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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMM386
EMM386 is the expanded memory manager of Microsoft's MS-DOS, IBM's PC DOS, Digital Research's DR-DOS, and Datalight's ROM-DOS which is used to create expanded memory using extended memory on Intel 80386 CPUs. There also is an EMM386.EXE available in FreeDOS. Overview EMM386.EXE can map memory into unused blocks in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Alcorn
Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948) is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games. Atari and Pong Alcorn grew up in San Francisco, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in ele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Zelmanowitz
Abraham J. Zelmanowitz (December 30, 1945 – September 11, 2001) was an American computer programmer who worked for Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield on the 27th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center in New York City, who died in the collapse of that building during the September 11 attacks in 2001. September 11...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%20in%20the%20Big%20City
Sheep in the Big City is an American animated television series created by Mo Willems for Cartoon Network. The 9th of the network's Cartoon Cartoons, the series' pilot first premiered as part of Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon Summer" on August 18, 2000, before its official debut on November 17, 2000 where it aired ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cineon
The Cineon System was one of the first computer based digital film systems, created by Kodak in the early 1990s. It was an integrated suite of components consisting a Motion picture film scanner, a film recorder and workstation hardware with software (the Cineon Digital Film Workstation) for compositing, visual effects...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards
The 16th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, June 29, 1989, on NBC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from March 6, 1988-March 5, 1989. The awards aired from 3-5 p.m. EST, preempting Santa Barbara. Again this year, the awards ceremony was a joint presentation of the National Academy of Television A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards
The 29th Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony, commemorating excellence in American daytime programming from 2001, was held on May 17, 2002 at the theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Hosted by Bob Barker, it was televised in the United States by CBS. It was also the first time the ceremonies were simulcast in S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balls%20of%20Steel%20%28video%20game%29
Balls of Steel is a pinball computer game developed by Wildfire Studios and released on December 12, 1997. It is the only game to be published under the Pinball Wizards label, a division of Apogee Software (today known as 3D Realms). When the game was originally released, it was possible to upload high scores to the W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Information%20Model
Common Information Model may refer to: Common Information Model (computing), a standard that defines how managed elements in an IT environment are represented as a common set of objects and relationships between them Common Information Model (electricity), a standard used by electricity transmission network operator...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates%20with%20Attitudes
Pirates With Attitudes (PWA) was a major international warez release group between 1992 and 2000. The group was established by two former International Network of Crackers members known by the pseudonyms Orion and BarManager. PWA was also very well known during the tail end of the BBS-era for their development of modif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew%20Raymond%20Griffiths
Hew Raymond Griffiths (born 8 November 1962, UK) has been accused by the United States of being a ring leader of DrinkOrDie or DOD, an underground software infringement network, using the online identity of "Bandido". Griffiths was living in Berkeley Vale in the Central Coast Region of NSW, Australia before he was plac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiquinquir%C3%A1%20Delgado
María Chiquinquirá Delgado Díaz (born August 17, 1972 in Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan TV host, model, and actress. She was a co-host of Mira Quien Baila on the Univision network in the United States. Prior to that, she was the host of ¡Despierta América!, the morning show on Univision, from 2010 until 2012. B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Dispatch%20Protocol
The Media Dispatch Protocol (MDP) was developed by the Pro-MPEG Media Dispatch Group to provide an open standard for secure, automated, and tapeless delivery of audio, video and associated data files. Such files typically range from low-resolution content for the web to HDTV and high-resolution digital intermediate fil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arriva%20Colchester
Arriva Colchester (formerly Network Colchester) is a bus company operating services around Colchester. It is a subsidiary of Arriva. The company was, until March 2015, part of the Tellings-Golden Miller company, which was owned by Arriva at the time, under the name of Network Colchester. History Network Colchester's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu%20Houses
The Xanadu Houses were a series of experimental homes built to showcase examples of computers and automation in the home in the United States. The architectural project began in 1979, and during the early 1980s three houses were built in different parts of the US: one each in Kissimmee, Florida; Wisconsin Dells, Wiscon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasab%20Airlines
Dasab Airlines was an airline based in Abuja, Nigeria. Code data ICAO Code: DSQ Callsign: DASAB AIR History The Nigerian government set a deadline for airlines operating in the country to re-capitalize on April 30, 2007. Dasab Airlines, along with six others, failed to make the deadline, and was therefore disallowed ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan%20Pratt
