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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus%20Jazz
Lotus Jazz is an integrated suite of word processor, spreadsheet, database, graphics, and communication software designed for the Macintosh 512K. The name evokes a group of musicians who together create something larger than each of the individual players. It was released in 1985 and retailed for . The Lotus 1-2-3 spr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche%20%28P2P%29
Avalanche is the name of a proposed peer-to-peer (P2P) network created by Pablo Rodriguez and Christos Gkantsidis at Microsoft, which claims to offer improved scalability and bandwidth efficiency compared to existing P2P systems. The proposed system works in a similar way to BitTorrent, but aims to improve some of its...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundJam%20MP
SoundJam MP is a discontinued MP3 player for classic Mac OS-compatible computers and Rio-compatible hardware synchronization manager that was released in July 1999 and was available until June 2001. Jeff Robbin and Bill Kincaid developed SoundJam MP with assistance from Dave Heller. Robbin and Kincaid chose Casady & Gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIEIO
EIEIO may refer to: The refrain to the children's song, "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O, a machine instruction used on the PowerPC computer processor Computer bought the farm, an error message with symbol EIEIO, from the GNU Hurd operating system EIEIO, the Enhanced Implementation of E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal%20%28typeface%29
Charcoal is a sans-serif typeface designed by David Berlow of Font Bureau during the period 1994–1997. Charcoal was the default menu font in Apple Computer's Mac OS 8 and 9, replacing the comparatively harder-to-read Chicago as part of the new Platinum interface. In Mac OS X developer preview 3, it was replaced with Lu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Man%20Band%20%28film%29
One Man Band is a 2005 Pixar computer-animated short musical comedy film. It premiered at the 29th Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France, and won the Platinum Grand Prize at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy. It was shown with the theatrical release of Cars. It was written and directed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20SSEC
The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) was an electromechanical computer built by IBM. Its design was started in late 1944 and it operated from January 1948 to August 1952. It had many of the features of a stored-program computer, and was the first operational machine able to treat its instructions as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Cloud
Kevin Cloud is an American video game artist. He graduated from LSU-Shreveport in 1987 with a degree in political science. Cloud acquired his first full-time job as a computer artist at Softdisk in 1985. He was hired by id Software on March 10, 1992 to work as an assistant artist to lead artist Adrian Carmack, where he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20Metro
The Dubai Metro () is a rapid transit rail network in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is currently operated by a consortium of the French company, Keolis, and Japanese Company, MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), as Keolis-MHI. The Red Line and Green Line are operational, with a major 15 km (9.3 mi) extens...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRL%20Group
CRL Group plc was a British video game development and publishing company. Originally CRL stood for "Computer Rentals Limited". It was based in King's Yard, London and run by Clem Chambers. They released a number of notable adventure games based on horror stories. Dracula and Frankenstein were rated 15 certificate by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastiraki%20metro%20station
Monastiraki (, ) is an interchange station on the Athens Metro, between Lines 1 and 3. The original surface station on Line 1 opened on 17 May 1895. It became an interchange point of the network when the underground station of Line 3 opened on 22 April 2003. It is located in the historic center of Athens, near the neig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care%20Net
Care Net is an evangelical Christian network of crisis pregnancy centers operating primarily in the United States. As an anti-abortion organization, its centers seek to persuade women not to have abortions. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, it is one of the nation's two largest networks of crisis pregnancy centers (a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp%20Lazlo
Camp Lazlo is an American animated television series created by Joe Murray for Cartoon Network. The series follows Lazlo, an anthropomorphic spider monkey that goes to a camp called "Camp Kidney", a Boy Scout-like summer camp in Pimpleback Mountains. Lazlo resides in the "Jelly Bean" cabin with his fellow Bean Scouts; ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HanbitSoft
HanbitSoft () is a Korean computer game publishing and development company. It is best known internationally as the Korean distributor for the successful computer game StarCraft. Formed in 1999, HanbitSoft specializes in the distribution of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs) to Eastern Asian coun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Indonesia
The majority of Indonesia's railways are on Java, used for both passenger and freight transport. There are three noncontinuous railway networks in Sumatra (Aceh and North Sumatra; West Sumatra; South Sumatra and Lampung) while two new networks are being developed in Kalimantan and Sulawesi. Indonesia has finalized its ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esc%20key
On computer keyboards, the Esc key (named Escape key in the international standard series ISO/IEC 9995) is a key used to generate the escape character (which can be represented as ASCII code 27 in decimal, Unicode U+001B, or ). The escape character, when sent from the keyboard to a computer, often is interpreted by so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy%20disk%20format
