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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20program%20theorem
The structured program theorem, also called the Böhm–Jacopini theorem, is a result in programming language theory. It states that a class of control-flow graphs (historically called flowcharts in this context) can compute any computable function if it combines subprograms in only three specific ways (control structures...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCash
CyberCash, Inc. was an internet payment service for electronic commerce, headquartered in Reston, Virginia. It was founded in August 1994 by Daniel C. Lynch (who served as chairman), William N. Melton (who served as president and CEO, and later chairman), Steve Crocker (Chief Technology Officer), and Bruce G. Wilson. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV
Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV, or CalDAV, is an Internet standard allowing a client to access and manage calendar data along with the ability to schedule meetings with users on the same or on remote servers. It lets multiple users in different locations share, search and synchronize calendar data. It extends the Web...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Randolph
Amanda E. Randolph (September 2, 1896 – August 24, 1967) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American performer to star in a regularly scheduled network television show, appearing in DuMont's The Laytons. Early life Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Randolph was the daughter of a Methodist minist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRiver%20Media%20Center
JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows, macOS, or Linux operating systems. Developed by JRiver, Inc., it is offered as shareware. JRiver Media Center is a "jukebox"-style media player, like iTunes, which usually use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSD%20%28disambiguation%29
A solid-state drive is a type of data storage device which uses semiconductor memory rather than magnetic media. SSD may also refer to: Science and technology Saturated-surface-dry, aggregate or porous solid condition Biology and medicine Schizophrenia spectrum disorders Signal-sensing domain, in molecular biolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20in%20the%20Afternoon
Nick in the Afternoon was a programming block on Nickelodeon that aired from 1994 to 1998 on weekday afternoons during the summer, hosted by Stick Stickly, a Mr. Bill-like popsicle stick puppeteered by Rick Lyon and voiced by New Yorker Paul Christie (who would later voice Noggin mascot, Moose A. Moose until 2012). The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20Identity%20Protocol
The Host Identity Protocol (HIP) is a host identification technology for use on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The Internet has two main name spaces, IP addresses and the Domain Name System. HIP separates the end-point identifier and locator roles of IP addresses. It introduces a Host Identity (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20Nelson
Tara Nelson is a Canadian television journalist and news anchor, and most recently was the European bureau chief for Global Television Network's news division. In 2010, Nelson assumed the role as the anchor of the News at 6 at CTV Calgary, replacing Barb Higgins, who left the position after joining the mayoral race in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia%20Metro
The Sofia Metro (, also colloquially called ) is the rapid transit network servicing the Bulgarian capital city Sofia. It is the only metro in Bulgaria. It began operation on 28 January 1998. , the Sofia Metro consists of four interconnected lines, serving 47 stations, with a total route length of and also being among...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%20reward%20check
Knuth reward checks are checks or check-like certificates awarded by computer scientist Donald Knuth for finding technical, typographical, or historical errors, or making substantial suggestions for his publications. The MIT Technology Review describes the checks as "among computerdom's most prized trophies". History ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency%20injection
In software engineering, dependency injection is a programming technique in which an object or function receives other objects or functions that it requires, as opposed to creating them internally. Dependency injection aims to separate the concerns of constructing objects and using them, leading to loosely coupled prog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline%20%28surveying%29
In surveying, a baseline is generally a line between two points on the earth's surface and the direction and distance between them. In a triangulation network, at least one baseline between two stations needs to be measured to calculate the size of the triangles by trigonometry. In the United States Public Land Survey...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Andaman
Air Andaman was a Thai regional airline based in Bangkok, Thailand. It was a regional carrier operating a small network of domestic and international services, as well as charter flights. The airline ceased all operations in 2004. History The airline was established in 2000 and started operations on 29 October 2000. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid%20%28programming%20language%29
Lucid is a dataflow programming language designed to experiment with non-von Neumann programming models. It was designed by Bill Wadge and Ed Ashcroft and described in the 1985 book Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language. pLucid was the first interpreter for Lucid. Model Lucid uses a demand-driven model for data co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20Strangers%20%28TV%20series%29
Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons, from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network. Created by Dale McRaven, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker) and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan%3A%20Hall%20of%20Volta
