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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tw
.tw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Taiwan. The domain name is based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code TW. The registry is maintained by the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC), a Taiwanese non-profit organization appointed by the National Communications Commission (NCC) and the Min...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20eServer
IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM. Announced in 2000, it combined the various IBM server brands (AS/400, Netfinity, RS/6000, S/390) under one brand. The various sub-brands were at the same time rebranded from: IBM RS/6000 to IBM eServer pSeries, p for POWER IBM AS/400 to IBM eServer iSeries, i for I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APE%20tag
APE tags comprise one extant convention used to store information (metadata) about a given digital audio file. Each APE tag constitutes a discrete element that describes a single attribute of the file's contents. Each consists of a key/value pair; the key is simply a label that names the attribute, such as , , , or , e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Gibson%20%28computer%20programmer%29
Steven "Steve Tiberius" Gibson (born March 26, 1955) is an American software engineer, security researcher, and IT security proponent. In the early 1980s, he worked on light pen technology for use with Apple and Atari systems, and in 1985, founded Gibson Research Corporation, best known for its SpinRite software. Earl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUDAAN
SUDAAN is a proprietary statistical software package for the analysis of correlated data, including correlated data encountered in complex sample surveys. SUDAAN originated in 1972 at RTI International (the trade name of Research Triangle Institute). Individual commercial licenses are sold for $1,460 a year, or $3,450...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20early%20detection
Random early detection (RED), also known as random early discard or random early drop, is a queuing discipline for a network scheduler suited for congestion avoidance. In the conventional tail drop algorithm, a router or other network component buffers as many packets as it can, and simply drops the ones it cannot buf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNC%20wood%20router
A CNC wood router is a CNC router tool that creates objects from wood. CNC stands for computer numerical control. The CNC works on the Cartesian coordinate system (X, Y, Z) for 3D motion control. Parts of a project can be designed in the computer with a CAD/CAM program, and then cut automatically using a router or othe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Scientific%20Library
The GNU Scientific Library (or GSL) is a software library for numerical computations in applied mathematics and science. The GSL is written in C; wrappers are available for other programming languages. The GSL is part of the GNU Project and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Project history The GSL ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Class%20365
The British Rail Class 365 Networker Express was a class of dual-voltage ( and 750 V DC) electric multiple-unit passenger train built by ABB at Holgate Road Carriage Works in 1994 and 1995. The Class 365 was derived from the EMU after the planned "Universal Networker" Classes 371 and 381 were not funded through to pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction%20scheduling
In computer science, instruction scheduling is a compiler optimization used to improve instruction-level parallelism, which improves performance on machines with instruction pipelines. Put more simply, it tries to do the following without changing the meaning of the code: Avoid pipeline stalls by rearranging the orde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Productivity%20Experience%20Group
Apple Productivity Experience Group (known as APEX) is an operating unit of Microsoft that, as of 2009, is the largest software developer outside of Apple Inc. for the macOS and iOS operating systems. Formed as Macintosh Business Unit on January 7, 1997, it was initially composed of over 100 individuals from the existi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff%20Crammond
Geoff Crammond is a computer game designer and programmer who specialises in motor racing games. A former defence industry systems engineer, he claims to have had little interest in motor racing before programming his first racing game (Revs) back in 1984, but he holds a physics degree, which may explain the realism of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20bus
A system bus is a single computer bus that connects the major components of a computer system, combining the functions of a data bus to carry information, an address bus to determine where it should be sent or read from, and a control bus to determine its operation. The technique was developed to reduce costs and impr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.vn
.vn is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Vietnam. The domain name registry for .vn is the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC). In 2003, the company Dot VN, Inc. signed an agreement with the VNNIC allowing it to market the .vn domain name abroad. Nowadays, a .vn domain name can be registere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutator%20method
In computer science, a mutator method is a method used to control changes to a variable. They are also widely known as setter methods. Often a setter is accompanied by a getter, which returns the value of the private member variable. They are also known collectively as accessors. The mutator method is most often used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera%20Computer%20Company
The Tera Computer Company was a manufacturer of high-performance computing software and hardware, founded in 1987 in Washington, D.C., and moved 1988 to Seattle, Washington, by James Rottsolk and Burton Smith. The company's first supercomputer product, named MTA, featured interleaved multi-threading, i.e. a barrel proc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z39.50
Z39.50 is an international standard client–server, application layer communications protocol for searching and retrieving information from a database over a TCP/IP computer network, developed and maintained by the Library of Congress. It is covered by ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50, and ISO standard 23950. Z39.50 is widel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda%20Security
