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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provable%20prime
In number theory, a provable prime is an integer that has been calculated to be prime using a primality-proving algorithm. Boot-strapping techniques using Pocklington primality test are the most common ways to generate provable primes for cryptography. Contrast with probable prime, which is likely (but not certain) to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20history%20journals
This list of history journals presents representative notable academic journals pertaining to the field of history and historiography. It includes scholarly journals listed by journal databases and professional associations such as: JSTOR, Project MUSE, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Danylo
Roman Danylo (born in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian comedian, improviser and actor based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. He is best known for his starring role in the CTV Television Network show Comedy Inc. Career As a teen, Danylo ran a weekly sketch review show as a student at Sir Winston Churchill High Scho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Night%20Network
The Blue Night Network is the overnight public transit service operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The network consists of a basic grid of 27 bus and 4 streetcar routes, distributed so that almost all of the city is within 2 km of at least one route. It is the largest and most ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20tape%20library
A virtual tape library (VTL) is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component (usually hard disk storage) as tape libraries or tape drives for use with existing backup software. Virtualizing the disk storage as tape allows integration of V...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Include%20guard
In the C and C++ programming languages, an #include guard, sometimes called a macro guard, header guard or file guard, is a particular construct used to avoid the problem of double inclusion when dealing with the include directive. The C preprocessor processes directives of the form #include <file> in a source file b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEO%20%28Data%20General%29
Comprehensive Electronic Office, often referred to by its initialism CEO, was a suite of office automation software from Data General introduced in 1981. It included word processing, e-mail, spreadsheets, business graphics and desktop accessories. The software was developed mostly in PL/I on and for the AOS and AOS/VS...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy%20Reeb
Troy Reeb (born November 6, 1969) is a Canadian media executive and former journalist who currently serves as executive vice president of broadcast networks for all Corus Entertainment properties, including the Global Television Network. Reeb was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Westlock, Alberta. Career As the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Martin%20Hammer
Michael Martin Hammer (April 13, 1948 – Sept 3, 2008) was a Jewish-American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), known as one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR). Biography Early life an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Core%20%28video%20game%29
Deep Core is a futuristic platform game developed by Dynafield Systems for the Amiga. It was published in 1993 by International Computer Entertainment. Captain Dawnrazer has been sent to save an underwater nuclear research base which has been invaded by strange aliens. Dawnrazer must work himself through nine levels (w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDTV-DT
KDTV-DT (channel 14) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the Spanish-language Univision network outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Vallejo-licensed UniMás outlet KFSF-DT (channel 66). Both stations share stu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official%20Charts%20Company
The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Irela...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NatureServe
NatureServe, Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Arlington County, Virginia, US, that provides proprietary wildlife conservation-related data, tools, and services to private and government clients, partner organizations, and the public. NatureServe reports being "headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with region...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20%28disambiguation%29
C is the third letter in the Latin alphabet. C or c may also refer to: Computing C (programming language), developed at Bell Labs in 1972 C, a hexadecimal digit C, a computable function, the set of all computable decision problems C:, or "Drive C", the default drive letter assignment for the default hard drive in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerta%20del%20Sol
The Puerta del Sol (, English: "Gate of the Sun") is a public square in Madrid, one of the best known and busiest places in the city. This is the centre (Km 0) of the radial network of Spanish roads. The square also contains the famous clock whose bells mark the traditional eating of the Twelve Grapes and the beginning...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncate%20%28SQL%29
In SQL, the TRUNCATE TABLE statement is a Data Manipulation Language (DML) operation that deletes all rows of a table without causing a triggered action. The result of this operation quickly removes all data from a table, typically bypassing a number of integrity enforcing mechanisms. It was officially introduced in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead%20%28computing%29
In computer science, overhead is any combination of excess or indirect computation time, memory, bandwidth, or other resources that are required to perform a specific task. It is a special case of engineering overhead. Overhead can be a deciding factor in software design, with regard to structure, error correction, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSNN-LD