Conan: Hall of Volta (or simply Conan on the box cover and title screen) is a platform game from American developers Eric Robinson and Eric Parker and published by Datasoft in 1984. It is based on the character Conan created by Robert E. Howard. This game was originally written for the Apple II and ported to the Commo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTF
XTF may refer to: eXtensible Tag Framework, a framework for implementing new XML elements for Mozilla eXtended Triton Format, a file format for recording hydrographic survey data Extensible Text Framework, an XML framework used to present finding aids for archival collections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel%20%28video%20game%29
Citadel is a computer game developed by Michael Jakobsen for the BBC Micro, and released by Superior Software in 1985. It was also ported to the Acorn Electron. Centred around a castle, this platform game with some puzzle-solving elements requires players to find five hidden crystals and return them to their rightful p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find%20%28Unix%29
In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find is a command-line utility that locates files based on some user-specified criteria and either prints the pathname of each matched object or, if another action is requested, performs that action on each matched object. It initiates a search from a desired starting lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%20Radio%20and%20Television%20Station
Beijing Radio and Television Station (BRTV), formerly Beijing Media Network (BMN), is a government-owned television network in China. It broadcasts from Beijing. The channel is available only in Chinese. Broadcasts in Beijing are on AM, FM, cable FM, digital radio, digital TV and online. Beijing Media Network was foun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTV
BTV may refer to: Television channels, stations and networks Bangladesh Bangladesh Television, a state-owned TV broadcaster in Bangladesh and country's oldest television network Botswana Botswana Television, national broadcaster in Botswana Botswana TV 1, targeted for adults. Normally airs government issues like Nat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox%20Union
The Orthodox Union (abbreviated OU) is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States. Founded in 1898, the OU supports a network of synagogues, youth programs, Jewish and Religious Zionist advocacy programs, programs for the disabled, localized religious study programs, and international units w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43%20Things
43 Things was a social networking service established as an online goal setting community. It was built on the principles of tagging, rather than creating explicit interpersonal links (as seen in Friendster and Orkut). Users created accounts and then listed a number of goals or hopes; these goals were parsed by a lex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI%20InterActive%21
TI InterActive! is a Texas Instruments computer program which combines the functionality of all of the TI graphing calculators with extra features into a text editor which allows you to save equations, graphs, tables, spreadsheets, and text onto a document. TI InterActive! also includes a web browser, but it is just a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered%20computing
Human-centered computing (HCC) studies the design, development, and deployment of mixed-initiative human-computer systems. It is emerged from the convergence of multiple disciplines that are concerned both with understanding human beings and with the design of computational artifacts. Human-centered computing is close...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS%20Distribution
PBS Distribution (PBSd), formerly known as PBS Ventures, PBS Home Video, and Public Media Distribution, is the home distribution unit of American television network PBS. The company manages streaming channels, video on demand releases, and sells home videos of PBS series and movies and PBS Kids series in various format...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket%20computer
A pocket computer was a 1980s-era user programmable calculator-sized computer that had fewer screen lines, and often fewer characters per line, than the Pocket-sized computers introduced beginning in 1989. Manufacturers included Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Sharp, Tandy/Radio Shack (selling Casio and Sharp models under the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphonic%20HMI
Polyphonic HMI is a music analysis company jointly founded in Barcelona, Spain by Mike McCready and an artificial intelligence firm called Grupo AIA. Its principal product is called "Hit Song Science" (HSS) which uses various statistical and signal processing techniques to help record companies predict whether a partic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania%20Chronicles
Castlevania Chronicles is a video game compilation developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo for the PlayStation. It consists of two game modes: Original Mode, which is a port of the 1993 platform video game for the Sharp X68000 home computer, and Arrange Mode, a modernized remake featuring a new introductory c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opti
Opti may refer to OPTi Inc., a manufacturer of computer components Daihatsu Opti, a car OPTI Canada, an oil company Optimist (dinghy), a type of boat OptiRTC, a software company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20error
In computer programming, a logic error is a bug in a program that causes it to operate incorrectly, but not to terminate abnormally (or crash). A logic error produces unintended or undesired output or other behaviour, although it may not immediately be recognized as such. Logic errors occur in both compiled and inter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warzone%202100
Warzone 2100 is an open-source real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game, originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. It was originally released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation, and is now also available for macOS, FreeBSD, AmigaOS 4, AROS, MorphOS, Linu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero%20AG
