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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavern%20Creatures
Cavern Creatures is a vertically scrolling shooter for the Apple II written by Paul Lowrance and published by Datamost in 1983. The title screen artwork is by Art Huff. The game is similar to the 1981 game Caverns of Mars for the Atari 8-bit family. Gameplay The player controls a small craft, navigating it through a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FF2
FF2 may refer to: Final Fantasy II, a 1988 console role-playing game for the Family Computer Final Fantasy IV, retitled Final Fantasy II in North America, a 1991 console role-playing game for the Super NES Fatal Fury 2, a 1992 competitive fighting game for the Neo-Geo Fatal Frame II, a 2003 survival horror game for th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer%20Treatment%20Centers%20of%20America
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, was a national, for-profit network of five comprehensive cancer care and research centers and three outpatient care centers that served cancer patients throughout the United States. It was acquired by City of Hope in 2022 and went defunct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datamost
Datamost was a computer book publisher and computer game company founded by David Gordon and based in Chatsworth, California. Datamost operated in the early 1980s producing games and other software mainly for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit family, with some for the IBM PC. It also published educational and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARK%20IV%20%28software%29
MARK IV is a fourth-generation programming language that was created by Informatics, Inc. in the 1960s. Informatics took advantage of IBM's decision to unbundle their software; MARK IV was the first "software product to have cumulative sales of $10 million". MARK IV was developed for IBM Systems (360 and 370) and for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20J.%20Hofmann
Hans J. Hofmann (3 October 1936, Kiel, Germany – 19 May 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was a paleontologist, specializing in the study of Precambrian fossils using computer modelling and image analysis to quantify morphologic attributes. Born in Germany, Hofmann immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada and studied geo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-DOS
iS-DOS is a disk operating system (DOS) for Soviet/Russian ZX Spectrum clones. iS-DOS was developed in 1990 or 1991, by Iskra Soft, in Leningrad, Soviet Union, now Saint Petersburg, Russia. It handles floppy disks (double sided, double density), hard disk drives, and CD-ROMs. Maximum iS-DOS disk partitioning size on a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Grid%20Forum
The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community of users, developers, and vendors for standardization of grid computing. It was formed in 2006 in a merger of the Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance. The OGF models its process on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and produces documents with many acro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-DOS
TR-DOS is a disk operating system for the ZX Spectrum with Beta Disc and Beta 128 disc interfaces. TR-DOS and Beta disc were developed by Technology Research Ltd (UK), in 1984. A clone of this interface is also used in the Russian Pentagon and Scorpion machines. It became a standard and most disk releases for the ZX S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos%20network
In the field of telecommunications, a Clos network is a kind of multistage circuit-switching network which represents a theoretical idealization of practical, multistage switching systems. It was invented by Edson Erwin in 1938 and first formalized by the American engineer Charles Clos in 1952. By adding stages, a Cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAGT
KAGT (90.5 FM) is a radio station and affiliate of the Air 1 network, playing Christian Worship music. History KAGT was originally a Southern gospel radio station that served the Abilene, Texas, area. The call letters were originally intended to be an acronym for Kings All Gospel Talk. The station was owned by Gospe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPPER
MAPPER Systems, now known as Business Information Server, BIS, is a fourth-generation programming language originally from Sperry Univac. Now owned by Unisys Corporation. Mapper originated in the 1970s based on some work in the 1960s, It has been functionally enhanced and kept current. It was also given an extension n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthly%20Delights%20%28video%20game%29
Earthly Delights is an Apple II text adventure game created by Roger Webster and Daniel Leviton and published by Datamost in 1984. It was ported to the IBM PC (as a self-booting disk) and Macintosh. Plot In Earthly Delights, the story begins with the death of the player's uncle, whom they've not seen for many years, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20XT4
The Cray XT4 (codenamed Hood during development) is an updated version of the Cray XT3 supercomputer. It was released on November 18, 2006. It includes an updated version of the SeaStar interconnect router called SeaStar2, processor sockets for Socket AM2 Opteron processors, and 240-pin unbuffered DDR2 memory. The XT4 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20XMT
