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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Theurer
David Theurer is a game designer and computer programmer. In 1980, he created the Missile Command and Tempest arcade games for Atari, Inc., considered two of the major releases from the Golden age of arcade games. Theurer also designed I, Robot for Atari, the first commercial video game with 3D filled-polygonal graphi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20busiest%20airports%20by%20passenger%20traffic
The world's busiest airports by passenger traffic are measured by total passengers (data from Airports Council International), defined as passengers enplaned plus passengers deplaned plus direct-transit passengers. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport has held the top spot as the world's busiest airport eac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious%20%28TV%20series%29
Serious, Serious Explorers in later series, is an observational documentary series made by the BBC and broadcast as part of their children's programming. It encompasses Serious Jungle (2002), Serious Desert (2003), Serious Arctic (2005), Serious Amazon (2006), Serious Andes (2007), Serious Ocean (2008) and two series o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADODB
ADODB may refer to: ActiveX Data Objects, a Microsoft API for data access ADOdb, a database abstraction library for PHP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202002
The 44th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 28 April 2002 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Wendy Harmer, and guests included Frankie Muniz and Ronn Moss. Winners and nominees In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTRF-TV
WTRF-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, serving the Wheeling, West Virginia–Steubenville, Ohio market as an affiliate of CBS, MyNetworkTV, and ABC. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group and maintains studios on 16th Street in downtown Wheeling; its transmitt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20expansion%20coefficients%20of%20the%20elements%20%28data%20page%29
Thermal expansion Notes All values refer to 25 °C unless noted. References CRC As quoted from this source in an online version of: David R. Lide (ed), CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 84th Edition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Florida, 2003; Section 12, Properties of Solids; Thermal and Physical Properties of Pur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20contact
Social contact can refer to: In the sociological hierarchy leading up to social relations, an incidental social interaction between individuals In social networks, a node (representing an individual or organization) to which another node is socially See also Social contract Interpersonal relationship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20O%27Keefe
Richard A. O'Keefe is a computer scientist best known for writing the influential 1990 book on Prolog programming, The Craft of Prolog. He was a lecturer and researcher at the department of computer science at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand and concentrates on programming languages for logic programmin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General/One
The Data General/One (DG-1) was a laptop introduced in 1984 by Data General. Description The nine-pound battery-powered 1984 Data General/One ran MS-DOS and had dual 3.5" diskettes, a 79-key full-stroke keyboard, 128 KB to 512 KB of RAM, and a monochrome LCD screen capable of either the standard 80×25 characters or fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Computing%20%28magazine%29
Creative Computing was one of the earliest magazines covering the microcomputer revolution. Published from October 1974 until December 1985, the magazine covered the spectrum of hobbyist/home/personal computing in a more accessible format than the rather technically oriented Byte. The magazine was created to cover edu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyburn%20Films
Pyburn Films is a television and film production company in New York City that specializes in original content and long-form programming. Information Pyburn Films also conceived and created AXIS Graphics. The technology and privately held company (AXIS Graphics, LLC) was acquired in January 2008 by the Chyron Corporat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20affix%20grammar
In computer science, extended affix grammars (EAGs) are a formal grammar formalism for describing the context free and context sensitive syntax of language, both natural language and programming languages. EAGs are a member of the family of two-level grammars; more specifically, a restriction of Van Wijngaarden gramma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWide%20Access
WorldWide Access, also known as WWA, was an Internet Service Provider based in Chicago, Illinois. WorldWide Access was the service name of the company, which was called Computing Engineers, Inc. WorldWide Access operated from 1993 until 1998, when it was acquired by Verio. At that time, WWA was located on the ninetee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease%20%28programming%20language%29
Ease is a general purpose parallel programming language. It is designed by Steven Ericsson-Zenith, a researcher at Yale University, the Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering in Silicon Valley, California, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, and the Pierre and Marie Curie University, the science de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICOC
ICOC may refer to: International Churches of Christ, a global family/network of churches. International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation, also known as the "Hague Code of Conduct" International Commission for Orders of Chivalry, a scholarly organization studying chivalric orders. Internation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam7%20algorithm
Adam7 is an interlacing algorithm for raster images, best known as the interlacing scheme optionally used in PNG images. An Adam7 interlaced image is broken into seven subimages, which are defined by replicating this 8×8 pattern across the full image. The subimages are then stored in the image file in numerical order....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micallef%20Tonight
