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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChorusOS
ChorusOS is a microkernel real-time operating system designed as a message passing computing model. ChorusOS began as the Chorus distributed real-time operating system research project at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in 1979. During the 1980s, Chorus was one of two earlie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiver%20%28video%20game%29
Quiver is a first-person shooter developed by ADvertainment Software and published by ESD games in 1997. It was written for MS-DOS compatible operating systems and runs in up to 800×600 resolution. Quiver was primarily designed and created by Mike Taylor with music composed by David B. Schultz (also composed for Nitema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Drost
Robert Drost is an American computer scientist. He was born in 1970 in New York City. Life Drost joined Sun Microsystems in 1993 after obtaining a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 2001 he earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. minor in Computer Science from Stanford. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest%20seek%20first
Shortest seek first (or shortest seek time first) is a secondary storage scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk read-and-write head in servicing read and write requests. Description This is an alternative to the first-come first-served (FCFS) algorithm. The drive maintains an incoming buffer of req...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator%20algorithm
The elevator algorithm, or SCAN, is a disk-scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk's arm and head in servicing read and write requests. This algorithm is named after the behavior of a building elevator, where the elevator continues to travel in its current direction (up or down) until empty, stopping ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeform
Freeform or free-form may refer to: Electron-beam freeform fabrication, an additive manufacturing process that builds near-net-shape parts Free-form radio, a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play Freeform (Apple), a digital whiteboarding application...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller%27s%20congruence
Zeller's congruence is an algorithm devised by Christian Zeller in the 19th century to calculate the day of the week for any Julian or Gregorian calendar date. It can be considered to be based on the conversion between Julian day and the calendar date. Formula For the Gregorian calendar, Zeller's congruence is for t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20War%20III%20%28miniseries%29
World War III is a miniseries that aired on the NBC television network on January 31, 1982. Plot The miniseries begins in 1987. At the critical point of the Cold War, two US Air Force airmen monitor their radar screens at a quiet and remote NORAD facility in Alaska. Suddenly, one of the radar operators notices an uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant%20feature%20transform
The scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) is a computer vision algorithm to detect, describe, and match local features in images, invented by David Lowe in 1999. Applications include object recognition, robotic mapping and navigation, image stitching, 3D modeling, gesture recognition, video tracking, individual iden...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sift%20%28disambiguation%29
Sift refers to the straining action of a sifter or sieve. Sift or SIFT may also refer to: Scale-invariant feature transform, an algorithm in computer vision to detect and describe local features in images Selected-ion flow tube, a technique used for mass spectrometry Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, a public u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian%20%28Chinese%20medicine%29
The meridian system (, also called channel network) is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) concept that alleges meridians are paths through which the life-energy known as "qi" (ch'i) flows. Meridians are not real anatomical structures: scientists have found no evidence that supports their existence. One historian of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational%20Bayesian%20methods
Variational Bayesian methods are a family of techniques for approximating intractable integrals arising in Bayesian inference and machine learning. They are typically used in complex statistical models consisting of observed variables (usually termed "data") as well as unknown parameters and latent variables, with var...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20XPS
Dell XPS ("eXtreme Performance System") is a line of consumer-oriented high-end laptop and desktop computers manufactured by Dell since 1993. The XPS line's main competitors include Acer's Aspire, HP's Pavilion, Envy and Spectre, Lenovo's ThinkPad X1, Samsung's Notebook, Apple's MacBook Pro and Asus's ZenBook. History...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXist
eXist-db (or eXist for short) is an open source software project for NoSQL databases built on XML technology. It is classified as both a NoSQL document-oriented database system and a native XML database (and it provides support for XML, JSON, HTML and Binary documents). Unlike most relational database management system...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratus%20VOS