Vaughan Pratt (born April 12, 1944) is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, who was an early pioneer in the field of computer science. Since 1969, Pratt has made several contributions to foundational areas such as search algorithms, sorting algorithms, and primality testing. More recently, his research has focu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Wattenberg
Martin Wattenberg is the name of: Martin Wattenberg (political scientist), professor at the University of California, Irvine Martin M. Wattenberg (born 1970), computer scientist and artist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20File%20System
The Logic File System is a research file system which replaces pathnames with expressions in propositional logic. It allows file metadata to be queried with a superset of the Boolean syntax commonly used in modern search engines. The actual name is the Logic Information Systems File System, and is abbreviated LISFS t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Trance%20Network
Global Trance Network is the German parent label of several smaller labels including d.Drum, Liquid Audio Soundz, Sector, and Velvet Inc. It is a sublabel of Nova Tekk Records. Some of the best-known psychedelic trance artists has releases on GTN, including X-Dream and Koxbox. Also a trance radio show "Global Trance...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove%20Networks
Groove Networks was a software company based in Beverly, Massachusetts. Founded by Ray Ozzie, the creator of IBM's Lotus Notes application, the privately held company specialized in productivity software that allows multiple users to work collaboratively on computer files simultaneously. On March 10, 2005, Microsoft a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Reference%20Library
Electronic Reference Library (ERL) is a client to server approach to networking CD-ROM and magnetic databases by SilverPlatter. It enables access from Mac and UNIX machines. At present, there are only UNIX clients for workstations running Solaris 2.3 or greater, AIX and OpenServer, but it will be ported to other Unixes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Inc.%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29
Comedy Inc. is a Canadian sketch comedy television series. It aired on CTV, A-Channel and The Comedy Network from 2003 until 2007. Cast The show starred Roman Danylo, Aurora Browne, Jen Goodhue, Albert Howell, Terry McGurrin, Winston Spear, Jennifer Robertson, Renee Percy, Gavin Stephens, Ian Sirota and Nikki Payne. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
The E6B flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation. It is an instance of an analog calculating device still being used the 21st century. They are mostly used in flight training, because these flight computers have been replaced with electronic planning tools or software and websites that make th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20speakers
Computer speakers, or multimedia speakers, are speakers sold for use with computers, although usually capable of other audio uses, e.g. for an MP3 player. Most such speakers have an internal amplifier and consequently require a power source, which may be by a mains power supply often via an AC adapter, batteries, or a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20B.%20Whinston
Andrew B. Whinston (born June 3, 1936) is an American economist and computer scientist. He is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) in the McCombs School of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20Dish
Inside Dish with Rachael Ray, hosted by Rachael Ray was a hybrid cooking/talk show on the Food Network. In each episode Ray chats with a celebrity as they cook or eat at a restaurant. Inside Dish is the third of Ray's four shows on Food Network, and premiered on November 5, 2004. It is no longer in production. List o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20F.%20Moore
Edward Forrest Moore (November 23, 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland – June 14, 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life. Biography Moore received a B.S. in chemistry from the Virginia Po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna-Barbera%20Superstars%2010
Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 is a series of 10 syndicated made-for-television animated films produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera programming block from 1987 to 1988, featuring the studio's popular animated characters: Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso%20Toffoli
Tommaso Toffoli () is an Italian-American professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University where he joined the faculty in 1995. He has worked on cellular automata and the theory of artificial life (with Edward Fredkin and others), and is known for the invention of the Toffoli gate. Early life and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan-Carlos%20Cruz
Juan-Carlos Cruz (born ca. 1962) is a Dominican American chef and the former host of Calorie Commando and Weighing In on the Food Network. Cruz lost 43 pounds on the Discovery Health Channel show Discovery Health Body Challenge, which encouraged him to change directions from being a pastry chef to do low-calorie cookin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%20Mech%20Fight
, sometimes called Joy Mecha Fight, is a fighting game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer, released in Japan on May 21, 1993. The game was released during the generation shift between the Famicom and the newer Super Famicom, and Joy Mech Fight is counted among the most important late Famicom ga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20modelling
Discrete modelling is the discrete analogue of continuous modelling. In discrete modelling, formulae are fit to discrete data—data that could potentially take on only a countable set of values, such as the integers, and which are not infinitely divisible. A common method in this form of modelling is to use recurrence...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20Quadra%20950
