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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterobranchia
Pterobranchia is a class of small worm-shaped animals. They belong to the Hemichordata, and live in secreted tubes on the ocean floor. Pterobranchia feed by filtering plankton out of the water with the help of cilia attached to tentacles. There are about 25 known living pterobranch species in three genera, which are R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20Network
Atlas Network, formerly known as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, is a non-governmental 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States that provides training, networking and grants for libertarian, free-market, and conservative groups around the world. Atlas Network was founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher, a Br...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMI
PMI may stand for: Computer science Pointwise mutual information, in statistics Privilege Management Infrastructure in cryptography Product and manufacturing information in CAD systems Companies Philip Morris International, tobacco company Picture Music International, former division of EMI Precious Moments, In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco%20System%2011
The is a 32-bit arcade system board developed jointly by Namco and Sony Computer Entertainment. Released in 1994, the System 11 is based on a prototype of the PlayStation, Sony's first home video game console, using a 512 KB operating system and several custom processors. The is an upgraded version of the System 11 t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboraketti
Turboraketti is a space dog fight game for Amiga computers created by Finnish game designer Heikki Kosola. There's plenty of misleading information about the publishing year of the game and the sequel. According to Kosola he created the beta version of Turboraketti in 1992 and the final version in 1993. Some people h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Iowa
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Iowa, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct KCBC-FM KDIC KDRA-LP KEWS KRNL-FM KUCB KXGM References Iowa Radio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Policy%20Network
The International Policy Network (IPN) was a think tank based in the City of London, founded 1971, and closed in September 2011. It was a non-partisan, non-profit organization, but critics said it was a "corporate-funded campaigning group". IPN ran campaigns on issues such as trade, development, healthcare and the envi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons%20Bible%20Stories
"Simpsons Bible Stories" is the eighteenth episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on Easter Sunday, April 4, 1999. It is the first of The Simpsons now annual trilogy episodes, and consists of four self-contained segment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20antenna
Smart antennas (also known as adaptive array antennas, digital antenna arrays, multiple antennas and, recently, MIMO) are antenna arrays with smart signal processing algorithms used to identify spatial signal signatures such as the direction of arrival (DOA) of the signal, and use them to calculate beamforming vectors ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfel
Surfel is an abbreviated term for a "surface element," analogous to a "voxel" (volume element) or a "pixel" (picture element). In 3D computer graphics, the use of surfels is an alternative to polygonal modeling. An object is represented by a dense set of points or viewer-facing discs holding lighting information. Surfe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Gets%20an%20%22A%22
"Lisa Gets an 'A" is the seventh episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 22, 1998. In the episode, Lisa cheats on a test for which she fails to study and receives an A+++ grade, but becomes guilt-ridden. In t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVN24
TVN24 is a Polish 24-hour commercial news channel, launched on 9 August 2001. Being a part of the TVN Network, TVN24 has been owned since July 2017 by US-based media company Warner Bros. Discovery. It gained broader popularity after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US, which was the first major incident to be cov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheos
Atheos may refer to: , an Ancient Greek term meaning 'godless'; see history of atheism AtheOS, an operating system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20Simpson%20in%3A%20%22Kidney%20Trouble%22
"Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble" is the eighth episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 6, 1998. In the episode Grampa's kidneys explode, leaving him in urgent need of a donor. His son Homer initially agree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayored%20to%20the%20Mob
"Mayored to the Mob" is the ninth episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 20, 1998. After Homer prevents Mayor Quimby and Mark Hamill from being trampled at a convention, Homer trains to become a bodygua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Will%20Remember%20You%20%28Angel%29
"I Will Remember You" is episode 8 of season 1 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB network. In this episode, Buffy follows Angel back to Los Angeles, where she confronts him about his surreptitious assistance back in Sunnydale. They are attacked by a Mohra demon; when Angel kills the demon he i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Wilkinson%20%28disambiguation%29
James Wilkinson (1757–1825) was an American general and politician. James Wilkinson may also refer to: James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), English mathematician and computer scientist J. Harvie Wilkinson III (James Harvie Wilkinson III, born 1944), American judge James Kemsey Wilkinson (1906–1997), British businessman...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20Card%20%28TV%20series%29
