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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN
EARN or Earn may refer to: EARN European Academic and Research Network, a defunct computer networking organisation succeeded by TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association) Economic Analysis and Research Network, a nationwide (U.S.) network of state and local organizations affiliated with th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20admission%20control
Call admission control (CAC) is a form of admission control that prevents or mitigates oversubscription of VoIP networks. CAC is used in the call set-up phase and applies to real-time media traffic as opposed to data traffic. CAC mechanisms complement and are distinct from the capabilities of quality of service tools t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAF
WAF, or waf, may refer to: Computing Waf, a software build system written in the Python programming language Web application firewall, a proxy device with protocol awareness of HTTP Web application framework, a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, Web applications and Web...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF%20Schema
RDF Schema (Resource Description Framework Schema, variously abbreviated as RDFS, , RDF-S, or RDF/S) is a set of classes with certain properties using the RDF extensible knowledge representation data model, providing basic elements for the description of ontologies. It uses various forms of RDF vocabularies, intended t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython
CPython is the reference implementation of the Python programming language. Written in C and Python, CPython is the default and most widely used implementation of the Python language. CPython can be defined as both an interpreter and a compiler as it compiles Python code into bytecode before interpreting it. It has a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual%20Speech%20Quality%20Measure
Perceptual Speech Quality Measure (PSQM) is a computational and modeling algorithm defined in Recommendation ITU-T P.861 that objectively evaluates and quantifies voice quality of voice-band (300 – 3400 Hz) speech codecs. It may be used to rank the performance of these speech codecs with differing speech input levels, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTV%20%28Family%20Guy%29
"PTV" is the fourteenth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 6, 2005. The episode sees the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) censor the shows on television after a controversial wardrobe malfunc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBT
DBT may refer to: Danish Board of Technology, a technology assessment institution in Denmark data build tool (dbt), a data analytics tool DBT (gene) DBT Online Inc. a US data mining company Department for Business and Trade, United Kingdom Department of Biotechnology, India .dbt, the extension of a DBase file f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument-dependent%20name%20lookup
In the C++ programming language, argument-dependent lookup (ADL), or argument-dependent name lookup, applies to the lookup of an unqualified function name depending on the types of the arguments given to the function call. This behavior is also known as Koenig lookup, as it is often attributed to Andrew Koenig, though ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph%20kernel
Aleph is a discontinued operating system kernel developed at the University of Rochester as part of their Rochester's Intelligent Gateway (RIG) project in 1975. Aleph was an early step on the road to the creation of the first practical microkernel operating system, Mach. Aleph used inter-process communications to move...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilevisi%C3%B3n
Chilevisión (often abbreviated as CHV) is a Chilean free-to-air television channel. It is the third oldest Chilean television network, owned by Paramount Networks Americas, being founded by the University of Chile on November 4, 1960. History Origins When the Institute for Electrical Research and Testing of the Facu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRXI-TV
KRXI-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to primary sports-formatted independent station and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate KNSN-TV (channel 21, owned by Deerfield Media) and NB...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility%20computing
Utility computing, or computer utility, is a service provisioning model in which a service provider makes computing resources and infrastructure management available to the customer as needed, and charges them for specific usage rather than a flat rate. Like other types of on-demand computing (such as grid computing),...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20Showdown
Hollywood Showdown is an American game show that aired on both PAX TV and Game Show Network from January to June 2000, then returned solely to GSN on January 1, 2001 and ran until March 30 of that year. Reruns aired on GSN again from September 2004 to April 2005 plus June 2006 and June 2007 on TV Guide Network. Todd Ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti%20Pegasus
Pegasus was an early British vacuum-tube (valve) computer built by Ferranti, Ltd that pioneered design features to make life easier for both engineers and programmers. Originally it was named the Ferranti Package Computer as its hardware design followed that of the Elliott 401 with modular plug-in packages. Much of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20audit%20tools
Computer-assisted audit tool (CAATs) or computer-assisted audit tools and techniques (CAATTs) is a growing field within the IT audit profession. CAATs is the practice of using computers to automate the IT audit processes. CAATs normally include using basic office productivity software such as spreadsheets, word process...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201999
The 41st Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 11 April 1999 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Andrew Denton, and guests included Isaac Hayes, Kevin Sorbo, Kathy Griffin, Portia De Rossi and Trudie Goodwin. Winners and nominees In the tables bel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Pascal%20and%20C