Cray XMT (Cray eXtreme MultiThreading, codenamed Eldorado) is a scalable multithreaded shared memory supercomputer architecture by Cray, based on the third generation of the Tera MTA architecture, targeted at large graph problems (e.g. semantic databases, big data, pattern matching). Presented in 2005, it supersedes th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha%20Blake
Asha Blake is a five-time Emmy Award-winning television news journalist. Her US-based career has spanned anchoring ABC and NBC network newscasts, daytime- and entertainment-based talk shows, and local news anchoring at flagship news stations KNBC and KTLA. In 1999, Blake co-hosted NBC's Later Today, a spinoff of the T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20God%20Machine%20%28novel%29
The God Machine is a science-fiction novel by American writer Martin Caidin first published in 1968. Set in the near future, the novel tells the story of a top-secret cybernetic technician, Steve Rand, one of the brains behind Project 79, a top-secret US government project dedicated to creating artificial intelligence....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20Media%20Bus
The Asus Media Bus is a proprietary computer bus developed by Asus, which was used on some Socket 7 motherboards in the middle 1990s. It is a combined PCI and ISA slot. It was developed to provide a cost-efficient solution to a complete multimedia system. Using Media Bus cards for building a system reduced slot require...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front%20TV
Front TV was an international broadcast design and branding firm that catered to television, film and interactive media sectors. The firm originally specialized in creative thinking, network branding, station IDs, film titles, 2D-3D animation, web, print, and sound design. They expanded their operations in 2009, launch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotsovolos
Kotsovolos () is one of the leading electrical and electronics retailers in Greece. It started in a small neighborhood store downtown Athens in 1950 and today has a network of over 90 stores, in Greece and Cyprus, both corporate and franchise, as well as two online stores, kotsovolos.gr and kotsovolos.cy. It has been ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Forest%20Research
The Centre for Forest Research (Centre d'Étude de la Forêt) is a group of researchers in eastern Canada interested in forest ecology and forest management. It is a new network created with the amalgamation of two research centres that had been operating in the province of Quebec, Canada. The present structure is built ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hark%20at%20Barker
Hark at Barker is a 1969 British comedy series combining elements of sitcom and sketch show, which starred Ronnie Barker. It was made for the ITV network by London Weekend Television. Each show began with a spoof news item read by Barker as the announcer. He would then introduce the main part of the programme, a lect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20finite%20automaton
In quantum computing, quantum finite automata (QFA) or quantum state machines are a quantum analog of probabilistic automata or a Markov decision process. They provide a mathematical abstraction of real-world quantum computers. Several types of automata may be defined, including measure-once and measure-many automata. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTLE-LD
KTLE-LD (channel 20) is a low-power television station licensed to Odessa, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KOSA-TV (channel 7), MyNetworkTV affiliate KWWT (channel 30), Big Spring–licensed CW+ affiliate KCWO-TV (channel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthly%20Delights
Earthly Delights may refer to: Earthly Delights (record label), a UK record label Earthly Delights (computer game), a text adventure game for the Apple II Earthly Delights, the fifth album by noise rock band Lightning Bolt. See also The Garden of Earthly Delights, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian%20Alamain
Vivian Alamain is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Created by head writers Richard J. Allen and Beth Milstein, and introduced by executive producers Ken Corday and Al Rabin, the role is most recognized as portrayed by actress Louise Sorel. In addition to Sorel, th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Minnesota
The demographics of Minnesota are tracked by the United States Census Bureau, with additional data gathered by the Minnesota State Demographic Center. According to the most recent estimates, Minnesota's population as of 2020 was approximately 5.7 million, making it the 22nd most populous state in the United States. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNMS
OpenNMS is a free and open-source enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform. It is developed and supported by a community of users and developers and by the OpenNMS Group, offering commercial services, training and support. The goal is for OpenNMS to be a truly distributed, scalable managemen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography%20functional%20magnetic%20resonance%20imaging