Nero AG (known as Ahead Software AG until 2005) is a German computer software company that is especially well known for its CD/DVD/BD burning suite, Nero Burning ROM. The company's main product is Nero 2019, a piece of software that comprises burning, file conversion, media management, and video editing functions and w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%20zooming
In computing, page zooming is the ability to zoom in and out a document or image at page level. It is usually found in applications related to document layout and publishing, e.g. word processing and spreadsheet programs, but it can also be found in web browsers as it improves accessibility for people with visual impai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtel%20%28FBI%29
Airtel is an outdated data communication process used internally within the FBI in addition to Teletype and facsimile. It indicates a letter that must be typed and mailed on the same day. The FBI official abbreviation for airtel is A/T. Airtels are indexed automatically by a ZyIndex searchable database, which stores ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitr
PITR may refer to: Point-in-time recovery, a computing term referring to the recovery of data from a state in past Pitr, a character in the webcomic User Friendly Pitrs or Pitr, spirits of departed ancestors in Hindu culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.248
The Gateway Control Protocol (Megaco, H.248) is an implementation of the media gateway control protocol architecture for providing telecommunication services across a converged internetwork consisting of the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) and modern packet networks, such as the Internet. H.248 is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20locking
In databases an index is a data structure, part of the database, used by a database system to efficiently navigate access to user data. Index data are system data distinct from user data, and consist primarily of pointers. Changes in a database (by insert, delete, or modify operations), may require indexes to be updat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%2016
Link 16 is a military tactical data link network used by NATO and nations allowed by the MIDS International Program Office (IPO). Its specification is part of the family of Tactical Data Links. With Link 16, military aircraft as well as ships and ground forces may exchange their tactical picture in near-real time. Li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session%20border%20controller
A session border controller (SBC) is a network element deployed to protect SIP based voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks. Early deployments of SBCs were focused on the borders between two service provider networks in a peering environment. This role has now expanded to include significant deployments between...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rm%20%28Unix%29
rm (short for remove) is a basic command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic links from file systems and also special files such as device nodes, pipes and sockets, similar to the del command in MS-DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows. The command ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil%20%28computer%20programming%29
In computer programming, a sigil () is a symbol affixed to a variable name, showing the variable's datatype or scope, usually a prefix, as in $foo, where $ is the sigil. Sigil, from the Latin sigillum, meaning a "little sign", means a sign or image supposedly having magical power. Sigils can be used to separate and de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSLS
HSLS refer to: Hazy Sighted Link State Routing Protocol, a wireless network routing algorithm Slovak People's Party (Slovak: ) Croatian Social Liberal Party (Croatian: ) See also HSL (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watching%20%28TV%20series%29
Watching is a British television sitcom, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network and broadcast for seven series and four Christmas specials between 1987 and 1993. The series was written by Jim Hitchmough and starred Paul Bown and Emma Wray as mismatched couple Malcolm Stoneway and Brenda Wilson. Plot Watch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20clone
A Macintosh clone is a computer running the Mac OS operating system that was not produced by Apple Inc. The earliest Mac clones were based on emulators and reverse-engineered Macintosh ROMs. During Apple's short lived Mac OS 7 licensing program, authorized Mac clone makers were able to either purchase 100% compatible m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20identity
Object identity may refer to: Identity (object-oriented programming) Equality (objects)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-oriented%20programming
Language-oriented programming (LOP) is a software-development paradigm where "language" is a software building block with the same status as objects, modules and components, and rather than solving problems in general-purpose programming languages, the programmer creates one or more domain-specific languages (DSLs) for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob%20%28video%20games%29
A mob, short for mobile or mobile object, is a computer-controlled non-player character (NPC) in a video game such as an MMORPG or MUD. Depending on context, every and any such character in a game may be considered to be a "mob", or usage of the term may be limited to hostile NPCs and/or NPCs vulnerable to attack. In ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-control%20system
A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director and radar, which is designed to assist a ranged weapon system to target, track, and hit a target. It performs the same task as a human gunner firing a weapon, but attempts to do so faster and more accurately....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Nucleotide%20Sequence%20Database%20Collaboration
