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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altix | Altix is a line of server computers and supercomputers produced by Silicon Graphics (and successor company Silicon Graphics International), based on Intel processors. It succeeded the MIPS/IRIX-based Origin 3000 servers.
History
The line was first announced on January 7, 2003, with the Altix 3000 series, based on Inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin%20Interactive | Gremlin Graphics Software Limited, later Gremlin Interactive Limited and ultimately Infogrames Studios Limited was a British software house based in Sheffield, working mostly in the home computer market. Like many software houses established in the 1980s, their primary market was the 8-bit range of computers such as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default%20gateway | A default gateway is the node in a computer network using the Internet protocol suite that serves as the forwarding host (router) to other networks when no other route specification matches the destination IP address of a packet.
Role
A gateway is a network node that serves as an access point to another network, often... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability%20%28computing%29 | Vulnerabilities are flaws in a computer system that weaken the overall security of the device/system. Vulnerabilities can be weaknesses in either the hardware itself, or the software that runs on the hardware. Vulnerabilities can be exploited by a threat actor, such as an attacker, to cross privilege boundaries (i.e. p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20node%20controller | A terminal node controller (TNC) is a device used by amateur radio operators to participate in AX.25 packet radio networks. It is similar in function to the Packet Assembler/Disassemblers used on X.25 networks, with the addition of a modem to convert baseband digital signals to audio tones.
The first TNC, the VADCG b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTL%20%28Croatian%20TV%20channel%29 | RTL (previously known as RTL Televizija) is a Croatian free-to-air television network founded on 30 April 2004. It was owned by the RTL Group from 2004 to 2022. Since 1 June 2022, it is owned by the CME Group.
This is the second commercial television network in Croatia that has a national concession, following Nova T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density%20%28computer%20storage%29 | Density is a measure of the quantity of information bits that can be stored on a given length (linear density) of track, area of the surface (areal density), or in a given volume (volumetric density) of a computer storage medium. Generally, higher density is more desirable, for it allows more data to be stored in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiescence | Quiescence (/kwiˈɛsəns/) is a state of quietness or inactivity. It may refer to:
Quiescence search, in game tree searching (adversarial search) in artificial intelligence, a quiescent state is one in which a game is considered stable and unlikely to change drastically the next few plays
Seed dormancy, a form of dela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Java%20keywords | In the Java programming language, a keyword is any one of 68 reserved words that have a predefined meaning in the language. Because of this, programmers cannot use keywords in some contexts, such as names for variables, methods, classes, or as any other identifier. Of these 68 keywords, 17 of them are only contextually... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode | Bencode (pronounced like Bee-encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.
It supports four different types of values:
byte strings,
integers,
lists, and
dictionaries (associative arrays).
Bencoding is most commonly used in to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuxedo%20%28software%29 | Tuxedo (Transactions for Unix, Extended for Distributed Operations) is a middleware platform used to manage distributed transaction processing in distributed computing environments. Tuxedo is a transaction processing system or transaction-oriented middleware, or enterprise application server for a variety of systems an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set%20partitioning%20in%20hierarchical%20trees | Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) is an image compression algorithm that exploits the inherent similarities across the subbands in a wavelet decomposition of an image. The algorithm was developed by Brazilian engineer Amir Said with William A. Pearlman in 1996.
General description
The algorithm codes the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start%20Network | Start Network AS is a private company that owns and runs the internet service provider Start.no in Norway.
In addition to the premium portal site at start.no the company offers several levels of service, including free Internet access over dialup, free internet- and POP3 based email, free web hosting for homepages. Du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac | Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible by terminal, originally by specialists using machine code and later by any user, and used for directing the global economy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Muppet%20Family%20Christmas | A Muppet Family Christmas is a Christmas musical television special starring Jim Henson's Muppets. It first aired on December 16, 1987, on the ABC television network in the United States. Shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, its teleplay was conceived by longtime Muppet writer Jerry Juhl, and directed by Peter Harris and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Miracles | Animal Miracles, also broadcast as Miracle Pets, is a one-hour, live action program that aired on the Pax TV network from 2001 to 2003, offering a perspective into the realm of human and animal interaction. Hosted by Alan Thicke, the series features animals protecting humans or other pets, one such being a llama guardi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encore%20%28disambiguation%29 | An encore is a performance added to the end of a concert.