EEG-fMRI (short for EEG-correlated fMRI or electroencephalography-correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging) is a multimodal neuroimaging technique whereby EEG and fMRI data are recorded synchronously for the study of electrical brain activity in correlation with haemodynamic changes in brain during the electric...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%20Duckula%202
Count Duckula 2 is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC released in 1992 by Alternative Software. It was the follow-up to the 1989 release Count Duckula in No Sax Please—We're Egyptian. Both are tie-in licenses of the Cosgrove Hall Count Duckula cartoon series. Gameplay Count Duckula 2 is a platform ga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20cell%20structure%20%28telecommunications%29
For telephone services to mobile phones, Hierarchical cell structure ("HCS") used in mobile telecommunication means the splitting of cells. This type of cell structure allows the network to effectively use the geographical area and serve an increasing population. Mechanism The large cell (called a "macro cell") is rea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential%20matrix
In computer vision, the essential matrix is a matrix, that relates corresponding points in stereo images assuming that the cameras satisfy the pinhole camera model. Function More specifically, if and are homogeneous normalized image coordinates in image 1 and 2, respectively, then if and correspond to the same ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20Neighbors
Bird Neighbors, published in 1897, was the first major work by nature writer Neltje Blanchan. The book combined scientific data with color illustrations, accessible language, and personal experience reflecting Blanchan's joy in nature. In his introduction, naturalist John Burroughs praised it as "reliable" as well as "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona%20O%27Loughlin%20%28comedian%29
Fiona Taheny (born 16 July 1963), commonly known as Fiona O'Loughlin, is an Australian comedian. O'Loughlin has made television performances on ABC TV's Spicks and Specks, and Network Ten's Rove Live, Good News Week, All Star Family Feud, The Project, Studio 10, Show Me the Movie! and Hughesy, We Have a Problem and a s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA
CUDA (or Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a proprietary and closed source parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for general purpose processing, an approach called general-purpose computing on GPUs (GPG...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forwarding
Forwarding may refer to: Computing and technology Call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows calls to one phone number to be forwarded to another number Remote call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows call forwarding to be activated remotely Cisco Express Forwarding, an advanced layer 3 switching tec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Vickers%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Steve Vickers (born c. 1953) is a British mathematician and computer scientist. In the early 1980s, he wrote ROM firmware and manuals for three home computers, the ZX81, ZX Spectrum, and Jupiter Ace. The latter was produced by Jupiter Cantab, a short-lived company Vickers formed together with Richard Altwasser, after t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax%20tree
Syntax tree may refer to: Abstract syntax tree, used in computer science Concrete syntax tree, used in linguistics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Parks
Amy Parks (born 10 June 1982 ) is an Australian journalist and broadcaster. She is a reporter for Seven News Melbourne from Melbourne. Parks was one of the original hosts of Nine Network's late night interactive quiz show, Quizmania (2006–2007). She was a reporter on Nine News Melbourne in 2008, before switching to riv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk%20Mudbox
Mudbox is a proprietary computer-based 3D sculpting and painting tool. developed by Autodesk, Mudbox was created by Skymatter, founded by Tibor Madjar, David Cardwell and Andrew Camenisch, former artists of Weta Digital, where the tool was first used to produce the 2005 Peter Jackson remake of King Kong. Mudbox's prim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron%20%28disambiguation%29
Neuron is one of the primary cell types in the nervous system. Neuron may also refer to: Artificial neuron is the basic unit in an artificial neural network Neuron (synthesizer) is an electronic musical instrument The Dassault nEUROn is a planned stealth unmanned combat air vehicle designed by a consortium of Europ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%20Anti-Graffiti%20Network
The Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network (PAGN) was founded in January 1984 by former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode. The original goal of the program was to combat the spread of graffiti in the Philadelphia area and was led by Tim Spencer. In 1986 another program began within PAGN, named The Mural Arts Project (MAP), a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonearm%20%28musician%29
Tonearm is the stage name of Russian-born, New York-based musician Ilia Bis (Илья Бис). Bis grew up in Moscow and later moved to the United States to study mathematics and computer sound analysis. After doing graduate work at the University of Chicago, he decided to pursue music full-time. Tonearm usually performs as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine%20%28disambiguation%29