Floppy disk format and density refer to the logical and physical layout of data stored on a floppy disk. Since their introduction, there have been many popular and rare floppy disk types, densities, and formats used in computing, leading to much confusion over their differences. In the early 2000s, most floppy disk t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fishes%20of%20Minnesota
There are about 123 species of fishes found naturally in Minnesota waters, including Lake Superior. The following list is based on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The species data on this page is taken from the Minnesota DNR, which also uses several labels to indicate a fish's status within Minnesota wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transurban
Transurban is a road operator company that manages and develops urban toll road networks in Australia, Canada and the United States. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Transurban is the full owner of CityLink in Melbourne, which connects three of the city's major freeways. When Transurban was fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Teen%20Titans%20%28TV%20series%29%20characters
This is a list of major and minor characters featured in the Cartoon Network and Kids' WB animated series Teen Titans. Overview Primary Teen Titans Robin Voiced by: Scott Menville Robin is the leader of the Teen Titans. Despite lacking superpowers, he is fierce and highly disciplined with heroic virtues based on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational%20impedance%20mismatch
Object–relational impedance mismatch creates difficulties going from data in relational data stores (relational database management system [“RDBMS”]) to usage in domain-driven object models. Object-orientation (OO) is the default method for business-centric design in programming languages. The problem lies in neither r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHC%20Heavyweight%20Championship
The is the professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion CyberFight currently defended in the Pro Wrestling Noah brand division. It is one of CyberFight's two top men's world titles, alongside the KO-D Openweight Championship in DDT Pro-Wrestling. The title was a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StatSoft
StatSoft is the original developer of Statistica. Dell acquired it in March 2014. Statistica is an analytics software portfolio that provides enterprise and desktop software for statistics, data analysis, data management, data visualization, data mining, which is also called predictive analytics, and quality control. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Dragoon
The Legend of Dragoon is a role-playing video game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1999 in Japan, 2000 in North America, and 2001 in Europe. Set in a high fantasy fictional world called Endiness, the game follows a group of warriors led by the protagonist, D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornlie%20railway%20station
Thornlie railway station is on the Transperth network. It is the terminus of the Thornlie line, a spur of the Armadale Line, from Perth Station serving the suburb of Thornlie, Western Australia. Under construction is the Thornlie-Cockburn Link which will link to Cockburn Central railway station along the Mandurah line...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCEUX
FCEUX is an open-source Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer Disk System emulator. It is a merger of various forks of FCE Ultra. Multiplayer support The Win32 and SDL versions of FCEUX do not currently support TCP/IP network play functionality, as they do not support controllers. Ports An integrated GTK...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandurah%20line
The Mandurah line is a commuter railway and service on the Transperth network in Western Australia that runs from Perth south to the state's second largest city Mandurah. The service is operated by Transperth Train Operations, a division of the Public Transport Authority. The line is long and has 12 stations. At its n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript%20for%20XML
ECMAScript for XML (E4X) is the standard ISO/IEC 22537:2006 programming language extension that adds native XML support to ECMAScript (which includes ActionScript, JavaScript, and JScript). The goal is to provide an alternative to DOM interfaces that uses a simpler syntax for accessing XML documents. It also offers a n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain%20old%20Java%20object
In software engineering, a plain old Java object (POJO) is an ordinary Java object, not bound by any special restriction. The term was coined by Martin Fowler, Rebecca Parsons and Josh MacKenzie in September 2000: "We wondered why people were so against using regular objects in their systems and concluded that it was b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic%20Design
Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), is an American game company. It was founded in 1992 as Several Dudes Holistic Gaming. The company has developed many computer games in its history, including Battles of Destiny, Hammer of the Gods, Final Liberation, Merchant Prince series, Emperor of the Fading Suns, and Mall Tycoon. HDI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penarth%20railway%20station
Penarth railway station is the railway station serving the town of Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is the terminus of Network Rail's Penarth branch running from Cogan Junction to Penarth station, from the junction and south of station. The Penarth branch ran from Cogan Junction to Biglis Junction, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone%20%28data%20page%29
This page provides supplementary chemical data on acetone. Material Safety Data Sheet The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommended that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source and follow its directions. Mallinckrodt Bake...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened%20Sound%20Daemon