The computer programming languages C and Pascal have similar times of origin, influences, and purposes. Both were used to design (and compile) their own compilers early in their lifetimes. The original Pascal definition appeared in 1969 and a first compiler in 1970. The first version of C appeared in 1972. Both are de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26E%20Networks
{{Infobox company | name = A&E Television Networks, LLC | logo = A+E Networks 2017.svg | type = Joint venture | founded = | hq_location_city = New York City, New York | hq_location_country = United States | key_people = | industry = Mass media | products = Home videofilms | services = Broadcasting & Cable TV | equity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20ABC%20%28Australian%20TV%20network%29
This is a list of television programmes that are currently being broadcast or have been broadcast on ABC Television's ABC TV (formerly ABC1), ABC TV Plus (formerly ABC2 and ABC Comedy), ABC Kids (formerly ABC 4 Kids), ABC Me (formerly ABC3) or ABC News (formerly ABC News 24) in Australia. Current programming Domestic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prewitt%20operator
The Prewitt operator is used in image processing, particularly within edge detection algorithms. Technically, it is a discrete differentiation operator, computing an approximation of the gradient of the image intensity function. At each point in the image, the result of the Prewitt operator is either the corresponding...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOL%20TV
GOL TV is an American TV sports channel dedicated to soccer owned by GOLTV Inc., based in North Bay Village, Florida. The network broadcasts Portugal Primeira Liga, Paraguayan Primera División, Uruguayan Primera División, Chilean Primera División and Ecuadorian Serie A matches. The network was among the first which st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogMeIn%20Hamachi
LogMeIn Hamachi is a virtual private network (VPN) application developed and released in 2004 by Alex Pankratov. It is capable of establishing direct links between computers that are behind network address translation (NAT) firewalls without requiring reconfiguration (when the user's PC can be accessed directly without...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21%20Music
Yahoo! Music was a brand under which Yahoo! provided a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming. Previously, users with Yahoo! accounts could gain access to hundreds of thousands of songs sorted by artist, album, song and genre. History Yaho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitzky%E2%80%93Golay%20filter
A Savitzky–Golay filter is a digital filter that can be applied to a set of digital data points for the purpose of smoothing the data, that is, to increase the precision of the data without distorting the signal tendency. This is achieved, in a process known as convolution, by fitting successive sub-sets of adjacent da...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change%20management%20auditing
Change management auditing is the process by which companies can effectively manage change within their information technology systems. Changes to computer software must be monitored in order to reduce the risk of data loss, corruption, malware, errors, and security breaches. Change risks Proper change control auditin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Data%20Communications%20Message%20Protocol
Digital Data Communications Message Protocol (DDCMP) is a byte-oriented communications protocol devised by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1974 to allow communication over point-to-point network links for the company's DECnet Phase I network protocol suite. The protocol uses full or half duplex synchronous and asynchr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201998
The 40th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 19 April 1998 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Daryl Somers, and guests included Matt LeBlanc, Kathy Najimy, Kenny Rogers and Reba McEntire. Winners and nominees In the tables below, winners are li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20Applications%20Products%20audit
Systems Applications Products audit is an audit of a computer system from SAP to check its security and data integrity. SAP is the acronym for Systems Applications Products. It is a system that provides users with a soft real-time business application. It contains a user interface and is considered very flexible. In an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20audit
Database auditing involves observing a database to be aware of the actions of database users. Database administrators and consultants often set up auditing for security purposes, for example, to ensure that those without the permission to access information do not access it. References Further reading Gallegos, F. C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe%20audit
A mainframe audit is a comprehensive inspection of computer processes, security, and procedures,with recommendations for improvement. Definition of mainframe A mainframe computer is not easy to define. Most people associate a mainframe with a large computer, but mainframes are getting smaller all the time. The terms ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Run
The Millennium Run, or Millennium Simulation (referring to its size) is a computer N-body simulation used to investigate how the distribution of matter in the Universe has evolved over time, in particular, how the observed population of galaxies was formed. It is used by scientists working in physical cosmology to comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Any%20Day%20Now%20%28TV%20series%29
Any Day Now is an American drama series that aired on the Lifetime network from 1998 to 2002. Set in Birmingham, Alabama, Any Day Now explored issues around race and friendship and how they affect the lives of two devoted lifelong friends over the years—from the 1960s to the current day. The show stars Annie Potts and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pane
