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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops64
Cyclops64 (formerly known as Blue Gene/C) is a cellular architecture in development by IBM. The Cyclops64 project aims to create the first "supercomputer on a chip". History Cyclops64 is part of the Blue Gene effort, to produce the next several generations of supercomputers. The projects were started in response to th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia%20%28book%29
Cyberia is a book by Douglas Rushkoff, published in 1994. The book discusses many different ideas revolving around technology, drugs and subcultures. Rushkoff takes a Tom Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test style (or roman à clef), as he actively becomes a part of the people and culture that he is writing about. The boo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Strategy%20to%20Secure%20Cyberspace
In the United States government, the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, is a component of the larger National Strategy for Homeland Security. The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace was drafted by the Department of Homeland Security in reaction to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Released on February 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%2B%20tree
An R+ tree is a method for looking up data using a location, often (x, y) coordinates, and often for locations on the surface of the Earth. Searching on one number is a solved problem; searching on two or more, and asking for locations that are nearby in both x and y directions, requires craftier algorithms. Fundamen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%2A-tree
In data processing R*-trees are a variant of R-trees used for indexing spatial information. R*-trees have slightly higher construction cost than standard R-trees, as the data may need to be reinserted; but the resulting tree will usually have a better query performance. Like the standard R-tree, it can store both point...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Y.%20L.%20Chin
Francis Yuk Lun Chin ) is an emeritus professor at the University of Hong Kong after having retired as professor of computer science and Taikoo Professor of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. Chin served as head of the Computer Science Department from its start until 1999. In 2018, he and his wife founded a st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity%20%28operating%20system%29
INTEGRITY and INTEGRITY-178B are real-time operating systems (RTOSes) produced and marketed by Green Hills Software. INTEGRITY INTEGRITY is POSIX-certified and intended for use in embedded systems of 32-bits or 64-bits. Supported computer architectures include variants of: ARM, Blackfin, ColdFire, MIPS, PowerPC, XScal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3bert%20Szelepcs%C3%A9nyi
Róbert Szelepcsényi (; born 19 August 1966, Žilina) is a Slovak computer scientist of Hungarian descent and a member of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava. His results on the closure of non-deterministic space under complement, independently obtained in 1987 also b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE%20on%20Cygwin
KDE on Cygwin is the port of K Desktop Environment 1, 2, and 3 and the corresponding versions of the Qt toolkit to the Windows Operating System by using Cygwin, a POSIX emulation layer. KDE on Cygwin helps Windows computers to run applications originally created for Qt and KDE, by providing the applications with the n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Immerman
Neil Immerman (born 24 November 1953, Manhasset, New York) is an American theoretical computer scientist, a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is one of the key developers of descriptive complexity, an approach he is currently applying to research in model checking, database th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic%20Quest
Hellenic Quest is a 2008 urban legend claiming that engineers were developing supercomputers that would use Ancient Greek as their programming interface, due to its logical superiority over all other languages. History The hoax circulated around Greek website and was widely reproduced without verification by many repu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Hero%206%20%28comics%29
Big Hero 6 is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and created by Man of Action. In 2014, Walt Disney Animation Studios produced the computer-animated film Big Hero 6, inspired by the characters. In 2017, a television series based on the film, titled Big Hero 6: The Series, pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20screen%20of%20death
The black screen of death is a fatal system error displayed by some versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system after encountering a critical system error. Windows 3.x In Windows 3.x the black screen of death is the behavior that occurred when a DOS-based application failed to execute properly. It was often kn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIPRNet
The Non-classified Internet Protocol (IP) Router Network (NIPRNet) is an IP network used to exchange unclassified information, including information subject to controls on distribution, among the private network's users. The NIPRNet also provides its users access to the Internet. It is one of the United States Departm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Herbert%20Smith
Carl Herbert Smith (1950–2004) was an American computer scientist. He was a pioneer in computational complexity theory and computational learning theory. Smith was program manager of the National Science Foundation's theoretical computer science program, and editor of the International Journal of the Foundations of C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Salt%20Lake%20City
Transportation in Salt Lake City consists of a wide network of roads, an extensive bus system, a light rail system, and a commuter rail line. Although Salt Lake City, Utah, is a traditionally car-oriented city (as are most other cities in the western United States), the rapidly growing public transit system has a high ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malton%20GO%20Station