Stratus VOS (Virtual Operating System) is a proprietary operating system running on Stratus Technologies fault-tolerant computer systems. VOS is available on Stratus's ftServer and Continuum platforms. VOS customers use it to support high-volume transaction processing applications which require continuous availability....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s%20source%20coding%20theorem
In information theory, Shannon's source coding theorem (or noiseless coding theorem) establishes the statistical limits to possible data compression for data whose source is an independent identically-distributed random variable, and the operational meaning of the Shannon entropy. Named after Claude Shannon, the sourc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Linux%20audio%20software
The following is an incomplete list of Linux audio software. Audio players GStreamer-based Amarok is a free music player for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Multiple backends are supported (xine, helix and NMM). Banshee is a free audio player for Linux which uses the GStreamer multimedia platforms to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNT
WNT or Wnt may refer to: Windows NT WNT (Women's National Team) Wnt signaling pathway, a complex protein network The Weymouth New Testament (1902), translation by Richard Francis Weymouth ABC World News Tonight, ABC News' flagship evening news program Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, a Dutch dictionary, the most e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMX%20%28operating%20system%29
Real-time Multitasking eXecutive (iRMX) is a real-time operating system designed for use with the Intel 8080 and 8086 family of processors. Overview Intel developed iRMX in the 1970s and originally released RMX/80 in 1976 and RMX/86 in 1980 to support and create demand for their processors and Multibus system platform...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20monkey
Code monkey may refer to: Code Monkeys, an animated television series "Code Monkey" (song), by Jonathan Coulton CodeMonkey (software), an educational computer environment See also Cowboy coder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVK
DVK (, Interactive Computing Complex) is a Soviet PDP-11-compatible personal computer. Overview The design is also known as Elektronika MS-0501 and Elektronika MS-0502. Early models of the DVK series are based on K1801VM1 or K1801VM2 microprocessors with a 16 bit address bus. Later models use the KM1801VM3 microproce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate%20representation
An intermediate representation (IR) is the data structure or code used internally by a compiler or virtual machine to represent source code. An IR is designed to be conducive to further processing, such as optimization and translation. A "good" IR must be accurate – capable of representing the source code without loss ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRV%20Communications
MRV Communications is a communications equipment and services company based in Chatsworth, California. Through its business units, the company is a provider of optical communications network infrastructure equipment and services to a broad range of telecom concerns, including multi-national telecommunications operators...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-to-fourteen%20modulation
Eight-to-fourteen modulation (EFM) is a data encoding technique – formally, a line code – used by compact discs (CD), laserdiscs (LD) and pre-Hi-MD MiniDiscs. EFMPlus is a related code, used in DVDs and Super Audio CDs (SACDs). EFM and EFMPlus were both invented by Kees A. Schouhamer Immink. According to European Pate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s%20tenth%20rule
Greenspun's tenth rule of programming is an aphorism in computer programming and especially programming language circles that states: Overview The rule expresses the opinion that the argued flexibility and extensibility designed into the programming language Lisp includes all functionality that is theoretically needed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Radio%20Cymru
BBC Radio Cymru is a Welsh language radio network owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It broadcasts on two stations across Wales on FM, DAB, digital TV and online. The main network broadcasts for hours a day from 5:30am to midnight with overnight programming simulcast from the BBC World Serv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Radio%20Scotland
BBC Radio Scotland is a Scottish national radio network owned and operated by BBC Scotland, a division of the BBC. It broadcasts a wide variety of programmes. It replaced the Scottish BBC Radio 4 opt-out service of the same name from 23 November 1978. Radio Scotland is broadcast in English, whilst sister station Radi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Radio%20Wales
BBC Radio Wales is an English language Welsh national radio network owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It began broadcasting on 13 November 1978, replacing the Welsh opt-out service of BBC Radio 4. As of August 2022, the station's managing editor is Carolyn Hitt, who is also editor of BBC W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Fastlink