Panda Security is a Spanish cybersecurity software company. Panda Security's core offering is antivirus software and more recently has expanded into providing and developing cybersecurity software. This includes security products and services for both businesses and home users, as well as protection tools for systems, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxTV
The LinuxTV project is an informal group of volunteers who develop software regarding digital television for the Linux kernel-based operating systems. The community develops and maintains the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) driver subsystem which is part of the Linux kernel since version 2.6.x. The Linux kernel and th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20Electronic%20Publishers
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Incorporated (formerly Franklin Computer Corporation) is an American consumer electronics manufacturer based in Burlington, New Jersey, founded in 1981. Since the mid-1980s, it has primarily created and sold hand-held electronic references, such as spelling correctors, dictionaries, tran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20History%20Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California. The museum presents stories and artifacts of Silicon Valley and the information age, and explores the computing revolution and its impact on society. History The museum's origins date to 1968 when Gordon Bell began...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Venturini
Wendy Venturini (born January 30, 1979 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American reporter for the Performance Racing Network (PRN). She works as broadcaster for NASCAR Cup Series races and sometimes as a pit reporter for races on PRN. She had been a pit reporter in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and reporter for NASCAR ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon%20%28chess%29
Sargon (or SARGON) is a line of chess-playing software for personal computers. The original SARGON from 1978 was written in assembly language by Dan and Kathleen "Kathe" Spracklen for the Z80-based Wavemate Jupiter II. History SARGON was introduced at the 1978 West Coast Computer Faire where it won the first computer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMove
The FreeMove alliance is a business alliance of mobile telecommunications companies based in Europe. History The FreeMove alliance was established in 2003, combining the national network capabilities of four of Europe's largest national mobile operators: Deutsche Telecom, France Télécom (now Orange S.A.), Telefónica ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter-separated%20values
Formats that use delimiter-separated values (also DSV) store two-dimensional arrays of data by separating the values in each row with specific delimiter characters. Most database and spreadsheet programs are able to read or save data in a delimited format. Due to their wide support, DSV files can be used in data exchan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop1984
The founder of Stop1984 started the project in 2001 as NGO which is documented in the community of Heise.de (German link). The project was discontinued in early 2008. Computer scientists disbelieve in lawfulness of the German decree of telecommunication control (German link) Objectives of Stop1984 Stop1984 mostly t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMX
VMX may refer to: Computing Virtual Machine Extensions, instructions on processors with x86 virtualization AltiVec, a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set called VMX by IBM vMX 3D, an Ethernet router in the Juniper MX-Series by Juniper Networks .vmx, a filename extension for virtual machine configuratio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20commit
In the field of computer science, an atomic commit is an operation that applies a set of distinct changes as a single operation. If the changes are applied, then the atomic commit is said to have succeeded. If there is a failure before the atomic commit can be completed, then all of the changes completed in the atomic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit%20status
In computing, the exit status, or exit code, of a terminated process is an integer number that is made available to its parent process (or caller). In DOS, this may be referred to as an errorlevel. When computer programs are executed, the operating system creates an abstract entity called a process in which the book-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20Of%20Temporal%20Ordering%20Specification
In computer science Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification (LOTOS) is a formal specification language based on temporal ordering of events. LOTOS is used for communications protocol specification in International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI) standards. LOTOS is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMODEM
ZMODEM is an inline file transfer protocol developed by Chuck Forsberg in 1986, in a project funded by Telenet in order to improve file transfers on their X.25 network. In addition to dramatically improved performance compared to older protocols, ZMODEM offered restartable transfers, auto-start by the sender, an expand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMODEM
XMODEM is a simple file transfer protocol developed as a quick hack by Ward Christensen for use in his 1977 MODEM.ASM terminal program. It allowed users to transmit files between their computers when both sides used MODEM. Keith Petersen made a minor update to always turn on "quiet mode", and called the result XMODEM. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMODEM
YMODEM is a file transfer protocol used between microcomputers connected together using modems. It was primarily used to transfer files to and from bulletin board systems. YMODEM was developed by Chuck Forsberg as an expansion of XMODEM and was first implemented in his CP/M YAM program. Initially also known as YAM, it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpress%20Transport%20Protocol
Xpress Transport Protocol (XTP) is a transport layer protocol for high-speed networks promoted by the XTP Forum developed to replace TCP. XTP provides protocol options for error control, flow control, and rate control. Instead of separate protocols for each type of communication, XTP controls packet exchange patterns t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Computer%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Franklin%20Computer%20Corp.