Wild Card (also known as Zoe Busiek: Wild Card) is a comedy-drama series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime, and on the Global Television Network in Canada from August 2003 to July 2005. Synopsis Zoe Busiek is a former Las Vegas blackjack dealer whose life takes an unexpected turn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ita%20Buttrose
Ita Clare Buttrose (born 17 January 1942) is an Australian TV network chairperson, television and radio personality, author and former magazine editor, publishing executive and newspaper journalist. She was the founding editor of Cleo, a high-circulation magazine aimed at women aged 20 to 40 that was frank about sexu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI%20Multi%20Rendering
ATI Multi-Rendering (AMR) is a video technology created by ATI Technologies that enables a single computer to use more than one video processor. Created in 2002, AMR uses a technology ATI calls "Super Tiling" to connect multiple (two or more) video cards together. AMR has been primarily used by Evans and Sutherland, fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya%20Major
Anya Major (born 1966) is an English athlete, actress, model and singer who starred in Apple Computer's "1984" commercial, and in 1985 appeared as "Nikita" in the video to Elton John's song of the same name. In 1983, the Chiat/Day advertising agency held a casting call in London, on behalf of their client, Apple Compu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNA%20%28TV%20network%29
CNA (stylised as cna), which is an initialism derived from its previous name, Channel NewsAsia, is a Singapore multinational news channel owned by the country's national public broadcaster Mediacorp. It broadcasts free-to-air domestically in Singapore and internationally as a pay television channel to 29 territories ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIL
HIL or hil may refer to: Hil, Azerbaijan, a village HIL bus, a computer bus Hil Hernández (born 1984), Chilean beauty pageant winner Eduard Hil (1934–2012), Russian singer Hardware-in-the-loop simulation Hiligaynon language, ISO 639 code for a language spoken in the Philippines Hill International, an American i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasa%20%28video%20game%29
Sasa is an arcade video game released for the MSX1 in 1984, and later for the Family Computer as in 1985. This video game involved obtaining capsules with an 'E' on them, sometimes suspended by balloons. The main character could only use bullets to propel himself, and when the bullet count reaches 0, the game ends. A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wazap%21
Wazap! is a vertical search engine, video game database and social networking site to distribute gaming news, rankings, cheats, downloads and reviews owned and operated by East Beam Co. Ltd. of Japan. As a vertical search engine, it indexes gaming sites and categorizes the information as news, reviews, cheats, download...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted%20%28software%29
Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python and licensed under the MIT License. Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP multicast, Unix domain sockets, many protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others), and much more. Twisted is based on the ev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusinessObjects%20Data%20Integrator
Business Objects's Data Integrator is a data integration and ETL tool that was previously known as ActaWorks. Newer versions of the software include data quality features and are named SAP BODS (BusinessObjects Data Services). The Data Integrator product consists primarily of a Data Integrator Job Server and the Data I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECN
SECN may refer to: SEC Network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Pro
PC Pro is one of several computer magazines published monthly in the United Kingdom by Future plc. Its headquarters is in London. PC Pro also licenses individual articles (or even the whole magazine) for republication in various countries around the world - and some articles are translated into local languages. , it cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics%20software
In computer graphics, graphics software refers to a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate images or models visually on a computer. Computer graphics can be classified into two distinct categories: raster graphics and vector graphics, with further 2D and 3D variants. Many graphics program...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardus
Pardus may refer to: Saint Pardus, patron saint of Larino, Italy Dan Pardus, an American NASCAR driver Pardus (operating system), a Linux distribution developed in Turkey Pardus (video game), graphical browser-based MMORPG Pardus, Pennsylvania, a community in the United States Biology Panthera pardus, the scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20class
In object-oriented programming (OOP), an inner class or nested class is a class declared entirely within the body of another class or interface. It is distinguished from a subclass. Overview An instance of a normal or top-level class can exist on its own. By contrast, an instance of an inner class cannot be instantiat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBLL
WBLL (1390 AM) is an American radio station in Bellefontaine, Ohio. It currently broadcasts with country music programming, along with certain sporting events (Cleveland Guardians baseball, local high school sports). The station is owned by V-Teck Communications, and is the sister station of WPKO 98.3 FM. History WBLL...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling%20convention
In computer science, a calling convention is an implementation-level (low-level) scheme for how subroutines or functions receive parameters from their caller and how they return a result. When some code calls a function, design choices have been taken for where and how parameters are passed to that function, and where...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTN
WTN may refer to: W Network, a Canadian cable channel from 1995 to about 2001 Whitton railway station, London, National Rail station code World Tibet News, created in 1992 Worldwide TV News, which in 1998 merged into Associated Press Television News WWTN, an FM radio station in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, known as "99....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%20Sharkey
