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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20acquisitions%20by%20Cisco | Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American computer networking company. Cisco made its first acquisition in 1993, which was followed by a series of further acquisitions.
History
Founded in 1984, Cisco did not acquire a company during the first seven years of its existence; but, on September 24, 1993,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3dmiX | 3dmiX is a computer program for BeOS that displays each track of an audio as an object on the virtual 3D sound stage and allows the users to modify its panning and volume by dragging the object around. The program was previously named 3dsound and also Benoit's Mix after its creator, Benoit Schillings, now CTO at Google... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Servers | Microsoft Servers (previously called Windows Server System) is a discontinued brand that encompasses Microsoft software products for server computers. This includes the Windows Server editions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as products targeted at the wider business market. Microsoft has since repla... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20stack | In computer science, a call stack is a stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program. This kind of stack is also known as an execution stack, program stack, control stack, run-time stack, or machine stack, and is often shortened to just "the stack". Although maintenanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20James%20Symons | George James Symons FRS (6 August 1838 – 10 March 1900) was a British meteorologist who founded and managed the British Rainfall Organisation, an unusually dense and widely distributed network of rainfall data collection sites throughout the British Isles.
Life
He was the only child of Joseph Symons by his wife, Georg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20variable | In computer science, a local variable is a variable that is given local scope. A local variable reference in the function or block in which it is declared overrides the same variable name in the larger scope. In programming languages with only two levels of visibility, local variables are contrasted with global variab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2010303-22 | ISO 10303-22 is a part of the implementation methods of STEP with the official title Standard data access interface or simply SDAI.
SDAI defines an abstract Application Programming Interface (API) to work on application data according to a given data models defined in EXPRESS. SDAI itself is defined independent of a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACPOL%20%28programming%20language%29 | TACPOL (Tactical Procedure Oriented Language) is a block structured programming language developed by the United States Army for the TACFIRE Tactical Fire Direction command and control application. TACPOL is similar to PL/I.
Language constructs
Reserved words
Unlike PL/I, TACPOL keywords—called particles—are reserve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWI-Prolog | SWI-Prolog is a free implementation of the programming language Prolog, commonly used for teaching and semantic web applications. It has a rich set of features, libraries for constraint logic programming, multithreading, unit testing, GUI, interfacing to Java, ODBC and others, literate programming, a web server, SGML, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViewSheet | ViewSheet is a spreadsheet program produced in the 1980s by Acornsoft for use with the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron microcomputers. It was distributed as a pre-installed ROM with some computer models, such as the Master. ViewSheet was written by Mark Colton.
Description
ViewSheet supports spreadsheets of up to 255 by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsine%20tables | The Alfonsine Tables (, ), sometimes spelled Alphonsine Tables, provided data for computing the position of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to the fixed stars.
The tables were named after Alfonso X of Castile, who sponsored their creation. They were compiled in Toledo, Spain, and contain astronomical data starting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Turner | Jonathan Turner may refer to:
Jonathan Baldwin Turner (1805–1899), American educational reformer
Jonathan H. Turner (born 1942), American sociologist
Jonathan S. Turner (born 1953), American computer scientist
Jonathan D. C. Turner (born 1958), British barrister
Jon Turner (b.d. unknown), British yacht builder
Jonatha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace%20Murray%20Hopper%20Park | Grace Murray Hopper Park is a small memorial park in Arlington, Virginia. The park is named in honor of Grace Hopper, a computer scientist and naval officer. The park is near Riverhouse, a high-rise community where Hopper lived her later years. The park was originally funded by private sources, but is now owned by Ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iverson%20notation | Iverson notation can refer to:
APL (programming language)
Iverson bracket, in mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision | Revision is the process of revising.
More specifically, it may refer to:
Update, a modification of software or a database
Revision control, the management of changes to sets of computer files
ReVisions, a 2004 anthology of alternate history short stories
Revision3, a San Francisco based Internet television network
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extent%20%28file%20systems%29 | In computing, an extent is a contiguous area of storage reserved for a file in a file system, represented as a range of block numbers, or tracks on count key data devices. A file can consist of zero or more extents; one file fragment requires one extent. The direct benefit is in storing each range compactly as two numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala%20backwaters | The Kerala backwaters are a network of brackish lagoons and canals lying parallel to the Arabian Sea of the Malabar coast of Kerala state in south-western India. It also includes interconnected lakes, rivers, and inlets, a labyrinthine system formed by more than of waterways, and sometimes compared to bayous. The netw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VueScan | VueScan is a computer program for image scanning, especially of photographs, including negatives. It supports optical character recognition (OCR) of text documents. The software can be downloaded and used free of charge, but adds a watermark on scans until a license is purchased.
