations share studios at 19 Broadcast Plaza on Seventh Street in the Queensgate neighbo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20INTegration
Hierarchical INTegration, or HINT for short, is a computer benchmark that ranks a computer system as a whole (i.e. the entire computer instead of individual components). It measures the full range of performance, mostly based on the amount of work a computer can perform over time. A system with a very fast processor wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Boy%20Sound%20System
The Game Boy Sound System (GBS) is a file format containing Nintendo Game Boy sound driver data designed for the Game Boy sound hardware. GBS rips are an arduous task often involving debuggers and compiled assembly code, as there was no uniform sound driver for each Game Boy game. As a result, GBS players and the file...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lftp
lftp is a command-line program client for several file transfer protocols. lftp is designed for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It was developed by Alexander Lukyanov, and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. lftp can transfer files via FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, FISH, SFTP, BitTorrent, and FTP over...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TURBOchannel
TURBOchannel is an open computer bus developed by DEC by during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although it is open for any vendor to implement in their own systems, it was mostly used in Digital's own systems such as the MIPS-based DECstation and DECsystem systems, in the VAXstation 4000, and in the Alpha-based DEC 30...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus%20Kuhn%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Markus Guenther Kuhn (born 1971) is a German computer scientist, currently working at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Education Kuhn was educated at University of Erlangen (Germany), he received his Master of Science degree at Purdue University and PhD at th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Harvard%20Architecture%20Single-Chip%20Computer
The Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer (SHARC) is a high performance floating-point and fixed-point DSP from Analog Devices. SHARC is used in a variety of signal processing applications ranging from audio processing, to single-CPU guided artillery shells to 1000-CPU over-the-horizon radar processing compu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%20Gilligan
Shannon Gilligan is an author of interactive fiction and computer games. Early life and education Gilligan graduated from Williams College in 1981 and spent a year abroad at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Career Gilligan has been extensively involved in the Choose Your Own Adventure series, having written five ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20synthesis
In computer engineering, logic synthesis is a process by which an abstract specification of desired circuit behavior, typically at register transfer level (RTL), is turned into a design implementation in terms of logic gates, typically by a computer program called a synthesis tool. Common examples of this process inclu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIL%20bus
The HP-HIL (Hewlett-Packard Human Interface Link) is the name of a computer bus used by Hewlett-Packard to connect keyboards, mice, trackballs, digitizers, tablets, barcode readers, rotary knobs, touchscreens, and other human interface peripherals to their HP 9000 workstations. The bus was in use until the mid-1990s, w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSL%20%28radio%20network%29
KSL Newsradio is a pair of radio stations serving the Salt Lake City, Utah region, consisting of the original AM station, KSL, licensed to Salt Lake City on 1160 kHz, and FM station KSL-FM, licensed to Midvale on 102.7 MHz. Owned by Bonneville International, a broadcasting subsidiary of the Church of Jesus Christ of La...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%20C.%20Williams
Sir Frederic Calland Williams, (26 June 1911 – 11 August 1977), known as F.C. Williams or Freddie Williams, was an English engineer, a pioneer in radar and computer technology. Education Williams was born in Romiley, Stockport, and educated at Stockport Grammar School. He gained a scholarship to study engineering at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR%20Voyager
The NCR Voyager was an SMP computer platform produced by the NCR Corporation circa 1985. Linux support for some models existed between 2005 and 2010. Sources NCR Corporation products
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEEP
The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) is a framework for creating network application protocols. BEEP includes building blocks like framing, pipelining, multiplexing, reporting and authentication for connection and message-oriented peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols with support of asynchronous full-duplex communica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp%20Machines
Lisp Machines, Inc. was a company formed in 1979 by Richard Greenblatt of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to build Lisp machines. It was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. By 1979, the Lisp Machine Project at MIT, originated and headed by Greenblatt, had constructed over 30 CADR computers for various projects...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet
Tablet may refer to: Medicine Tablet (pharmacy), a mixture of pharmacological substances pressed into a small cake or bar, colloquially called a "pill" Computing Tablet computer, a mobile computer that is primarily operated by touching the screen Graphics tablet or digitizing tablet, a computer input device for ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHSG-TV
WHSG-TV (channel 63) is a religious television station licensed to Monroe, Georgia, United States, serving the Atlanta area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located in Atlanta's Cabbagetown section. Because it airs no local content (except for loc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Team%20in%20Akihabara
