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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOWR
VOWR is a radio station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The station is operated by the Wesley United Church of Canada and operates a mix of 30% religious programming and 70% secular programming, including classical, folk, country, oldies, military/marching band, adult standards, beautiful music and mu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20help
Online help is topic-oriented, procedural or reference information delivered through computer software. It is a form of user assistance. The purpose of most online help is to assist in using a software application, web application or operating system. However, it can also present information on a broad range of subject...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BushBuck%20Charms%2C%20Viking%20Ships%20%26%20Dodo%20Eggs
Bushbuck Charms, Viking Ships & Dodo Eggs, also known as Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter, is an educational computer game released in 1991. Designed by the Australian company Reckon, the game was published by "PC Globe", a small US-based company that specialized in "edutainment" software in the late 1980s and early ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Crackers
International Network of Crackers (INC) was one of the premier cracking/releasing warez groups for the IBM PC during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The formation of INC was the result of the merger of several cracking groups, including Union, based out of Texas, and the Miami Cracking Machine (MCM), based out of Flor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG%20user%20data
The MPEG user data feature provides a means to inject application-specific data into an MPEG elementary stream. User data can be inserted on three different levels: The sequence level The group of pictures (GOP) level The picture data level Applications that process MPEG data do not need to be able to understand data e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelmorex%20Radio%20Network
The Pelmorex Radio Network was a system of Canadian radio stations in Northern Ontario, owned and operated by Pelmorex. History In 1989, Pierre Morrissette founded his own communications company, Pelmorex Media Inc., and acquired several French and English-language radio stations that were serving various small and m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercenter
Cybercenter may refer to: Data center, a facility used to house computer systems and associated components Internet café, a place which provides internet access to the public, usually for a fee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Morning%20Australia%20%281981%20TV%20program%29
Good Morning Australia (or GMA) is an Australian breakfast television program that was broadcast on Network Ten. It aired from 23 February 1981 until 18 December 1992. It was seen as an Australian equivalent of ABC's Good Morning America and ITV's Good Morning Britain. History The original Good Morning Australia break...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChessV
ChessV (short for Chess Variants) is a free computer program designed to play many chess variants. ChessV is an open-source, universal chess variant program with a graphical user-interface, sophisticated AI, support for opening books and other features of traditional chess programs. The developer of this program, Grego...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Team%20%28radio%20network%29
The Team (corporately styled as The TEAM) was a Canadian sports radio network, which broadcast from 2001 to 2002. It was owned and operated by CHUM Limited, based on the existing format of their Ottawa station The Team 1200, and incorporated virtually all of the company's AM radio stations across Canada. It was dissolv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Language%20Design%20and%20Implementation%20%28conference%29
Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) is an academic conference in computer science, in particular in the study of programming languages and compilers. PLDI is organized by the Association for Computing Machinery under the SIGPLAN interest group. History The precursor of PLDI was the Symposium on Com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGPLAN
SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on programming languages. Conferences Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM) Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20currency
Digital currency (digital money, electronic money or electronic currency) is any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on digital computer systems, especially over the internet. Types of digital currencies include cryptocurrency, virtual currency and central bank digital cu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Abadie
Alberto Abadie (born April 3, 1968) is professor of the department of economics at MIT and associate director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) also at MIT. He was born in the Basque Country, Spain. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1999. Upon graduating, he joined the faculty at the Har...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRML
GRML – an acronym for General Reuse Markup Language – is a markup language similar to HTML and XML, using tags to organize data in files and web pages. Data is organized in columns and rows. Tags are used to define forms, images, and hyper-linking. Its syntax, like HTML, is based on a simplified subset of SGML. GRML is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort-merge%20join
The sort-merge join (also known as merge join) is a join algorithm and is used in the implementation of a relational database management system. The basic problem of a join algorithm is to find, for each distinct value of the join attribute, the set of tuples in each relation which display that value. The key idea of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20Logic%20Technology