The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) consists of a joint effort to collect and disseminate databases containing DNA and RNA sequences. It involves the following computerized databases: NIG's DNA Data Bank of Japan (Japan), NCBI's GenBank (USA) and the EMBL-EBI's European Nucleotide Arch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Chile
TV Chile is a Chilean pay television network that airs from Santiago, Chile. It is the international feed of the National Television of Chile. History The first national satellite broadcasts of TVN began in 1986, reaching also some parts of Latin America. TV Chile, as an independent signal from TVN, began officially i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Red%20Cross
The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The society was formed in 1870, and is a registered charity with more than 17,200 volunteers and 3,400 staff. At the heart of their work is providin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Dc
3Dc (FourCC : ATI2), also known as DXN, BC5, or Block Compression 5 is a lossy data compression algorithm for normal maps invented and first implemented by ATI. It builds upon the earlier DXT5 algorithm and is an open standard. 3Dc is now implemented by both ATI and Nvidia. Target application The target application, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Scavone
Gary Paul Scavone is a computer music researcher and musician. Scavone is currently an associate professor of music technology at McGill University. Previously, Scavone directed the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. He, along with Perry Cook, authored the Synthesis Toolkit (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI%20TruForm
ATI TruForm was a brand by ATI (now AMD) for a SIP block capable of doing a graphics procedure called tessellation in computer hardware. ATI TruForm was included into Radeon 8500 (available from August 2001 on) and newer products. The successor of the SIP block branded "ATI TruForm" was included into Radeon HD 2000 se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Gookin
Dan Gookin is a computer book author who wrote the first ...For Dummies books including DOS for Dummies and PCs for Dummies, establishing the design and voice of the long-running series that followed, incorporating humor and jokes into a format for beginners on any subject. He also is a member of the Coeur d'Alene City...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korg%20OASYS
The Korg OASYS is a workstation synthesizer released in early 2005, 1 year after the successful Korg Triton Extreme. Unlike the Triton series, the OASYS uses a custom Linux operating system that was designed to be arbitrarily expandable via software updates, with its functionality limited only by the PC-like hardware. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-13ARIMA-SEATS
X-13ARIMA-SEATS, successor to X-12-ARIMA and X-11, is a set of statistical methods for seasonal adjustment and other descriptive analysis of time series data that are implemented in the U.S. Census Bureau's software package. These methods are or have been used by Statistics Canada, Australian Bureau of Statistics, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaprekar%27s%20routine
In number theory, Kaprekar's routine is an iterative algorithm named after its inventor, Indian mathematician D. R. Kaprekar. Each iteration starts with a number, sorts the digits into descending and ascending order, and calculates the difference between the two new numbers. As an example, starting with the number 899...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Palace%20%28computer%20program%29
The Palace is a computer program to access graphical chat room servers, called palaces, in which users may interact with one another using graphical avatars overlaid on a graphical backdrop. The software concept was originally created by Jim Bumgardner and produced by Time Warner in 1994, and was first opened to the pu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent%20estimator
In statistics, a consistent estimator or asymptotically consistent estimator is an estimator—a rule for computing estimates of a parameter θ0—having the property that as the number of data points used increases indefinitely, the resulting sequence of estimates converges in probability to θ0. This means that the distri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintbox
Paintbox may refer to: Paintbox (software), a graphics utility for the ZX Spectrum, released in 1983 Quantel Paintbox, a computer graphics workstation for television video and graphics, released in 1981 "Paint Box" (song), by Pink Floyd, 1967 PaintBox, a program operated by the Boston Art Commission, Massachusetts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20URI%20scheme
The data URI scheme is a uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme that provides a way to include data in-line in Web pages as if they were external resources. It is a form of file literal or here document. This technique allows normally separate elements such as images and style sheets to be fetched in a single Hypert...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvania%20Electric%20Products
Sylvania Electric Products Inc. was an American manufacturer of diverse electrical equipment, including at various times radio transceivers, vacuum tubes, semiconductors, and mainframe computers such as MOBIDIC. They were one of the companies involved in the development of the COBOL programming language. History The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
Interix was an optional, POSIX-conformant Unix subsystem for Windows NT operating systems. Interix was a component of Windows Services for UNIX, and a superset of the Microsoft POSIX subsystem. Like the POSIX subsystem, Interix was an environment subsystem for the NT kernel. It included numerous open source utility sof...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20in%20the%20last%20place
In computer science and numerical analysis, unit in the last place or unit of least precision (ulp) is the spacing between two consecutive floating-point numbers, i.e., the value the least significant digit (rightmost digit) represents if it is 1. It is used as a measure of accuracy in numeric calculations. Definition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa%20%28computer%20graphics%29