Cocaine is a naturally occurring organic compound, an alkaloid, present in the leaves of the coca plant. Cocaine (data page) Cocaine may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Cocaine (film), a 1922 British crime film directed by Graham Cutts The Pace That Kills (1935 film), also known as Cocaine Madness and The Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20for%20Contemporary%20Art
The Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA) is a Ghanaian visual arts foundation that aims to create an active network of artists and provide a critical forum for the development of contemporary art in Ghana. Based in Accra, the FCA was founded in 2004 by Professor Joe Nkrumah and Australian/Italian artist Virginia Ryan,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFLB
KFLB-FM (branded as Family Life Radio) is a radio station that serves the Midland–Odessa metropolitan area with Christian programming on 88.1 FM. The station is owned by Family Life Broadcasting. KFLB (920 AM) was also owned by Family Life Broadcasting and carried the same programming until its license was surrendered ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20UK%20Media%20Librarians
The Association of UK Media Librarians (AUKML) was formed in 1986 to create a network of information professionals in the print and broadcasting industries as up until this point there had been no organised body to represent them. With the growth in online information and the perceived threat to jobs, informal links ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded%20pointer
In computer science, a bounded pointer is a pointer that is augmented with additional information that enable the storage bounds within which it may point to be deduced. This additional information sometimes takes the form of two pointers holding the upper and lower addresses of the storage occupied by the object to wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic%20Multicultural%20Media%20Academy
The Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy (EMMA) is a British organization that raises awareness of discrimination through media campaigns and social networking. The EMMA Awards was founded in 1997 by Bobby Syed and "seeks to promote diversity within the media industry by publicly recognising the levels of excellence ach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNet
GeoNet was an early international on-line services network built using microcomputers. Based on software developed in Germany by GeoNet Systems GmbH in the early 1980s, and completed in the early 1990s, it was one of the first networks to offer a comprehensive on-line services platform, and was early to market with a n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audicom
Audicom was the first system in the world to record and play audio from a PC computer, beginning in 1988 the era of digital recording that would eliminate recorders from magnetic and cassette tape used for half a century. Invention This technology was created in Argentina by a group of engineers led by Oscar Bonello,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt%20control%20register
An interrupt control register, or ICR, is a hardware register in a computer chip used to configure the chip to generate interrupts—to raise a signal on an interrupt line—in response to some event occurring within the chip or a circuit connected to the chip. An Interrupt Control is usually used in Micro controllers to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGGO
WGGO is an AM radio station located in Salamanca, New York, United States. The station broadcasts at 1590 kHz. WGGO is owned by Holy Family Communications as part of its network of Catholic radio stations, The Station of the Cross. WGGO's licensed 5,000-watt daytime signal, the strongest AM signal in southwestern New ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Change%20Master%20Directory
The Global Change Master Directory holds more than 28,000 data set descriptions, known as DIFs (Directory Interchange Format). This format is compatible with the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) standard and the international ISO 19115 standard. The purpose of the directory is to provide users with informati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostatic%20plasticity
In neuroscience, homeostatic plasticity refers to the capacity of neurons to regulate their own excitability relative to network activity. The term homeostatic plasticity derives from two opposing concepts: 'homeostatic' (a product of the Greek words for 'same' and 'state' or 'condition') and plasticity (or 'change'), ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesia
Genesia might refer to: An Ancient Greek festival of the dead An expert system developed by Électricité de France in the 1980s The European title of Ultimate Domain, a 1992 computer game from Microïds Genesia, a planet from the Star Wars expanded universe Genesia, a planet from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard%20slot
A graveyard slot (or death slot) is a time period in which a television audience is very small compared to other times of the day, and therefore broadcast programming is considered far less important. Graveyard slots usually displayed in the early morning hours of each day, when most people are asleep. With little lik...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Disney%20Music%20Awards