WSNN-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station in Sarasota, Florida, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. Owned by Nexstar Media Group as sister to NBC affiliate WFLA-TV (channel 8) and CW owned-and-operated station WTTA (channel 38), the station's Suncoast News Network (SNN) service provides news covera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation%2010
The SPARCstation 10 (codenamed Campus-2) is a workstation computer made by Sun Microsystems. Announced in May 1992, it was Sun's first desktop multiprocessor (being housed in a pizza box form factor case). It was later replaced with the SPARCstation 20. The 40 MHz SPARCstation 10 without external cache was the referen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIGIS
UNIGIS is a worldwide network of universities cooperating since 1992 in the design, development and delivery of distance learning in Geographical Information Science and Systems (GIS). Members of the UNIGIS network offer Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and Masters courses in GIS by open and distance learning, followi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prova
Prova is an open source programming language that combines Prolog with Java. Description Prova is a rule-based scripting system that is used for middleware. The language combines imperative and declarative programming by using a prolog syntax that allows calls to Java functions. In this way a strong Java code base is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardus%20%28operating%20system%29
Pardus is a Linux distribution developed with support from the government of Turkey. Pardus' main focus is office-related work including use in Turkish government agencies. Despite that, Pardus ships in several languages. Its ease of use and availability free of charge has spawned numerous communities throughout the wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever%20%28novel%29
Whatever (, literally "extension of the domain of struggle") is the debut novel of French writer Michel Houellebecq. The plot concerns a depressed and isolated computer programmer who tries to convince a colleague to murder a young woman who rejected the colleague's sexual advances. A major theme is that the sexual rev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPFS
FTPFS refers to file systems that support access to a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server through standard file system application programming interfaces (APIs). The ftpfs command in Plan 9 was originated by Dennis Ritchie and was included in the first release of the system (1992). It arranged for a remote file system...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematized%20Nomenclature%20of%20Medicine
The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) is a systematic, computer-processable collection of medical terms, in human and veterinary medicine, to provide codes, terms, synonyms and definitions which cover anatomy, diseases, findings, procedures, microorganisms, substances, etc. It allows a consistent way to in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denison%20Bollay
Denison Bollay (born 1952) is a software engineer working on programming languages and search algorithms, with applications for e-commerce and financial information. History In 1975, Bollay became an early quant (before the term was invented), computing real-time option pricing. Real-time stock and option data was so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20mode
In the x86-64 computer architecture, long mode is the mode where a 64-bit operating system can access 64-bit instructions and registers. 64-bit programs are run in a sub-mode called 64-bit mode, while 32-bit programs and 16-bit protected mode programs are executed in a sub-mode called compatibility mode. Real mode or v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20rail%20network
In United States railroading, the term national rail network, sometimes termed "U.S. rail network", refers to the entire network of interconnected standard gauge rail lines in North America. It does not include most subway or light rail lines. Federal Railroad Administration regulations require passenger cars used on t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patton%20Versus%20Rommel
Patton vs. Rommel is a computer wargame designed and programmed by Chris Crawford for the Macintosh and published by Electronic Arts in 1986. Versions for MS-DOS compatible operating systems and Commodore 64 were developed by Sculptured Software and published in 1987. Plot Patton vs. Rommel is set in and around the No...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FuseDocs%20%28programming%29
FuseDocs is a program definition language created by Hal Helms in the late 1990s. In its original form, FuseDocs used a proprietary vocabulary to define the responsibilities, properties, and I/O of code module in the ColdFusion programming language. In its second form (2.0), FuseDocs uses an XML vocabulary. In ess...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20Tarassenko
Lionel Tarassenko, (born 17 April 1957) is a British engineer and academic, who is a leading expert in the application of signal processing and machine learning to healthcare. Tarassenko is President of Reuben College, Oxford. He was previously Head of Department of Engineering Science (Dean of Engineering) at the U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20index
Database management systems provide multiple types of indexes to improve performance and data integrity across diverse applications. Index types include b-trees, bitmaps, and r-trees. In database management systems, a reverse key index strategy reverses the key value before entering it in the index. E.g., the value 24...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20index
In databases, a partial index, also known as filtered index is an index which has some condition applied to it so that it includes a subset of rows in the table. This allows the index to remain small, even though the table may be rather large, and have extreme selectivity. Suppose you have a transaction table where e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRV
NRV may stand for: Net realizable value of an asset Norddeutscher Regatta Verein, a German yacht club Not Really Vanished, computer compression algorithm in UPX Valmet Nr I and Valmet Nr II Helsinki trams Non Return Valve (check Valve) Nutrient Reference Value, similar to Recommended Daily Allowance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20McMahon
Craig McMahon is an Australian actor and television personality who has spent most of his working life within the Australian television industry. He has worked as a presenter on the Network Ten's children's show Totally Wild and previously, with his wife Dominique, he co-hosted the children's TV series In the Box. He ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%20Collegiate%20Network
The Baptist Collegiate Network (BCN) is a Baptist college-level organization that can be found on many college campuses in the United States and Canada; many of its collegiate ministries operate under the name Baptist Collegiate Ministry or the Baptist Student Union. The organization, while Baptist, functions as an int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNIC
DNIC can stand for: Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal Data Network Identification Code Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls In Christianity, Dominus Noster Iesus Christus (and other grammatical variants; "Our Lord Jesus Christ") In biochemistry, dinitrosyl iron complex Direcção nacional de investigação ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%202%20%28Australian%20radio%20station%29
Radio 2 was a narrowband Australian radio network owned and operated by WorldAudio Limited. The network was broadcast on frequencies between 1611 and 1629 kHz via a series of 50 AM transmitters across Australia, as well as by satellite (including through Austar and Foxtel) and through the network's website. History Ra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish%20%26%20Andy
Hamish & Andy are an Australian comedy duo formed in 2003 by Hamish Blake and Andy Lee. Best known for their various drive time radio programmes on the Hit Network, which aired in multiple formats until 2017, their shows gained consistently high market share and became the highest rated radio show in Australian history...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic%20forming%20techniques
Ceramic forming techniques are ways of forming ceramics, which are used to make everything from tableware such as teapots to engineering ceramics such as computer parts. Pottery techniques include the potter's wheel, slip casting and many others. Methods for forming powders of ceramic raw materials into complex shap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidesmateae
Antidesmateae is a tribe of the plant family Phyllanthaceae. It comprises 5 subtribes and 9 genera. Subtribes and genera , the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) accepted the following subtribes and genera: Subtribe Antidesmatinae Antidesma Thecacoris Subtribe Hieronyminae: Hieronyma Subtribe Hymenocardiin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMI-80
The PMI-80 was a single-board microcomputer produced by Tesla Piešťany, Czechoslovakia, since 1982. It was based on the MHB 8080A CPU (a Tesla clone of the Intel 8080), clocked at 1.111 MHz. Instead of a raster graphic display output and classical keyboard, it had a calculator-style nine-digit seven-segment red LED dis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DELNI
DELNI may refer to: Department for Employment and Learning of Northern Ireland, a defunct government department in Northern Ireland Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect, a multiport Ethernet transceiver manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20D.%20Clark
David Dana "Dave" Clark (born April 7, 1944) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer who has been involved with Internet developments since the mid-1970s. He currently works as a senior research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Education He graduated fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert%20Zimmermann
Hubert Zimmermann (15 November 1941 – 9 November 2012) was a French software engineer and a pioneer of computer networking. Biography Zimmermann was educated at École Polytechnique and École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. His career began at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertec%20Superbrain
The Intertec SuperBrain was an all-in-one commercial microcomputer that was first sold by Intertec Data Systems Corporation of Columbia, South Carolina, USA in 1979. The machine ran the operating system CP/M and was somewhat unusual in that it used dual Z80 CPUs, the second being used as a disk controller. In 1983, the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Shenker
Scott J. Shenker (born January 24, 1956 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the leader of the Extensible Internet Group at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. Over his care...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20User
Atari User was a British computer magazine aimed at users of Atari home computers, and published by Database Publications (later known as Europress) between 1985 and 1988. Atari User was a general-interest computer magazine, containing games reviews as well as type-in programs, tutorials and hardware projects. As with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20ST%20User
Atari ST User was a British computer magazine aimed at users of the Atari ST range. It started life as a pull-out section in Atari User magazine. From April 1987<http://www.atarimania.com/mags/hi_res/atari-st-user-vol-02-issue-02_5.jpg volume 2 issue 2</ref> onwards it became a magazine in its own right (as explained o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandiyanallur
Kandiyanallur is a village located south west of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. It is a part of Vandavasi Taluk in the district of Thiruvannamalai. According to the 2011 Government of India Census data, there are a total of 79 families residing in the village. The population is 270 of which 138 are male and 132 are fema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Computer%20Science%20Institute