Operation Fastlink is a coordination of four separate, simultaneous undercover investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Cyber Division, the Department of Justice, the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the Criminal Division and Interpol. The four different investigations hav...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20highways%20in%20the%20Northern%20Territory
The Northern Territory is the most sparsely populated state or territory in Australia. Despite its sparse population, it has a network of sealed roads which connect Darwin and Alice Springs, the major population centres, the neighboring states, and some other centres such as Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kakadu and Litchfield Na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole-Reine%20Lepaute
Nicole-Reine Lepaute (; , 5 January 1723 – 6 December 1788), also erroneously known as Hortense Lepaute, was a French astronomer and human computer. Lepaute along with Alexis Clairaut and Jérôme Lalande calculated the date of the return of Halley's Comet. Her other astronomical feats include calculating the 1764 solar ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense%20Courier%20Service
The Defense Courier Service (DCS) is established under the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), and is a global courier network for the expeditious, cost-effective, and secure distribution of highly classified and sensitive material. Operational control of global courier activities is exercised through U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri%27s%20Game
Geri's Game is a 1997 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar and written and directed by Jan Pinkava. The short, which shows an elderly man named Geri who competes with himself in a game of chess, was Pixar's first film to feature a human being as its main character; Geri later made a cameo appearance ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant%20Tuckerman
Louis Bryant Tuckerman, III (November 28, 1915 – May 19, 2002) was an American mathematician, born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a member of the team that developed the Data Encryption Standard (DES). He studied topology at Princeton, where he invented the Tuckerman traverse method for revealing all the faces of a flex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS%20%2816-bit%20operating%20system%29
GEOS (later renamed GeoWorks Ensemble, NewDeal Office, and Breadbox Ensemble) is a computer operating environment, graphical user interface (GUI), and suite of application software. Originally released as PC/GEOS, it runs on DOS-based, IBM PC compatible computers. Versions for some handheld platforms were also released...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCorp
VisiCorp was an early personal computer software publisher. Its most famous products were Microchess, Visi On and VisiCalc. It was founded in 1976 by Dan Fylstra as the software publisher Personal Software. In 1978, it merged with Peter R. Jennings's Toronto-based software publisher Micro-Ware, with the two taking a 5...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomidis%20Spinellis
Diomidis D. Spinellis (; 2 February 1967, Athens) is a Greek computer science academic and author of the books Code Reading, Code Quality, Beautiful Architecture (co-author) and Effective Debugging. Education Spinellis holds a Master of Engineering degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science both fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNN
MNN may refer to: Madrid Nuevo Norte, an urban redevelopment programme Manhattan Neighborhood Network Medical News Network Mission Network News Menston railway station in the United Kingdom Minnesota Northern Railroad Mother Nature Network, a website Multifocal motor neuropathy, medical condition Maritime New...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEC
MEC may refer to: Medicine Mucoepidermoid carcinoma Businesses MEC (media agency), a media agency network based in London and New York Mediterranean Exploration Company, a restaurant in Portland, Oregon Mongolia Energy Corporation, a mining company Morgan Electro Ceramics, a ceramics manufacturing company Mount...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADP%20%28company%29
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) is an American provider of human resources management software and services, headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey. History In 1949, Henry Taub founded Automatic Payrolls, Inc. as a manual payroll processing business with his brother Joe Taub. Frank Lautenberg joined the brothers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACBL
ACBL may refer to: Actor-Based Concurrent Language, a family of programming languages Adarsh Co-operative Bank, in India American Contract Bridge League, a bridge membership organization in North America Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League, located in the US Mid-Atlantic region See also ABCL (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20Manchester%20%26%20The%20North%20West
Greatest Hits Radio Manchester & The North West is an Independent Local Radio station based in Manchester, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Greatest Hits Radio Network. It broadcasts to Greater Manchester and North West England. History Early years The station began broadcasting at 5am on Tuesday ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Kay%20%28sports%20broadcaster%29