Solid Logic Technology (SLT) was IBM's method for hybrid packaging of electronic circuitry introduced in 1964 with the IBM System/360 series of computers and related machines. IBM chose to design custom hybrid circuits using discrete, flip chip-mounted, glass-encapsulated transistors and diodes, with silk-screened resi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square%20%28fractal%29
In mathematics, the T-square is a two-dimensional fractal. It has a boundary of infinite length bounding a finite area. Its name comes from the drawing instrument known as a T-square. Algorithmic description It can be generated from using this algorithm: Image 1: Start with a square. (The black square in the image...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20FM
Jack FM is a radio network brand, licensed by Sparknet Communications, with the exception of the European Union where it is licensed by Oxis Media. It plays an adult hits format, in most cases not using DJs. Format characteristics Stations using the "Jack" name are strictly licensed by SparkNet Communications. There ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econet
Econet was Acorn Computers's low-cost local area network system, intended for use by schools and small businesses. It was widely used in those areas, and was supported by a large number of different computer and server systems produced both by Acorn and by other companies. Econet software was later mostly superseded b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element%2014%20%28company%29
Element 14 Ltd was a British developer of digital subscriber line (DSL) equipment created in July 1999 from the disposal of the assets of Acorn Computers. As "a three-site startup", it combined teams from Acorn, Inmos/STMicroelectronics and Alcatel. History By January 1999, Acorn Computers Ltd. had renamed to Element ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20Policy
Group Policy is a feature of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2003+) that controls the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. Group Policy provides centralized management and configuration of operating...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitzi%20Kapture
Mitzi Kapture (born Mitzi Gaynor Donahue; May 2, 1962) is an American actress, known for her role as Sgt. Rita Lee Lance in the CBS/USA Network crime drama series Silk Stalkings from 1991 to 1995. Life and career Kapture was born in Yorba Linda, California, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her career in film...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCN
TCN is the flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia. The station is currently located at 1 Denison Street, North Sydney. The licence, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Sir Frank Packer, was one of the first four licences (two in Sydney, two in Melbourne) to be issued for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrataCom
StrataCom, Inc. was a supplier of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay high-speed wide area network (WAN) switching equipment. StrataCom was founded in Cupertino, California, United States, in January 1986, by 26 former employees of the failing Packet Technologies, Inc. StrataCom produced the first commerc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30%20Minute%20Meals
30 Minute Meals is a Food Network show hosted by Rachael Ray. Her first of four shows on Food Network, its original run aired from November 17, 2001, until May 5, 2012. The show specializes in convenience cooking for those with little time to cook. The show is recorded live-to-tape, with Ray doing almost all preparati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS9900
The TMS9900 was one of the first commercially available, single-chip 16-bit microprocessors. Introduced in June 1976, it implemented Texas Instruments' TI-990 minicomputer architecture in a single-chip format, and was initially used for low-end models of that lineup. Its 64-pin DIP format made it more expensive to imp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTransparency
MediaTransparency was a project begun in 1999 which monitored the financial ties of conservative think tanks to conservative foundations in the United States. Its database tracked over 50,000 grants awarded since 1985, which total more than US$3.2 billion. It was run by Cursor, Inc. before being acquired by Media Mat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Wuteve
Mount Wuteve is a mountain located in Liberia, whose summit is the highest point in Liberia. It is located in the Guinea Highlands range, whose parent range is the West Africa Mountains. Data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission reveals that the correct elevation of its summit is 1,440 meters, and not the previous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20%28television%29
In television programming, flow is how channels and networks try to hold their audience from program to program, or from one segment of a program to another. Thus, it is the flow of television material from one element to the next. The term is also significant in television studies, the academic analysis of the medium....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20do%20Brasil
Central do Brasil () is a major train station in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. It is the last stop of Rio's railway network, as well as a hub for connection with the city subway and a bus station. Central do Brasil was also a preeminent stop in the interstate Central do Brasil railroad, which linked Rio de Jane...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20remanence
Data remanence is the residual representation of digital data that remains even after attempts have been made to remove or erase the data. This residue may result from data being left intact by a nominal file deletion operation, by reformatting of storage media that does not remove data previously written to the media...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym%20Finder
Acronym Finder (AF) is a free, online, searchable dictionary and database of abbreviations (acronyms, initialisms, and others) and their meanings. The entries are classified into categories such as Information Technology, Military/Government, Science, Slang/Pop Culture etc. It also contains a database of the United St...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIAM%20Journal%20on%20Computing