The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is an independent, non-profit research organization located in Berkeley, California, United States. Since its founding in 1988, ICSI has maintained an affiliation agreement with the University of California, Berkeley, where several of its members hold faculty appointm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%206
Page 6 (subtitled Atari Users Magazine) was a British magazine aimed at users of the Atari 8-bit family and Atari ST home computers. The first issue was in 1982, and it was renamed to Page 6 Atari User and then New Atari User before ceasing publication in 1998. History The magazine had its origins in the newsletter o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TelecityGroup
Telecity Group plc (formerly TelecityRedbus and before that Telecity), was a European carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation centre provider. It specialised in the design, build and management of datacentre space. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Equinix in January 2016. History T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highmark
Highmark is an American non-profit healthcare company and Integrated Delivery Network based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a large individual not-for-profit health insurer in the United States, which operates several for-profit subsidiaries. Locality It is a health insurer in Pennsylvania, and thro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability%20%28computer%20networking%29
In computer networking, a reliable protocol is a communication protocol that notifies the sender whether or not the delivery of data to intended recipients was successful. Reliability is a synonym for assurance, which is the term used by the ITU and ATM Forum. Reliable protocols typically incur more overhead than unr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20Emulator%20Format
Unified Emulator Format (UEF) is a container format for the compressed storage of audio tapes, ROMs, floppy discs and machine state snapshots for the 8-bit range of computers manufactured by Acorn Computers. First implemented by Thomas Harte's ElectrEm emulator and related tools, it is now supported by major emulators ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Computer%20World
Personal Computer World (PCW) (February 1978 - June 2009) was the first British computer magazine. Although for at least the last decade it contained a high proportion of Windows PC content (reflecting the state of the IT field), the magazine's title was not intended as a specific reference to this. At its inception in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20protocol
In computer networking, a wire protocol refers to a way of getting data from point to point: A wire protocol is needed if more than one application has to interoperate. It generally refers to communication protocols higher than the physical layer. In contrast to transport protocols at the transport level (like TCP or U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyPy
PyPy () is an implementation of the Python programming language. PyPy often runs faster than the standard implementation CPython because PyPy uses a just-in-time compiler. Most Python code runs well on PyPy except for code that depends on CPython extensions, which either does not work or incurs some overhead when run i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAAS
DAAS, DaaS or Daas may refer to: Data as a Service (DaaS), a model of delivering dynamic data Desktop as a service (DaaS): "desktop" virtualization in computing Daas (2005 film), an Indian Tamil-language romantic film Daas (2011 film), a Polish film Dad's Army Appreciation Society The Doug Anthony All Stars (sty...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVRC%20Media
WVRC Media is a media corporation comprising radio stations and two radio networks based in the state of West Virginia. The company was known as the West Virginia Radio Corporation prior to a December 2021 rebranding. The company is controlled by Greer Industries and its owners, the Raese family. It was founded by H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFF
SFF can refer to: Computing Small form factor (desktop and motherboard), a term covering smaller-than traditional form factors for computer components Standard flowgram format, a file generated by a 454 sequencing machine Events Sarajevo Film Festival, a premier annual film festival in the Balkans Singapore Fire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarStruck%20Kids
StarStruck Kids is the junior season of StarStruck, is a 2004 Philippine television reality talent competition show, was broadcast on GMA Network. Hosted by Jolina Magdangal, the segment hosts are the 14 finalists of StarStruck season 1: Mark Herras, Jennylyn Mercado, Rainier Castillo, Yasmien Kurdi, Nadine Samonte, Di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Radio%20Overnight
CBC Radio Overnight is a Canadian radio programming block, which airs nightly on CBC Radio One from 1:00 a.m. to 5:30 am (or 6:00 a.m., depending on the station). The program airs only on CBC Radio One's regional outlets; it does not air on the nationwide Sirius XM service. The program, hosted by Jeff Goodes, presents...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Bombolas
Chris Bombolas (born 12 May 1960) (often known as Bomber) is a communications and media specialist, and a television and radio presenter. A former sports reporter for 21 years with the Nine Network in Brisbane. A former Australian politician, he served for one term as the Labor member for Chatsworth in the Legislative ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJDC-TV
CJDC-TV (analogue channel 5) is a television station in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada, airing CTV 2 programming. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it is part of the Great West Television system. CJDC-TV's studios are located on 102 Avenue and 9 Street in Dawson Creek, and its transmitter is located near 233 Ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Minnesota