Michael Kay (born February 2, 1961) is an American sports broadcaster who is the television play-by-play broadcaster of the New York Yankees and host of CenterStage on the YES Network, and the host of The Michael Kay Show heard on WEPN-FM in New York City and simulcast on ESPN Xtra on XM Satellite Radio. Kay also works...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagi%2C%20the%20Monster%20of%20Mighty%20Nature
is a Japanese anime film that premiered on the Nippon Television network on August 19, 1984. It was written by Osamu Tezuka as a critique of the Japanese government's approval of recombinant DNA research that year. The film was streamed by Anime Sols as part of a crowdfunding campaign in 2013, and by RetroCrush in 2020...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80%20Model%20100
The TRS-80 Model 100 is a portable computer introduced in April 1983. It is one of the first notebook-style computers, featuring a keyboard and liquid-crystal display, in a battery-powered package roughly the size and shape of a notepad or large book. It was made by Kyocera, and originally sold in Japan as the Kyotro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Radio%20Network
Japan Radio Network (JRN; ) is a Japanese commercial radio network run by TBS Radio in Tokyo, owned by TBS Holdings (which is a part of the major conglomerate Mitsui Group). Established on 2 May 1965, JRN is made up of 34 regional affiliates, including four full-time affiliates and 30 stations that are dual-affiliated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Radio%20Network
National Radio Network may refer to: National Radio Network (United States) in the United States National Radio Network (Japan) in Japan National Radio Network (UK) in the United Kingdom See also NRN (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRN
JRN may refer to: Japan Radio Network Jhalar railway station, in Pakistan Jiran, Madhya Pradesh, India Jones Radio Networks Juruena Airport, in Brazil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRN
NRN is a television station originating in Coffs Harbour, Australia. The station is owned by WIN Corporation as part of the WIN Network. As a Network 10 program affiliate, it relays 10 content into the northern New South Wales broadcast market. The station was formally a partnership between NRN-11 Coffs Harbour (launch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OUS
OUS may refer to: Ohio University Southern Campus Okayama University of Science Open University of Sudan Operation United Shield Oregon University System Organizational unit (computing) Ourinhos Airport Oxford Union Society See also Ous (name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20control
Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks. It is distinct from a production control room (PCR) in television studios where the activities such as switching from camera to camera are coordinated. A transmission control room (TC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20%28application%29
Freedom (often referred to as the Freedom app) is a computer program designed to keep a computer user away from the Internet for up to eight hours at a time. It is described as a way to "free you from distractions, allowing you time to write, analyze, code, or create." The program was written by Fred Stutzman, a Ph.D ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sie%C4%87%20Komputerowa
The Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa () or NASK is a Polish research and development organization and data networks operator. .pl registry NASK is the ccTLD registry. While launching in 2003 a domain automatic registration system by means of EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol), NASK introduced the Partner Pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASK
NASK may refer to: Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa, or Research and Academic Computer Network, a Polish research and development organization Nord-Amerika Somera Kursaro, or North American Summer Esperanto Institute, an Esperanto immersion course ik ben een domme geit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOI
HOI or Hoi may refer to: Hearts of Iron, a 2002 computer game Home insurance or homeowners insurance Hypoiodous acid, chemical formula HOI Hoi District, Aichi, a former district of Japan Hoxnian geological stage, HOI is sub-stage I Carsten Høi (born 1957), Danish chess Grandmaster Hao Airport IATA code Hoi (video game...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20residence%20hall%20network
A residence hall network, or ResNet (also Resnet or ResNET, or other variations), is a local area network (LAN) or a metropolitan area network (MAN) provided by a university that serves the personal computers of students in their residence halls or dormitory buildings. ResNet may also refer to the department that admi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siel
Societa Industrie Elettroniche (SIEL) was an Italian company that made electronic organs and synthesizers in the 1980s. Timeline of major products 1979 - Orchestra (Divide down oscillator network for full poly. Brass/string/key/organ. ARP relabelled it the "Quartet" in the US as they were folding.) 1980 - Mono ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20room