Micallef Tonight was a short-lived Aria Award-winning Australian variety show that aired on the Nine Network in 2003. It was hosted by comedian Shaun Micallef and also featured the talents of Francis Greenslade, Jason Geary, Livinia Nixon and Pete Smith. Show content Much like a typical variety show, each episode of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20SX
NEC SX describes a series of vector supercomputers designed, manufactured, and marketed by NEC. This computer series is notable for providing the first computer to exceed 1 gigaflop, as well as the fastest supercomputer in the world between 1992–1993, and 2002–2004. The current model, as of 2018, is the SX-Aurora TSUBA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20backup%20software
This is a list of notable backup software that performs data backups. Archivers, transfer protocols, and version control systems are often used for backups but only software focused on backup is listed here. See Comparison of backup software for features. Free and open-source software Commercial and closed-source sof...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive%20database
A deductive database is a database system that can make deductions (i.e. conclude additional facts) based on rules and facts stored in its database. Datalog is the language typically used to specify facts, rules and queries in deductive databases. Deductive databases have grown out of the desire to combine logic progra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20TouchMobile
The IBM TouchMobile is a robust and practical hand-held computer announced by IBM in 1993. This device has a bar code scanner with on-screen signature and data capture. Certain models are capable of wireless communication. The hand-held computer used a version of embedded DOS. The processor was an 80C88 processor. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20organizer
An electronic organizer (or electric organizer) is a small calculator-sized computer, often with an built-in diary application and other functions such as an address book and calendar, replacing paper-based personal organizers. Typically, it has a small alphanumeric keypad and an LCD screen of one, two, or three lines....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional%20Forwarding%20Detection
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a network protocol that is used to detect faults between two routers or switches connected by a link. It provides low-overhead detection of faults even on physical media that doesn't support failure detection of any kind, such as Ethernet, virtual circuits, tunnels and MPLS l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kept
Kept is a reality television series that centered on Jerry Hall (model and ex-wife to Mick Jagger) searching for a kept man. The show premiered on the American cable network VH1 in late May 2005. When Hall narrowed the list down to twelve, she spirited them off to London and eliminated them one by one. The final three...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom%20PC%20%28magazine%29
Custom PC (usually abbreviated to 'CPC') was a UK-based computer magazine originally published by Dennis Publishing Ltd and subsequently sold to Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd. It was aimed at PC hardware enthusiasts, covering topics such as modding, overclocking, and PC gaming. The first issue was released in October 2003 a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20storage%20management
Hierarchical storage management (HSM), also known as Tiered storage, is a data storage and Data management technique that automatically moves data between high-cost and low-cost storage media. HSM systems exist because high-speed storage devices, such as solid state drive arrays, are more expensive (per byte stored) th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202001
The 43rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 22 April 2001 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Shaun Micallef, and guests included Michael Crawford and Christopher Ellison. Winners and nominees In the tables below, winners are listed first and h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Distribution%20Service
The Data Distribution Service (DDS) for real-time systems is an Object Management Group (OMG) machine-to-machine (sometimes called middleware or connectivity framework) standard that aims to enable dependable, high-performance, interoperable, real-time, scalable data exchanges using a publish–subscribe pattern. DDS ad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering%20parameters
Scattering parameters or S-parameters (the elements of a scattering matrix or S-matrix) describe the electrical behavior of linear electrical networks when undergoing various steady state stimuli by electrical signals. The parameters are useful for several branches of electrical engineering, including electronics, com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoardGameGeek
BoardGameGeek (BGG) is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 125,600 different tabletop games, including European-style board games, wargames, and card games. In addition to the game database, the site allows users to rate games on a 1–10 scale and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream%20%28disambiguation%29
A slipstream is a pocket of reduced pressure following behind an object moving through a fluid medium. Slipstream may also refer to: Computing Slipstream (computer science), the technique of running a shortened program concurrently and ahead of the execution of the full program Slipstream (computing), a slang term ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-City%20Muslim%20Action%20Network
Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), founded in 1996 by Rami Nashashibi, is one of the leading Muslim charity organizations in the United States. According to the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, IMAN seeks "to utilize the tremendous possibilities and opportunities that are present in the community to build a dy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20der%20Valk