Mesa, also called Mesa3D and The Mesa 3D Graphics Library, is an open source implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics API specifications. Mesa translates these specifications to vendor-specific graphics hardware drivers. Its most important users are two graphics drivers mostly developed and funded by Intel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorfields%20railway%20station
Moorfields railway station is an underground railway station in the city centre of Liverpool, England. The station is situated on both the Northern and Wirral Lines of the Merseyrail network. It is the third-busiest station on the Merseyrail network, and the largest underground station. It is also the only station on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRIS
MRIS may refer to: Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, a realtors' Multiple Listing Service database in the Washington, DC metro area Menopausal Research and Info Service, a British website Marginal Rate of Intertemporal Substitution Macroeconomics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Continuity%20Institute
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 by Andrew Hiles and others, evolving from the Survive Group - a network of disaster recovery and business continuity experts. The Institute's initial vision was to enable individual members to obtain guidance and support from fellow business continuity p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan%20Tongzhi%20Hotline%20Association
Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association (TTHA; ) is an organization that provides the LGBT community with peer counseling, support networks, and a community resource center. It is the first LGBT non-governmental organization (NGO) registered in Taiwan. TTHA was established in 1998 as a joint effort of four groups that foc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20Party%20USA
Dance Party USA is an American dance television show that aired daily on cable's USA Network from April 12, 1986, to June 27, 1992. It was originally a half-hour, but was expanded to an hour in 1987. The program was always shot at, and aired live from, various TV studios including WPHL-17 and WGBS in Philadelphia from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Bosack
Leonard X. Bosack (born 1952) is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology, and services. His net worth is approximately $200 million. He was awarded the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for co-fou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Binford
Thomas Oriel Binford has been a researcher in image analysis and computer vision since 1967. He developed a model-based approach to computer vision in which complex objects are represented as collections of generalized cylinders. His results are reflected in work in other areas of research, including the interpretation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzen%20%28computer%29
The Blitzen was a miniaturized SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) computer system designed for NASA in the late 1980s by a team of researchers at Duke University, North Carolina State University and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. The Blitzen was composed of a control unit and a set of simple proce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallang%E2%80%93Paya%20Lebar%20Expressway
The Kallang–Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) is the third newest of Singapore's network of expressways. The southern (Kallang) section of the expressway opened first, on 26 October 2007, with the remaining (Paya Lebar) section opened on 20 September 2008. Connecting East Coast Parkway (ECP) in the south and Tampines Expres...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%20Computer%20Products
Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was a Tukwila, Washington, microcomputer hardware company which was one of the first manufacturers of computer systems based on the 16-bit Intel 8086 processor. Founded in 1978, SCP began shipping its first S-100 bus 8086 CPU boards to customers in November 1979, about 21 months before I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29
A K-line, or Knowledge-line, is a mental agent which represents an association of a group of other mental agents found active when a subject solves a certain problem or formulates a new idea. These were first described in Marvin Minsky's essay K-lines: A Theory of Memory, published in 1980 in the journal Cognitive Scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Shapiro
Michael Shapiro may refer to: Michael Shapiro (actor), American actor, voice actor and theatre director Mike Shapiro (programmer), American computer programmer Michael J. Shapiro (born 1940), American political scientist at the University of Hawai'i Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, American composer and music director of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WashAndGo
WashAndGo may refer to: A shampoo produced by Vidal Sassoon A computer program for Microsoft Windows by Abelssoft to remove garbage and unneeded files, see WashAndGo (software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20publishing
Database publishing is an area of automated media production in which specialized techniques are used to generate paginated documents from source data residing in traditional databases. Common examples are mail order catalogues, direct marketing, report generation, price lists and telephone directories. The database co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Linux
Scientific Linux (SL) is a discontinued Linux distribution produced by Fermilab, CERN, DESY and by ETH Zurich. It is a free and open-source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This product is derived from the free and open-source software made available by Red Hat, but is not produced, maintained or su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted%20and%20dotless%20I%20in%20computing
The Latin-derived letters dotted İ i and dotless I ı, which are distinct letters in the alphabets of a number of Turkic languages, unlike in English and most languages using the Latin script, have caused some issues in computing. Difficulties Unicode does not encode the uppercase form of dotless I and lowercase form ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroen%20Tel