Noel Sharkey (born 14 December 1948) is a computer scientist born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is best known to the British public for his appearances on television as an expert on robotics; including the BBC Two television series Robot Wars and Techno Games, and co-hosting Bright Sparks for BBC Northern Ireland. H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melora%20Hardin
Melora Hardin (born June 29, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jan Levinson on NBC's The Office, Trudy Monk on USA Network's Monk, and Tammy Cashman on Amazon Prime Video's Transparent, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Hardin starred as magazine editor-in-chief Ja...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldershot%20railway%20station
Aldershot railway station is located near the town centre of Aldershot in Hampshire, England. It is down the line from . It is on the Alton Line, part of the National Rail network, with train services and station facilities provided by South Western Railway. It has the three-letter code AHT. The station's National Lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto%20Metro
The Porto Metro (), part of the public transport (mass transit) system of Porto, Portugal, is a light rail network that runs underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs. Metro do Porto S.A. was founded in 1993, and the first line of the system opened in 2002. The network has 6 lines and reach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linde%E2%80%93Buzo%E2%80%93Gray%20algorithm
The Linde–Buzo–Gray algorithm (introduced by Yoseph Linde, Andrés Buzo and Robert M. Gray in 1980) is a vector quantization algorithm to derive a good codebook. It is similar to the k-means method in data clustering. The algorithm At each iteration, each vector is split into two new vectors. A initial state: centro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20Zerotrees%20of%20Wavelet%20transforms
Embedded Zerotrees of Wavelet transforms (EZW) is a lossy image compression algorithm. At low bit rates, i.e. high compression ratios, most of the coefficients produced by a subband transform (such as the wavelet transform) will be zero, or very close to zero. This occurs because "real world" images tend to contain mos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Williams%20Company
The Mark Williams Company was a small software company in Chicago, Illinois (later moved to Northbrook) that created Coherent, one of the first Unix-like operating systems for IBM PCs and several C programming language compilers. It was founded by Robert Swartz in 1977 and discontinued operations in 1995. The name come...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Bridge%20Inventory
The National Bridge Inventory (NBI) is a database, compiled by the Federal Highway Administration, with information on all bridges and tunnels in the United States that have roads passing above or below them. That is similar to the grade-crossing identifier number database, compiled by the Federal Railroad Administrati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20relativity
Numerical relativity is one of the branches of general relativity that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems. To this end, supercomputers are often employed to study black holes, gravitational waves, neutron stars and many other phenomena governed by Einstein's theory of general relativity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland%20Resort%20line
The Disneyland Resort line () is a commuter rail line connecting Sunny Bay to the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, coloured pink on the network diagram. It is the seventh line of the former MTR network before the merger of MTR and KCR, and the world's first metro line designed to service a Disney theme park. There are only...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide%20Intervention%20Network
The Genocide Intervention Network (or GI-NET) was a non-profit organization aiming to "empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide". Founded in 2004, in 2005 the Genocide Intervention Fund changed its name to Genocide Intervention Network, and in 2011, it merged with the Save Darfur ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20grammar
In computer science, a linear grammar is a context-free grammar that has at most one nonterminal in the right-hand side of each of its productions. A linear language is a language generated by some linear grammar. Example An example of a linear grammar is G with N = {S}, Σ = {a, b}, P with start symbol S and rules ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPCB-TV
WPCB-TV (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Pittsburgh area as the flagship of the religious network Cornerstone Television. Cornerstone originates most of its programs from this station. WPCB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located on Signal Hill Dr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley%20Mission
Wesley Mission is a name used by three independent Uniting Church groups which are a part of the Uniting Missions Network of UnitingCare Australia. These predominantly grew out of inner city Central Methodist Missions of the Methodist Church of Australasia. Most of the Methodist City Missions of that era later joined t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LattisNet
LattisNet was a family of computer networking hardware and software products built and sold by SynOptics Communications (also rebranded by Western Digital) during the 1980s. Examples were the 1000, 2500 and 3000 series of LattisHub network hubs. LattisNet was the first implementation of 10 Megabits per second local are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Add-drop%20multiplexer
An add-drop multiplexer (ADM) is an important element of an optical fiber network. A multiplexer combines, or multiplexes, several lower-bandwidth streams of data into a single beam of light. An add-drop multiplexer also has the capability to add one or more lower-bandwidth signals to an existing high-bandwidth data s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pairs%20testing