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp., 714 F.2d 1240 (3d Cir. 1983), was the first time an appellate level court in the United States held that a computer's BIOS could be protected by copyright. As second impact, this ruling clarified that binary code, the machine readable form of software and firmware, was c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20aliasing
IP aliasing is associating more than one IP address to a network interface. With this, one node on a network can have multiple connections to a network, each serving a different purpose. In the Linux kernel, it was first implemented by Juan José Ciarlante in 1995. On Solaris IP aliasing was called logical network inte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JasPer
Jasper is a computer software project to create a reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard (i.e. ISO/IEC 15444-1) - started in 1997 at Image Power Inc. and at the University of British Columbia. It consists of a C library and some sample applications useful for testing the codec....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20programming
In computer science, automatic programming is a type of computer programming in which some mechanism generates a computer program to allow human programmers to write the code at a higher abstraction level. There has been little agreement on the precise definition of automatic programming, mostly because its meaning ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC%2085
The KC 85 ('KC' meaning "Kleincomputer", or "small computer") were models of microcomputers (KC 85/2, KC 85/3 and KC 85/4) built in East Germany by VEB Mikroelektronik "Wilhelm Pieck" Mühlhausen. The first model in the series, the HC 900, originally designed as a home computer and introduced in 1984, was renamed to KC ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-blocking%20I/O%20%28Java%29
java.nio (NIO stands for New Input/Output) is a collection of Java programming language APIs that offer features for intensive I/O operations. It was introduced with the J2SE 1.4 release of Java by Sun Microsystems to complement an existing standard I/O. NIO was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 51. An...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Hercules
Young Hercules is a prequel series to the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys that originally aired on Fox Kids Network. It premiered on September 12, 1998 and ended on May 14, 1999, with a total of 50 episodes over the course of 1 season. It stars Ryan Gosling in the title role. The series was based on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIC%20handle
A NIC handle (Network Information Centre handle) is a unique alphanumeric character sequence that represents an entry in the databases maintained by Network Information Centres. When a new domain name is registered with a domain name registrar, a NIC handle is assigned by the registrar to the particular set of informat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-Cart
The J-Cart is a special ROM cartridge developed by Codemasters for the Sega Genesis console. It held not only the game data but also came with two additional gamepad ports. This effectively allowed four players to play simultaneously without any extra adapters. The first J-Cart game, Tennis All-Stars, was released in e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Computer%20People
Little Computer People, also called House-on-a-Disk, is a social simulation game released in 1985 by Activision for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and Apple II. An Amiga version was released in 1987. Two Japanese versions were also released in 1987, a Family Computer Disk System version, publishe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Yes%20Men
The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos. Through various actions, the Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about problematic social and political issues. To date, the duo have produced three films: The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix the Worl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi%20Router%20Traffic%20Grapher
The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is free software for monitoring and measuring the traffic load on network links. It allows the user to see traffic load on a network over time in graphical form. It was originally developed by Tobias Oetiker and Dave Rand to monitor router traffic, but has developed into a tool ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo%20TV%20Russia
Echo TV (since February 15, 2002, also Ekho TV, Телекомпания «Эхо», Эхо-ТВ) is a television company. Echo TV is affiliated with Echo of Moscow radio station and RTVi satellite television network. The president is Alexei Venediktov. References External links Russian-language television stations Defunct television ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Pierce
John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Additionally to his professional career he wrote science fiction for many years using the names Jo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker made on his 1802 Microprocessor. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine. It was made to allow video games to be more easily programmed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority%20ceiling%20protocol
In real-time computing, the priority ceiling protocol is a synchronization protocol for shared resources to avoid unbounded priority inversion and mutual deadlock due to wrong nesting of critical sections. In this protocol each resource is assigned a priority ceiling, which is a priority equal to the highest priority o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling%20pointer
Dangling pointers and wild pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are special cases of memory safety violations. More generally, dangling references and wild references are references that do not resolve to a valid destination. Dangling pointers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair%20User