Purpose
VueScan is intended to work w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP%20congestion%20control | Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) uses a congestion control algorithm that includes various aspects of an additive increase/multiplicative decrease (AIMD) scheme, along with other schemes including slow start and congestion window (CWND), to achieve congestion avoidance. The TCP congestion-avoidance algorithm is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daibhidh%20%C3%93%20Duibhgheann%C3%A1in | Dáibhídh Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1651–1696), also known as Dáibhídh mac Matthew Glas Ó Duibhgeannáin or Dáibhídh Bacach ("lame David"), was a scribe, compiler and poet who was active between the years 1651 and 1696. In the earliest of his known works, Royal Irish Academy Ms. 24.P.9., he writes on page 238: "sguirim go ttr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Goles | Eric Antonio Goles Chacc (born August 21, 1951) is a Chilean mathematician and computer scientist of Croatian descent. He studied civil engineering at the University of Chile before taking two doctorates at the University of Grenoble in France. A professor at the University of Chile, he is known for his work on cellula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnforth%20railway%20station | Carnforth is a railway station on the Bentham and Furness Lines, north of Lancaster, England, which serves the market town of Carnforth, Lancashire. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History
Carnforth railway station was opened on 22 September 1846 by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&CR... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Doctor%20Who%20robots | The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who has featured a multitude of robots since its original airing in 1963.
Despite appearing as robots, both the Daleks and Cybermen are not listed here, as they are depicted as organic creatures that have been transformed into cyborgs, as opposed to com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picturehouse%20Cinemas | Picturehouse Cinemas is a network of cinemas in the United Kingdom, operated by Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd and owned by Cineworld. The company runs its own film distribution arm, Picturehouse Entertainment, which has released acclaimed films such as David Lowery's A Ghost Story, Sally Potter's The Party and Francis Lee's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudi | Nudi may refer to:
Nudi - means language; speech; talk in Kannada
Nudi (software), a computer program to type in Kannada script
Nudi, Iran, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran
Mario Nudi (1912–1945), Italian soldier and police officer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor%20web | Sensor web is a type of sensor network that heavily utilizes the World Wide Web and is especially suited for environmental monitoring.
OGC's Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) framework defines a suite of web service interfaces and communication protocols abstracting from the heterogeneity of sensor (network) communication.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX%20System%20III | UNIX System III (or System 3) is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system released by AT&T's Unix Support Group (USG).
AT&T announced System III in late 1981, and it was first released outside of Bell Labs in 1982. UNIX System III was a mix of various AT&T Unix systems: Version 7 Unix, PWB/UNIX 2.0, CB UNIX... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20tracing | In public health, contact tracing is the process of identifying persons who may have been exposed to an infected person ("contacts") and subsequent collection of further data to assess transmission. By tracing the contacts of infected individuals, testing them for infection, and isolating or treating the infected, this... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OkCupid | OkCupid (often abbreviated as OKC, but officially OkC) is a U.S.-based, internationally operating online dating, friendship, and formerly also a social networking website and application. It features multiple-choice questions to match members. Registration is free. OkCupid is owned by Match Group, which also owns Tinde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undo | Undo is an interaction technique which is implemented in many computer programs. It erases the last change done to the document, reverting it to an older state. In some more advanced programs, such as graphic processing, undo will negate the last command done to the file being edited. With the possibility of undo, user... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allerion | Allerion may refer to:
Charge (heraldry)
Ultimate Corp; see Pick Operating System#Derivative and related products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer%20Duck | Queer Duck is an American adult animated web series produced by Icebox.com that originally appeared on the company's website, then later moved to the American cable network Showtime, where it aired following the American version of Queer as Folk. Although far from being the first gay cartoon character, Queer Duck was t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation%20loss | Generation loss is the loss of quality between subsequent copies or transcodes of data. Anything that reduces the quality of the representation when copying, and would cause further reduction in quality on making a copy of the copy, can be considered a form of generation loss. File size increases are a common result of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScrollKeeper | ScrollKeeper is a document cataloging system. It manages documentation metadata, as specified by the Open Source Metadata Framework (OMF). ScrollKeeper was used by the GNOME desktop help browser, Yelp, but has since been replaced by Rarian. It was also used by the KDE help browser and ScrollServer documentation server.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Systems | Digital Systems Inc., Seattle, USA, between 1966 and 1979 an accounting service and technology development company founded by John Q. Torode. The company was reorganized into the microcomputer design and development company Digital Microsystems, Inc. (DMS), Oakland, USA, founded in 1979. In 1984, it was sold to the new... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiK | TiK is an open source instant messaging client for the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) system, which uses AOL's TOC protocol. It is a GUI client which is written in the Tcl/Tk programming language. Reportedly, the "T" and the "K" in TiK's name stands for "Tk", and the "i" stands for "instant messenger".