In computer science, all-pairs testing or pairwise testing is a combinatorial method of software testing that, for each pair of input parameters to a system (typically, a software algorithm), tests all possible discrete combinations of those parameters. Using carefully chosen test vectors, this can be done much faster ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Busa
Roberto Busa (November 28, 1913 – August 9, 2011) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers in the usage of computers for linguistic and literary analysis. He was the author of the Index Thomisticus, a complete lemmatization of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas and of a few related authors. Biography Born i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20description%20language
Architecture description languages (ADLs) are used in several disciplines: system engineering, software engineering, and enterprise modelling and engineering. The system engineering community uses an architecture description language as a language and/or a conceptual model to describe and represent system architecture...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Pinto%20%28novelist%29
Ricardo Pinto (born 1961 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a computer game programmer and fantasy novelist. Early life and gaming career Pinto's family moved to London when he was six, and then to Dundee in Scotland. In 1979, he commenced a degree in Mathematics at the University of Dundee. In 1983, Pinto moved to London to wor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skypower%20Express%20Airways
Skypower Express Airways was an airline based in Kaduna in Nigeria. It operated scheduled and charter services in Nigeria and neighboring countries. Code data ICAO Code: EAN Callsign: NIGERIA EXPRESS History Sky Power Express was initially established in 1982 and then incorporated as Express Airways Nigeria on the 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20in%20the%20large%20and%20programming%20in%20the%20small
In software engineering, programming in the large and programming in the small refer to two different aspects of writing software, namely, designing a larger system as a composition of smaller parts, and creating those smaller parts by writing lines of code in a programming language, respectively. The terms were coined...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20model
An information model in software engineering is a representation of concepts and the relationships, constraints, rules, and operations to specify data semantics for a chosen domain of discourse. Typically it specifies relations between kinds of things, but may also include relations with individual things. It can provi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Unix%20daemons
This is a list of Unix daemons that are found on various Unix-like operating systems. Unix daemons typically have a name ending with a d. See also List of Unix commands References Unix Unix daemons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/128-bit%20computing
General home computing and gaming utility emerged at 8-bit (but not at 1-bit or 4-bit) word sizes, as 28=256 words become possible. Thus, early 8-bit CPUs (Zilog Z80, 6502, Intel 8088 introduced 1976-1981 by Commodore, Tandy Corporation, Apple and IBM) inaugurated the era of personal computing. Many 16-bit CPUs already...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL-4
PL-4 or POS-PHY Level 4 was the name of the interface that the interface SPI-4.2 is based on. It was proposed by PMC-Sierra to the Optical Internetworking Forum. The name means Packet Over SONET Physical layer level 4. PL-4 was developed by PMC-Sierra in conjunction with the Saturn Development Group. Context There are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot%20%28virtual%20machine%29
HotSpot, released as Java HotSpot Performance Engine, is a Java virtual machine for desktop and server computers, developed by Sun Microsystems and now maintained and distributed by Oracle Corporation. It features improved performance via methods such as just-in-time compilation and adaptive optimization. History The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrizio
Abrizio was a fabless semiconductor company which made switching fabric chip sets (integrated circuits for computer network switches). Their chip set, the TT1, was used by several large system development companies as the core switch fabric in their high value communication systems. Founding Abrizio was founded in 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Data%20Language
The GNU Data Language (GDL) is a free alternative to IDL (Interactive Data Language), achieving full compatibility with IDL 7 and partial compatibility with IDL 8. Together with its library routines, GDL is developed to serve as a tool for data analysis and visualization in such disciplines as astronomy, geosciences, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge%20of%20the%20Cybermen
Revenge of the Cybermen is the fifth and final serial of the 12th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 19 April to 10 May 1975. It was the first to feature the Cybermen since The Invasion (1968) and the last until Earthshock (198...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle.com
Tickle Inc. (formerly known as Emode.com) was a media company providing self-discovery and social networking services. Tickle survived the dot-com bubble burst of 2000, became profitable in early 2002, was acquired by Monster Worldwide in May 2004, and became part of the overall Monster network. In April 2008, it was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20chain%20geostatistics
Markov chain geostatistics uses Markov chain spatial models, simulation algorithms and associated spatial correlation measures (e.g., transiogram) based on the Markov chain random field theory, which extends a single Markov chain into a multi-dimensional random field for geostatistical modeling. A Markov chain random ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Georgia%20%28U.S.%20state%29