Sinclair User was a magazine dedicated to the Sinclair Research range of home computers, most specifically the ZX Spectrum (while also occasionally covering arcade games). Initially published by ECC Publications, and later EMAP, it was published in the UK between 1982 and 1993, and was the longest running Sinclair-base...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telmac%201800
The Telmac 1800 was an early microcomputer delivered in kit form. It was introduced in 1977 by Telercas Oy, the Finnish importer of RCA microchips. Most of the 2,000 kits manufactured over four years were bought by electronics enthusiasts in Finland, Sweden and Norway. An expansion board, OSCOM, later became available...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20%28magazine%29
Crash, stylized as CRASH, is a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer, primarily focused on games. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress. It was relaunched as a quarterly A5 magazine in December 2020 with the backing of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20illustration
Digital illustration or computer illustration is the use of digital tools to produce images under the direct manipulation of the artist, usually through a pointing device such as a graphics tablet or, less commonly, a mouse. It is distinguished from computer-generated art, which is produced by a computer using mathemat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Reports
Oracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. Oracle Reports consists of Oracle Reports Developer (a component of the Oracle Developer Suite) and Oracle Application Server Reports Services (a component of the Oracle Application Server). Output formats The report output can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB
MaxDB is an ANSI SQL-92 (entry level) compliant relational database management system (RDBMS) from SAP AG, which was also delivered by MySQL AB from 2003 to 2007. MaxDB is targeted for large SAP environments e.g. mySAP Business Suite, and other applications that require enterprise-level database functionality. History...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeskMate
DeskMate is a software application that provides a graphical operating environment. It originally was for Tandy Corporation's TRSDOS Operating System for their TRS-80 line of computers, but eventually shifted to MS-DOS. Like GEM from Digital Research, it is not a full operating system, but runs on top an existing syste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AST%20Research
AST Research, Inc., later doing business as AST Computer, was a personal computer manufacturer. It was founded in 1980 in Irvine, California, by Albert Wong, Safi Qureshey, and Thomas Yuen, as an initialism of their first names. In the 1980s, AST designed add-on expansion cards, and evolved toward the 1990s into a majo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20PC-100
The NEC PC-100 was a Japanese home computer available on October 13, 1983. It operated on 8086 CPU 7 MHz, 128KB RAM, 128KB VRAM, a Japanese language capable keyboard and a two button mouse. It had three models and its color monitor, PC-KD651, which could be used vertically or horizontally, had the price tag of 198,000 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel%20Linux
Corel Linux, also called Corel LinuxOS, was a Debian-based operating system made by Corel that began beta testing on September 21, 1999 and was released to the public on November 15, 1999. It mainly competed against Windows 98 and Windows 2000 by Microsoft, plus Mac OS 9 by Apple. Corel later discontinued the distribut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete%20testis
The rete testis ( ) is an anastomosing network of delicate tubules located in the hilum of the testicle (mediastinum testis) that carries sperm from the seminiferous tubules to the efferent ducts. It is the homologue of the rete ovarii in females. Its function is to provide a site for fluid reabsorption. Structure Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauppauge%20Computer%20Works
Hauppauge Computer Works ( ) is a US manufacturer and marketer of electronic video hardware for personal computers. Although it is most widely known for its WinTV line of TV tuner cards for PCs, Hauppauge also produces personal video recorders, digital video editors, digital media players, hybrid video recorders and di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Langton
Christopher Gale Langton (born 1948/49) is an American computer scientist and one of the founders of the field of artificial life. He coined the term in the late 1980s when he organized the first "Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems" (otherwise known as Artificial Life I) at the Los Alamos Nati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Country%20Practice
A Country Practice is an Australian television soap opera/serial which was broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 22 November 1993, and subsequently on Network Ten from 13 April 1994 to 5 November 1994. Altogether, 14 seasons and 1,088 episodes were produced. The show was produced at the ATN-7's pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Radio
Family Radio, also known by its licensee name Family Stations, Inc., is a non-profit, non-denominational, educational Christian radio network based in Franklin, Tennessee with network operations located in Alameda, California, United States. Established in 1958, Family Radio airs religious music and programming, both p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end%20delay
End-to-end delay or one-way delay (OWD) refers to the time taken for a packet to be transmitted across a network from source to destination. It is a common term in IP network monitoring, and differs from round-trip time (RTT) in that only path in the one direction from source to destination is measured. Measurement Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN%20Manager
LAN Manager is a discontinued network operating system (NOS) available from multiple vendors and developed by Microsoft in cooperation with 3Com Corporation. It was designed to succeed 3Com's 3+Share network server software which ran atop a heavily modified version of MS-DOS. History The LAN Manager OS/2 operating sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting%20method%20%28computer%20science%29