The Radio Disney Music Awards (RDMA) were an annual awards show operated and governed by Radio Disney, an American radio network. Beginning in 2001, the show was originally broadcast only on Radio Disney, but later began being televised on Disney Channel from 2013 to 2019. Radio Disney ceased operations on April 14, 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enquiry%20character
In computer communications, enquiry is a transmission-control character that requests a response from the receiving station with which a connection has been set up. It represents a signal intended to trigger a response at the receiving end, to see whether it is still present. The response, an answer-back code to the te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga%20Khan%20Academies
The Aga Khan Academies is an initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network. When fully operational, the Aga Khan Academies network will consist of eighteen co-educational, K-12, non-denominational day and residential schools in fourteen countries in Africa, South and Central Asia, and the Middle East. The academic pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDM%20Bus
A TDM bus is one application of the principle of Time-Division Multiplexing. In a TDM Bus, data or information arriving from an input line is put onto specific timeslots on a high-speed bus, where a recipient would listen to the bus and pick out only the signals for a certain timeslot. It resembles the TDM carried ou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof%20Kononowicz
Krzysztof Kononowicz also known as Konon, El Defecatore, Potężny Warmianin (the Mighty Varmian), Mleczny Człowiek (the Milky Man), Kandydat na Kandydata (Candidate-to-be), Knur (Pig), Ostatni Chuj Polski (the Last Prick of Poland) (born 21 January 1963, in Kętrzyn) is a Polish Politician, internet celebrity and social ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga%20Khan%20Health%20Services
The Aga Khan Health Services is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) that supports activities in the health field, and manages more than 200 health facilities, including a network of Aga Khan Hospitals. It works closely with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) on planning, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga%20Khan%20Education%20Services
Aga Khan Education Services (AKES) is one of the agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) supporting activities in the field of education. The others are the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), the Aga Khan University (AKU), the University of Central Asia (UCA), and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC). History In ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%20keyboard
Butterfly keyboard may refer to keyboards used on specific laptop computer models: IBM ThinkPad 701 MacBook Pro MacBook Air
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20telephone%20survey
Automated telephone surveys is a systematic collection a data from demography by making calls automatically to the preset list of respondents at the aim of collecting information and gain feedback via the telephone and the internet. Automated surveys are used for customer research purposes by call centres for customer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical%20grammar
In computer science, a lexical grammar or lexical structure is a formal grammar defining the syntax of tokens. The program is written using characters that are defined by the lexical structure of the language used. The character set is equivalent to the alphabet used by any written language. The lexical grammar lays do...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rprop
Rprop, short for resilient backpropagation, is a learning heuristic for supervised learning in feedforward artificial neural networks. This is a first-order optimization algorithm. This algorithm was created by Martin Riedmiller and Heinrich Braun in 1992. Similarly to the Manhattan update rule, Rprop takes into accou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20router
A video router, also known as a video matrix switch or SDI router, is an electronic switch designed to route video signals from multiple input sources such as cameras, VT/DDR, computers and DVD players, to one or more display devices, such as monitors, projectors, and TVs. Inputs and outputs The number of inputs and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characterization%20test
In computer programming, a characterization test (also known as Golden Master Testing) is a means to describe (characterize) the actual behavior of an existing piece of software, and therefore protect existing behavior of legacy code against unintended changes via automated testing. This term was coined by Michael Fea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran%20Gultnieks
Ciaran Eugene Gultnieks (born 1970) is a British computer game programmer, whose projects include Star Wars (1988, for home computers), Dogfight (1993), Slipstream 5000 (1995) and Hardwar (1998) for the PC. He is the founder of F-Droid and contributes to the microblogging platform GNU social. Biography Gultnieks was t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Standard%20Networks%20products