The Macintosh Quadra 950 (also sold with additional software as the Workgroup Server 95) is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from March 1992 to October 1995. It replaced the Quadra 900 that was introduced several months earlier, increasing the CPU clock rate of its 68040 CPU from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most%20Recently%20Used
Most Recently Used (MRU) may refer to: A specific menu in Microsoft Windows, see Common menus in Microsoft Windows An uncommon method of caching disk access, see Cache algorithms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20emergency%20response%20team
A computer emergency response team (CERT) is an expert group that handles computer security incidents. Alternative names for such groups include cyber emergency response team, computer emergency readiness team, and computer security incident response team (CSIRT). A more modern representation of the CSIRT acronym is Cy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV4
ITV4 is a British free-to-air television channel which was launched on 1 November 2005. It is owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc, and is part of the ITV network. The channel has a line-up that consists of sports, cult classic films such as James Bond, US dramas and classic ITV action series of the 196...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina%20Airlines
Burkina Airlines was an airline based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was established in 2003 and started operations in 2004. It operated services between Burkina Faso and France. Code data IATA Code: 3B ICAO Code: BFR Callsign: BURKLINES See also List of defunct airlines of Burkina Faso Defunct airlines of Burk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojiky%C5%8D
(), also known by its full name , is a character encoding scheme. The , which published the character set, also published computer software and TrueType fonts to accompany it. The Mojikyō Institute, chaired by , originally had its character set and related software and data redistributed on CD-ROMs sold in Kinokuniya s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast
A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture or a screen recording, often containing audio narration. The term screencast compares with the related term screenshot; whereas screenshot generates a single picture of a computer screen, a screencast is essentially a mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA%20Suite%20B%20Cryptography
NSA Suite B Cryptography was a set of cryptographic algorithms promulgated by the National Security Agency as part of its Cryptographic Modernization Program. It was to serve as an interoperable cryptographic base for both unclassified information and most classified information. Suite B was announced on 16 February ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20Fort%20Worth%2C%20Texas
Fort Worth neighborhood profile data East Eastchase Eastern Hills Eastwood Echo Heights Ederville Haltom City, TX is bordered by Watauga Blvd on the North, Beach Street on the West, US Hwy 377 on the East and Belknap on the South. The zip code is 76117. Handley Meadowbrook Parker Essex Boaz (PEB) Polytechnic Heights T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNetworks%20Community%20Source%20License
The RealNetworks Community Source License (RCSL) is a software license. Developers pick this license when they do not want to open source their resultant Helix DNA-based application. RCSL has a free R&D license and commercial terms for distribution. The RCSL is used by the Helix project. External links Complete tex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCW
PCW can stand for: Science and technology Polycrystalline Wool, a fiber mainly used for thermal insulation Computing Amstrad PCW series of word processing computer systems Personal Computer World, a British computer magazine Popular Computing Weekly, another British computer magazine PC World (magazine), a compu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesan%20Nature%20Reserves
The Marquesan Nature Reserves are a network of small nature reserves in the Marquesas Islands. The reserves were declared by the government of French Polynesia in 1992, as a first step toward preserving the native flora and fauna of some of the smaller islands of the group. The reserve system presently consists of fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20%28economics%29
In statistics, economics, and finance, an index is a statistical measure of change in a representative group of individual data points. These data may be derived from any number of sources, including company performance, prices, productivity, and employment. Economic indices track economic health from different perspec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20TV%20Plus
ABC TV Plus (formerly ABC2 and ABC Comedy) is an Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and part of its ABC Television network. The channel broadcasts a range of general entertainment programming. Between the hours of 5am and 7:30pm daily, the channel's bandwidth is u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%2085001%E2%80%9386000
85001–85100 |-id=004 | 85004 Crombie || || M. Katherine Crombie (born 1970), a member of the OSIRIS-REx science team with responsibility for data management and archiving. || |-id=014 | 85014 Sutter || || Brian Sutter (born 1961), an engineer at Lockheed Martin Company and the Mission Designer for the OSIRIS-REx...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going%20Home%20%28TV%20series%29
Going Home was a drama television series produced by the SBS network in Australia that aired from 2000 to 2001. Scripted, filmed, edited and broadcast on the same day, Going Home was set in a nightly inter-urban commuter train. A group of regular train travelers are featured on their daily commute in a blend of up-to-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Dale%20Harris
Ronald Dale Harris is a computer programmer who worked for the Nevada Gaming Control Board in the early 1990s and was responsible for finding flaws and gaffes in software that runs computerized casino games. Harris took advantage of his expertise, reputation and access to source code to illegally modify certain slot m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOOM%20%28ontology%29