Encore(s) may also refer to:
Businesses and products
Computing
Encore (software), a music notation software
Encore Computer, an early maker of parallel computers and real-time software
Encore, Inc., a software publishing and distribution company
EnCore Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIA%20Music%20Awards%20of%202003 | The 17th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards) were held on 21 October 2003 at the Sydney Superdome. The ceremony aired on Network Ten.
Awards
Winners highlighted in bold, with nominees, in plain, below them.
ARIA Awards
Album of the Year
Powderfinger – V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Kopec | Daniel Kopec (February 28, 1954 – June 12, 2016) was an American chess International Master, author, and computer science professor at Brooklyn College.
Education
He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1975. Kopec later received a PhD in Machine Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 studyi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDI | XDI (eXtensible Data Interchange) is a semantic data interchange format and protocol under development by the OASIS XDI Technical Committee. The name comes from the addressable graph model XDI uses: every node in the XDI graph is its own RDF graph that is uniquely addressable.
Background
The main features of XDI are:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20Name%20Service | Extensible Name Service (XNS) is an open protocol for universal addressing and automated data exchange. It is an XML-based digital identity architecture.
History
The development of XML in 1998 led to the XNS project, and the establishment of an international non-profit governance organization, XNS Public Trust Organiz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCU | SCU may refer to:
Computing
SAS control unit, a hardware component that controls Serial attached SCSI devices
Single compilation unit, C/C++ specific compilation technique
System Control Unit for Sega Saturn chip set
Sport
SoCal Uncensored, a professional wrestling stable often referred to as SCU
Unions
Scott... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-name | I-names are one form of an XRI — an OASIS open standard for digital identifiers designed for sharing resources and data across domains and applications. I-names are human readable XRIs intended to be as easy as possible for people to remember and use. For example, a personal i-name could be =Mary or =Mary.Jones. An org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%20federation | A trust federation is part of the evolving Identity Metasystem that will bring a new layer of persistent identity and trusted data sharing to the Internet. Although the concept of trust federations is technology neutral, several protocols like SAML, OpenID, Information Card, XDI can handle the challenges of technical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20W.%20Snedecor | George Waddel Snedecor (October 20, 1881 – February 15, 1974) was an American mathematician and statistician. He contributed to the foundations of analysis of variance, data analysis, experimental design, and statistical methodology. Snedecor's F-distribution and the George W. Snedecor Award of the American Statistical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockhead%20%28thought%20experiment%29 | Blockhead is the name of a theoretical computer system invented as part of a thought experiment by philosopher Ned Block, which appeared in a paper titled "Psychologism and Behaviorism". Block did not name the computer in the paper.
Overview
In "Psychologism and Behaviorism," Block argues that the internal mechanism o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnoldi%20iteration | In numerical linear algebra, the Arnoldi iteration is an eigenvalue algorithm and an important example of an iterative method. Arnoldi finds an approximation to the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of general (possibly non-Hermitian) matrices by constructing an orthonormal basis of the Krylov subspace, which makes it part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20code | In coding theory, block codes are a large and important family of error-correcting codes that encode data in blocks.
There is a vast number of examples for block codes, many of which have a wide range of practical applications. The abstract definition of block codes is conceptually useful because it allows coding theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3%20Graphics | S3 Graphics, Ltd (commonly referred to as S3) was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvidia, it merged with hardware manufacturer Diamond Multimedia in 1999. The resultin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptics | Synaptics is a publicly owned San Jose, California-based developer of human interface (HMI) hardware and software, including touchpads for computer laptops; touch, display driver, and fingerprint biometrics technology for smartphones; and touch, video and far-field voice technology for smart home devices and automotive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skithouse | Skithouse (styled skitHOUSE) was an Australian sketch comedy television series that ran on Network Ten from 9 February 2003 to 28 July 2004. The series was produced by Roving Enterprises. It featured many well-known Australian comedians, including comedy-band Tripod. Reruns can now be seen on The Comedy Channel on Foxt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20migration | Data migration is the process of selecting, preparing, extracting, and transforming data and permanently transferring it from one computer storage system to another. Additionally, the validation of migrated data for completeness and the decommissioning of legacy data storage are considered part of the entire data migra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Electronic%20Transaction | Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) is a communications protocol standard for securing credit card transactions over networks, specifically, the Internet. SET was not itself a payment system, but rather a set of security protocols and formats that enabled users to employ the existing credit card payment infrastructure ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20scrubbing | Memory scrubbing consists of reading from each computer memory location, correcting bit errors (if any) with an error-correcting code (ECC), and writing the corrected data back to the same location.