In the field of analysis of algorithms in computer science, the accounting method is a method of amortized analysis based on accounting. The accounting method often gives a more intuitive account of the amortized cost of an operation than either aggregate analysis or the potential method. Note, however, that this doe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20LAN%20Server
IBM LAN Server is a discontinued network operating system introduced by International Business Machines (IBM) in 1988. LAN Server started as a close cousin of Microsoft's LAN Manager and first shipped in early 1988. It was originally designed to run on top of Operating System/2 (OS/2) Extended Edition. The network clie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusE
MusE is computer software, a sequencer for Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) and audio, with recording and editing abilities. It was originally written by Werner Schweer and now is developed by the MusE development team. It is free software released under GPL-2.0-or-later. MusE aims to be a complete multitra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20American%20Jews
These are lists of prominent American Jews, arranged by field of activity. Academics Biologists and physicians Chemists Computer scientists Economists Historians Linguists Mathematicians Philosophers Physicists Activists Activists Artists Architects Cartoonists Composers Photographers Visual artists B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth%20workshop
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field. The project lasted approximately six to eight weeks and was essentially an extended brainstorming session. Eleven mathematicians and scientists o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberkinetics
Cyberkinetics is an American company with roots tied to the University of Utah. It was co-founded by John Donoghue, Mijail Serruya, Gerhard Friehs of Brown University, and Nicho Hatsopoulos of the University of Chicago. The Braingate technology and related Cyberkinetic’s assets were sold to Blackrock Neurotech (then Bl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dsuke%20Okano
is a Japanese voice actor. He was born in Tokyo, and is often featured on Japanese anime television network Animax as narrator along with fellow voice actor Yukari Tamura. Filmography Television animation Asuka Jr. in Saint Tail (1995) Maeno in Ping-Pong Club (1995) Recca Hanabishi in Flame of Recca (1997) Kuki Jr. i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Mie%20van%20Kerckhoven
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (born 5 December, 1951 in Antwerp) is a Belgian artist whose work involves painting, drawing, computer art and video art. Biography Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (also known as AMVK) was born in Antwerp and lives in Antwerp and Berlin. In 1981 she founded the noise band Club Moral with Danny Devos. S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCOM%20U.S.%20Navy%20SEALs%20%28video%20game%29
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs is a tactical shooter video game developed by Zipper Interactive and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2. In addition to the 12 offline single player missions, SOCOM also featured online play via the Internet. SOCOM uses a USB headset for its speech recognition commands off...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSMAC
COSMAC may refer to: The RCA (CDP)1802 microprocessor, aka RCA COSMAC The COSMAC ELF an RCA COSMAC microprocessor–based computer released 1976, sold as a kit The COSMAC VIP an RCA COSMAC microprocessor–based computer aimed at video games, released 1977, sold as a kit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal%20Cave
Colossal Cave may refer to: Colossal Cave (Arizona), cave system in Arizona Colossal Cavern, cave in Kentucky Colossal Cave Adventure, 1976 computer game based on Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky Colossal Cave (video game), 2023 reimagining of the 1976 video game See also Mammoth Cave (disambiguation) Gro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch%20and%20Data
Switch and Data Facilities Company, Inc. was a U.S. public corporation that provided network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services to network-centric businesses. Switch and Data was acquired by Equinix in 2010. Switch and Data provided services including colocation, interconnection, network connectivity ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20R.%20Corliss
William Roger Corliss (August 28, 1926 – July 8, 2011) was an American physicist and writer who was known for his interest in collecting data regarding anomalous phenomena (including cryptozoology, out-of-place artifacts and unidentified flying objects). Corliss was Charles Fort's most direct successor. Arthur C. Clark...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fitch
John Fitch may refer to: John Fitch (computer scientist) (born 1945), computer scientist, mathematician and composer John Fitch (inventor) (1743–1798), early American inventor, built the first steamboat in the United States in 1786 John Fitch, Massachusetts settler for whom Fitchburg, Massachusetts is named John F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipation%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29
In artificial intelligence (AI), anticipation occurs when an agent makes decisions based on its explicit beliefs about the future. More broadly, "anticipation" can also refer to the ability to act in appropriate ways that take future events into account, without necessarily explicitly possessing a model of the future e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization%20problem
In mathematics, engineering, computer science and economics, an optimization problem is the problem of finding the best solution from all feasible solutions. Optimization problems can be divided into two categories, depending on whether the variables are continuous or discrete: An optimization problem with discrete ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novagen%20Software