Malton GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network, located near Toronto Pearson International Airport, in the community of Malton in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Kitchener line, and is a flag stop for Via Rail trains operating between Toronto, London and Sarnia. History The o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen%20Metro
The Shenzhen Metro () is the rapid transit system for the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province, China. Extensions opened on 28 December 2022 put the network at of trackage, operating on 16 lines with 369 stations. Shenzhen Metro is the 4th longest metro system in China and 4th longest in the world as of that date de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCBS-TV
WCBS-TV (channel 2) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Riverhead, New York–licensed independent station WLNY-TV (channel 55). Both stations share studios within the CBS Broadcast Center ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppets%20Who%20Kill
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy series produced by PWK Productions and originally broadcast on The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. It has also been broadcast in India, South Korea and Germany. The series was on the digital network Hulu and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Portable
The Compaq Portable is an early portable computer which was one of the first IBM PC compatible systems. It was Compaq Computer Corporation's first product, to be followed by others in the Compaq Portable series and later Compaq Deskpro series. It was not simply an 8088-CPU computer that ran a Microsoft DOS as a PC "w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosh
Bosh or BOSH may refer to: BOSH (protocol), a transport protocol in computer networking Bosh (band), a Christian rock band from Bournemouth, United Kingdom Bosh (rapper), French rapper BOSH (software), a project for release engineering, deployment, and lifecycle management BOSH!, a vegan cookery duo BOSH, also known a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream
Upstream may refer to: Upstream (hydrology) Upstream (bioprocess) Upstream (film), a 1927 film by John Ford Upstream (networking) Upstream (newspaper), a newspaper covering the oil and gas industry Upstream (petroleum industry) Upstream (software development) Upstream (streaming service), a Philippine digital o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downstream
Downstream may refer to: Downstream (hydrology) Downstream (bioprocess) Downstream (manufacturing) Downstream (networking) Downstream (software development) Downstream (petroleum industry) Upstream and downstream (DNA), determining relative positions on DNA Upstream and downstream (transduction), determining te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM%20Network
TM Network is a Japanese rock/new wave/pop musical band, made up by Tetsuya Komuro (keyboardist), Takashi Utsunomiya (vocalist) and Naoto Kine (guitarist). They became popular in Japan as the "futuristic pop songs with synthesizer" after the release of their 1987 single "Get Wild" Tetsuya Komuro became a famous produc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Froese%20Fischer
Charlotte Froese Fischer (born 1929) is a Canadian-American applied mathematician and computer scientist noted for the development and implementation of the Multi-Configurational Hartree–Fock (MCHF) approach to atomic-structure calculations and its application to the description of atomic structure and spectra. The ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Lyon
Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich) is an American network security expert, creator of Nmap and writer of books, websites, and technical papers about network security. He is a founding member of the Honeynet Project and was Vice President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Pers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Inter-Domain%20Management
Joint Inter-Domain Management (JIDM) task force, jointly sponsored by X/Open and the Network Management Forum, has defined a mapping between SNMP, CMIP and CORBA. The JIDM specification was adopted as a standard by the Open Group in 2000. The mapping specification is in two parts: the Specification Translation and the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-Based%20Enterprise%20Management
In computing, Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) comprises a set of systems-management technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments. The WBEM initiative, initially sponsored in 1996 by BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Intel, and Microsoft, is now widely adopted. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDXF
SDXF (Structured Data eXchange Format) is a data serialization format defined by RFC 3072. It allows arbitrary structured data of different types to be assembled in one file for exchanging between arbitrary computers. The ability to arbitrarily serialize data into a self-describing format is reminiscent of XML, but SD...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20Medicine
Strong Medicine is an American medical drama with a focus on feminist politics, health issues and class conflict that aired on the Lifetime network from 2000 to 2006. It was created and produced in part by Whoopi Goldberg, who made cameos on the series, and by Tammy Ader. It starred Rosa Blasi, Janine Turner, and Patri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20identification%20and%20data%20capture
Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) refers to the methods of automatically identifying objects, collecting data about them, and entering them directly into computer systems, without human involvement. Technologies typically considered as part of AIDC include QR codes, bar codes, radio frequency identificat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapeworm%20%28disambiguation%29