It was originally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20circuit | A neural circuit (also known as a biological neural network BNNs) is a population of neurons interconnected by synapses to carry out a specific function when activated. Multiple neural circuits interconnect with one another to form large scale brain networks.
Neural circuits have inspired the design of artificial neur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode%20printer | A barcode printer is a computer peripheral for printing barcode labels or tags that can be attached to, or printed directly on, physical objects. Barcode printers are commonly used to label cartons before shipment, or to label retail items with UPCs or EANs.
The most common barcode printers employ one of two different... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20software | Mathematical software is software used to model, analyze or calculate numeric, symbolic or geometric data.
Evolution of mathematical software
Numerical analysis and symbolic computation had been in most important place of the subject, but other kind of them is also growing now. A useful mathematical knowledge of such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20encapsulation | In computer programming, field encapsulation involves providing methods that can be used to read from or write to the field rather than accessing the field directly. Sometimes these accessor methods are called getX and setX (where X is the field's name), which are also known as mutator methods. Usually the accessor met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Frontier%20Campaign | The Blue Frontier Campaign is a United States marine conservation activist organization founded by David Helvarg in 2003.
The Campaign has established a nationwide network of grassroots (the marine conservation community or Blue Movement calls this 'seaweed') lobbyists. It is campaigning for an American Oceans Act to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX | UPX (Ultimate Packer for Executables) is a free and open source executable packer supporting a number of file formats from different operating systems.
Compression
UPX uses a data compression algorithm called UCL, which is an open-source implementation of portions of the proprietary NRV (Not Really Vanished) algorit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1%20%28disambiguation%29 | F1 is Formula One, the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the FIA.
F1, F01, F.I, F.1 or F-1 may refer to:
Computing
F1, a computer Function key
F1, an Office Assistant in Microsoft Office
F1 Magazine, a Syrian monthly computer magazine published in Arabic
Google F1, Google's SQL database management syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netvigator | Netvigator is a residential Internet service provider in Hong Kong, operated as a brand of Hong Kong Telecom, a subsidiary of PCCW. The company did offer iTV, an interactive movie television network that allowed users to watch movies on their TV screen by demand. The service ended in 2002 (PCCW later re-entered multich... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Fire%20Incident%20Reporting%20System | The National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) is a system established by the National Fire Data Center of the United States Fire Administration (USFA), a division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The System was established after the 1973 National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control report, Americ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Delaware | The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Delaware, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
WNWK
WRJE
See also
Delaware media
List of newspapers in Delaware
List of television st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Pascal | Microsoft Pascal is a discontinued implementation of the Pascal programming language developed by the Microsoft Corporation for compiling programs for running on its MS-DOS and Xenix operating systems and, in later versions, on OS/2 (like many other Microsoft programming tools, albeit they are only capable of generatin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20resource | In computing, a system resource, or simple resource, is any physical or virtual component of limited availability within a computer system. All connected devices and internal system components are resources. Virtual system resources include files (concretely file handles), network connections (concretely network socket... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow%20%28emulator%29 | Fellow is an emulator designed to run software written for the Amiga computer platform. Released under the GNU General Public License, Fellow is free software.