Due to the high integration density of modern computer memory chips, the individual memory cell structures became small ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WATFIV | WATFIV, or WATerloo FORTRAN IV, developed at the University of Waterloo, Canada is an implementation of the Fortran computer programming language. It is the successor of WATFOR.
WATFIV was used from the late 1960s into the mid-1980s. WATFIV was in turn succeeded by later versions of WATFOR.
Because it could complete ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Chambers | John Chambers may refer to:
Academics
John Chambers (scientist), one of two scientists who formulated the Planet V theory in 2002
John Chambers (statistician), creator of the S programming language and core member of the R programming language project
John Chambers (topographer) (1780–1839), English antiquarian
Ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IStumbler | iStumbler is a utility for finding wireless networks and devices with AirPort- or Bluetooth-enabled Macintosh computers.
iStumbler was originally based on MacStumbler source code. Its early development focused on detection of open wireless (802.11) networks, but more recent versions support the detection of Bluetooth ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20contract | A link contract is an approach to data control in a distributed data sharing network. Link contracts are a key feature of the XDI specifications under development at OASIS.
In XDI, a link contract is a machine-readable XDI document that governs the sharing of other XDI data. Unlike a conventional Web link, which is es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbridge%20Networks | Newbridge Networks was an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada company founded by Welsh-Canadian entrepreneur Sir Terry Matthews. It was founded in 1986 to create data and voice networking products after Matthews was forced out of his original company Mitel. According to Matthews, he saw that data networking would grow far faster ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf%20Technologies | Gandalf Technologies, Inc., or simply Gandalf, was a Canadian data communications company based in Ottawa. It was best known for modems and terminal adapters that allowed computer terminals to connect to host computers through a single interface. Gandalf also pioneered a radio-based mobile data terminal that was popul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACX | PACX (Private Automatic Computer eXchange) was a name given by Gandalf Technologies to their family of data switching products.
Architecture
The PACX was a centralized switch that allowed serial connections from end users to be connected to any one of a number of computers, typically mainframes. Users were equipped wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20diddling | Data diddling is a type of cybercrime in which data is altered as it is entered into a computer system, most often by a data entry clerk or a computer virus. Computerized processing of the altered data results in a fraudulent benefit. In some cases, the altered data is changed back after processing to conceal the activ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20of%20the%20Unicorn | Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) is a music-related computer software and hardware supplier. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has created music software since 1984. In the mid-1980s, Mark of the Unicorn sold productivity software and several games for the Macintosh, Atari ST, and Amiga.
Products
Current
Digital ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking%20%28computing%29 | In computer programming, chunking has multiple meanings.
In memory management
Typical modern software systems allocate memory dynamically from structures known as heaps. Calls are made to heap-management routines to allocate and free memory. Heap management involves some computation time and can be a performance issu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20patent%20debate | The software patent debate is the argument about the extent to which, as a matter of public policy, it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented inventions. Policy debate on software patents has been active for years. The opponents to software patents have gained more visibility with fewer resource... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20patents%20under%20United%20States%20patent%20law | Neither software nor computer programs are explicitly mentioned in statutory United States patent law. Patent law has changed to address new technologies, and decisions of the United States Supreme Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) beginning in the latter part of the 20th century h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20cache | Disk cache may refer to:
Disk buffer, the small amount of RAM embedded on a hard disk drive, used to store the data going to and coming from the disk platters
Page cache, the cache of data residing on a storage device, kept by the operating systems and stored in unused main memory
General application-level caching ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20case | A computer case, also known as a computer chassis, is the enclosure that contains most of the hardware of a personal computer. The components housed inside the case (such as the CPU, motherboard, memory, mass storage devices, power supply unit and various expansion cards) are referred as the internal hardware, while ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Feldman | Stuart Feldman is an American computer scientist. He is best known as the creator of the computer software program make. He was also an author of the first Fortran 77 compiler, was part of the original group at Bell Labs that created the Unix operating system, and participated in development of the ALTRAN and EFL progr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Draft | An Internet Draft (I-D) is a document published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) containing preliminary technical specifications, results of networking-related research, or other technical information. Often, Internet Drafts are intended to be work-in-progress documents for work that is eventually to be pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguerre%27s%20method | In numerical analysis, Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials. In other words, Laguerre's method can be used to numerically solve the equation for a given polynomial . One of the most useful properties of this method is that it is, from extensive empirical study, very close to being a "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20semantic%20graph | In computer science, an abstract semantic graph (ASG) or term graph is a form of abstract syntax in which an expression of a formal or programming language is represented by a graph whose vertices are the expression's subterms. An ASG is at a higher level of abstraction than an abstract syntax tree (or AST), which is u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer%20Desire | Summer Desire is the name of the first and only night-time special aired under the Another World soap opera banner. Touted as special event programming, the hour-long episode aired just before the Daytime Emmy Awards on June 23, 1992.