A tapeworm is a member of a class of parasitic worms. Tapeworm may also refer to: Tapeworm infection, caused by the above worms Computer worms, originally called tapeworms Tapeworm (band), an American band, a defunct Nine Inch Nails side project Tapeworm (film), a 2019 Canadian feature film, directed by Milos Mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%20%28disambiguation%29
Rocky is a 1976 film starring Sylvester Stallone. Rocky may also refer to: Computing Rocky Linux, a Linux distribution Films Rocky (franchise), an American film franchise that debuted with the film Rocky in 1976 Rocky Balboa (film), the sixth film in the series from 2006 Rocky (1948 film), an American film sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisionTV
VisionTV is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel that broadcasts multi-faith, multicultural, and general entertainment programming aimed at the 45 and over demographic. VisionTV is currently owned by ZoomerMedia, a company controlled by Moses Znaimer. VisionTV's funding comes from cable subscriptio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20clock
A vector clock is a data structure used for determining the partial ordering of events in a distributed system and detecting causality violations. Just as in Lamport timestamps, inter-process messages contain the state of the sending process's logical clock. A vector clock of a system of N processes is an array/vector ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Zassenhaus
Hans Julius Zassenhaus (28 May 1912 – 21 November 1991) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. Biography He was born in Koblenz in 1912. His father was a historian and advocate for Reverence for Life as expressed by Albert Schweitzer. Hans ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20clock
A logical clock is a mechanism for capturing chronological and causal relationships in a distributed system. Often, distributed systems may have no physically synchronous global clock. In many applications (such as distributed GNU make), if two processes never interact, the lack of synchronization is unobservable and i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%28programming%20language%29
E is an object-oriented programming language for secure distributed computing, created by Mark S. Miller, Dan Bornstein, Douglas Crockford, Chip Morningstar and others at Electric Communities in 1997. E is mainly descended from the concurrent language Joule and from Original-E, a set of extensions to Java for secure di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fann
Fann, or FANN, may refer to: Fast Artificial Neural Network Fann Wong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat%20tree
In computer science, a scapegoat tree is a self-balancing binary search tree, invented by Arne Andersson in 1989 and again by Igal Galperin and Ronald L. Rivest in 1993. It provides worst-case lookup time (with as the number of entries) and amortized insertion and deletion time. Unlike most other self-balancing bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSI
TSI may refer to: Science, technology and engineering Technology Schools Initiative Thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin Time-Slot Interchange, communications network switches Total solar irradiance received at top of atmosphere Triple sugar iron test or TSI slant, of a microorganism's ability to ferment sugars Tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge-based%20systems
A knowledge-based system (KBS) is a computer program that reasons and uses a knowledge base to solve complex problems. The term is broad and refers to many different kinds of systems. The one common theme that unites all knowledge based systems is an attempt to represent knowledge explicitly and a reasoning system that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Vendor%20Integration%20Protocol
The Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol (MVIP) is a hardware bus for computer telephony integration (Audiotex) equipment, a PCM data highway for interconnecting expansion boards inside a PC. It was invented and brought to market by Natural Microsystems Inc (now BPQ Communicationser). Used to build call center equipment ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Autonomous%20Astronauts
The Association of Autonomous Astronauts is a worldwide network of community-based groups dedicated to building their own spaceships. The AAA was founded 23 April 1995. Although many of their activities were reported as serious participation in conferences or protests against the militarization of space, some were also...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSE
MSE may refer to: Education Master of Science in Engineering, a university degree Master of Science in Software Engineering, a college degree in software engineering Master of Software Engineering, a university degree; for example at the Information and Communications University Science, technology and engineering...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish detective fiction television programme created by Glenn Chandler, who wrote many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV network. It originally ran as the miniseries "Killer" from 6 until 20 September 1983, before a full series was commissioned that ran from 2 July 1985 until 7 Novemb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-photorealistic%20rendering
Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is an area of computer graphics that focuses on enabling a wide variety of expressive styles for digital art, in contrast to traditional computer graphics, which focuses on photorealism. NPR is inspired by other artistic modes such as painting, drawing, technical illustration, and ani...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geekcorps
Geekcorps is a non-profit organization that sends people with technical skills to developing countries to assist in computer infrastructure development. The non-profit was created in 2000 by Ethan Zuckerman and Elisa Korentayer in North Adams, Massachusetts. In 2001 Geekcorps became a division of the International Ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX%20technology