Fellow was released shortly after the first usable release of the Unix Amiga Emulator (UAE). The competition between the two projects proved to be mutually ben... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological%20theory | Archaeological theory refers to the various intellectual frameworks through which archaeologists interpret archaeological data. Archaeological theory functions as the application of philosophy of science to archaeology, and is occasionally referred to as philosophy of archaeology. There is no one singular theory of arc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninne%20Pelladata%20%281996%20film%29 | Ninne Pelladata () is a 1996 Indian Telugu-language romantic family drama film, produced by Nagarjuna under the Annapurna Studios banner and directed by Krishna Vamsi. It stars Nagarjuna and Tabu, and music composed by Sandeep Chowta. The film was remade in Kannada as Preethsod Thappa. The film has received the Nationa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradability%20prediction | Biodegradability prediction is biologically inspired computing and attempts to predict biodegradability of anthropogenic materials in the environment. Demand for biodegradability prediction is expected to increase with governments stepping up environmental regulations (see, for instance, testing for bioaccumulation in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20network | A neural network is a neural circuit of biological neurons, sometimes also called a biological neural network, or a network of artificial neurons or nodes in the case of an artificial neural network.
Artificial neural networks are used for solving artificial intelligence (AI) problems; they model connections of biolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutthroats%20%28video%20game%29 | Cutthroats is an interactive fiction computer game written by Michael Berlyn and Jerry Wolper and was published by Infocom in 1984. It was released for the Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, TRS-80, TI-99/4A, and Macintosh. It is Infocom's thirteenth game.
Plot
The game takes place in and ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenslok | Lenslok is a copy protection mechanism found in some computer games and other software on the 8-bit Atari computers, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Sinclair QL, MSX and Amstrad CPC. It was created by John Frost, an inventor and electronics consultant, and marketed by ASAP Developments, a subsidiary of J Rothschild Holdings... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional%20delay%20line | In mathematics, a bi-directional delay line is a numerical analysis technique used in computer simulation for solving ordinary differential equations by converting them to hyperbolic equations. In this way an explicit solution scheme is obtained with highly robust numerical properties. It was introduced by Auslander in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20once%2C%20compile%20anywhere | Write once, compile anywhere (WOCA) is a philosophy taken by a compiler and its associated software libraries or by a software library/software framework which refers to a capability of writing a computer program that can be compiled on all platforms without the need to modify its source code. As opposed to Sun's write... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20Supercomputing%20Center | The Barcelona Supercomputing Center () is a public research center located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, a 13.7 Petaflops, Intel Xeon Platinum-based supercomputer, which also includes clusters of emerging technologies. , it ranked 13th in the world. , it dropped to 88th. It is expected to host o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient%20Networks | Sentient Networks, Inc., was an American networking hardware company that manufactured of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay concentrators and switches for central offices. Founded in 1995 in Sarasota, Florida, the company soon after moved to San Jose, California. It was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting%20quantum%20computing | Superconducting quantum computing is a branch of solid state quantum computing that implements superconducting electronic circuits using superconducting qubits as artificial atoms, or quantum dots. For superconducting qubits, the two logic states are the ground state and the excited state, denoted respectively. Researc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20Forum | The ATM Forum was founded in 1991 to be the industry consortium to promote Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology used in telecommunication networks; the founding president and chairman was Fred Sammartino of Sun Microsystems. It was a non-profit international organization. The ATM Forum created over 200 implementatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcad | Mathcad is computer software for the verification, validation, documentation and re-use of mathematical calculations in engineering and science, notably mechanical, chemical, electrical, and civil engineering. Released in 1986 on DOS, it introduced live editing (WYSIWYG) of typeset mathematical notation in an interacti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aravind%20Joshi | Aravind Krishna Joshi (August 5, 1929 – December 31, 2017) was the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics and natural language pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconfigure | To reconfigure refers to:
Reconfigurable computing: changing the data path of a computing system in addition to the control flow
Control reconfiguration: changing the loop structure and controller parameters in an automatic control loop
Reconfigurable antenna: changing the antenna physically or electrically to cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindat.org | Mindat.org is a non-commercial interactive online database covering minerals across the world. Originally created by Jolyon Ralph as a private project in 1993, it was launched as a community-editable website in October 2000. it is operated by the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy.