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Minnesota, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct Beat Radio KBJI-LP KDXL KFMX KFNK KLBB KMAP KPNP KQEP-LP KQRB KQSP KSJU KYEJ-L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48%20Hours%20%28TV%20program%29
48 Hours is an American documentary/news magazine television show broadcast on CBS. The show has been broadcast on the network since January 19, 1988 in the United States. The show airs Saturdays at 10:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, as part of the network's placeholder Crimetime Saturday block; as such, it is curren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx%20furniture
FedEx furniture is the artistic creation of computer programmer and creative consumer Jose Avila, III. In June 2005, Avila created a website, Fedexfurniture.com, to display photographs of a couch, bed, dining room table, and desk that he had constructed out of cartons obtained from overnight shipping giant FedEx Corp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location%20information%20server
The location information server, or LIS is a network node originally defined in the National Emergency Number Association i2 network architecture that addresses the intermediate solution for providing e911 service for users of VoIP telephony. The LIS is the node that determines the location of the VoIP terminal. Beyo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southport%20railway%20station
Southport railway station serves the town of Southport, Merseyside, England. The station is the terminal of the Southport branch of the Northern Line of the electric Merseyrail network and the diesel-operated Manchester-Southport Line. It is the fourth busiest station on the Merseyrail network. The station and services...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend%20Sunrise
Weekend Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network and currently hosted by Monique Wright and Matt Doran. History In 2005 the Seven Network replaced its struggling Sunday morning program Sunday Sunrise with a program called Weekend Sunrise, as an extension of the weekday bran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCST
NCST may refer to: National Community Stabilization Trust in the United States National Centre for Software Technology in India, now Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) National College of Science and Technology in the Philippines New Castle School of Trades in the United States National Construc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-working%20function
The inter-working function (IWF) is a method for interfacing a wireless telecommunication network with the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The IWF converts the data transmitted over the air interface into a format suitable for the PSTN. IWF contains both the hardware and software elements that provide the ra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal%20Using%20Relays%20around%20NAT
Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) is a protocol that assists in traversal of network address translators (NAT) or firewalls for multimedia applications. It may be used with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). It is most useful for clients on networks masqueraded by symmetric...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%20Info%20%28radio%20network%29
France Info () is a radio network operated by the French public service radio broadcaster Radio France. It provides continuous live news and information. Broadcasting on FM (as well as being streamed on the internet), France Info is receivable across France and audible too in the border regions of neighbouring countri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20specification
In computer science, formal specifications are mathematically based techniques whose purpose are to help with the implementation of systems and software. They are used to describe a system, to analyze its behavior, and to aid in its design by verifying key properties of interest through rigorous and effective reasoning...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20recorder%20scheduling%20code
VCR Plus+, G-Code, VideoPlus+ and ShowView are different names for the same scheduling system for programming VCRs and digital video recorders. These names are all registered trademarks of Macrovision, whose corporate predecessor, Gemstar, developed these algorithms for use in integrated endecs. History Before the ad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroker%20%26%20Hoop
Stroker & Hoop is an American adult animated television series created by Casper Kelly and Jeffrey G. Olsen for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series is a parody of buddy cop films and television series such as Starsky & Hutch, and stars the voices of Jon Glaser as Stroker and Timothy "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%E2%80%93Johnson%E2%80%93Trotter%20algorithm
The Steinhaus–Johnson–Trotter algorithm or Johnson–Trotter algorithm, also called plain changes, is an algorithm named after Hugo Steinhaus, Selmer M. Johnson and Hale F. Trotter that generates all of the permutations of elements. Each permutation in the sequence that it generates differs from the previous permutation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump%20search
In computer science, a jump search or block search refers to a search algorithm for ordered lists. It works by first checking all items Lkm, where and m is the block size, until an item is found that is larger than the search key. To find the exact position of the search key in the list a linear search is performed on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20New%20Year%2C%20Charlie%20Brown%21
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! is the 30th prime-time animated television special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It aired on the CBS network on January 1, 1986. The special focuses on Charlie Brown's difficulty finishing a book report over the holidays. It was the last film made by Be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Pictures%20Digital