In computing, the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD or EsounD) was the sound server for Enlightenment and GNOME. Esound is a small sound daemon for both Linux and UNIX. ESD was created to provide a consistent and simple interface to the audio device, so applications do not need to have different driver support written per ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Star%20Horizon
The North Star Horizon was a popular 8-bit S-100 bus computer introduced in October 1977. Like most S-100 machines of the era, it was built around the Zilog Z80A microprocessor, and typically ran the CP/M operating system. It was produced by North Star Computers, and it could be purchased either in kit form or pre-asse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megazone%2023
is a three-part Japanese cyberpunk original video animation created by Noboru Ishiguro, written by Hiroyuki Hoshiyama and Emu Arii, and directed by Ishiguro, Ichiro Itano, Kenichi Yatagai, and Shinji Aramaki. The series debuted in 1985. It was originally titled but the title was changed just before release. The story...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent%20pointer%20tree
In computer science, an in-tree or parent pointer tree is an -ary tree data structure in which each node has a pointer to its parent node, but no pointers to child nodes. When used to implement a set of stacks, the structure is called a spaghetti stack, cactus stack or sahuaro stack (after the sahuaro, a kind of cactus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnucDNA
GnucDNA was a software library for building peer-to-peer applications. It provides developers with a common layer to create their own Gnutella or Gnutella2 client or network. As a separate component, GnucDNA can be updated independently of the client, passing down improvements to the applications already using it. Gen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSSE%20project
The Portable Open Source Security Elements (POSSE) project was a co-operative venture between the University of Pennsylvania Distributed Systems Laboratory, the OpenBSD project and others. It received funding through a grant from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The project's goal wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEA%20NXT
In cryptography, the IDEA NXT algorithm (previously known as FOX) is a block cipher designed by Pascal Junod and Serge Vaudenay of EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). It was conceived between 2001 and 2003. The project was originally named FOX and was published in 2003. In May 2005, it was announced by MediaCrypt under the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20channels%20in%20Italy
This is a list of national Italian TV services available on digital terrestrial, satellite, cable systems in Italy. Some channels have a "timeshift" service, i.e. the same programming (and usually advertisements as well) broadcast one or two hours later to give viewers another chance to catch a favourite programme. On...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamus
Shamus may refer to: Shamus (video game), a 1982 computer game from Synapse Software Shamus (film), a 1973 film starring Burt Reynolds Shamus Wong, a character from the children's book Tracey McBean Colloquial term for a private detective People Shamus Culhane (1908–1996), American animator, film director and pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitorial
Wikitorial is a term coined by the Los Angeles Times to describe a traditional editorial that can be edited in the fashion of a wiki (computer software that allows users to edit text and make changes to one document). On June 17, 2005, the Los Angeles Times wrote the first Wikitorial, entitled War and Consequences, on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Heusaff
Alan Heusaff, also Alan Heussaff (23 July 1921 in Saint-Yvi, Finistère – 3 November 1999 in Galway) was a Breton nationalist, linguist, dictionary compiler, prolific journalist and lifetime campaigner for solidarity between the Celtic peoples. A co-founder of the Celtic League in 1961, he was its first general secretar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Real%20Time
Discovery Real Time was a British television channel owned by Discovery Networks UK focused on educational and learning content. History It was originally launched on 9 March 1992 as The Learning Channel, United Kingdom's version of the American television network of the same name as a daytime service from Intelsat, m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20P.%20Carrell
James P. Carrell (February 13, 1787 – October 28, 1854), of Lebanon, Virginia, was a minister, singing teacher, composer and songbook compiler. He compiled two songbooks in the four-shape shape note tradition. Musical compilations Carrell's Songs of Zion was a small book of 64 pages, printed by Ananias Davisson in Ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNEM-TV
WNEM-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Bay City, Michigan, United States, serving northeastern Michigan as a dual affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Gray Television, the station maintains studios on North Franklin Street in downtown Saginaw, with a second newsroom in downtown Flint. Its transmi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%20Katz
Sol Katz (August 3, 1947 – April 23, 1999) was an American software developer who pioneered geospatial computer software (a sub-category of GIS) and left behind a large body of work in the form of computer applications and format specifications while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early archive provided bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet%20Parr
Violet Parr is a fictional character who appears in Pixar's computer-animated superhero film The Incredibles (2004) and its sequel Incredibles 2 (2018). The eldest child and only daughter of Bob and Helen Parr (Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl), Violet is born with the superhuman ability to render herself invisible, as we...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUNMOS
SUNMOS (Sandia/UNM Operating System) is an operating system jointly developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico. The goal of the project, started in 1991, is to develop a highly portable, yet efficient, operating system for massively parallel-distributed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20Audio%20Recognition%20Framework
Modular Audio Recognition Framework (MARF) is an open-source research platform and a collection of voice, sound, speech, text and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms written in Java and arranged into a modular and extensible framework that attempts to facilitate addition of new algorithms. MARF may act as a li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20Crimson
The IRIS Crimson (code-named Diehard2) is a Silicon Graphics (SGI) computer released in 1992. It is the world's first 64-bit workstation. Crimson is a member of Silicon Graphics's SGI IRIS 4D series of deskside systems; it is also known as the 4D/510 workstation. It is similar to other SGI IRIS 4D deskside workstation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn%20Engquist
Björn Engquist (also Bjorn Engquist; born 2 June 1945 in Stockholm) has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and scientific computing, and a productive educator of applied mathematicians. Life He received his PhD in numerical analysis from University of Uppsala in 1975, and taught there duri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Otto%20Kreiss
Heinz-Otto Kreiss (14 September 1930 – 16 December 2015) was a German mathematician in the fields of numerical analysis, applied mathematics, and what was the new area of computing in the early 1960s. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he earned his Ph.D. at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in 1959. Over the course of his long caree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICSE
ICSE may refer to: International Conference on Software Engineering Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Public-Access%20Computer%20Systems%20Review
The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (PACS Review) was an open access journal about end-user computer systems in libraries. Established in 1989, the journal ceased operation in 2000. During its nine years of publication, PACS Review published 42 issues that included 112 articles, columns, reviews, and editorial...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20by%20North%20Quahog
"North by North Quahog" is the fourth season premiere of the animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 1, 2005, though it had premiered three days earlier at a special screening at the University of Vermont, Burlington. In the episode, Peter and Lois go on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixminion
Mixminion is the standard implementation of the Type III anonymous remailer protocol. Mixminion can send and receive anonymous e-mail. Mixminion uses a mix network architecture to provide strong anonymity, and prevent eavesdroppers and other attackers from linking senders and recipients. Volunteers run servers (called...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimetric
Antimetric may refer to: Antimetric (electrical networks) of a network that exhibits anti-symmetrical electrical properties Antimetric matrix, a matrix equal to its negative transpose Antimetrication, a position opposed to the use of the metric system of measurements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSharing%20Network
The FreeSharing Network was an international free recycling network that redistributes unwanted usable items by making them available free via a network of locally managed internet mailing lists. FreeSharing.org was created on February 8, 2005 as an alternative to the existing The Freecycle Network. At the time severa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.323%20Gatekeeper
An H.323 Gatekeeper serves the purpose of Call Admission Control and translation services from E.164 IDs (commonly a phone number) to IP addresses in an H.323 telephony network. Gatekeepers can be combined with a gateway function to proxy H.323 calls and are sometimes referred to as session border controllers (SBC). A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasan%20Keshav
Srinivasan Keshav is an American-Canadian Computer Scientist of Indian descent who is currently the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. Biography After undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1986, he received his PhD in 1991 from the University of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon%20Rivero%20%28animator%29
Ramon Rivero is an animation director, digital puppeteer and computer animator best known for his work on the 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Born in Mexico, he started his animation career in the 1980s as puppeteer, puppet maker and set designer for the TV show Titeradas, screened in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP%20global%20synchronization
TCP global synchronization in computer networks can happen to TCP/IP flows during periods of congestion because each sender will reduce their transmission rate at the same time when packet loss occurs. Routers on the Internet normally have packet queues, to allow them to hold packets when the network is busy, rather t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky
Hacky can refer to: A hack: inelegant improvisation of computer code Hačky, a Czech village See also Hacky sack (footbag)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-Cassette
The Mini-Cassette, often written minicassette, is a magnetic tape audio cassette format introduced by Philips in 1967. It is used primarily in dictation machines and was also employed as a data storage for the Philips P2000 home computer. As of August 2021, Phillips still produces mini-cassette players along with new ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressnet
Expressnet is an interbank network connecting the ATM networks of seven major banks in the Philippines. It has the second-largest number of ATMs (largely due to the vast nationwide presence of Bank of the Philippine Islands Express Teller ATMs) and the smallest number of customers and member banks. However, its stren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDA
QDA may refer to: Qualitative Data Analysis as used in qualitative research Quadratic discriminant analysis as used in statistical classification or as a quadratic classifier in machine learning The .QDA filename extension, used for Quadruple D archives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Data%20Transport
Real Data Transport (RDT) is a proprietary transport protocol for the actual audio-video data, developed by RealNetworks in the 1990s. It is commonly used in companion with a control protocol for streaming media like the IETF's Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). A non-proprietary alternative for RDT is IETF's Real-t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BancNet
BancNet (also spelled Bancnet) is a Philippine-based interbank network connecting the ATM networks of local and offshore banks, and the country's single interbank network in the Philippines in terms of the number of member banks and annual transactions. Due to its status as the country's single ATM switch operator, it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%20the%20Action%20Is
Where the Action Is is a music-based television variety show that aired in the United States from 1965 to 1967. It was carried by the ABC network and aired each weekday afternoon. Created by Dick Clark as a spin-off of American Bandstand, Where the Action Is premiered on June 28, 1965. The show was another step in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order%20cybernetics
Second-order cybernetics, also known as the cybernetics of cybernetics, is the recursive application of cybernetics to itself and the reflexive practice of cybernetics according to such a critique. It is cybernetics where "the role of the observer is appreciated and acknowledged rather than disguised, as had become tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawk
Gawk or gawking may refer to: gawk (GNU package), the GNU implementation of the AWK programming language Rubbernecking, openly staring at someone or something, look steadily, gaze. Gawk or gock, a type of rimshot in percussion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTLA
KTLA (channel 5) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of The CW Television Network. It is the largest directly owned property of the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is the second-largest operated property after WPIX in New York City. KT...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20World%20Computing
New World Computing, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1984 by Jon Van Caneghem, his wife, Michaela Van Caneghem, and Mark Caldwell. It was best known for its work on the Might and Magic role-playing video game series and its spin-offs, especially Heroes of Might and Magic. The company ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Van%20Caneghem
Jon Van Caneghem (born 1962/1963) is an American video game director, designer and producer. He is best known for launching development studio New World Computing in 1983, making his design debut in 1986 with Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum. During the company's 20-year lifespan, Van Caneghem ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Digital%20Networks
Discovery Digital Networks was a San Francisco based multi-channel Internet television and digital cable network that created, produced and distributed streaming television shows on niche topics. It was sold by Discovery Communications into Group Nine Media in December 2016 and, as such, no longer exists. Discovery Di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batcher%20odd%E2%80%93even%20mergesort
Batcher's odd–even mergesort is a generic construction devised by Ken Batcher for sorting networks of size O(n (log n)2) and depth O((log n)2), where n is the number of items to be sorted. Although it is not asymptotically optimal, Knuth concluded in 1998, with respect to the AKS network that "Batcher's method is much ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Partnership%20for%20Africa%27s%20Development%20E-School%20Program
The New Partnership for Africa's Development E-School Program is included as a means to provide ICT equipment such as computers and internet access to all schools in member nations within The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) program. NEPAD parents the E-School Program and is an economic program that aim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elements%20of%20Programming%20Style
The Elements of Programming Style, by Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger, is a study of programming style, advocating the notion that computer programs should be written not only to satisfy the compiler or personal programming "style", but also for "readability" by humans, specifically software maintenance engineers,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape%20Escape%3A%20Pumped%20%26%20Primed
Ape Escape: Pumped and Primed, known in Japan as , is a video game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan and Ubisoft in North America exclusively for PlayStation 2. It is the fourth title in the Ape Escape franchise. It was never released in Europe, despite being advertised in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISN
The initials ISN can stand for: Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, in the U.S. Department of State Intel Software Network International Relations and Security Network International Socialist Network International Society for Neurochemistry International Society of Nephrology International Su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPAZ-TV
KPAZ-TV (channel 21) is a religious television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located atop South Mountain on the city's south side. Channel 21 in Phoenix was built by Spanish Language Television of Arizona, Inc., an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8%20Out%20of%2010%20Cats
8 Out of 10 Cats is a British comedy panel show broadcast on Channel 4 and its sister networks, airing since 3 June 2005. The show is hosted by Jimmy Carr; the current team captains are Rob Beckett and Katherine Ryan. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls and draws on polls produced by a variety of organis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Eubanks