Van der Valk is a British television crime drama series produced for the ITV network by Thames Television. It ran from 1972 to 1992, with the first three series produced between 1972 and 1977, and two more being commissioned in 1991 and 1992. The series was created by Nicolas Freeling, based on his novels about a dete...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIVC
CIVC may refer to: Le Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne, the organisation of champagne producers CIVC-TV 45, a TV channel in the network Télé-Québec in Trois-Rivières, Canada CIVC Partners, a private equity firm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20design
Functional Design is a paradigm used to simplify the design of hardware and software devices such as computer software and, increasingly, 3D models. A functional design assures that each modular part of a device has only one responsibility and performs that responsibility with the minimum of side effects on other parts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullinet
Cullinet was a software company whose products included the database management system IDMS and the integrated software package Goldengate. In 1989, the company was bought by Computer Associates. Cullinet was headquartered at 400 Blue Hill Drive in Westwood, Massachusetts. History Early years The company was started ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPSANET
IPSANET was a packet switching network written by I. P. Sharp Associates (IPSA). Operation began in May 1976. It initially used the IBM 3705 Communications Controller and Computer Automation LSI-2 computers as nodes. An Intel 80286 based-node was added in 1987. It was called the Beta node. The original purpose was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.%20P.%20Sharp%20Associates
I. P. Sharp Associates (IPSA) was a major Canadian computer time-sharing, consulting and services firm of the 1970s and 1980s. IPSA is well known for its work on the programming language APL, an early packet switching computer network named IPSANET, and a powerful mainframe computer-based email system named 666 Box, st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA%20over%20Ethernet
ATA over Ethernet (AoE) is a network protocol developed by the Brantley Coile Company, designed for simple, high-performance access of block storage devices over Ethernet networks. It is used to build storage area networks (SANs) with low-cost, standard technologies. Protocol description AoE runs on layer 2 Ethernet....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief%E2%80%93desire%E2%80%93intention%20software%20model
The belief–desire–intention software model (BDI) is a software model developed for programming intelligent agents. Superficially characterized by the implementation of an agent's beliefs, desires and intentions, it actually uses these concepts to solve a particular problem in agent programming. In essence, it provides ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rowan%20Tree%20Church
The Rowan Tree Church is a Wiccan organization, legally incorporated in 1979. It is an Earth-focused network of Members dedicated to the study and practice of the Wiccan Tradition known as Lothloriën. Originally centered in Minneapolis beginning in the late 1970s, its main office is in Kirkland, Washington. The Rowan T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtenay%20Hughes%20Fenn
Courtenay Hughes Fenn, or C. H. Fenn, (April 11, 1866 – 1953) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China, and compiler of The Five Thousand Dictionary, a widely used basic Chinese-English dictionary that has gone through numerous reprints. Fenn's Chinese name was 芳泰瑞 (Fang Tairui). Fenn was born in 1866 at Clyde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg%20Television
Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by diversified information and media private company Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is headquartered in New York Cit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202000
The 42nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 30 April 2000 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Andrew Denton, and guests included Elle Macpherson, Ruby Wax, Savage Garden and Macy Gray. Winners and nominees In the tables below, winners are liste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHQR
CHQR is a radio station owned by Corus Entertainment operating in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Broadcasting at AM 770, it airs talk programming. With the exception of one show, all of CHQR's weekday programming is produced in-house. CHQR is also the exclusive radio voice of the Calgary Stampeders. CHQR is also the last AM...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS%3A%20The%20Documentary
BBS: The Documentary (commonly referred to as BBS Documentary) is a 3-disc, 8-episode documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com. Production work began in July 2001, and completed in December 2004. The finished p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Network%20Paging%20Protocol
Simple Network Paging Protocol (SNPP) is a protocol that defines a method by which a pager can receive a message over the Internet. It is supported by most major paging providers, and serves as an alternative to the paging modems used by many telecommunications services. The protocol was most recently described in . ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNPP
SNPP may refer to: Real Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant Simple Network Paging Protocol Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant Suomi NPP, an American weather satellite in low Earth orbit. Fictional The Simpsons Archive, domain name snpp.com Springfield Nuclear Power Plant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustal
Clustal is a series of widely used computer programs used in bioinformatics for multiple sequence alignment. There have been many versions of Clustal over the development of the algorithm that are listed below. The analysis of each tool and its algorithm is also detailed in their respective categories. Available operat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastICA
FastICA is an efficient and popular algorithm for independent component analysis invented by Aapo Hyvärinen at Helsinki University of Technology. Like most ICA algorithms, FastICA seeks an orthogonal rotation of prewhitened data, through a fixed-point iteration scheme, that maximizes a measure of non-Gaussianity of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion%20Wavefinder
The Psion Wavefinder was a computer peripheral for receiving digital audio broadcasting radio signals, made by Psion. It attached via USB to a personal computer, and had no loudspeakers or controls of its own, with only a flashing light on the device. Psion hoped it would become a design classic. The Wavefinder was re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd%27s%20cellular%20automaton
Codd's cellular automaton is a cellular automaton (CA) devised by the British computer scientist Edgar F. Codd in 1968. It was designed to recreate the computation- and construction-universality of von Neumann's CA but with fewer states: 8 instead of 29. Codd showed that it was possible to make a self-reproducing machi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%2064%20Games%20System
The Commodore 64 Games System (often abbreviated C64GS) is the cartridge-based home video game console version of the popular Commodore 64 home computer. It was released in December 1990 by Commodore into a booming console market dominated by Nintendo and Sega. It was only released in Europe and was a considerable comm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia%20Network
The Paranoia Network, founded in November 2003, is a self-help user-run organisation in Sheffield, England, for people who have paranoid or delusional beliefs. In contrast to mainstream psychiatry, that tends to see such beliefs as signs of psychopathology, the Paranoia Network promotes a philosophy of living with unu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprofessor%20II
Microprofessor II (MPF II), introduced in 1982, was Multitech's (later renamed Acer) second branded computer product and also one of the earliest Apple II clones. It does not look like most other computers. The case of the MPF II was a slab with a small chiclet keyboard on its lower part. In 1983, the Multiprofessor I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3000%20class%20railcar
The 3000 class and 3100 class are diesel railcars that operate on the Adelaide rail network. Built by Comeng and Clyde Engineering between 1987 and 1996, they entered service under the State Transport Authority before later being operated by TransAdelaide and Adelaide Metro. Trains are typically coupled as multiple uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20BASIC
Chinese BASIC () is the name given to several Chinese-localized versions of the BASIC programming language in the early 1980s. Versions At least two versions of Chinese BASIC were modified Applesoft BASIC that accepted Chinese commands and variables. They were built into some Taiwan-made Apple II clones. One of these...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyan
Tyan Computer Corporation (泰安電腦科技股份有限公司; also known as Tyan Business Unit, or TBU) is a subsidiary of MiTAC International, and a manufacturer of computer motherboards, including models for both AMD and Intel processors. They develop and produce high-end server, SMP, and desktop barebones systems as well as provide desi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Webster
Bruce F. Webster is an American academic and software engineer. He is currently a principal at Bruce F. Webster & Associates and an adjunct professor in computer science at Brigham Young University. Early life and education Webster studied computer science at Brigham Young University, graduating in 1978 with a bachel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTRAN
SIGTRAN is the name, derived from signaling transport, of the former Internet Task Force (I) working group that produced specifications for a family of protocols that provide reliable datagram service and user layer adaptations for Signaling System and ISDN communications protocols. The SIGTRAN protocols are an exten...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRTP
CRTP has several meanings in computer science. Curiously recurring template pattern in the C++ programming language Diapolycopene oxygenase, an enzyme Cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20mass%20%28software%20engineering%29
In software engineering, critical mass is a stage in the life cycle when the source code grows too complicated to effectively manage without a complete rewrite. At the critical mass stage, fixing a bug introduces one or more new bugs. Tools such as high-level programming languages and techniques such as programming in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20New%20York%20City
The transportation system of New York City is a network of complex infrastructural systems. New York City, being the most populous city in the United States, has a transportation system which includes one of the largest and busiest subway systems in the world; the world's first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel;...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMP%20%28statistical%20software%29
JMP (pronounced "jump") is a suite of computer programs for statistical analysis developed by JMP, a subsidiary of SAS Institute. It was launched in 1989 to take advantage of the graphical user interface introduced by the Macintosh operating systems. It has since been significantly rewritten and made available also for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very%20high-level%20programming%20language
A very high-level programming language (VHLL) is a programming language with a very high level of abstraction, used primarily as a professional programmer productivity tool. VHLLs are usually domain-specific languages, limited to a very specific application, purpose, or type of task, and they are often scripting langu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20highest-income%20counties%20in%20the%20United%20States