NX technology, commonly known as NX or NoMachine, is a remote access and remote control computer software, allowing remote desktop access and maintenance of computers. It is developed by the Luxembourg-based company NoMachine S.à r.l.. NoMachine is proprietary software and is free-of-charge for non-commercial use. Hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.1Q
IEEE 802.1Q, often referred to as Dot1q, is the networking standard that supports virtual local area networking (VLANs) on an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet network. The standard defines a system of VLAN tagging for Ethernet frames and the accompanying procedures to be used by bridges and switches in handling such frames. The sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Psychopharmacology%20Algorithm%20Project
The International Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project (IPAP) is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to "enable, enhance, and propagate" use of algorithms for the treatment of some Axis I psychiatric disorders. Kenneth O Jobson founded the Project. The Dean Foundation provides funding. IPAP has organized and su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB9
DB9 or DB-9 may refer to: Aston Martin DB9, a British sports car Atari joystick port, DB9 classic video game controller port made popular for game consoles and home computers mainly through the 1980s and ‘90s Darren Bent, English football forward who wears the number 9 shirt for Aston Villa F.C. DB9 (yacht), a su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius%20Joyport
The Sirius Joyport is a game controller adapter for the Apple II computer designed by Keithen Hayenga and Steve Woita (who were employed by Apple at the time) and then licensed for manufacture and distribution in 1981 by Sirius Software. The device was meant to address a limitation in the built-in game control offered...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%27s%20Gem
Jason's Gem is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum. It was published in 1985 by Mastertronic and written by Simon White. The hero Jason must make his way through a series of caves in search of the legendary gem of the title. The game begins with Jason docking his spaceship on a moving platform. He then descends throu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Jersey%20Network
The New Jersey Network (NJN) was a network of public television and radio stations serving the U.S. state of New Jersey. NJN was a member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for television and the National Public Radio (NPR) for radio, broadcasting their programming as well as producing and broadcasting their own...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NJN
NJN may refer to the following: New Jersey Network, the former statewide public television and radio network in New Jersey, a member of PBS and NPR New Jersey Nets, a former American professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Public%20Television
Maryland Public Television (MPT) is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member state network for the U.S. state of Maryland. It operates under the auspices of the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission, an agency of the Maryland state government that holds the licenses for all PBS member stations licensed in the sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20loss
Data loss is an error condition in information systems in which information is destroyed by failures (like failed spindle motors or head crashes on hard drives) or neglect (like mishandling, careless handling or storage under unsuitable conditions) in storage, transmission, or processing. Information systems implement ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computacenter
Computacenter plc is a British multinational that provides computer services to public- and private-sector customers. It is a UK company based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History Computacenter was founded in the UK in 1981 b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20coloring
In computer science, cache coloring (also known as page coloring) is the process of attempting to allocate free pages that are contiguous from the CPU cache's point of view, in order to maximize the total number of pages cached by the processor. Cache coloring is typically employed by low-level dynamic memory allocatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.22
IEEE 802.22, is a standard for wireless regional area network (WRAN) using white spaces in the television (TV) frequency spectrum. The development of the IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard is aimed at using cognitive radio (CR) techniques to allow sharing of geographically unused spectrum allocated to the television broadcast s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20drawing
Line drawing may mean: Line art, a style of two-dimensional art featuring only two, unshaded, contrasting colors Line drawing algorithm, in computer graphics See also Box-drawing character, also known as a line-drawing character
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20C.%20Pierce
Benjamin Crawford Pierce is the Henry Salvatori Professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. Pierce joined Penn in 1998 from Indiana University and held research positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecasound
Ecasound is a hard-disk recording and audio processing tool for Unix-like computer operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. Ecasound allows flexible interconnection of audio inputs, files, outputs, and effects algorithms, realtime-controllable by builtin oscillators, MIDI, or interprocess communicatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6ckernbr%C3%BCcke%20%28Berlin%20U-Bahn%29
Möckernbrücke is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn network in the western Kreuzberg district, in the vicinity of Potsdamer Platz, named after a nearby bridge crossing the Landwehrkanal. It is served by lines U1, U3, and U7. Overview The station, located on a viaduct at the northern shore of the Landwehrkanal, is part of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMS
XMS may refer to: Cray XMS, a vector processor minisupercomputer eBuddy XMS, instant-messaging service ISO 639:xms, Moroccan Sign Language Macas Airport (IATA: XMS), Ecuador XMS Capital Partners, a global financial services firm eXtended Memory Specification, an application programming interface for storing data...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button%20Moon
Button Moon is a British children's television programme broadcast in the United Kingdom in the 1980s on the ITV network. Thames Television produced each episode, which lasted ten minutes and featured the adventures of Mr. Spoon who, in each episode, travels to Button Moon in his homemade rocket ship. All the character...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger%20name%20record
A passenger name record (PNR) is a record in the database of a computer reservation system (CRS) that contains the itinerary for a passenger or a group of passengers travelling together. The concept of a PNR was first introduced by airlines that needed to exchange reservation information in case passengers required fli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KnightCap
KnightCap is an open source computer chess engine. Its primary author is Andrew Tridgell and it was created circa 1996. Major contributions have also been made by Jon Baxter and probably minor contributions by a few others. KnightCap is free software released under the GNU GPL. In most ways, KnightCap is a fairly typi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20trigger
A database trigger is procedural code that is automatically executed in response to certain events on a particular table or view in a database. The trigger is mostly used for maintaining the integrity of the information on the database. For example, when a new record (representing a new worker) is added to the employee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Central%20railway%20station
Liverpool Central railway station in Liverpool, England, forms a central hub of the Merseyrail network, being on both the Northern Line and the Wirral Line. The station is located underground on two levels, below the site of a former mainline terminus. It is the busiest station in Liverpool, though considerably smaller...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio%20Micali
Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol. Micali's research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental%20search
In computing, incremental search, hot search, incremental find or real-time suggestions is a user interface interaction method to progressively search for and filter through text. As the user types text, one or more possible matches for the text are found and immediately presented to the user. This immediate feedback o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20TV
NBA TV is an American sports-oriented pay television network owned by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its sports unit. Dedicated to basketball, the network features exhibition, regular season and playoff game broadcasts from the NBA and related professional baske...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Joy%20of%20Sect
"The Joy of Sect" is the thirteenth episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 8, 1998. In the episode, a cult takes over Springfield, and the Simpson family become members. David Mirkin conceived the init...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minho%20Campus%20Party
Minho Campus Party (also known as MCP) was Portugal's first and largest recurring LAN party. It took place in the Minho Province region. History LAN parties, which are local area network gaming events where participants bring their computers together to play multiplayer games, did indeed originate in Northern Europe. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWork
iWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple for its macOS, iPadOS, and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website. iWork includes the presentation application Keynote, the word-processing and desktop-publishing application Pages, and the spreadsheet application Nu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tots%20TV
Tots TV is a British children's television programme, produced by Ragdoll Productions and Central. The series was first telecast in the UK on the ITV network (part of CITV) from 1993 to 1998. Development Tots TV was written by two of its puppeteers, Robin Stevens (Tom) and Andrew Davenport (Tiny). The series was film...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pages%20%28word%20processor%29
Pages is a word processor developed by Apple Inc. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the macOS, iPadOS and iOS operating systems. It is also available on iCloud on the web. The first version of Pages was released in February 2005. Pages is marketed by Apple as an easy-to-use application that allows ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season
The 1944 Atlantic hurricane season featured the first instance of upper-tropospheric observations from radiosonde – a telemetry device used to record weather data in the atmosphere – being incorporated into tropical cyclone track forecasting for a fully developed hurricane. The season officially began on June 15, 1944,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarText
StarText was an online ASCII-based computer service run by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Tandy Corporation and marketed in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex newspaper circulation area from May 3, 1982 until March 3, 1997. Its name was derived from Star (representing the newspaper which would provide the content) a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos%20%28satellite%20system%29
Argos is a global satellite-based system that collects, processes, and disseminates (spreads, distributes) environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms around the world. The worldwide tracking and environmental monitoring system is the results from Franco-American cooperation. In addition to satellite data collec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArtWorks
ArtWorks is an advanced vector drawing package for RISC OS created by Computer Concepts (now Xara) in 1991. It has been developed by MW Software since 1996. Xara has continued to develop a Windows version called Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. Release History References External links Xara RISC OS software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%20and%20Subscribe%20%28Mac%20OS%29
Publish and Subscribe was a document linking model introduced by Apple Computer in System 7. Named the Edition Manager in developer documentation, it extended the existing cut and paste editing model with a notification system; "subscribers" could include parts of "published" documents within themselves, and changes to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only%20software
Crash-only software refers to computer programs that handle failures by simply restarting, without attempting any sophisticated recovery. Correctly written components of crash-only software can microreboot to a known-good state without the help of a user. Since failure-handling and normal startup use the same methods...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang-On
is an arcade racing game released by Sega in 1985 and later ported to the Master System. In the game, the player controls a motorcycle against time and other computer-controlled bikes. It was one of the first arcade games to use 16-bit graphics and uses the Super Scaler arcade system board, created with design input f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20Income%20Earth%20Network
The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN; until 2004 Basic Income European Network) is a network of academics and activists interested in the idea of basic income. It serves as a link between individuals and groups committed to or interested in basic income, and fosters informed discussion on this topic throughout the worl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iida
Iida or IIDA may refer to: Iida, Nagano, Japan Iida (surname) International Interior Design Association, a professional networking and educational association committed to interior design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterosa
Alterosa is a Brazilian municipality in the South of the state of Minas Gerais. According to latest data from IBGE (2020), its population is estimated to be 14,517. The inhabitants of the city usually travel to the nearest city, Alfenas, when they are in need of more sophisticated supplies. Alterosa was founded on 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCN
OCN is a three letter abbreviation that stands for: OCLC Control Number, a bibliographic record identifier In Oncology nursing, an Oncology Certified Nurse Opaskwayak Cree Nation Open College Network, a UK education organisation today known as NOCN Open Computer Network, a major Internet Service Provider in Japan Oran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20McDonald%20%28British%20author%29
Ian McDonald (born 1960) is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies. Early life Ian McDonald was born in 1960, in Manchester, to a Scottish father and Irish mother....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSI
DSI may refer to: Abbreviations DontStayIn, a social networking website Airport IATA airport code for Destin Executive Airport Businesses DSI is an initialism for the following companies: Daiichi Sankyo, Incorporated Data Sciences International, a company in Saint Paul, United States Dave Smith Instruments, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Freecycle%20Network
The Freecycle Network (TFN,) is a private, nonprofit organization registered in Arizona, US and is a charity in the United Kingdom. TFN coordinates a worldwide network of "gifting" groups to divert reusable goods from landfills. The network provides a worldwide online registry, organizing the creation of local groups a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBBM-TV
WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's CBS network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, the station maintains studios on West Washington Street in the Loop, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower. His...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iiyama%20%28company%29
iiyama is a brand name of . It produces liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors and LED display panels. It was previously an independent Japanese computer electronics company called with its headquarters in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Iiyama was founded in 1972 by Kazuro Katsuyama, named after the city of Iiyama in Nagano Prefec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai%20Ying%20Pun%20station
Sai Ying Pun is a station on the MTR network. The station is between HKU and Sheung Wan on the . It serves the neighbourhood of Sai Ying Pun and the western part of Mid-Levels in northwestern Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Sai Ying Pun station was opened on 29 March 2015, completing the West Island line extension of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheung%20Wan%20station
Sheung Wan is a station on the of the Hong Kong MTR network. The station serves the neighbourhood of Sheung Wan and the western part of Central District. The livery colour of this station is khaki. The station was originally planned in 1970 as Western Market but its construction was discontinued after further plannin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway%20Bay%20station
Causeway Bay () is a station on the MTR network on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The station is between and stations on the . It serves the locality of East Point within Wan Chai District. History In 1967, Freeman Fox and Wilbur Smith Associates released the government-commissioned Mass Transport Study, which propose...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Class%20442
The British Rail Class 442 (5-WES) Wessex Electrics were electric multiple unit passenger trains introduced in 1988 by Network SouthEast on the South West Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth to coincide with the electrification of the line from Bournemouth. Twenty-four five-car units were built by British Rail E...