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the United States state of Georgia, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct WACL (570 AM) WAYS WBHB WBKZ (880 AM, Athens, Georgia) WBMQ WBUE-LP WCUG (Cut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Schifreen
Robert Jonathan Schifreen (born October 1963) is a former UK-based computer hacker and magazine editor, and the founder of IT security awareness training programme SecuritySmart.co.uk. He was the first person charged with illegally accessing a computer system, but was acquitted because there was no such specific crimin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Musgrave
Forest Kenton Musgrave (16 September 1955 – 14 December 2018) was a professor at The George Washington University in the USA. A computer artist who worked with fractal images, he worked on the Bryce landscape software and later as CEO/CTO of Pandromeda, Inc. developed and designed the innovative MojoWorld software. Ed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Swirsky
Robert Swirsky (born December, 1962, Brooklyn, NY) is a computer scientist, author and pianist. In the early 1980s, he was one of the first regular contributors to the nascent computer magazine industry, including Popular Computing, Kilobaud Microcomputing, and Interface Age to Creative Computing. Swirsky holds bachel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOINC%20Credit%20System
Within the BOINC platform for volunteer computing, the BOINC Credit System helps volunteers keep track of how much CPU time they have donated to various projects. This ensures users are returning accurate results for both scientific and statistical reasons. Purposes for a credit system Online distributed computing re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Whitney%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Arthur Whitney (born October 20, 1957) is a Canadian computer scientist most notable for developing three programming languages inspired by APL: A+, k, and q, and for co-founding the U.S. companies Kx Systems and Shakti Software. Career Whitney studied pure mathematics at the graduate level at the University of Toron...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy%20randomized%20adaptive%20search%20procedure
The greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (also known as GRASP) is a metaheuristic algorithm commonly applied to combinatorial optimization problems. GRASP typically consists of iterations made up from successive constructions of a greedy randomized solution and subsequent iterative improvements of it through a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanal%20D
Kanal D, also known as Channel D, is a nationwide television channel in Turkey and part of Demirören Group. It was founded by Ayhan Şahenk and Aydın Doğan in 1993. The network also runs an international channel, Euro D since 1996, which is available online, and had the first high definition channel in Turkey, Kanal D ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%20Network%20Information%20Centre
Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC) is the national Internet registry for Singapore. It administers the .sg top level domain. Formed in October 1995, the SGNIC took over the operation of Domain Name Registration (DNR) Services in November 1995. It operated under the National Computer Board until July 1997 wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile%20binary%20interface%20problem
The fragile binary interface problem or FBI is a shortcoming of certain object-oriented programming language compilers, in which internal changes to an underlying class library can cause descendant libraries or programs to cease working. It is an example of software brittleness. This problem is more often called the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUNET
FUNET is the Finnish University and Research Network, a backbone network providing Internet connections for Finnish universities and polytechnics as well as other research facilities. It is governed by the state-owned CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd. The FUNET project started in December 1983 and soon gained internatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally%20Wild
Totally Wild is an Australian children's television series which premiered on Network 10 on 12 July 1992. The series aired on 10 Peach from 2013 to 2020, and 10 Shake from 2020 to 2021. It had a current affairs program format, and did stories on topics such as Australia's native flora and fauna, action sports, the envi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20the%20Simpson
"Lisa the Simpson" is the seventeenth episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 8, 1998. In the episode, Lisa fears that she may be genetically predisposed to lose her intelligence after Grandpa tells her of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20network
An acoustic network is a method of positioning equipment using sound waves. It is primarily used in water, and can be as small or as large as required by the users specifications. Size of network The simplest acoustic network consists of one measurement resulting in a single range between sound source and sound recei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20interrupt%20controller
In computing, a programmable interrupt controller (PIC) is an integrated circuit that helps a microprocessor (or CPU) handle interrupt requests (IRQ) coming from multiple different sources (like external I/O devices) which may occur simultaneously. It helps prioritize IRQs so that the CPU switches execution to the most...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20brittleness
In computer programming and software engineering, software brittleness is the increased difficulty in fixing older software that may appear reliable, but actually fails badly when presented with unusual data or altered in a seemingly minor way. The phrase is derived from analogies to brittleness in metalworking. Cause...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20cap
A data cap, often erroneously referred to as a bandwidth cap, is an artificial restriction imposed on the transfer of data over a network. In particular, it refers to policies imposed by an internet service provider in order to limit customers' usage of their services; typically, exceeding a data cap would require the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUMN-LD