Loom is a knowledge representation language developed by researchers in the artificial intelligence research group at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. The leader of the Loom project and primary architect for Loom was Robert MacGregor. The research was primarily sponsored by the De...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunk%20Basic
Chipmunk Basic is a freeware interpreter for the BASIC programming language maintained by Ron Nicholson. Chipmunk basic was originally developed for the Macintosh and has been ported to Linux and Microsoft Windows. The "windowed" Macintosh version includes a wide variety of graphics drawing commands. It also has objec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Lopez
Robert Lopez (born February 23, 1975) is an American songwriter for musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for co-writing the songs featured in the Disney computer-animated films Frozen, its sequel Frozen II, and Coco, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez. He is one of only eighteen p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlancer
Starlancer is a space-based science fiction flight simulator computer game, created by Erin and Chris Roberts, and developed by Warthog Games under the auspices of Digital Anvil. Plot It is the year 2160. Mankind has colonized the solar system and two political entities have emerged: the Alliance consisting of America...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20AMD%20Turion%20processors
Turion 64 is the name of a family of CPUs designed by AMD for the mobile computing market. Features overview Single-core mobile processors Turion 64 "Lancaster" (90 nm) All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow! "Richmond" (90 nm) All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20tree%20frog
The European tree frog (Hyla arborea) is a small tree frog. As traditionally defined, it was found throughout much of Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but based on molecular genetic and other data several populations formerly included in it are now recognized as separate species (for example, H. intermedia of Italy an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Transformation%20Services
Data Transformation Services (DTS) is a Microsoft database tool with a set of objects and utilities to allow the automation of extract, transform and load operations to or from a database. The objects are DTS packages and their components, and the utilities are called DTS tools. DTS was included with earlier versions o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20proxy
In computer networks, a reverse proxy is an application that sits in front of back-end applications and forwards client (e.g. browser) requests to those applications. Reverse proxies help increase scalability, performance, resilience and security. The resources returned to the client appear as if they originated from t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine%20Brown
Maxine Brown may refer to: Maxine Brown (country singer) (1931–2019), American country singer Maxine Brown (soul singer) (born 1939), American soul singer Maxine D. Brown, American computer scientist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20tree
In computer science, a dancing tree is a tree data structure similar to B+ trees. It was invented by Hans Reiser, for use by the Reiser4 file system. As opposed to self-balancing binary search trees that attempt to keep their nodes balanced at all times, dancing trees only balance their nodes when flushing data to a d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman%20algorithm
The Smith–Waterman algorithm performs local sequence alignment; that is, for determining similar regions between two strings of nucleic acid sequences or protein sequences. Instead of looking at the entire sequence, the Smith–Waterman algorithm compares segments of all possible lengths and optimizes the similarity meas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalympics
Animalympics is a 1980 animated television film directed by Steven Lisberger and produced by Lisberger Studios for the NBC network. Originally commissioned as two separate specials, it spoofs the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and features the voices of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer and Michael Fremer. P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo%20Airlines
Congo Airlines was an airline based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1998, it merged with Zaire Airlines and Zaire Express to form Hewa Bora Airways. Code data IATA code: EO ICAO code: ALX Callsign: ALLCONGO See also Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo References Defunct airlines of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus%20Circus%20Reno
Circus Circus Reno is a hotel and casino located in Downtown Reno, Nevada. It anchors a network of connected hotel-casinos in the downtown Reno core that includes Silver Legacy Reno and Eldorado Reno and are owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. It includes a 1,620 room hotel and a casino which features free ci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20de%20Wavrin
Jean de Waurin or Wavrin (c. 1400c. 1474) was a medieval French chronicler and compiler, also a soldier and politician. He belonged to a noble family of Artois, and witnessed the Battle of Agincourt from the French side, but later fought on the Anglo-Burgundian side in the later stages of the Hundred Years' War. As a h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20300
The HP 300 "Amigo" was a computer produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the late 1970s based loosely on the stack-based HP 3000, but with virtual memory for both code and data. The HP300 was cut-short from being a commercial success despite the huge engineering effort, which included HP-developed and -manufactured silico...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCAD
TCAD may stand for one of the following: TCAD (Borland), a component of Borland Delphi and C++ Builder to facilitate writing vector graphics applications Technology CAD, computer-aided design for semiconductor process technology and semiconductor device design Traffic Collision Avoidance Device Tricyclic antidepressa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Virginia%20locations%20by%20per%20capita%20income
Virginia has the sixth highest per capita income of any state in the United States of America, at $23,975 (2000). Its personal per capita income is $33,671 (2003). Note: Data is from the 2010 United States Census Data and the 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. References Virginia Economy of Virgi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Varney
Stuart A. Varney (born July 7, 1948) is a British-American talk show host and conservative political commentator who works for Fox News and the Fox Business Network. Born in the United Kingdom, he worked as a journalist before joining Fox News in January 2004 as a business contributor, such as on Your World with Neil C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch%20Game%20Pocket%20Computer
The is a second-generation handheld game console released by Epoch Co. in Japan in 1984 for 12,800 Japanese yen. It is also known as Pokekon and was one of the very few truly handheld systems to be released in the early 1980s, preceding the Game Boy by 5 years. The system was a commercial failure in Japan, and as a r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20Interface%20Toolkit
User Interface Toolkit (UIT) is a discontinued object-oriented layer that was implemented in C++ programming language atop the XView graphical toolkit. It was developed by Sun Microsystems employees Mark Soloway and Joe Warzecha as an internal tools project for Sun's Computer Integrated Manufacturing organization in 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufts%20University%20School%20of%20Engineering
The School of Engineering is one of the ten schools that comprise Tufts University. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in several engineering disciplines and computer science fields. Along with the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the School of Engineerin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestNG
TestNG is a testing framework for the Java programming language created by Cédric Beust and inspired by JUnit and NUnit. The design goal of TestNG is to cover a wider range of test categories: unit, functional, end-to-end, integration, etc., with more powerful and easy-to-use functionalities. Features TestNG's main f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paned%20window%20%28computing%29
A paned window is a windows (or build-ups) in a graphical user interface that has multiple parts, layers, or sections. Examples of this include a code browser in a typical integrated development environment; a file browser with multiple panels; a tiling window manager; or a web page that contains multiple frames. Simp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Games%20%28song%29
"Computer Games" is a song by New Zealand band Mi-Sex, released in September 1979 in Australia and New Zealand as the second single from their debut studio album, Graffiti Crimes (1979). The song peaked at number 1 in Australia and 5 in New Zealand. The music video was filmed on location at what was at the time Control...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN%20homograph%20attack
The internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack is a way a malicious party may deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look alike (i.e., they are homographs, hence the term for the attack, although technically homoglyph ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%206%20cable
Category 6 cable (Cat 6) is a standardized twisted pair cable for Ethernet and other network physical layers that is backward compatible with the Category 5/5e and Category 3 cable standards. Cat 6 must meet more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than Cat 5 and Cat 5e. The cable standard specifie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20of%20Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist%20Parties%20and%20Organizations
The International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) is a name used by two unrelated networks of communist groups: International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (International Newsletter): A now defunct grouping of parties and organizations which adhered to Marx...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGCOMM%20Award
The SIGCOMM Award recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks. The award is presented in the annual SIGCOMM Technical Conference. The awardees have been: 2022 Deborah Estrin and Henning Schulzrinne 2021 Hari Balakrishnan 2020 Amin Vahdat and Lixia Zhang 2019 Mark Handley 2018 Jennifer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signedness
In computing, signedness is a property of data types representing numbers in computer programs. A numeric variable is signed if it can represent both positive and negative numbers, and unsigned if it can only represent non-negative numbers (zero or positive numbers). As signed numbers can represent negative numbers, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versaterm
Versaterm Inc. is a Canadian company based in Ottawa, Ontario that develops computer-aided dispatch (CAD) and records management systems for police, fire, and other public safety agencies. Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police employees established the company in 1977; the group had previously developed the Canadian Pol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADN
ADN may refer to: Technology Application Delivery Network, a suite of technologies for improved delivery of applications across the Internet Aircraft Data Network, a proposed network standard for commercial aircraft installations Abbreviated Dialing Numbers, two or three digits sequence to reach specific telephone ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20quality
Data quality refers to the state of qualitative or quantitative pieces of information. There are many definitions of data quality, but data is generally considered high quality if it is "fit for [its] intended uses in operations, decision making and planning". Moreover, data is deemed of high quality if it correctly re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDE
Microsoft SQL Server Data Engine (MSDE, also Microsoft Data Engine or Microsoft Desktop Engine) is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. It is a scaled-down version of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 which is free for non-commercial use as well as certain limited commercial use. It was introd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-confirmed%20reverse%20DNS
Forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS), also known as full-circle reverse DNS, double-reverse DNS, or iprev, is a networking parameter configuration in which a given IP address has both forward (name-to-address) and reverse (address-to-name) Domain Name System (DNS) entries that match each other. This is the standard c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen%20Kelly
Galen G. Kelly (born c. 1947) is a "deprogrammer", associated with the Cult Awareness Network. He served as CAN's "security advisor." Prior to this he was a director for the Citizens' Freedom Foundation, a precursor to the CAN. Kelly was raised in Accord, New York. Deprogramming and anti-cult litigation issues Accord...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GfK
GfK (originally ) is the largest German market research company. It provides data and intelligence to the consumer goods industry and is headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany. History GfK was founded as GfK-Nürnberg Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung e. V. in 1934 by university lecturers from Nuremberg, among them the fut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleo
Teleo was a peer-to-peer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network founded in by Wendell Brown, Andy Moeck and Craig Taro Gold in 2004. Teleo provided internet telephony applications that bridged the gap between computer desktops, land line phones, and cell phones. Teleo's software allowed users to place and receive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20data%20access
Uniform data access is a computational concept describing an even-ness of connectivity and controllability across numerous target data sources. Necessary to fields such as Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), it is most often used regarding analysis of disparate data types ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax%20%28programming%29
Ajax (also AJAX ; short for "asynchronous JavaScript and XML") is a set of web development techniques that uses various web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. With Ajax, web applications can send and retrieve data from a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo%20Goo%20Gai%20Pan
"Goo Goo Gai Pan" is the twelfth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 13, 2005. The episode focuses on Selma Bouvier adopting a Chinese orphan after experiencing menopause. Lucy Liu guest stars. The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20messaging%20system
An enterprise messaging system (EMS) or messaging system in brief is a set of published enterprise-wide standards that allows organizations to send semantically precise messages between computer systems. EMS systems promote loosely coupled architectures that allow changes in the formats of messages to have minimum imp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Night%20That%20Panicked%20America
The Night That Panicked America is an American made-for-television drama film that was originally broadcast on the ABC network on October 31, 1975. The telefilm dramatizes events surrounding Orson Welles' famous - and infamous - War of the Worlds radio broadcast (based on the 1898 novel of the same name by English auth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944%3A%20The%20Loop%20Master
1944: The Loop Master is a vertical scrolling shooter scrolling arcade game made by Capcom in 2000 that uses a horizontal 4:3 screen. Unlike previous games, the programming for this arcade was done by a separate company called 8ing/Raizing. The game is the fifth of a series of World War II vertical shooters made by Cap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika%20Bromov%C3%A1
Veronika Bromova, born on 12 August 1966 in Prague, is a Czech new-media artist who focuses on computer manipulating photographs by using the program Photoshop. She lives and works in Prague. She is working with genre themes, feminism, pedophilia and mystery, and she has exhibited in Europe and the United States. She h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20segment
In computing, a data segment (often denoted .data) is a portion of an object file or the corresponding address space of a program that contains initialized static variables, that is, global variables and static local variables. The size of this segment is determined by the size of the values in the program's source cod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nato
The domain .nato was a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. The domain was added in 1990 by the Network Information Center for use by NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, based on the rationale that none of the then-existing top-level domains adequately reflected its status a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20%28computer%20architecture%29
In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor. The number of bits or digits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNS
FNS may refer to: Television Food Network Star, an American reality television series Fox News Sunday, an American television news show Fuji Network System, a Japanese television network WWE Friday Night SmackDown, an American sports television show Other uses Factorial number system Federal News Service, an ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated%20Naming%20Service
In computing, the Federated Naming Service (FNS) or XFN (X/Open Federated Naming) is a system for uniting various name services under a single interface for the basic naming operations. It is produced by X/Open and included in various Unix operating systems, primarily Solaris versions 2.5 to 9. The purpose of XFN and ...