Gordon Edwin Eubanks, Jr. (born November 7, 1946) is an American microcomputer industry pioneer who worked with Gary Kildall in the early days of Digital Research (DRI). Eubanks attended Oklahoma State University, where he was involved as a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Scott Kildall was his graduate thesis adv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20movie
The term midnight movie is rooted in the practice that emerged in the 1950s of local television stations around the United States airing low-budget genre films as late-night programming, often with a host delivering ironic asides. As a cinematic phenomenon, the midnight screening of offbeat movies began in the early 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO-OPN
The CO-OPN (Concurrent Object-Oriented Petri Nets) specification language is based on both algebraic specifications and algebraic Petri nets formalisms. The former formalism represent the data structures aspects, while the latter stands for the behavioral and concurrent aspects of systems. In order to deal with large s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotelevisiun%20Svizra%20Rumantscha
Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha (RTR, ), formerly known as Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha (), is a Swiss broadcasting company (part of SRG SSR) which offers programming to Romansh-speakers in Switzerland and around the world. History The first radio program in Romansh was broadcast on 17 January 1925. The person res...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20interval%20%28data%20transmission%29
The unit interval is the minimum time interval between condition changes of a data transmission signal, also known as the pulse time or symbol duration time. A unit interval (UI) is the time taken in a data stream by each subsequent pulse (or symbol). When UI is used as a measurement unit of a time interval, the resul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP%20phone
A VoIP phone or IP phone uses voice over IP technologies for placing and transmitting telephone calls over an IP network, such as the Internet. This is in contrast to a standard phone which uses the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN). Digital IP-based telephone service uses control protocols such as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeletion
Undeletion is a feature for restoring computer files which have been removed from a file system by file deletion. Deleted data can be recovered on many file systems, but not all file systems provide an undeletion feature. Recovering data without an undeletion facility is usually called data recovery, rather than unde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Docks%20railway%20station
Barry Docks Railway Station is one of three railway stations serving the town of Barry, South Wales. Rail passenger services are operated by Transport for Wales as part of the Valley Lines network. More centrally located than Barry station, it is located on the Cardiff Central - Barry Island branch, south of Cardiff ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPMI
IPMI may refer to: Information Processing in Medical Imaging, a medical imaging conference Intelligent Platform Management Interface, in computing Ivey Purchasing Managers Index, in economics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20the%20Iconoclast
"Lisa the Iconoclast" is the sixteenth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 18, 1996. In this episode, Lisa writes an essay on Springfield founder Jebediah Springfield for the town's bicentennial. W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRoC
The Kent Retargetable occam Compiler (KRoC), is computer software, an implementation of the programming language occam, that is based on the Inmos occam 2.1 compiler as a front-end and a retargetable back-end to produce machine code for various microprocessors. Ports of the compiler have been made for PowerPC, SPARC, x...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam-%CF%80
In computer science, occam-π (or occam-pi) is the name of a variant of the programming language occam developed by the Kent Retargetable occam Compiler (KRoC) team at the University of Kent. The name reflects the introduction of elements of π-calculus (pi-calculus) into occam, especially concepts involving mobile agent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homie%20the%20Clown
"Homie the Clown" is the fifteenth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 12, 1995. In the episode, Homer becomes a Krusty the Clown impersonator, but is mistaken for the real Krusty by the Springfield ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWar
iWar is the term used by NATO to describe a form of Internet-based warfare. iWar comparisons iWar is distinct in that information warfare pertains to issues of intelligence, whereas cyber-warfare and cyber-terrorism pertain to issues of extelligence. These refer to degrees of sensitivity in military and infrastructure...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistica
Statistica is an advanced analytics software package originally developed by StatSoft and currently maintained by TIBCO Software Inc. Statistica provides data analysis, data management, statistics, data mining, machine learning, text analytics and data visualization procedures. Overview Statistica is a suite of analy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GENESIS
GENESIS is a project maintained by the Women's Library at London Metropolitan University. It provides an online database and a list of sources with an intent to support research into women's history. Database The database consists of descriptions of women's history collections from sources in the UK. Guide to Sour...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBDO
BBDO is a worldwide advertising agency network, with its headquarters in New York City. The agency originated in 1891 with the George Batten Company, and in 1928, through a merger with Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BDO), the agency became Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. With more than 15,000 employees at 289 offices in...