There are 3,144 counties and county-equivalents in the United States. The source of the data is the U.S. Census Bureau and the data is current as of the indicated year. Independent cities are considered county-equivalent by the Census Bureau. Summary Before the American Civil War, the wealthiest counties were primaril...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20dialling%20codes%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom
This is a list of telephone dialling codes in the United Kingdom, which adopts an open telephone numbering plan for its public switched telephone network. The national telephone numbering plan is maintained by Ofcom, an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. This list is b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20states%20and%20territories%20by%20income
This is a list of U.S. states, territories and the District of Columbia by income. Data is given according to the 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates, except for the American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, for which the data comes from 2010, as ACS does not oper...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortran
Mortran (More Fortran) is an extension of the Fortran programming language used for scientific computation. It introduces syntax changes, including the use of semicolons to end statements, in order to improve readability and flexibility. Mortran code is macro-processed into Fortran code for compilation. Example: <I=1,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShadowCrew
ShadowCrew was a cybercrime forum that operated under the domain name ShadowCrew.com between August 2002 and November 2004. Origins The concept of the ShadowCrew was developed in early 2002 during a series of chat sessions between Brett Johnson (GOllumfun), Seth Sanders (Kidd), and Kim Marvin Taylor (MacGayver). The S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Conrad
Roy L. Conrad (November 11, 1940 – January 18, 2002) was an American actor, best known for his role as the voice actor of Ben in the 1995 LucasArts computer game Full Throttle. Career Conrad provided the voice of Ben in the LucasArts computer game Full Throttle. He has also appeared in another LucasArts game, Star Wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities%20along%20the%20Silk%20Road
This articles lists cities located along the Silk Road. The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes which connected Europe with China, spanning from the Mediterranean Sea to the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The Silk Road's eastern end is in present-day China, and its main western end is Antioch. The Silk Road ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20information%20technology%20auditing
Information Technology Auditing (IT auditing) began as Electronic Data Process (EDP) Auditing and developed largely as a result of the rise in technology in accounting systems, the need for IT control, and the impact of computers on the ability to perform attestation services. The last few years have been an exciting t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal%20Grand%20Prix
refers to two anime series co-produced by Production I.G and Cartoon Network. The first is a "microseries" consisting of five 5-minute episodes, and the second is a 26-episode animated series loosely related to the first. IGPX microseries The Immortal Grand Prix is a tournament between teams of gun-wielding mechs. As...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark%20%28computing%29
In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it. The term benchmark is also commonly utilized for the purposes of elaborately designe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Ray
V-Ray is a biased computer-generated imagery rendering software application developed by Bulgarian software company Chaos . V-Ray is a commercial plug-in for third-party 3D computer graphics software applications and is used for visualizations and computer graphics in industries such as media, entertainment, film and v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fez%20%28That%20%2770s%20Show%29
Fez is a fictional character and one of the male leads on the Fox Network's That '70s Show, also appearing in a minor role in the Netflix sequel That '90s Show portrayed by Wilmer Valderrama. He was the foreign exchange student in a group of six local teenagers. Origins Fez was born on August 4, 1960. His real name is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi%20FM
Kiwi FM (formerly Channel Z) was a New Zealand alternative music radio network. From 1996 to 2005, as Channel Z, it broadcast alternative and local music for a youth-oriented market. From 2005 to 2015, as Kiwi FM, it broadcast predominantly New Zealand independent music, to showcase local music across a wide range of g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast%20%28radio%20station%29
Coast is a New Zealand radio network playing a mix of "feel good" hits predominantly from the 1970s and 1980s. The network includes stations in 21 major cities and provincial centres broadcasting from studios in central Auckland, owned and operated by New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME). The Coast network reach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20Salton%20Award
The Gerard Salton Award is presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) every three years to an individual who has made "significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval". SIGIR also co-sponsors (with SIGWEB) t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20typographic%20features
Typographic features made possible using digital typographic systems have solved many the demands placed on computer systems to replicate traditional typography and have expanded the possibilities with many new features. Three systems are in common use: OpenType, devised by Microsoft and Adobe, Apple's Apple Advanced T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceWire
SpaceWire is a spacecraft communication network based in part on the IEEE 1355 standard of communications. It is coordinated by the European Space Agency (ESA) in collaboration with international space agencies including NASA, JAXA, and RKA. Within a SpaceWire network the nodes are connected through low-cost, low-lat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARGET%20%28CAD%20software%29