The SIAM Journal on Computing is a scientific journal focusing on the mathematical and formal aspects of computer science. It is published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Although its official ISO abbreviation is SIAM J. Comput., its publisher and contributors frequently use the shorter a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MacGyver%20%281985%20TV%20series%29%20episodes
MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff and Henry Winkler. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The pilot episode was first aired in the US on September 29, 1985. The show's final episode aired on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20point
In C and C++, a sequence point defines any point in a computer program's execution at which it is guaranteed that all side effects of previous evaluations will have been performed, and no side effects from subsequent evaluations have yet been performed. They are a core concept for determining the validity of and, if va...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2
The Cray-2 is a supercomputer with four vector processors made by Cray Research starting in 1985. At 1.9 GFLOPS peak performance, it was the fastest machine in the world when it was released, replacing the Cray X-MP in that spot. It was, in turn, replaced in that spot by the Cray Y-MP in 1988. The Cray-2 was the first...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle%20Bros
Beagle Bros was an American software company that specialized in creating personal computing products. Their primary focus was on the Apple II family of computers. Although they ceased business in 1991, owner Mark Simonsen permitted the Beagle Bros name and logo to be included on the 30th anniversary reboot of I. O. Si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenbrook%20rail%20accident
The Glenbrook rail accident occurred on 2 December 1999 at 8:22 am on a curve east of Glenbrook railway station on the CityRail network between Glenbrook and Lapstone, in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Seven passengers were killed and 51 passengers were taken to hospital with injuries when a CityRail...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE%20%28compressed%20file%20format%29
In computing, ACE is a proprietary data compression archive file format developed by Marcel Lemke, and later bought by e-merge GmbH. The peak of its popularity was 1999–2001, when it provided slightly better compression rates than RAR, which has since become more popular. WinAce WinAce, maintained by e-merge GmbH, is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XORP
XORP is an open-source Internet Protocol routing software suite originally designed at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. The name is derived from eXtensible Open Router Platform. It supports OSPF, BGP, RIP, PIM, IGMP, OLSR. The product is designed from principles of software modular...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo%20630
The Diablo 630 is a discontinued daisy wheel style computer printer sold by the Diablo Data Systems division of the Xerox Corporation beginning in 1980. The printer is capable of letter-quality printing; that is, its print quality is equivalent to the quality of an IBM Selectric typewriter or printer, the de facto qual...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20cell
A table cell is one grouping within a chart table used for storing information or data. Cells are grouped horizontally (rows of cells) and vertically (columns of cells). Each cell contains information relating to the combination of the row and column headings it is collinear with. In software design, table cells are a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI%20combinator%20calculus
The SKI combinator calculus is a combinatory logic system and a computational system. It can be thought of as a computer programming language, though it is not convenient for writing software. Instead, it is important in the mathematical theory of algorithms because it is an extremely simple Turing complete language. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/989%20Studios
989 Studios was a division of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) that developed games for PlayStation consoles and Windows personal computers. Their games include EverQuest, Twisted Metal III, Twisted Metal 4, Syphon Filter, Syphon Filter 2, Jet Moto 3, Bust a Groove, and others. History The 989 Sports name de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN
ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The licence, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of John Fairfax & Sons, was one of the first four licences (two in Sydney, two in Melbourne) to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20%28disambiguation%29
ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. ATN may also refer to: Medicine Acute tubular necrosis, a medical condition of the kidneys Asymmetrical tonic neck reflex Atypical trigeminal neuralgia Television Access Television Network, California, US Aotearoa Television Network, M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCN%20%28disambiguation%29
TCN is a television station in Sydney, Australia, with initials standing for "Television Corporation New South Wales". TCN may also refer to: Broadcasting The Comedy Network, a Canadian comedy TV channel owned by Bell Media The Country Network, an American TV channel broadcasting country music videos The Comcast ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20Viterbi%20decoding
Iterative Viterbi decoding is an algorithm that spots the subsequence S of an observation O = {o1, ..., on} having the highest average probability (i.e., probability scaled by the length of S) of being generated by a given hidden Markov model M with m states. The algorithm uses a modified Viterbi algorithm as an inter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi%20%28Australian%20train%29
The Hitachi (also known as Martin & King or Stainless Steel) was an electric multiple unit that operated on the Melbourne suburban railway network between 1972 and 2014. Electrical equipment was supplied by Commonwealth Engineering to designs by Hitachi of Japan, leading to their official name today, though no actual H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelmorex
Pelmorex Corp. is a Canadian weather information and media company. Based in Oakville, Ontario, it is the owner of the Canadian specialty channels The Weather Network (English) and MétéoMédia (French), and their associated digital properties. Founded in 1989, "Pelmorex" is a portmanteau derived from the name of the co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20Undercover
America Undercover is a series of documentaries that aired on the cable television network HBO from 1983 through 2006. Within the series are several sub-series, such as Autopsy, Real Sex, and Taxicab Confessions. History The series began in 1984 and, after a brief time being broadcast weekly in 2001, was later broadc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20entry%20clerk
A data entry clerk, also known as data preparation and control operator, data registration and control operator, and data preparation and registration operator, is a member of staff employed to enter or update data into a computer system. Data is often entered into a computer from paper documents using a keyboard. The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE%20301%20Class
The Córas Iompair Éireann 301 Class locomotives were the first diesel locomotives used on the CIÉ network, this class of 5 being built between 1947 and 1948 by the company for shunting use, particularly in the railway yards on Dublin's North Wall. They were a six coupled (0-6-0 wheel arrangement) locomotive, fitted wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20H.%20Munro
David Herbert Munro (born April 29, 1955 in Oakland, California) is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who created the programming language Yorick as well as the scientific graphics library Gist. Munro earned his BS at Caltech (1976) and PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDM%20over%20IP
In computer networking and telecommunications, TDM over IP (TDMoIP) is the emulation of time-division multiplexing (TDM) over a packet-switched network (PSN). TDM refers to a T1, E1, T3 or E3 signal, while the PSN is based either on IP or MPLS or on raw Ethernet. A related technology is circuit emulation, which enables...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20T3D
The T3D (Torus, 3-Dimensional) was Cray Research's first attempt at a massively parallel supercomputer architecture. Launched in 1993, it also marked Cray's first use of another company's microprocessor. The T3D consisted of between 32 and 2048 Processing Elements (PEs), each comprising a 150 MHz DEC Alpha 21064 (EV4...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequitur%20algorithm
Sequitur (or Nevill-Manning-Witten algorithm) is a recursive algorithm developed by Craig Nevill-Manning and Ian H. Witten in 1997 that infers a hierarchical structure (context-free grammar) from a sequence of discrete symbols. The algorithm operates in linear space and time. It can be used in data compression software...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Problem%20Solver
General Problem Solver (GPS) is a computer program created in 1957 by Herbert A. Simon, J. C. Shaw, and Allen Newell (RAND Corporation) intended to work as a universal problem solver machine. In contrast to the former Logic Theorist project, the GPS works with means–ends analysis. Overview Any problem that can be exp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20NetWeaver%20Business%20Warehouse
SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) is SAP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse product. It can transform and consolidate business information from virtually any source system. It ran on industry standard RDBMS until version 7.3 at which point it began to transition onto SAP's HANA in-memory DBMS, particularly with the release of v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spigot%20algorithm
A spigot algorithm is an algorithm for computing the value of a transcendental number (such as or e) that generates the digits of the number sequentially from left to right providing increasing precision as the algorithm proceeds. Spigot algorithms also aim to minimize the amount of intermediate storage required. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timesheet
A timesheet (or time sheet) is a method for recording the amount of a worker's time spent on each job. Traditionally a sheet of paper with the data arranged in tabular format, a timesheet is now often a digital document or spreadsheet. The time cards stamped by time clocks can serve as a timesheet or provide the data t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily%20pad%20network
A lily pad network is a series of wireless access points spread over a large area, each connected to a different network and owned by different enterprises and people, providing hotspots where wireless clients can connect to the Internet without regard for the particular networks to which they link. This is in contras...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMS
BMS may refer to: Arts and entertainment Be-Music Source, a computer file format and Beatmania simulating game system Bristol Motor Speedway, Tennessee, US Blue Mountain State, a television series Bibliography of Music Literature (BMS or BMS online) Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, a rock band Benchmark Sims, a gaming ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WriteNow
WriteNow is a word processor application for the original Apple Macintosh and later computers in the NeXT product line. The application is one of two word processors that were first developed with the goal that they be available at the time of the Mac product launch in 1984, and was the primary word processor for comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severo%20Ornstein
Severo M. Ornstein (born 1930) is a retired computer scientist and son of American composer Leo Ornstein. In 1955 he joined MIT's Lincoln Laboratory as a programmer and designer for the SAGE air-defense system. He later joined the TX-2 group and became a member of the team that designed the LINC. He moved with the team...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygame
Pygame is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language. History Pygame was originally written by Pete Shinners to replace PySDL after its development stalled. It has been a community p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20%28Unix%29
In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing. A pipeline is a set of processes chained together by their standard streams, so that the output text of each process (stdout) is passed directly as input (stdin) to the next one. The second process ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Pascal
Apple Pascal is an implementation of Pascal for the Apple II and Apple III computer series. It is based on UCSD Pascal. Just like other UCSD Pascal implementations, it ran on its own operating system (Apple Pascal Operating System, a derivative of UCSD p-System with graphical extensions). Originally released for the A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20%28computing%29
In computing, a pipeline, also known as a data pipeline, is a set of data processing elements connected in series, where the output of one element is the input of the next one. The elements of a pipeline are often executed in parallel or in time-sliced fashion. Some amount of buffer storage is often inserted between el...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost%20Mobile
Boost Mobile may refer to: Boost Mobile (Australia), an Australian mobile virtual network operator Boost Mobile (United States), an American mobile virtual network operator owned by Dish Wireless Spark New Zealand, a telecommunications company in New Zealand which used the Boost Mobile brand prior to 2007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ke
.ke is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Kenya. KENIC, short for Kenya Network Information Centre, is the authoritative agency responsible for managing the registrations and issuance of the .ke domain. In 2002, KENIC assumed control of the .ke domain when it had a meager number of less than 1,00...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellman%20equation
A Bellman equation, named after Richard E. Bellman, is a necessary condition for optimality associated with the mathematical optimization method known as dynamic programming. It writes the "value" of a decision problem at a certain point in time in terms of the payoff from some initial choices and the "value" of the re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDKA-TV
KDKA-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Jeannette-licensed independent station WPKD-TV (channel 19). Both stations share studios at the Gateway Center in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPGH-TV
WPGH-TV (channel 53) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual CW/MyNetworkTV affiliate WPNT (channel 22). Both stations share studios on Ivory Avenue in the city's Summer Hill neighborhood, where WPGH-TV's...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendetta%20Online
Vendetta Online is a twitch-based, science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Guild Software for the operating systems Android, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, and Microsoft Windows. It uses the NAOS game engine, a fully real-time flight model and combat system, to offer first-person/thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%27s%2C%20Inc.
The Aaron's Company is an American lease-to-own retailer. The company focuses on leases and retail sales of furniture, electronics, appliances, and computers. The company sells through the company-operated and franchised stores, e-commerce platform (Aarons.com) Locations , the Aaron's Company has 1,340 stores: 1,092 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque%20%28game%20engine%29
Torque Game Engine, or TGE, is an open-source cross-platform 3D computer game engine, developed by GarageGames and actively maintained under the current versions Torque 3D as well as Torque 2D. It was originally developed by Dynamix for the 2001 first-person shooter Tribes 2. In September 2012, GarageGames released Tor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20University%20of%20Computer%20and%20Emerging%20Sciences
The National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES) (), also known as Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST), is a private research university with multiple campuses in different cities of Pakistan. Overview The university is the first multi-campus university in Pakistan, having fiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%20Conformity%20Assessment%20Test%20Suite
The Ada Conformity Assessment Test Suite (ACATS) is the test suite used for Ada processor conformity testing. A prior test suite was known as the Ada Compiler Validation Capability (ACVC). ACVC era The Ada Compiler Validation Capability test suite, commonly referred to as the ACVC tests, was the original test suite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parengarenga%20Harbour
{ "type": "ExternalData", "service": "geoshape", "ids": "Q1375426", "properties": { "fill": "#73a3f0"}} Parengarenga Harbour is a natural harbour close to the northernmost point on the North Island of New Zealand. Located at the northern end of the Aupōuri Peninsula, it extends inland for over 10 kilometres, almost se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVC-based%20preservation
UVC-based preservation is an archival strategy for handling the preservation of digital objects. It employs the use of a Universal Virtual Computer (UVC)—a virtual machine (VM) specifically designed for archival purposes, that allows both emulation and migration to a language-neutral format like XML. Background to the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20rule
In machine learning, the delta rule is a gradient descent learning rule for updating the weights of the inputs to artificial neurons in a single-layer neural network. It can be derived as the backpropagation algorithm for a single-layer neural network with mean-square error loss function. For a neuron with activation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mu