Jeroen Godfried Tel (born 19 May 1972), also known as WAVE, is a Dutch composer. He is best known for numerous computer game tunes he wrote in the 1980s and early 1990s for the Commodore 64. His most popular compositions appear in the following Commodore 64 games: Combat Crazy, Cybernoid, Cybernoid II, Dan Dare 3, Elim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram%20Transport%20Layer%20Security
Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) is a communications protocol providing security to datagram-based applications by allowing them to communicate in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. The DTLS protocol is based on the stream-oriented Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Perl%20Programming
Advanced Perl Programming is a 1997 book by Sriram Srinivasan which covers complex techniques needed in production level Perl. The second edition, by Simon Cozens and edited by Allison Randal, was published in 2005. It contains a different set of high-level programming techniques intended for practical use, and is des...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20DOS%20machine
Virtual DOS machines (VDM) refer to a technology that allows running 16-bit/32-bit DOS and 16-bit Windows programs when there is already another operating system running and controlling the hardware. Overview Virtual DOS machines can operate either exclusively through typical software emulation methods (e.g. dynamic r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaGa%20Frontier
is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation. The game was published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEA) in North America on March 25, 1998. It is the seventh game in the SaGa series, and the first to be released on the PlayStation. It is also the first in the series to be released under ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obliterator
Obliterator is a side-scrolling arcade adventure computer game published by Psygnosis in 1988. It was released for Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and MS-DOS. The game was programmed by David H. Lawson and its graphics were made by Garvan Corbett and Jim Ray Bowers. The soundtrack was composed by David Whitt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog%20%28shop%29
Cyberdog is a trance music and cyber clothing retail chain. Headquartered in Camden Market in London, it specialises in bright dance clothing, often featuring fluorescent colours and electronic components such as flashing lights. They also specialise in rave accessories such as glowsticks and other fluorescent items. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Dance
C-Dance is a Belgian radio station broadcasting dance music. It has been operational since 1996. From 1998 to 2002, C-Dance claimed to have been the most popular dance radio network in Belgium. In more recent years, C-Dance's only remaining frequency was 105.6 FM (Antwerp region). When its FM broadcast license expired ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PatternShare
PatternShare was a computer software design pattern web resource, hosted by Microsoft. Much of the work was led by Ward Cunningham, of Microsoft. In 2007 Pattern Share was taken offline. Its aim appeared to be to: bring together pattern summaries from many authors and provide a platform for discussion and further exp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering%20equation
In computer graphics, the rendering equation is an integral equation in which the equilibrium radiance leaving a point is given as the sum of emitted plus reflected radiance under a geometric optics approximation. It was simultaneously introduced into computer graphics by David Immel et al. and James Kajiya in 1986. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Computer%20Initiative
The Home Computing Initiative (HCI) was a UK Government program which allowed employers to provide personal computers, software and computer peripherals to their employees without the benefit being taxed as a salary. The HCI was introduced in 1999 to improve the IT literacy of the British workforce. It was also aimed a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20flight%20instrument%20system
In aviation, an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) is a flight instrument display system in an aircraft cockpit that displays flight data electronically rather than electromechanically. An EFIS normally consists of a primary flight display (PFD), multi-function display (MFD), and an engine indicating and crew a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk%20derivatives
Since the advent of the cyberpunk genre, a number of cyberpunk derivatives have become recognized in their own right as distinct subgenres in speculative fiction, especially in science fiction. Rather than necessarily sharing the digitally and mechanically focused setting of cyberpunk, these derivatives can display oth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Negro%20Network
The National Negro Network was a black-oriented radio programming service in the United States founded on January 20, 1954 by Chicago advertiser W. Leonard Evans, Jr. It was the first black-owned radio network in the country, and its programming was broadcast on up to 45 affiliates. An article in the trade publication...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arche
L'Arche ("The Ark") is an international federation of Non-profit organisations working to create networks of community where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together. Founded in 1964 by Jean Vanier, Raphaël Simi, and Philip Seux, L'Arche emerged as a reaction and community-based alternat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeskStation%20Technology
DeskStation Technology was a manufacturer of RISC-based computer workstations intended to run Windows NT. DeskStation was based in Lenexa, Kansas. AMD Am29000-based systems DeskStation announced a range of motherboards for systems based on the AMD Am29000 processor in 1991. These ranged from the Model 162 with a 16 MH...