Pane or Panes may refer to: Paned window (architecture), a window that is divided into sections known as "panes" Paned window (computing), elements of a graphical display Pane (mythology), a type of satyr-like creature from Greek mythology Pane di Altamura, type of bread made from flour from the Altamura area of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance%20TV
Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996. The channel is named after Robert Redford's character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and, while it is an extension of Redford's non-profit Sundance Institute, the channe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20Dark%20Castle
Beyond Dark Castle is a computer game, released for Macintosh in 1987 by Silicon Beach Software. It was designed by Mark Stephen Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay. It is the sequel to Dark Castle, with more levels, monsters and items, as well as a larger game map and longer levels. A second sequel, Return to Dark C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20access
Information access is the freedom or ability to identify, obtain and make use of database or information effectively. There are various research efforts in information access for which the objective is to simplify and make it more effective for human users to access and further process large and unwieldy amounts of d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%20Networks
AMC Networks Inc. is an American entertainment company headquartered in 11 Penn Plaza, New York. AMC Networks owns and operates the eponymous cable channel and its siblings, IFC, We TV, and Sundance TV; the art house movie theater IFC Center in New York City; the independent film companies IFC Films and RLJE Films; th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20L.%20Cook
Robert L. Cook (December 10, 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software. His contributions are considered to be highly influential in the field of animated arts. In 2009, Cook was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for building the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki%20%28disambiguation%29
A wiki (or wiki wiki) is a collaborative website. Wiki or wiki wiki may also refer to the following: Computing and technology .wiki, a generic top-level domain overseen by ICANN PBworks (formerly PBwiki), a commercial real-time collaborative editing (RTCE) system Wiki software, software used to run a wiki website...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Entertainment%20Suppliers
Home Entertainment Suppliers Pty. Ltd. (or HES) is an Australian company that distributes computer games and gaming equipment. HES' offices are based in Riverwood, Sydney. HES's founder and managing director is Sebastian Giompaolo. They began distributing Commodore 64 titles such as Pitfall! in 1982 and Kung-Fu Master...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Shahi
Aahoo Jahansouzshahi (born ), known professionally as Sarah Shahi, is an American actress. She played Billie on Sex/Life, Carmen on The L Word in 2005, Kate Reed in the USA Network legal drama Fairly Legal (2011–2012), and Sameen Shaw on the CBS crime drama Person of Interest (2012–2016). She has also appeared in the m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201997
The 39th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 18 May 1997 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Daryl Somers, and guests included Patrick Stewart, Daniel Davis, Laura Innes, David James Elliott, Michael T. Weiss and Ben Elton. Winners Gold Logie M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Schengili-Roberts
Keith Schengili-Roberts is a long-time author on Internet technologies, beginning with his work for the magazines Toronto Computes! in the early 1990s and then The Computer Paper from the mid-1990s up until 2003. He also currently lectures on Information Architecture at the University of Toronto's iSchool. Previous to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201996
The 38th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday, April 21, 1996, at the Melbourne Park Function Centre in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Daryl Somers, and guests included Gloria Reuben and Holly Hunter. Winners and nominees The nominees for the 38th Logie Awards were a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201995
The 37th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were held on 28 April 1995 at the Melbourne Concert Hall in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Seven Network. The ceremony was hosted by Andrew Daddo and Noni Hazelhurst. Guests included Dean Cain, Mark Curry, Holly Robinson and Big Bird. Nominees and winners Winners are listed first ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSEM
SSEM can refer to: Manchester Baby or Small-Scale Experimental Machine, historic computer South Seas Evangelical Mission, missionary organization in the Solomon Islands Serial-section electron microscopy (ssEM), a form of transmission electron microscopy Abreviación de la Secretaria de Seguridad del Estado de Méxic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren%20Carpenter
Loren C. Carpenter (born February 7, 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer. Biography He was a co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the inventor of the Reyes rendering algorithm and is one of the authors of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software which implements Reyes and re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandersnatch%20%28disambiguation%29
The Bandersnatch is a fictional creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky. Bandersnatch may also refer to: Bandersnatch (video game), a computer game written by Imagine Software and later released as Brataccas Bandersnatch (Known Space), a sluglike sentient creature in Larry Niven's fictional Known Spac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General%20for%20Communications%20Networks%2C%20Content%20and%20Technology
The Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (also called Connect) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission and is responsible for EU investment in research, innovation and development of critical digital technologies (such as Artificial Intelligence, Common Data Spaces, High-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohlig%E2%80%93Hellman%20algorithm