is a 1998 Japanese anime television series created by Tsukasa Kotobuki and Satoru Akahori. It aired from April 4, 1998, to September 26, 1998, on TBS and ran for 26 episodes. It was released in the United States by ADV Films and was also broadcast on international networks such as Anime Network (United States), AXN Asi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Moon
David or Dave Moon may refer to: David A. Moon, American computer scientist and Lisp developer David Moon (historian), British professor David Moon (politician) (born 1979), Maryland legislator David Moon (rugby league), Australian rugby league player David Moon (Jersey politician), candidate in the 1996 Jersey ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomix
Atomix may refer to: Atomix (video game), a computer puzzle game Atomix, a character from the TV show Ben 10: Omniverse Atomix, a Korean restaurant in Rose Hill, Manhattan rated among the Top 50 in the world. See also Atomics (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keymaker
The Keymaker is a fictional character, portrayed by Korean-American actor Randall Duk Kim, in the 2003 film The Matrix Reloaded. He is a computer program that can create shortcut commands, physically represented as keys, which can be used by other programs to gain quick access to various areas within the simulated real...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3/24
3/24 () is a Catalan free-to-air news and information network operated by Televisió de Catalunya (TVC). It was launched on 11 September 2003. History 3/24 was born on 11 September 2003 as an initiative of the Catalan public television to develop digital terrestrial television in Catalonia. However, a general lack of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill%20%28disambiguation%29
A quill is a writing tool made from the wing feather of a large bird. Quill may also refer to: Computer software Quill, a word processor developed by Psion Quill (software), a 1982 suite of tools for literacy development QUILL, a programming language used in Quintiq software The Quill Adventure System, a 1983 compute...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20reuse
In software development (and computer programming in general), code reuse, also called software reuse, is the use of existing software, or software knowledge, to build new software, following the reusability principles. Code reuse may be achieved by different ways depending on a complexity of a programming language c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OEM%20%28disambiguation%29
OEM is an original equipment manufacturer, a company that makes a part or subsystem that is used in another company's end product. OEM may also refer to: Computing Object Exchange Model, a model for exchanging data between object-oriented databases OEM font, or OEM-US, the original character set of the IBM PC, Or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Fish
Fred Fish (November 4, 1952 – April 20, 2007) was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger and his series of freeware disks for the Amiga. The Amiga Library Disks – colloquially referred to as Fish Disks (a term coined by Perry Kivolowitz at a Jersey Amiga User Group meeting) – became the first natio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20from%20Atlantis
Man from Atlantis is a short-lived American science fiction/fantasy television series that ran for 13 episodes on the NBC network during the 1977–78 season, following four television films that had aired earlier in 1977. Ratings success by these movies led to the commissioning of a weekly series for the 1977–78 season,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeytoken
In the field of computer security, honeytokens are honeypots that are not computer systems. Their value lies not in their use, but in their abuse. As such, they are a generalization of such ideas as the honeypot and the canary values often used in stack protection schemes. Honeytokens do not necessarily prevent any ta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20%28disambiguation%29
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks. Internet may also refer to: Internet (web browser), by Amazon Internet Co., Ltd., a software company based in Japan The Internet (band), a soul music band "Internets", a catchphrase to portray someone as ignorant about technology "Internet", a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output%20device
An output device is any piece of computer hardware that converts information/DATA into a human-perceptible form or, historically, into a physical machine-readable form for use with other non-computerized equipment. It can be text, graphics, tactile, audio, or video. Examples include monitors, printers, speakers, headp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20sample%20consensus
Random sample consensus (RANSAC) is an iterative method to estimate parameters of a mathematical model from a set of observed data that contains outliers, when outliers are to be accorded no influence on the values of the estimates. Therefore, it also can be interpreted as an outlier detection method. It is a non-deter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escom%20AG
Escom AG (stylized in uppercase; previously Schmitt Computer Systems) was a German computer company, best known in Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States as the successful purchaser of Commodore International and the Amiga trademarks in 1995. Escom was founded by Manfred Schmitt of Darmstadt, W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Finland
This is a list of radio networks and stations in Finland and elsewhere broadcasting exclusively or partly in the Finnish language. Yleisradio National stations YleX Yle Radio Suomi Yle Vega Yle X3M Regional stations Yle Radio Suomi Helsinki Hämeenlinna Joensuu Jyväskylä Kajaani Kemi Kokkola Kotk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20pipelines
Geometric manipulation of modelling primitives, such as that performed by a geometry pipeline, is the first stage in computer graphics systems which perform image generation based on geometric models. While geometry pipelines were originally implemented in software, they have become highly amenable to hardware implemen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Kramm