Unlike other soaps, which also aired one-off specials at night, the Another World sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2440%20a%20Day | $40 a Day was a Food Network show hosted by Rachael Ray. In each episode, Ray takes a one-day trip to an American, Canadian, or European city with only $40 US, to spend on food. While touring the city, she finds restaurants to go to (often based on local recommendations), and usually manages to fit three meals and some... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninitialized%20variable | In computing, an uninitialized variable is a variable that is declared but is not set to a definite known value before it is used. It will have some value, but not a predictable one. As such, it is a programming error and a common source of bugs in software.
Example of the C language
A common assumption made by novic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Ocean%20Database%20Project | The World Ocean Database Project, or WOD, is a project established by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The project leader is Sydney Levitus who is director of the International Council for Science (ICSU) World Data Center (WDC) for Oceanography, Silver Spring. In recognition of the success of the I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superkey | In the relational data model a superkey is a set of attributes that uniquely identifies each tuple of a relation. Because superkey values are unique, tuples with the same superkey value must also have the same non-key attribute values. That is, non-key attributes are functionally dependent on the superkey.
The set of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-frequency%20network | A single-frequency network or SFN is a broadcast network where several transmitters simultaneously send the same signal over the same frequency channel.
Analog AM and FM radio broadcast networks as well as digital broadcast networks can operate in this manner. SFNs are not generally compatible with analog television t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-code%20editor | A source-code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs. It may be a standalone application or it may be built into an integrated development environment (IDE).
Characteristics
Source-code editors have characteristics specifically designed to simplify and speed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCET | WCET may refer to:
Worst-case execution time, a computer science term
WCET (TV), a PBS station serving the Cincinnati area
Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies Certification, an IEEE certification regarding wireless technologies
Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Certification%20Forum | The Global Certification Forum, known as GCF, is an London-based partnership between mobile network operators, mobile device manufacturers and the test industry. GCF was founded in 1999, and its membership has been responsible for creating an independent certification programme to help ensure global interoperability be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping%27an%20Avenue | Ping'an Avenue (; English translation: "Peaceful Avenue") refers to a section of the road network in Beijing, China.
Ping'an Avenue is not the name of any particular road; it refers to the stretch of roads from Guanyuan Bridge on the western 2nd Ring Road through to Dongsishitiao Bridge on the eastern 2nd Ring Road.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jackie%20Gleason%20Show | The Jackie Gleason Show is the name of a series of American network television shows that starred Jackie Gleason, which ran from 1952 to 1970, in various forms.
Cavalcade of Stars
Gleason's first variety series, which aired on the DuMont Television Network under the title Cavalcade of Stars, first aired June 4, 1949. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20balance%20theory | Social balance theory is a class of theories about balance or imbalance of sentiment relation in dyadic or triadic relations with social network theory. Sentiments can result in the emergence of two groups. Disliking exists between the two subgroups within liking agents.
Development of the theory
This theory evolved ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable%20function | Computable functions are the basic objects of study in computability theory. Computable functions are the formalized analogue of the intuitive notion of algorithms, in the sense that a function is computable if there exists an algorithm that can do the job of the function, i.e. given an input of the function domain it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends%20Reunited | Friends Reunited was a portfolio of social networking websites based upon the themes of reunion with research, dating and job-hunting. The first and eponymous website was created by a husband-and-wife team in the classic back-bedroom Internet start-up; it was the first online social network to achieve prominence in Bri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Incredible%20Hulk%20%281978%20TV%20series%29 | The Incredible Hulk is an American television series based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. The series aired on the CBS television network and starred Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner, Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, and Jack Colvin as Jack McGee.
In the TV series, Dr. David Banner, a widowed physician and scientist w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack%20Canada | Hack Canada is a Canadian organization run by hackers and phreakers that provides information mainly about telephones, computer technology, and legal issues related to technology.