This list of Standard Networks products includes all major standalone services and programs created by Standard Networks, a Madison, Wisconsin-based software company founded in 1989 and acquired by Ipswitch, Inc. in 2008. All products listed are well into their gold releases. This list also includes previous products ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena%20of%20Octos
Arena of Octos is a single-player, turn-based combat video game for the Apple II and TRS-80 computer families. It was created by Steve Kropinak and Al Johnson in 1981 and published by SoftSide magazine. The player assumes the role of a human space pilot, captured by an aggressive race of green-skinned aliens known as O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Darnell
Michael H. Darnell is an American television executive and is currently the president of unscripted and alternative television at Warner Bros. He spent nearly 19 years at the FOX network as president of alternative entertainment, overseeing the network's reality television division during the genre's rise. In 2017, Pre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20F.%20Traub
Joseph Frederick Traub (June 24, 1932 – August 24, 2015) was an American computer scientist. He was the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He held positions at Bell Laboratories, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, and Col...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga%20Khan%20Trust%20for%20Culture
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a family of institutions created by Aga Khan IV with distinct but complementary mandates to improve the welfare and prospects of people in the developing world, particularly in Asia and Africa. It focuses on the revitalizatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Quantum%20Computing
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is an affiliate scientific research institute of the University of Waterloo located in Waterloo, Ontario with a multidisciplinary approach to the field of quantum information processing. IQC was founded in 2002 primarily through a donation made by Mike Lazaridis and his wife Op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20Writers%20House
The Kelly Writers House is a mixed-use programming and community space on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, the Kelly Writers House (3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia) hosts more than 300 even...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnstile%20%28symbol%29
In mathematical logic and computer science the symbol ⊢ () has taken the name turnstile because of its resemblance to a typical turnstile if viewed from above. It is also referred to as tee and is often read as "yields", "proves", "satisfies" or "entails". Interpretations The turnstile represents a binary relation. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universitas%2021
Universitas 21 (U21) is an international network of research-intensive universities. Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1997 with 11 members, it has grown to include twenty-nine member universities in nineteen countries and territories. The universities collaborate on student experience, researcher engagement and educ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest%20Atlantis
Quest Atlantis (QA) was a 3D multiuser, computer graphics learning environment that utilized a narrative programming toolkit to immerse children, ages 9–16, in meaningful inquiry tasks. Quest Atlantis combined strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern%20search
Pattern search may refer to: Pattern search (optimization) Pattern recognition (computing) Pattern recognition (psychology) Pattern mining String searching algorithm Fuzzy string searching Bitap algorithm K-optimal pattern discovery Nearest neighbor search Eyeball search
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized%20classification%20test
A computerized classification test (CCT) refers to, as its name would suggest, a Performance Appraisal System that is administered by computer for the purpose of classifying examinees. The most common CCT is a mastery test where the test classifies examinees as "Pass" or "Fail," but the term also includes tests that c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husbands%20and%20Knives
"Husbands and Knives" is the seventh episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 18, 2007. It features guest appearances from Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, and Dan Clowes as themselves and Jack Black as Milo. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generics%20in%20Java
Generics are a facility of generic programming that were added to the Java programming language in 2004 within version J2SE 5.0. They were designed to extend Java's type system to allow "a type or method to operate on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety". The aspect compile-time type safet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Town%20Meeting%20of%20the%20Air
America's Town Meeting of the Air was a public affairs discussion broadcast on radio from May 30, 1935, to July 1, 1956, mainly on the NBC Blue Network and its successor, ABC Radio. One of radio's first talk shows, it began as a six-week experiment, and NBC itself did not expect much from it. Broadcast live from New Y...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Juola