History
Mindat was started in 1993 as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytree | In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a polytree (also called directed tree, oriented tree or singly connected network) is a directed acyclic graph whose underlying undirected graph is a tree. In other words, if we replace its directed edges with undirected edges, we obtain an undirected graph that is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarsoft | Solarsoft is a collaborative software development system created at Lockheed-Martin to support solar data analysis and spacecraft operation activities. It is widely recognized in the solar physics community as having revolutionized solar data analysis starting in the early 1990s. Solarsoft is in active development and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory%20%28object-oriented%20programming%29 | In object-oriented programming, a factory is an object for creating other objects; formally, it is a function or method that returns objects of a varying prototype or class from some method call, which is assumed to be "new". More broadly, a subroutine that returns a "new" object may be referred to as a "factory", as i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20processing%20in%20the%20brain | In psycholinguistics, language processing refers to the way humans use words to communicate ideas and feelings, and how such communications are processed and understood. Language processing is considered to be a uniquely human ability that is not produced with the same grammatical understanding or systematicity in even... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductionism | Inductionism is the scientific philosophy where laws are "induced" from sets of data. As an example, one might measure the strength of electrical forces at varying distances from charges and induce the inverse square law of electrostatics. This concept is considered one of the two pillars of the old view of the philos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money%20Money%202020 | Money Money 2020 is the debut studio album by new wave band The Network (a Green Day side project). It was released on September 30, 2003, through Adeline Records. Members of Green Day have denied being involved in the Network, however, Mike Dirnt revealed that they had a hand in the album. It was the band's only rele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negamax | Negamax search is a variant form of minimax search that relies on the zero-sum property of a two-player game.
This algorithm relies on the fact that to simplify the implementation of the minimax algorithm. More precisely, the value of a position to player A in such a game is the negation of the value to player B. Thu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt-Ugly%20Martians | Butt-Ugly Martians is a computer-animated television series co-produced by Mike Young Productions, Digital Content Development Corporation Limited and Just Entertainment. It was sold to ITV on October 2, 2000, for the original television pilot and premiered on CITV in the UK on February 19, 2001. In 2002, it also premi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-centric%20warfare | Network-centric warfare, also called network-centric operations or net-centric warfare, is a military doctrine or theory of war that aims to translate an information advantage, enabled partly by information technology, into a competitive advantage through the computer networking of dispersed forces. It was pioneered by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Richards%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language which is both part of early research into portable software, and the ancestor of the B programming language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20the%20Vegetarian | "Lisa the Vegetarian" is the fifth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 15, 1995. In the episode, Lisa decides to stop eating meat after bonding with a lamb at a petting zoo. Her schoolmates and fami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King-Size%20Homer | "King-Size Homer" is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 5, 1995. In the episode, Homer despises the nuclear plant's new exercise program and decides to attain a weight of so he can cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20school | An online school (virtual school, e-school, or cyber-school) teaches students entirely or primarily online or through the Internet. It has been defined as "education that uses one or more technologies to deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor and to support regular and substantive interac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized%20maintenance%20management%20system | A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is any software package that maintains a computer database of information about an organization's maintenance operations. This information is intended to help maintenance workers do their jobs more effectively (for example, determining which machines require maintenan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-LINK | S-LINK, for simple link interface, is a high-performance data acquisition standard developed at CERN for collecting information from particle accelerators and other sources. Unlike similar systems, S-LINK is based on the idea that data will be collected and stored by computers at both ends of the link, as opposed to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenstra%E2%80%93Lenstra%E2%80%93Lov%C3%A1sz%20lattice%20basis%20reduction%20algorithm | The Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász (LLL) lattice basis reduction algorithm is a polynomial time lattice reduction algorithm invented by Arjen Lenstra, Hendrik Lenstra and László Lovász in 1982. Given a basis with n-dimensional integer coordinates, for a lattice L (a discrete subgroup of Rn) with , the LLL algorithm calculate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter%20database | A voter database is a database containing information on voters for the purpose of assisting a political party or an individual politician, in their Get out the vote (GOTV) efforts and other areas of the campaign.
In most countries, the election agency makes the electoral roll available to all campaigns soon after the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter%20Vault | The Voter Vault is a database of voters in the United States used by the Republican Party. Construction started in the 1990s, and it was first used in 2002. By 2004 it had about 168 million entries. By around 2019 it had been renamed GOP Data Center.
The Democratic Party equivalent database is Demzilla.