Data rooms are spaces used for housing data, usually of a secure or privileged nature. They can be physical data rooms, virtual data rooms, or data centers. They are used for a variety of purposes, including data storage, document exchange, file sharing, financial transactions, legal transactions, and more. In mergers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20%28The%20Matrix%29
Agents are a group of characters in the fictional universe of The Matrix franchise. They are guardians within the computer-generated world of the Matrix, protecting it from anyone or anything (most often Redpills) that could reveal it as a false reality or threaten it in any other way. Agents also hunt down and termina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranvaesia
Stranvaesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae. Its morphology is so similar to Photinia that it has sometimes been included within that genus, but recent molecular data indicate that the two genera are not related. Species Stranvaesia amphidoxa (syn. Photinia amphidoxa) Stranvaesia davidiana (syn. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20North%20East
Greatest Hits Radio North East is an Independent Local Radio station serving North East England, as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network. History Great North Radio (also known as G.N.R) was formed in March 1989 using the AM frequencies of Metro Radio and Radio Tees. This happened after the Metro Radio Group de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Turing%20Memorial
The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England, is a sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Turing is believed to have taken his own life in 1954, two years after being convicted of gross indecency (i.e. homosexual acts). As such, he is as much a gay icon as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20%28disambiguation%29
Cray is a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, US. Cray may also refer to: Crayfish Places United Kingdom River Cray, London, England North Cray, a village on the outskirts of London, England Cray, North Yorkshire, a village in England Cray, Perth and Kinross, a location in Scotland Cray, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20initiator%20and%20target
In computer data storage, a SCSI initiator is the endpoint that initiates a SCSI session, that is, sends a SCSI command. The initiator usually does not provide any Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs). On the other hand, a SCSI target is the endpoint that does not initiate sessions, but instead waits for initiators' commands a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20List%20%28magazine%29
The List is a digital guide to arts and entertainment in the United Kingdom. The company's activities include content syndication and running a network of websites carrying listings and editorial, covering film, eating and drinking, music, theatre, visual art, dance, kids and family, clubs and the Edinburgh Festivals....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomboy%20%28software%29
Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop notetaking app written for Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD operating systems. Tomboy is part of the GNOME desktop environment. As Ubuntu changed over time and its cloud synchronization software Ubuntu One came and went, Tomboy inspired various forks and clones. Its interface is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20genetic%20programming
"Linear genetic programming" is unrelated to "linear programming". Linear genetic programming (LGP) is a particular method of genetic programming wherein computer programs in a population are represented as a sequence of instructions from an imperative programming language or machine language. The adjective "linear" s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse%20of%20statistics
Statistics, when used in a misleading fashion, can trick the casual observer into believing something other than what the data shows. That is, a misuse of statistics occurs when a statistical argument asserts a falsehood. In some cases, the misuse may be accidental. In others, it is purposeful and for the gain of the p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODC
ODC may refer to: ODC/Dance, a San Francisco-based dance company Open Data Charter, concerning governmental open data Open Data Commons, a set of legal tools for open data Ordinary Decent Criminal (slang), used by Irish police force Ornithine decarboxylase, an enzyme Orthogonal Defect Classification Organic Dis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH is the international Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques based in New York. It was founded in 1969 by Andy van Dam (its direct predecessor, ACM SICGRAPH was founded two years earlier in 1967). ACM SIGGRAPH convenes the annual SIGGRAP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20Harbour%20Railway
The Bristol Harbour Railway (known originally as the Harbour Railway) was a standard-gauge industrial railway that served the wharves and docks of Bristol, England. The line, which had a network of approximately of track, connected the Floating Harbour to the GWR mainline at Bristol Temple Meads. Freight could be tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem%20in%20Userspace