Novagen Software Ltd (commonly referred to as Novagen) was a British software developer which released a number of computer games on a variety of platforms from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The company was set up by Paul Woakes and Bruce Jordan and employed approximately 18 people. In addition to running Novagen,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporally%20ordered%20routing%20algorithm
The Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) is an algorithm for routing data across Wireless Mesh Networks or Mobile ad hoc networks. It was developed by Vincent Park and Scott Corson at the University of Maryland and the Naval Research Laboratory. Park has patented his work, and it was licensed by Nova Engineeri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Cinema%20Display
The Apple Cinema Display is a line of flat-panel computer monitors developed and sold by Apple Inc. between 1999 and 2011. It was initially sold alongside the older line of Studio Displays, but eventually replaced them. Apple offered 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, and 30-inch sizes, with the last model being a 27-inch size with L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith%20MinisPort
The Zenith MinisPort (styled as minisPORT) is a subnotebook based on an 80C88 CMOS CPU running at two software selectable speeds: 4.77 MHz or 8 MHz. It was released in 1989 by Zenith Data Systems (ZDS). It had 1 (model ZL-1) or 2 MB (model ZL-2) of RAM, ran MS-DOS 3.3 Plus from ROM, had a 640×200 LCD display and CGA a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Eckel
Bruce Eckel (born ) is a computer programmer, author, and consultant. Eckel's best known works are Thinking in Java and the two-volume series Thinking in C++, aimed at programmers wanting to learn the Java or C++ programming languages, respectively, particularly those with little experience of object-oriented programm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Interactive%20Simulation
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) is an IEEE standard for conducting real-time platform-level wargaming across multiple host computers and is used worldwide, especially by military organizations but also by other agencies such as those involved in space exploration and medicine. History The standard was develop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20Virtual%20Server
Linux Virtual Server (LVS) is load balancing software for Linux kernel–based operating systems. LVS is a free and open-source project started by Wensong Zhang in May 1998, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. The mission of the project is to build a high-performance and highl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm%20International%20Peace%20Research%20Institute
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm. It was founded in 1966 and provides data, analysis and recommendations for armed conflict, military expenditure and arms trade as well as disarmament and arms control. The research is based on open sources and is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar%20Jacobson
Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson (born 1939) is a Swedish computer scientist and software engineer, known as major contributor to UML, Objectory, Rational Unified Process (RUP), aspect-oriented software development and Essence. Biography Ivar Jacobson was born in Ystad, Sweden, on September 2, 1939. He received his Master of El...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple-versioning
Tuple-versioning (also called point-in-time) is a mechanism used in a relational database management system to store past states of a relation. Normally, only the current state is captured. Using tuple-versioning techniques, typically two values for time are stored along with each tuple: a start time and an end time....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance%20of%20the%20Three%20Kingdoms%20%28disambiguation%29
Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a novel written by Luo Guanzhong. Romance of the Three Kingdoms may also refer to: Romance of the Three Kingdoms (video game series), computer/video game series by Koei Romance of the Three Kingdoms (TV series), 1994 CCTV television series Three Kingdoms (TV series), 2010 TV series,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almacelles
Almacelles () is a town in the comarca of Segrià, in Catalonia, Spain with a population of 6,800 as of 2016. References External links Government data pages Municipalities in Segrià
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Automated%20Fingerprint%20Identification%20System
The National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) is an Australian fingerprint and palm print database and matching system to assist law enforcement agencies across Australia and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to establish the identity of persons and to help solve crimes and for othe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendancy%20%28video%20game%29
Ascendancy is a 4X science fiction turn-based strategy computer game. It was originally released for MS-DOS in 1995 and was updated and re-released for iOS in 2011 by The Logic Factory. Ascendancy is a galactic struggle to become the dominant life form, hence the title. The game's introductory cinematic states: "Wildl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%20Inclined%20Plane
The Hay Inclined Plane is a canal inclined plane in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, with a height of . It was located at the end of the Shropshire Canal, part of a network of canals that linked the industrial region of east Shropshire with the River Severn. The inclined plane was in operation from 1793 to 1894. It...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20blocking
Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network. This may be done using browser extensions or other methods. History The first ad blocker was Internet Fast Forward, a plugin for the Netscape Navigator browser, developed by P...