Founded in 1998 by CYBØRG/ASM, HackCanada has been in media publications many times, including Wired News and the Edmonton Sun newspaper (a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepycat%20License | The Sleepycat License (sometimes referred to as Berkeley Database License or the Sleepycat Public License) is a copyleft free software license used by Oracle Corporation for the open-source editions of Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB Java Edition and Berkeley DB XML embedded database products older than version 6.0.20. (Start... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency%20%28database%20systems%29 | In database systems, consistency (or correctness) refers to the requirement that any given database transaction must change affected data only in allowed ways. Any data written to the database must be valid according to all defined rules, including constraints, cascades, triggers, and any combination thereof. This doe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member | Member may refer to:
Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon
Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set
In object-oriented programming, a member of a class
Field (computer science), entries in a database
Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific obj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20voting%20in%20Canada | Federal elections use hand-counted paper ballots. Provincial elections use paper ballots, some provinces have introduced computer ballot counting (vote tabulators), and the Northwest Territories has experimented with Internet voting for absentee voting. Paper ballots with computer vote tabulators have been used since... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Tuke | Henry Tuke (24 March 1755 – 11 August 1814) co-founded with his father, William Tuke, the Retreat asylum in York, England, a humane alternative to the nineteenth-century network of asyla, based on Quaker principles.
He was the author of several moral and theological treatises which have been translated into German and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAR2 | PAR2 may refer to:
Parchive, an error correction system for computer files. The second version is known as PAR2.
Protease activated receptor 2, a G-protein coupled receptor protein
PAR2, one of the pseudoautosomal regions of the X and Y chromosomes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20and%20the%20Three%20Bears | Santa and the Three Bears is a 1970 animated feature film, which aired in syndication on television regularly during the holiday season.
Background
The film was originally pitched to TV networks, which rejected it as it lacked a villain, but was then shown in theaters instead. This special has been rerun on TBN, USA ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kido | Kido or KIDO may refer to:
Kido (surname)
KIDO, an American radio station
Kidō, a form of magic used by characters in the manga and anime Bleach
Conficker or Kido, computer worm
Gao Hanyu or Kido, Chinese actor and singer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%27s%20Twilight | System's Twilight: An Abstract Fairy Tale is a graphical interactive fiction computer game created by Andrew Plotkin and released in 1994.
Summary
The game is a combination of puzzle and story, combining several different kinds of logic puzzles and word puzzles. The puzzles include variations of Set, Black Box, and S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Haven%20Project | The Free Haven Project was formed in 1999 by a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students with the aim to develop a secure, decentralized system of data storage. The group's work led to a collaboration with the United States Naval Research Laboratory to develop Tor, funded by DARPA.
Distributed anonymous ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rael%20Dornfest | Rael Dornfest is an American computer programmer and author. He was a technical fellow and CTO of Charity: Water, and was previously an engineer at Twitter. He was founder and chief executive officer of Values of N, creator of "I Want Sandy" and "Stikkit: Little Yellow Notes that Think." Previously, he was chief techno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconectiv | iconectiv is a supplier of network planning and network management services to telecommunications providers. Known as Bellcore after its establishment in the United States in 1983 as part of the break-up of the Bell System, the company's name changed to Telcordia Technologies after a change of ownership in 1996. The bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictor%40home | Predictor@home was a volunteer computing project that used BOINC software to predict protein structure from protein sequence in the context of the 6th biannual CASP, or Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction. A major goal of the project was the testing and evaluating of new algorithms to pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climateprediction.net | climateprediction.net (CPDN) is a volunteer computing project to investigate and reduce uncertainties in climate modelling. It aims to do this by running hundreds of thousands of different models (a large climate ensemble) using the donated idle time of ordinary personal computers, thereby leading to a better understan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Age%20of%20Intelligent%20Machines | The Age of Intelligent Machines is a non-fiction book about artificial intelligence by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. This was his first book and the Association of American Publishers named it the Most Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990. It was reviewed in The New York Times and The Christian Science Monit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROG | In cryptography, FROG is a block cipher authored by
Georgoudis, Leroux and Chaves. The algorithm can work with any block size between 8 and 128 bytes, and supports key sizes between 5 and 125 bytes. The algorithm consists of 8 rounds and has a very complicated key schedule.