Bruno Kramm (born 13 October 1967, in Munich) is a German musician, known for programming, playing synthesizers and keyboards, co-fronting and performing backup vocals for the electro-industrial duo Das Ich, alongside Stefan Ackermann. Kramm is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and founder of the German goth c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing%20Voices%20Network
Hearing Voices Networks, closely related to the Hearing Voices Movement, are peer-focused national organizations for people who hear voices (commonly referred to as auditory hallucinations) and supporting family members, activists and mental health practitioners. Members may or may not have a psychiatric diagnosis. Net...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader
In computer graphics, a shader is a computer program that calculates the appropriate levels of light, darkness, and color during the rendering of a 3D scene—a process known as shading. Shaders have evolved to perform a variety of specialized functions in computer graphics special effects and video post-processing, as w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Mississippi
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Mississippi, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct WAKK WCBI WCMR-FM WCSA WEPA WETX WGRM WGRM-FM WHLV WHSY (1230 AM) WIGG WILU-LP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20software%20vendor
An independent software vendor (ISV), also known as a software publisher, is an organization specializing in making and selling software, as opposed to computer hardware, designed for mass or niche markets. This is in contrast to in-house software, which is developed by the organization that will use it, or custom soft...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground%20Network
Underground Network is Anti-Flag's third studio album, released on Fat Wreck Chords in 2001. Widely considered to be the band's breakthrough album, it helped make Anti-Flag become a household name in the U.S. punk scene with tracks like "Underground Network," "Bring Out Your Dead," and "Stars and Stripes." The title "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superordinate
Superordinate may refer to: In metadata analysis and linguistics, an element of analytical relationship-classification schemes Superordinate goals, in psychology, those goals that further other specified goals Hypernymy, in the context of linguistic hyponymy and hypernymy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20topographic%20map
Generative topographic map (GTM) is a machine learning method that is a probabilistic counterpart of the self-organizing map (SOM), is probably convergent and does not require a shrinking neighborhood or a decreasing step size. It is a generative model: the data is assumed to arise by first probabilistically picking a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters%20%281984%20video%20game%29
Ghostbusters is a licensed game by Activision based on the film of the same name. It was designed by David Crane and released for several home computer platforms in 1984, and later for video game console systems, including the Atari 2600, Master System and Nintendo Entertainment System. The primary target was the Commo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30%20Seconds%20to%20Fame
30 Seconds to Fame is an American television series that was shown on the Fox Network from July 17, 2002 to June 26, 2003, featuring a talent show where acts could only last up to 30 seconds each, regardless of any resolution to the act. The series was hosted by Craig Jackson. Many different talents were exhibited, su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameShark
GameShark is the brand name of a line of video game cheat cartridges and other products for a variety of console video game systems and Windows-based computers. Currently, the brand name is owned by Mad Catz, which marketed GameShark products for the Sony PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo game consoles. Players load chea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20direct%20memory%20access
In computing, remote direct memory access (RDMA) is a direct memory access from the memory of one computer into that of another without involving either one's operating system. This permits high-throughput, low-latency networking, which is especially useful in massively parallel computer clusters. Overview RDMA suppo...
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RDMA may refer to: Remote direct memory access, in computing Radio Disney Music Awards, an annual musical awards ceremony Royal Dutch Medical Association, in the Netherlands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPB
BPB may refer to: BPB plc (British Plaster Board), a British building materials business Ballet Palm Beach, an American professional ballet company BIOS parameter block, a computing data structure Boridi Airport, Boridi, Papua New Guinea, IATA airport code BPB Brighton Photo Biennial, a month-long British festival of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS%20parameter%20block
In computing, the BIOS parameter block, often shortened to BPB, is a data structure in the volume boot record (VBR) describing the physical layout of a data storage volume. On partitioned devices, such as hard disks, the BPB describes the volume partition, whereas, on unpartitioned devices, such as floppy disks, it des...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet
FatWallet was a comparison shopping website, centering on a set of forums that allowed users to publish deals and rebate offers on products and services, with computer-related products and electronics most prominent in the listings. It was headquartered in Beloit, Wisconsin, and ceased operation on October 9, 2017. Pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komplett
Komplett AS is a Norwegian e-commerce company with nine webshops in 3 countries in Scandinavia. The main part of their product assortment is computers and components, but they have also expanded to include photographic, Hi-Fi, TV, gaming and white goods. The headquarters are located in Sandefjord, Norway where the comp...