.mu is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mauritius. It is administered by the Mauritius Network Information Centre and registrations are processed via accredited registrars. Some registrars market it as the .music and .museum TLD. Usage A number of musical groups have started to use this domain, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%20Soupercomputer
The Stone Soupercomputer was a Beowulf-style computer cluster built at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the late 1990s. A group of lab employees including William W. Hargrove and Forrest M. Hoffman applied for a grant to build a cluster in 1996, but it was rejected. They decided to build a cluster anyway, usi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency%20%28road%29
A concurrency in a road network is an instance of one physical roadway bearing two or more different route numbers. When two roadways share the same right-of-way, it is sometimes called a common section or commons. Other terminology for a concurrency includes overlap, coincidence, duplex (two concurrent routes), triple...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXeem
eXeem was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing client using the BitTorrent protocol. eXeem was designed to replace the need for centralized trackers (servers which co-ordinate the transfer of metadata across a BitTorrent network). It largely failed to achieve this goal, and the project was canceled and eXeem's network was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ph
.ph is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Philippines. The official domain registry of the .ph domain is dotPH Domains Inc. dotPH holds and maintains the database of PH domain names, specifically .ph, .com.ph, .net.ph, and .org.ph. Its domain name registrars are not only individuals, businesses...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.sd
.sd is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Sudan. 2nd level domains com.sd - Companies net.sd - Network providers and ISPs org.sd - Sudanese NGOs edu.sd - Sudanese universities and colleges med.sd - Medical tv.sd - TV channels and Electronic media gov.sd - Sudanese government and ministries ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.sy
.sy is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Syria. The registry is operated by the National Agency for Network Services. It took over from the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment in 2011. Second-level domains There are several reserved second-level domains. They are: .edu.sy (educational institu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tt
.tt is the internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for Trinidad and Tobago. The Trinidad and Tobago Network Information Centre (TTNIC) allows registrations under for second-level domains, and for third-level domains under the following domains: , , , , , , , , , , , , ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tz
.tz is the Internet country code top-level domain for Tanzania. Through a consultative process, Tanzania Network information Centre (tzNIC), a not-for-profit company was established and registered (in 2006) to administer and manage the operations of the Tanzania country code top-level domain. tzNIC is a limited compa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z22%20%28computer%29
The Z22 was the seventh computer model Konrad Zuse developed (the first six being the Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5 and Z11, respectively). One of the early commercial computers, the Z22's design was finished about 1955. The major version jump from Z11 to Z22 was due to the use of vacuum tubes, as opposed to the electromechanical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Texas%20Corridor
The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) was a proposal for a transportation network in the U.S. State of Texas that was conceived to be composed of a new kind of transportation modality known as supercorridors. The TTC was initially proposed in 2001 and after considerable controversy was discontinued by 2010 in the planning an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U
M3U (MP3 URL or Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator in full) is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a single-entry playlist file pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy access to that stream and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape%20Portable%20Runtime
The Netscape Portable Runtime, or NSPR, is a cross-platform abstraction layer library for the C programming language. It provides a uniform API for various operating system functions. History Much of the library, and perhaps the overall thrust of it in the Gromit environment, provides the underpinnings of the Java vi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20discovery
Service discovery is the process of automatically detecting devices and services on a computer network. This reduces the need for manual configuration by users and administrators. A service discovery protocol (SDP) is a network protocol that helps accomplish service discovery. Service discovery aims to reduce the confi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedrock%20%28framework%29
Bedrock was a joint effort by Apple Computer and Symantec to produce a cross platform programming framework for writing applications on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms. The project was a failure for a variety of reasons, and after delivering a developer preview version the project was abandoned in l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2010303
ISO 10303 is an ISO standard for the computer-interpretable representation and exchange of product manufacturing information. It is an ASCII-based format. Its official title is: Automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange. It is known informally as "STEP", which stands for "Standard fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Night%20Nippon
is a Japanese radio program broadcast by Nippon Broadcasting System and other radio stations from 1–5 am (JST). It preempts broadcasts from TBS Radio's programming heard on stations under both JRN and NRN (TBC Radio, CBC Radio, etc.). DJs The day of the week below are for the evening preceding in Japan, i.e. day in UT...