Patrick Juola is an internationally noted expert in text analysis, security, forensics, and stylometry. He is a professor of computer science at Duquesne University. As a faculty member at Duquesne University, he has authored two books and more than 100 scientific publications as well as generated more than two millio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy%20vs.%20Spy%20%28disambiguation%29
Spy vs. Spy is a wordless black and white comic strip published in Mad magazine since 1961. Spy vs. Spy may also refer to: Spy vs. Spy (1984 video game), the first computer game based on the comic strip. Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper Spy vs. Spy III: Arctic Antics Spy vs. Spy (2005 video game) Spy vs Spy (alb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOPB%20%28AM%29
KOPB 1600 AM is a radio station licensed to serve Eugene, Oregon. The station is owned by Oregon Public Broadcasting. It airs a news/talk format. It airs public radio programming primarily from NPR. The station was assigned the KOPB call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 20, 2008. Ownership...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizzball
Fizzball is a cross-platform computer game by American studio Grubby Games in which the player bounces the titular "fizzball" around the screen. The game was a finalist for an award at the 2007 Independent Games Festival. It was later ported to the Wii, under the name Doctor Fizzwizzle's Animal Rescue. Plot and gamepl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus%20stealing
In computing, focus stealing is a mode error occurring when a program not in focus (e.g. minimized or operating in background) places a window in the foreground and redirects all keyboard input to that window. This is considered to be an annoyance or hazard to some users because the program may steal the focus while th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autov%C3%ADa%20A-138
The A-138 is a road belonging to the autonomic road network of Aragon, Spain. It connects France at the Tunnel of Bielsa-Aragnouet with Barbastro and the N-240. External links Carretera A-138 in Google Maps Transport in Aragon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20Jihad%20%28Paris%20album%29
Sonic Jihad is a studio album by rapper Paris, released in 2003. It was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Data Stream Studio, San Francisco. The album was marketed by Guerrilla Funk, Paris's label, as "so dangerous to homeland security [that] it's unavailable at chain stores." Production Sonic Jihad was produced solely...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%20pedata
Viola pedata, the birdsfoot violet, bird's-foot violet, or mountain pansy, is a violet native to sandy areas in central and eastern North America. Varieties Two primary color forms exist, Viola pedata var. lineariloba ("concolor"), which is a solid pink-lilac-lavender color, and var. pedata ("bicolor"), in which the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Robot%20and%20His%20Robot%20Factory
Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory is a platform game created for the Atari 8-bit family by Ron Rosen and published in 1983 by Datamost. The music was composed by Gary Gilbertson using Philip Price's Advanced Music Processor, while the title screen was drawn by Art Huff. It was ported to the Apple II by Robert McNally and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeGear
CodeGear is a wholly owned division of Embarcadero Technologies. CodeGear develops software development tools such as the Delphi Integrated development environment, the programming language Delphi, and the database server InterBase. Originally a division of Borland Software Corporation, it was launched on 14 November 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable%20Linux%20Kernel%20Subset
The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS), formerly known as Linux-8086, is a Linux-like operating system kernel. It is a subset of the Linux kernel, intended for 16-bit computers with limited processor and memory resources such as machines powered by Intel 8086 and compatible microprocessors not supported by 32-bit Li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20%28computing%29
In programming and software design, an event is an action or occurrence recognized by software, often originating asynchronously from the external environment, that may be handled by the software. Computer events can be generated or triggered by the system, by the user, or in other ways. Typically, events are handled ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLGF
WLGF (107.1 FM) is a radio station located in Gulfport, Mississippi broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format under the national K-Love radio network. WLGF is owned by Educational Media Foundation and its signal covers areas in Gulfport-Biloxi area. History WROA-FM/Power 107/Surf 107 The station first signed on th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20Access%20with%20Collision%20Avoidance
Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (MACA) is a slotted media access control protocol used in wireless LAN data transmission to avoid collisions caused by the hidden station problem and to simplify exposed station problem. The basic idea of MACA is a wireless network node makes an announcement before it sends the...