In group theory, the Pohlig–Hellman algorithm, sometimes credited as the Silver–Pohlig–Hellman algorithm, is a special-purpose algorithm for computing discrete logarithms in a finite abelian group whose order is a smooth integer. The algorithm was introduced by Roland Silver, but first published by Stephen Pohlig and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20fraud
Computer fraud is the use of computers, the Internet, Internet devices, and Internet services to defraud people or organizations of resources. In the United States, computer fraud is specifically proscribed by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which criminalizes computer-related acts under federal jurisdiction ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into%20the%20West%20%28miniseries%29
Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks, with six two-hour episodes (including commercials). The series was first broadcast in the U.S. on Turner Network Television (TNT) on six Fridays starting on June 10, 2005. It was also shown in the UK on BBC2 and BBC HD from November 4, 2006...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic%20acid%20%28data%20page%29
This page provides supplementary chemical data on acetic acid. Material Safety Data Sheet The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source and follow its directions. PTCL Safety web...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy%20%28software%29
Synergy is a software application for sharing a keyboard and mouse between multiple computers. It is used in situations where several PCs are used together, with a monitor connected to each, but are to be controlled by one user. The user needs only one keyboard and mouse on the desk — similar to a KVM switch without th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Macintosh%207500
The Power Macintosh 7500 is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from August 1995 to May 1996. The 7500 was introduced alongside the Power Macintosh 7200 and 8500 at the 1995 MacWorld Expo in Boston. Apple referred to these machines collectively as the "Power Surge" line, communicatin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WERS
WERS (88.9 FM) is one of Emerson College's two radio stations (the other being campus station WECB), located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Programming features over 20 different styles of music and news, including live performances and interviews. WERS stands as the oldest non-commercial radio station in Ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazing
Crazing is the phenomenon that produces a network of fine cracks on the surface of a material, for example in a glaze layer. Crazing frequently precedes fracture in some glassy thermoplastic polymers. As it only takes place under tensile stress, the plane of the crazing corresponds to the stress direction. The effect i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytypic
Polytypic means of more than one type. It often refers to: Polytypic function, in computer science Polytypic habitat, in ecology, a habitat not dominated by a single species Polytypic taxon, in biology, a taxon with more than one immediately subordinate taxa See also Polyclonal antibodies Polytypes in crystallog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Dilling
Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick Dilling (April 19, 1894 – April 30, 1966) was an American writer and political activist. In 1934, she published The Red Network—A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, which catalogs over 1,300 suspected communists and their sympathizers. Her books and lecture tours established...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Bollinger
Terry Benton Bollinger (born February 6, 1955, Fredericktown, Missouri) is an American computer scientist who works at the MITRE Corporation. In 2003 he wrote an influential report for the U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. DoD) in which he showed that free and open source software (FOSS) had already become a vital part ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capilano%20University
Capilano University (CapU) is a teaching-focused public university based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located on the slopes of the North Shore Mountains, with programming that also serves the Sea-to-Sky Corridor and the Sunshine Coast. The university is named after Chief Joe Capilano Sa7plek (Sahp-luk)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootVis
BootVis is a Microsoft computer application that allows "PC system designers and software developers" (not aimed at end-users) to check how long a Windows XP machine takes to boot, and then to optimize the boot process, sometimes considerably reducing the time required. BootVis has been replaced with XbootMgr, and is n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Cole
Edwin Cole may refer to: Edwin Louis Cole (1922–2002), founder of the Christian Men's Network Edwin Cole (RAF officer) (1895–?), World War I flying ace Buddy Cole (musician) (Edwin LeMar Cole, 1916–1964), jazz pianist and orchestra leader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XGameStation%20series
The XGameStation is a series of embedded systems, primarily designed as a dedicated home video game console, created by Andre LaMothe and sold by his company Nurve Networks LLC. Originally designed to teach electronics and video game development to programmers, newer models concentrate more on logic design, multi-core ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film%20scanner
A film scanner is a device made for scanning photographic film directly into a computer without the use of any intermediate printmaking. It provides several benefits over using a flatbed scanner to scan in a print of any size: the photographer has direct control over cropping and aspect ratio from the original, unmoles...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UP%20Diliman%20Department%20of%20Computer%20Science
The Department of Computer Science is one of nine departments in the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Engineering. Academic programs The Department of Computer Science administers the four-year bachelor of science in computer science program and the master of science in computer science program. As of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGCSE
SIGCSE is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computer Science Education (CSE), which provides a forum for educators to discuss issues related to the development, implementation, and/or evaluation of computing programs, curricula, and courses, as well as syllabi, laboratories...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadpole%20Computer
Tadpole Computer was a manufacturer of rugged, military specification, UNIX workstations, thin client laptops and lightweight servers. History Tadpole was founded in 1994 and originally based in Cambridge, England, then for a time in Cupertino, California. In 1998, Tadpole acquired RDI Computer Corporation of Carlsba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20%28disambiguation%29
Linux is a family of computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Linux may also refer to: 9885 Linux, an asteroid Linux distribution, an operating system made as a collection of software based on the Linux kernel Linux kernel, an operating system kernel See also List of Linux distributions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min-conflicts%20algorithm
In computer science, the min-conflicts algorithm is a search algorithm or heuristic method to solve constraint satisfaction problems. Given an initial assignment of values to all the variables of a constraint satisfaction problem, the algorithm randomly selects a variable from the set of variables with conflicts viola...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%20bandwidth
Commercial bandwidth is a term for the regular capacity of the telephone network required for intelligible speech. It was defined as 300 to 3,400 hertz, although the modern PSTN is theoretically capable of transmitting from 0 to 7,000 Hz using ISDN. See also DS0 Bandwidth (signal processing) Voice frequency Reference...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna%20%28TV%20series%29
Luna was a British children's science fiction TV comedy show produced by Central Television for the ITV network which ran for two series in 1983 and 1984. The first series was recorded at the former ATV studios in Elstree, the second at their Nottingham facility. Premise Luna was also the name used by the show's two c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20Maestro%21
Mad Maestro!, known in Japan as , is a classical music rhythm game for the PlayStation 2 (PS2). It was developed by Desert Productions and released in Japan by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) and abroad by Eidos Interactive under their "Fresh Games" label on October 11, 2001 in Japan, then later in March 2002 for No...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus%20%28survey%29
An omnibus survey is a method of quantitative marketing research where data on a wide variety of subjects is collected during the same interview. Usually, multiple research clients will provide proprietary content for the survey (paying to 'get on the omnibus'), while sharing the common demographic data collected from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Web%20Start
In computing, Java Web Start (also known as JavaWS, javaws or JAWS) is a deprecated framework developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) that allows users to start application software for the Java Platform directly from the Internet using a web browser. The technology enables seamless version updating for globally dis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20X%20Leopard
Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5) is the sixth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Leopard was released on October 26, 2007 as the successor of Mac OS X Tiger, and is available in two editions: a desktop version suitable for personal computers, and a server version...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot%20gateway
A hotspot gateway is a device that provides authentication, authorization and accounting for a wireless network. This can keep malicious users off of a private network even in the event that they are able to break the encryption. A wireless hotspot gateway helps solve guest user connectivity problems by offering insta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Harvey%27s%20Big%20Time%20Challenge
Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge, also known as Steve Harvey's Big Time and Big Time, is a television variety show that aired on the WB Network from 2003 to 2005, hosted by Steve Harvey. In each episode, performers compete for a $10,000 prize. References External links 2000s American sketch comedy television ser...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian%20Conway
Damian Conway (born 5 October 1964 in Melbourne, Australia) is a computer scientist, a member of the Perl and Raku communities, a public speaker, and the author of several books. Until 2010, he was also an adjunct associate professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Damian completed his B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDOS.SYS
MSDOS.SYS is a system file in MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems. In versions of MS-DOS from 1.1x through 6.22, the file comprises the MS-DOS kernel and is responsible for file access and program management. MSDOS.SYS is loaded by the DOS BIOS IO.SYS as part of the boot procedure. In some OEM versions of MS-DOS, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20production%20engineering
Computer-aided production engineering (CAPE) is a relatively new and significant branch of engineering. Global manufacturing has changed the environment in which goods are produced. Meanwhile, the rapid development of electronics and communication technologies has required design and manufacturing to keep pace. Descr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20%28SQL%29
In SQL, null or NULL is a special marker used to indicate that a data value does not exist in the database. Introduced by the creator of the relational database model, E. F. Codd, SQL null serves to fulfil the requirement that all true relational database management systems (RDBMS) support a representation of "missing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20FM