WUMN-LD (channel 21) is a low-power television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving the Twin Cities area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision. Owned by Media Vista Group, LLC, the station maintains a transmitter atop the Campbell Mithun Tower on South 9th Street in dow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20Western%20Hospital
The Toronto Western Hospital (TWH) is a major research and teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the University Health Network (UHN). It has 256 beds, with 46,000 visits to its emergency department annually. It is known for neurosurgery and was one of the first centres in Canada to use the gamma ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDP
NDP may stand for: Computing Neighbor Discovery Protocol, an Internet protocol Nortel Discovery Protocol, a layer two Internet protocol, also called SONMP Nondeterministic programming, a type of computer language Government National Development Plan, in Ireland National Development Policy, in Malaysia Norwegian...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB%20%28AM%29
KGB (760 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to San Diego, California. It is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a sports radio format. Most of the evening and weekend programming comes from Fox Sports Radio, along with San Diego Gulls hockey, San Diego State Aztecs college football games and Los Angeles Lakers ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion%20Nuclear%20Power%20Station
Zion Nuclear Power Station was the third dual-reactor nuclear power plant in the Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) network and served Chicago and the northern quarter of Illinois. The plant was built in 1973, and the first unit started producing power in December 1973. The second unit came online in September 1974. This powe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNDB
The Notable Names Database (NNDB) is an online database of biographical details of over 40,000 people. Soylent Communications, a sole proprietorship that also hosted the now-defunct Rotten.com, describes NNDB as an "intelligence aggregator" of noteworthy persons, highlighting their interpersonal connections. The Rotten...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology%20dissemination%20based%20on%20reverse-path%20forwarding
Topology broadcast based on reverse-path forwarding (TBRPF) is a link-state routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. The obvious design for a wireless link-state protocol (such as the optimized link-state routing protocol) transmits large amounts of routing data, and this limits the utility of a link-state protoco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Source%20Routing
Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) is a routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. It is similar to AODV in that it forms a route on-demand when a transmitting node requests one. However, it uses source routing instead of relying on the routing table at each intermediate device. Background Determining the source route r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetching
Prefetching in computer science is a technique for speeding up fetch operations by beginning a fetch operation whose result is expected to be needed soon. Usually this is before it is known to be needed, so there is a risk of wasting time by prefetching data that will not be used. The technique can be applied in seve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20stick
Memory Stick is a proprietary removable flash memory card format created by Sony. Memory stick may also be used informally to refer to: Memory cards in general; electronic flash memory data storage devices used for storing data, typically in portable devices USB flash drive (or "thumb drive", "pen drive", etc.), a rem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20PC
A handheld personal computer (PC) is a pocket-sized computer typically built around a clamshell form factor and is significantly smaller than any standard laptop computer, but based on the same principles. It is sometimes referred to as a palmtop computer, not to be confused with Palmtop PC which was a name used mainly...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20One%20Network%20Protocol
The OrderOne MANET Routing Protocol is an algorithm for computers communicating by digital radio in a mesh network to find each other, and send messages to each other along a reasonably efficient path. It was designed for, and promoted as working with wireless mesh networks. OON's designers say it can handle thousands...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMALL
Small Machine Algol Like Language (SMALL), is a computer programming language developed by Nevil Brownlee of the University of Auckland. History The aim of the language was to enable writing ALGOL-like code that ran on a small machine. It also included the string data type for easier text manipulation. SMALL was used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata
Stata (, , alternatively , occasionally stylized as STATA) is a general-purpose statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. It is used by researchers in many fields, including biomedicine, economics, epidemiology, and sociology. Stata w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20on%20Fox
The NFL on Fox (also known as Fox NFL) is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games produced by Fox Sports and televised on the Fox broadcast network. Game coverage is usually preceded by Fox NFL Kickoff and Fox NFL Sunday and is followed on weeks when the network airs a Doubleheader by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20NFL%20Sunday
Fox NFL Sunday is an American sports television program broadcast on the Fox television network. The show debuted on September 4, 1994, and serves as the pre-game show for the network's National Football League (NFL) game telecasts under the NFL on Fox brand. An audio simulcast of the program airs on sister radio netwo...