See also
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus%20Media%20Networks | Cumulus Media Networks was an American radio network owned and operated by Cumulus Media. From 2011 until its merger with Westwood One, it controlled many of the radio assets formerly belonging to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), which was broken up in 2007; Cumulus owned the portion of the network that was pur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUNCH | The BUNCH was the nickname for the group of mainframe computer competitors of IBM in the 1970s. The name is derived from the names of the five companies: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation (CDC), and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the market share of IBM was much higher than all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20optical%20network | A passive optical network (PON) is a fiber-optic telecommunications technology for delivering broadband network access to end-customers. Its architecture implements a point-to-multipoint topology in which a single optical fiber serves multiple endpoints by using unpowered (passive) fiber optic splitters to divide the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SULFNBK.EXE | SULFNBK.EXE (short for Setup Utility for Long File Name Backup) is an internal component of the Microsoft Windows operating system (in Windows 98 and Windows ME) for restoring long file names.
Email hoax
The component became famous in the early 2000s as the subject of an e-mail hoax. The hoax claimed that SULFNBK.EXE ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oha%20Suta | Oha Suta () is the Japanese children's breakfast television show. Produced by Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro) for TV Tokyo, the show airs on TX Network (TXN). It premiered in 1997 as a relaunch of (. Sutajio is a loanword from English word "studio"), which originally ran from 2 April 1979 to 27 June 1986 on w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far%20pointer | In a segmented architecture computer, a far pointer is a pointer which includes a segment selector, making it possible to point to addresses outside of the default segment.
Comparison and arithmetic on far pointers is problematic: there can be several different segment-offset address pairs pointing to one physical ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly%20parallel | In parallel computing, an embarrassingly parallel workload or problem (also called embarrassingly parallelizable, perfectly parallel, delightfully parallel or pleasingly parallel) is one where little or no effort is needed to separate the problem into a number of parallel tasks. This is often the case where there is li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy%20%28film%29 | Cindy is a 1978 American musical television movie, shot on videotape and first broadcast on the ABC television network, with an entirely African-American cast. Directed by William A. Graham, the film is an urbanized retelling of Cinderella.
Plot
After World War II, Cindy (Woodard) has moved from the south to live in H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Wheels%3A%20AcceleRacers | Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers is a 2005 computer-animated series of four films produced by Canadian company Mainframe Entertainment, which also produced the television series ReBoot. Available on DVD and VHS, it has also been shown on Cartoon Network.
A sequel to the 2003 film Hot Wheels: World Race, the series takes place... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone%20bit%20recording | In computer storage, zone bit recording (ZBR) is a method used by disk drives to optimise the tracks for increased data capacity. It does this by placing more sectors per zone on outer tracks than on inner tracks. This contrasts with other approaches, such as constant angular velocity (CAV) -drives, where the number of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seastalker | Seastalker is an interactive fiction game written by Stu Galley and Jim Lawrence and published by Infocom in 1984. It was released simultaneously for several popular computer platforms of the time, such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PC compatibles (as a self-booting disk). The game was marketed as an introduct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX%20Microdrive | The ZX Microdrive is a magnetic-tape data storage system launched in July 1983 by Sinclair Research for its ZX Spectrum home computer. It was proposed as a faster-loading alternative to the cassette and cheaper than a floppy disk, but it suffered from poor reliability and lower speed.
Microdrives used tiny cartridges ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might%20and%20Magic%20II%3A%20Gates%20to%20Another%20World | Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World (also known as Might and Magic Book Two: Gates to Another World) is a role-playing video game developed and published by New World Computing in 1988. It is the sequel to Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum.
Gameplay
After the events of Might and Magic B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might%20and%20Magic%20IV%3A%20Clouds%20of%20Xeen | Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen (originally released as Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen) is the fourth installment in the Might and Magic series by New World Computing.
Plot
Might and Magic IV focuses on the events that occur after the adventurers of Might and Magic III set off to follow Sheltem after he escapes fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might%20and%20Magic%20VI%3A%20The%20Mandate%20of%20Heaven | Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven, commonly abbreviated to Might and Magic VI or simply MM6, is a role-playing video game developed by New World Computing and published by 3DO in 1998. It is the sixth installment in the Might and Magic series, the sequel to Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen and the first of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgson%20condensation | In mathematics, Dodgson condensation or method of contractants is a method of computing the determinants of square matrices. It is named for its inventor, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his pseudonym, as Lewis Carroll, the popular author), who discovered it in 1866. The method in the case of an n × n matrix ... |
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