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a software interface for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own file systems without editing kernel code. This is achieved by running file system code in user space while the FUSE module provides only a bridge to the actual kernel ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%3A%20The%20Last%20Resort
9: The Last Resort is a 1996 adventure computer game developed by Tribeca Interactive. The game was produced by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, and sported a cast of voice-artists including Cher, James Belushi, Christopher Reeve, Tress MacNeille and Steven Tyler & Joe Perry of Aerosmith. It also includes the visual...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20Gold
Classic Gold was a network of three "Gold" music formatted stations which broadcast on AM in Bradford, Hull and Sheffield. They were the sister stations of Pennine Radio, Viking Radio and Radio Hallam respectively and they were part of the Yorkshire Radio Network. History On 31 October 1988, Viking Radio split its fre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightmap
A lightmap is a data structure used in lightmapping, a form of surface caching in which the brightness of surfaces in a virtual scene is pre-calculated and stored in texture maps for later use. Lightmaps are most commonly applied to static objects in applications that use real-time 3D computer graphics, such as video g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20Tisch
Laurence Alan Tisch (March 5, 1923 – November 15, 2003) was an American businessman, investor and billionaire. He was the CEO of CBS television network from 1986 to 1995. With his brother Bob Tisch, he was part owner of Loews Corporation. Early life Tisch was born March 5, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Sadye...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20universities%20and%20colleges%20in%20Krak%C3%B3w
Higher Education in Kraków takes place in 10 university-level institutions with about 120,000 to over 170,000 students (based on years and different data providers) and 10,000 faculty, as well as in a number of non-public colleges. Public institutions of higher education Jagiellonian University AGH University of Sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Signal%203
A Digital Signal 3 (DS3) is a digital signal level 3 T-carrier. It may also be referred to as a T3 line. The data rate for this type of signal is 44.736 Mbit/s (45 Mb). DS3 uses 75ohm coaxial cable and BNC connectors. This level of carrier can transport 28 DS1 level signals within its payload. This level of carrier c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Larabie
Raymond Larabie (born 1970) is a Canadian designer of TrueType and OpenType computer fonts. He owns Typodermic Fonts, which distributes both commercially licensed and shareware/freeware fonts. Biography and career Larabie was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in classic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWeb
MacWeb is an early, now discontinued classic Mac OS-only web browser for 68k and PowerPC Apple Macintosh computers, developed by TradeWave (formerly EINet) between 1994 and 1996. MacWeb's major attraction was its ability to run well on low-end hardware footprints as well as fast page display. This compactness led to M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Update%20%28SQL%29
An SQL UPDATE statement changes the data of one or more records in a table. Either all the rows can be updated, or a subset may be chosen using a condition. The UPDATE statement has the following form: UPDATE table_name SET column_name = value [, column_name = value ...] [WHERE condition] For the UPDATE to be succe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT52
The VT50 was a CRT-based computer terminal introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in July 1974. It provided a display with 12 rows and 80 columns of upper-case text, and used an expanded set of control characters and forward-only scrolling based on the earlier VT05. DEC documentation of the era refers to the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT05
"VT-05" can also refer to . The VT05 is the first free-standing CRT computer terminal from Digital Equipment Corporation introduced in 1970. Famous for its futuristic styling, the VT05 presents the user with an upper-case-only ASCII character display of 72 columns by 20 rows. The VT05 was a smart terminal that provide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybergoth
Cybergoth is a subculture that derives from elements of goth, raver, rivethead and cyberpunk fashion. Opinion differs as to whether cybergoth has the requisite complexity to constitute a subculture, with some commentators suggesting that it is no more than a small aesthetic variation on cyberpunk or raver fashion. Hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPS-8
WPS-8 is a Word Processing System sold by Digital Equipment Corporation for use with their PDP-8 processors (including the VT78, VT278 DECmate, and PC238 DECmate II and PC24P DECmate III microcomputer systems). WPS-8 supports a variety of 24 row by 80 or 132 column terminals including the VT52 family as well as the VT...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sose