TARGET 3001! is a CAD computer program for EDA and PCB design, developed by Ing.-Büro Friedrich in Germany. It supports the design of electronic schematics, PCBs, and device front panels. It runs under Windows and is available in English, German and French. A special branch of the program is the ASIC Designer, which a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerLinux
PowerLinux is the combination of a Linux-based operating system (OS) running on PowerPC- or Power ISA-based computers from IBM. It is often used in reference along with Linux on Power, and is also the name of several Linux-only IBM Power Systems. IBM and Linux In the late 1990s, IBM began considering the Linux operati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20clipping
In computer graphics, line clipping is the process of removing (clipping) lines or portions of lines outside an area of interest (a viewport or view volume). Typically, any part of a line which is outside of the viewing area is removed. There are two common algorithms for line clipping: Cohen–Sutherland and Liang–Bars...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Milhouse%20Divided
"A Milhouse Divided" is the sixth episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox Network in the United States on December 1, 1996. In the episode, Milhouse's parents Kirk and Luann get a divorce, causing Homer to examine his own marriage. It was dire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava%20%28programming%20language%29
Lava is an experimental, visual object-oriented, interpreter-based programming language with an associated programming environment (Lava Programming Environment or LavaPE) that uses structure editors instead of text editors. Only comments, constants, and new identifiers may be entered as text. Declarations are represe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos%20approximation
In mathematics, the Lanczos approximation is a method for computing the gamma function numerically, published by Cornelius Lanczos in 1964. It is a practical alternative to the more popular Stirling's approximation for calculating the gamma function with fixed precision. Introduction The Lanczos approximation consists...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition%20%28database%29
A partition is a division of a logical database or its constituent elements into distinct independent parts. Database partitioning is normally done for manageability, performance or availability reasons, or for load balancing. It is popular in distributed database management systems, where each partition may be spread ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20Villasante
Jesús Villasante is the head Net Innovation Unit of the Communications Networks, Content and Technology (Connect) Directorate General in the European Commission. He read Telecommunications Engineering at the Technical University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain and later obtained a master's degree in Public Management from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Active%20Accessibility
Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) is an application programming interface (API) for user interface accessibility. MSAA was introduced as a platform add-on to Microsoft Windows 95 in 1997. MSAA is designed to help Assistive Technology (AT) products interact with standard and custom user interface (UI) elements of an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAZA-TV
KAZA-TV (channel 54) is a television station licensed to Avalon, California, United States, serving the Los Angeles area as an owned-and-operated station of the classic television network MeTV. It is owned by Weigel Broadcasting alongside Bishop-licensed KVME-TV (channel 20) and low-power Class A MeTV+ station KHTV-CD ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Parent%20Rap
"The Parent Rap" is the second episode and official premiere of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 11, 2001. In the episode, Bart and his father, Homer, are sentenced by the cruel judge Constance Harm to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Decent%20Proposal
"Half-Decent Proposal" is the tenth episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 10, 2002. In the episode, Homer's snoring interferes with Marge's sleep. To earn money to cure Homer's snoring, Marge agrees to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20interface
The air interface, or access mode, is the communication link between the two stations in mobile or wireless communication. The air interface involves both the physical and data link layers (layer 1 and 2) of the OSI model for a connection. Physical Layer The physical connection of an air interface is generally radio-b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukernel
NuKernel is a microkernel which was developed at Apple Computer during the early 1990s. Written from scratch and designed using concepts from the Mach 3.0 microkernel, with extensive additions for soft real-time scheduling to improve multimedia performance, it was the basis for the Copland operating system. Only one Nu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20join
The hash join is an example of a join algorithm and is used in the implementation of a relational database management system. All variants of hash join algorithms involve building hash tables from the tuples of one or both of the joined relations, and subsequently probing those tables so that only tuples with the same ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%203
Ring 3 may refer to: Ring III, a road in Helsinki region, Finland Ring 3 (Oslo), a road Norway Ring 3 (computer security) See also Three-ring (disambiguation) Third Ring Road (disambiguation) Ring Ring Ring (disambiguation) Ring (disambiguation) Loop (novel), the third Ring novel Rings (2017 film), third fil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skool%20Daze
Skool Daze is a computer game released by Microsphere in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 home computers. It was written by David Reidy, with graphics designed by Keith Warrington. The game was commercially and critically successful, and praised for its original concept. It has since been regarded as one of th...