Word FM may refer to: WORD-FM, a radio station broadcasting on 101.5 FM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA The Word FM, a network of stations in Eastern Pennsylvania, USA, which includes WBYO KWRD-FM, a radio station broadcasting on 100.7 FM in Highland Village, Texas, USA, which is branded as "The Word FM" Word FM (Gha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPMA
DPMA is an acronym that may refer to: Data Processing Management Association, now Association of Information Technology Professionals Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, the German Patent and Trade Mark Office Division de police maritime et aéroportuaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure%20%28novel%29
Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, his ninth under his own name and nineteenth overall, and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional computer hardware manufacturing company. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders and his struggle to prove that he was sexually harassed by his female employer. Summa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit
QuickTransit was a cross-platform virtualization program developed by Transitive Corporation. It allowed software compiled for one specific processor and operating system combination to be executed on a different processor and/or operating system architecture without source code or binary changes. QuickTransit was an ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSM
OSM may refer to: Software and websites OpenStreetMap, an open source project to develop free geographic data OpenStreetMap Foundation, a British non-profit foundation OsmAnd, a map and navigational application for Android and iOS based on data from OpenStreetMap Open Service Mesh, a free and open source cloud nat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCNP
A Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) is a person in the IT industry who has achieved the professional level of Cisco Career Certification. Professional certifications Prior to February 2020 there were approximately eight professional-level certification programs within Cisco Career Certifications. CCDP CC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCNA
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) is an information technology (IT) certification from Cisco Systems. CCNA certification is an associate-level Cisco Career certification. The Cisco exams have changed several times in response to changing IT trends. In 2020, Cisco announced an update to its certification program...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Allen
Laura Allen (born March 21, 1974) is an American actress. She starred as Lily Tyler during the first two seasons of the USA Network television series The 4400. Personal life Allen was born in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of Julie and David Allen. She grew up on Bainbridge Island, Washington, as the middle child of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Rail%20Track%20Corporation
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is an Australian Government-owned statutory corporation. It operates one of the largest rail networks in the nation spanning 8,500km across five states, 39 worksites. ARTC continues to expand the network through major infrastructure projects including Inland Rail, which i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conner%20Peripherals
Conner Peripherals, Inc. (commonly referred to as Conner), was a company that manufactured hard drives for personal computers. Conner Peripherals was founded in 1985 by Seagate Technology co-founder and San Jose State University alumnus Finis Conner (1943– ). In 1986, they merged with CoData, a Colorado start-up founde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20literature
Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature encompassing works created exclusively on and for digital devices, such as computers, tablets, and mobile phones. A work of electronic literature can be defined as "a construction whose literary aesthetics emerge from computation", "work that could on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20Proteome%20Database
The Plant Proteome Database is a National Science Foundation-funded project to determine the biological function of each protein in plants. It includes data for two plants that are widely studied in molecular biology, Arabidopsis thaliana and maize (Zea mays). Initially the project was limited to plant plastids, und...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic%21%20%28video%20game%29
Panic! is a puzzle point and click video game developed by Sega and Office I and published by Sega in Japan and Data East USA in North America for the Sega CD, in collaboration with the Theatrical Group WAHAHA Hompo. It was released on April 23, 1993 in Japan, localized to North America in October 1994, and later relea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20matrix
In biology, the nuclear matrix is the network of fibres found throughout the inside of a cell nucleus after a specific method of chemical extraction. According to some it is somewhat analogous to the cell cytoskeleton. In contrast to the cytoskeleton, however, the nuclear matrix has been proposed to be a dynamic struct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback%20Networks
Redback Networks provided hardware and software used by Internet service providers to manage broadband services. The company's products included the SMS (Subscriber Management System), SmartEdge, and SmartMetro product lines. In January 2007, the company was acquired by Ericsson. History Redback Networks was founded ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford%20High%20Street%20railway%20station
Watford High Street is a railway station in Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. It is served by the Watford DC line on the London Overground network. It is the only station on the line's sole deviation from the West Coast Main Line. History The station was opened by the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway (W&RR) on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FINO
In computer science, FINO is a humorous scheduling algorithm. It is an acronym for first in, never out as opposed to traditional first in, first out (FIFO) and last in, first out (LIFO) algorithms. A similar acronym is "FISH", for first in, still here. FINO works by withholding all scheduled tasks permanently. No mat...