Sose, SOSE or SoSE may refer to: Acronyms Service-oriented software engineering, a software engineering methodology System of systems engineering (SoSE), a methodology People Sose Mayrig (1868–1953), Armenian Sosé Onasakenrat (1845–1881), Mohawk chief Other uses Sose International Film Festival, held in Yerevan, A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNI
GNI may stand for: Global Network Initiative, an Internet freedom and privacy organization Grand Isle Seaplane Base, in Louisiana, United States Greater Nagoya Initiative, a Japanese business model project Gross national income Guniyandi language Lyudao Airport, in Taiwan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernbank%20Museum%20of%20Natural%20History
Fernbank Museum of Natural History, in Atlanta, Georgia, is a museum that presents exhibitions and programming about natural history. Fernbank Museum has a number of permanent exhibitions and regularly hosts temporary exhibitions in its expansive facility, designed by Graham Gund Architects. Giants of the Mesozoic, on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, the Sturm sequence of a univariate polynomial is a sequence of polynomials associated with and its derivative by a variant of Euclid's algorithm for polynomials. Sturm's theorem expresses the number of distinct real roots of located in an interval in terms of the number of changes of signs of the val...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C89
C89 may refer to: Science and technology C89 (C version) or ANSI C, a C programming-language revision NGC 6087 (Caldwell catalogue: C89), an open cluster in the constellation Norma Other uses Ruy Lopez (ECO code: C60–C99), a chess opening Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1948, an ILO convention Sylvania ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression
Decompression has several meanings, some of which are covered by several articles: Data decompression, the action of reversing data compression Decompression (physics), the release of pressure and the opposition of physical compression Decompression (altitude). the reduction of pressure and the related physiological...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20Railways
Lithuanian Railways (), abbreviated LTG, is the national state-owned railway company of Lithuania. It operates most of the railway network in the country. It has several subsidiary companies, but the main ones are: LTG Link which provides passenger services, LTG Cargo which provides freight service, and LTG Infra which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz%20machine
The Helmholtz machine (named after Hermann von Helmholtz and his concept of Helmholtz free energy) is a type of artificial neural network that can account for the hidden structure of a set of data by being trained to create a generative model of the original set of data. The hope is that by learning economical represen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Class%20424
The British Rail Class 424 "Networker Classic" was a prototype electric multiple unit (EMU) built in 1997 by Adtranz at Derby Litchurch Lane Works from a Class 421 driving trailer vehicle. Project The "Networker Classic" concept involved rebuilding Mark 1 design Southern Region EMUs of Classes 411, 421 and 423 to mee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sguil
Sguil (pronounced sgweel or squeal) is a collection of free software components for Network Security Monitoring (NSM) and event driven analysis of IDS alerts. The sguil client is written in Tcl/Tk and can be run on any operating system that supports these. Sguil integrates alert data from Snort, session data from SANC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fhourstones
In computer science, Fhourstones is an integer benchmark that efficiently solves positions in the game of Connect-4. It was written by John Tromp in 1996-2008, and is incorporated into the Phoronix Test Suite. The measurements are reported as the number of game positions searched per second. Available in both ANSI-C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Hopkins
Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in human computer interaction and computer graphics. He is an alumnus of the University of Maryland and a former member of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab. He inspired Richard Stallman, who described him as a "very imaginative fellow", to u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Sattar%20Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi (; 28 February 1928 – 8 July 2016) was a Pakistani humanitarian, philanthropist and ascetic who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest ambulance network, along with homeless shelters, animal shelters, rehabilitation centres, and orphanages across Pakistan. Edhi's charitable ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Pirillo
Chris Pirillo is an American entrepreneur and former television personality. He is the founder and former CEO of LockerGnome, Inc., a now-defunct network of blogs, web forums, mailing lists, and online communities which are now closed. He is best known as the former host of Call for Help, a call-in tech support show w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Complete%20U2
The Complete U2 is a digital box set by Irish rock band U2. It was released on 23 November 2004 by Apple Computer on the iTunes Store. It is the first major release of a purely digital online set by any artist. It contained the complete set of U2 albums, singles, live, rare and previously unreleased material from 1978 ...