It was submitted in 1998 by TecApro, a Cos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%2010%25%20Solution%20for%20a%20Healthy%20Life | The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life (, paperback, 1993) is a health book written by computer scientist Ray Kurzweil and published in 1993. In the book, he explains to readers "How to Reduce Fat in Your Diet and Eliminate Virtually All Risk of Heart Disease and Cancer". Some of his recommendations have been updated and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20Attached%20SCSI | In computing, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a point-to-point serial protocol that moves data to and from computer-storage devices such as hard disk drives and tape drives. SAS replaces the older Parallel SCSI (Parallel Small Computer System Interface, usually pronounced "scuzzy" or "sexy") bus technology that first app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Cross%20Cable | The Southern Cross Cable is a trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables commissioned in 2000. The network is operated by the Bermuda-registered company Southern Cross Cables Limited. The network has of submarine and of terrestrial fiber optic cables, all which operate in a triple-ring configuration. Initiall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graftgold | Graftgold was an independent computer game developer that came to prominence in the 1980s, producing numerous computer games on a variety of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit platforms.
History
The Hewson era
Graftgold was formed in 1983 when Steve Turner quit his day job as a commercial programmer to concentrate on producing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult%20FriendFinder | Adult FriendFinder (AFF) is an internet-based, adult-oriented social networking service, online dating service and swinger personals community website, founded by Andrew Conru in 1996.
In 2007 AFF was one of the 100 most popular sites in the United States; its competitors include sites such as Match.com.
History
In 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDBA | CDBA can mean:
Clearance Diver's Breathing Apparatus, types of naval diver's rebreather:
Siebe Gorman CDBA
Carleton CDBA
common data bus architecture' in computers.
'Current differencing buffered amplifier in electronics.
Centro de Big Data e Analytics - an analytics team.
Dragon boat associations
California Dragon B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag | Nag or NAG may refer to:
Computers
Nag, a multi user tasklist manager included in Horde (software)
Numerical Algorithms Group, a software company
NAG Numerical Library, numerical analysis software
Numeric Annotation Glyphs, in computerized chess
Music
"Nag", a song on Joan Jett's album I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Stag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazeh%20Darwazi | Nazeh Darwazi (also Romanized Darwazeh)(ca. 1958-1961 – 19 April 2003), was a Palestinian freelance cameraman for the US news agency Associated Press Television Network (APTN) and Palestinian state television when he was killed in Nablus in the West Bank while reporting, according to eyewitnesses, by a bullet in the h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse%20of%20Horror%20XV | "Treehouse of Horror XV" is the first episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 7, 2004. In the fifteenth annual Treehouse of Horror, Ned Flanders' head injury gives him the power to predict others' de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delgo | Delgo is a 2008 American computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Marc F. Adler and Jason Maurer, written by Scott Biear, Patrick J. Cowan, Carl Dream, and Jennifer A. Jones. It stars Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft, Chris Kattan, Louis Gossett Jr., Burt Reynolds, Eric Idle, Michael ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Woodhead | Robert J. Woodhead is an entrepreneur, software engineer and former game programmer. He claims that a common thread in his career is "doing weird things with computers".
Career
In 1979 he co-founded Sirotech (later known as Sir-Tech) with Norman Sirotek and Robert Sirotek. Along with Andrew C. Greenberg, he created ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Suppliers%20Network | The International Suppliers Network is a system which logs and tracks vendors. Major companies such as General Motors often use the ISN to establish the "trustworthy" status of a new vendor. The ISN also allows companies to import a validated version of a vendor's details directly into their own procurement system.
Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20%28Ender%27s%20Game%29 | Jane is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender series. She is an energy based non-artificial sentient creature called an Aiúa that was placed within the ansible network by which spaceships and planets communicate instantly across galactic distances. She has appeared in the novels Speaker for the Dead, Xenoci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unode | Unode is a short form of underground node: a script or program that combines other programs for creating a decentralized anonymous encrypted communication network. Other programs include: Entropy, Mixmaster, GPG, NEWSPOST, plus Plugins for more.
Unode is a project to create a set of bash scripts to help Activists comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Cover | On the Cover may refer to:
On the Cover, an extended play by the American punk band MxPx
On the Cover, a 2004 game show broadcast on the former PAX network; see List of programs broadcast by Ion Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20codes | In computer science, online codes are an example of rateless erasure codes. These codes can encode a message into a number of symbols such that knowledge of any fraction of them allows one to recover the original message (with high probability). Rateless codes produce an arbitrarily large number of symbols which can be... |
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