Sony Pictures Digital (previously known as Columbia TriStar Interactive, Sony Pictures Interactive Network, and Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment) is a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. Operating under the trade name Sony Pictures Digital Productions Inc., it is currently based in Japan, and was formerly based in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20TV
Sun TV may refer to: Sun TV (India), an Indian Tamil cable television channel owned by Sun TV Network Sun TV Network, the company that owns the Tamil television channel Sun TV (Hong Kong), a Mandarin satellite television channel based in Hong Kong SUN TV (Turkey), a local TV in Mersin, Turkey Sun News Network (20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Jones%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Clifford "Cliff" B. Jones (born 1 June 1944) is a British computer scientist, specializing in research into formal methods. He undertook a late DPhil at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science) under Tony Hoare, awarded in 1981. Jones' thesis proposed an ext...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opaque%20pointer
In computer programming, an opaque pointer is a special case of an opaque data type, a data type declared to be a pointer to a record or data structure of some unspecified type. Opaque pointers are present in several programming languages including Ada, C, C++, D and Modula-2. If the language is strongly typed, progr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan%20Rain
Titan Rain was a series of coordinated attacks on computer systems in the United States since 2003; they were known to have been ongoing for at least three years. The attacks originated in Guangdong, China. The activity is believed to be associated with a state-sponsored advanced persistent threat. It was given the des...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearhead%20%28TV%20series%29
Spearhead is a British television drama series. Produced by Southern Television and broadcast on the ITV network, it ran for a total of three series and 19 episodes from 18 July 1978 to 3 September 1981. It featured the daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion Royal Wessex Rangers, a fictional B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Data%20Element%20Framework
The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) was a controlled vocabulary developed by The Open Group. It provided a framework for categorizing, naming, and indexing data. It assigned to every item of data a structured alphanumeric tag plus a controlled vocabulary name that describes the meaning of the data. This allowe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dines%20Bj%C3%B8rner
Professor Dines Bjørner (born 4 October 1937, in Odense) is a Danish computer scientist. He specializes in research into domain engineering, requirements engineering and formal methods. He worked with Cliff Jones and others on the Vienna Development Method (VDM) at IBM Laboratory Vienna (and elsewhere). Later he was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponta%20Grossa
Ponta Grossa () is a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil. The estimated population is 355,336 according to official data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and it is the 4th most populous city in Paraná (76th in Brazil). It is also the largest city close to Greater Curitiba region...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F5%2C%20Inc.
F5, Inc. is a publicly-held American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), application availability & performance, network security, and access & authorization. F5 is headquartered in Seattle, Washington in F5 To...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights%20of%20Xentar
Knights of Xentar is an erotic role-playing video game published for MS-DOS compatible operating systems in North America by Megatech Software in 1995. It was originally published as Dragon Knight III (ドラゴンナイトIII) in Japan. It is part of the Dragon Knight series of games created by Japanese game developer ELF, who orig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Mendes%20%28physicist%29
José F.F. Mendes (born in Porto) is a Portuguese physicist (statistical physics) and professor of physics, best known for his work and contributions to the field of network theory.Graduated from University of Porto in 1987. He earned a PhD in March 1995 from the same University under the direction of Eduardo Lage, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McAdam%20%28businessman%29
John McAdam is a technology executive. McAdam holds a B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. From January 1995 until August 1999, he served as the president and chief operating officer of Sequent Computer Systems, a manufacturer of high-end open systems, which was sold to IBM in September ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20genomics
Computational genomics refers to the use of computational and statistical analysis to decipher biology from genome sequences and related data, including both DNA and RNA sequence as well as other "post-genomic" data (i.e., experimental data obtained with technologies that require the genome sequence, such as genomic DN...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet%20%281989%20video%20game%29
Ricochet is an action-adventure game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron home computers, published by Superior Software in 1989. It was written by Neil Davidson and David Williams with some graphics work and level design by Nik Weston and Guy Burt. The object of the game is to retrieve five hourglasses from diverse ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nello%20Cristianini
Nello Cristianini (born 1968) is a professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bath. Education Cristianini holds a degree in physics from the University of Trieste, a Master in computational intelligence from the University of London and a PhD from the University of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma%27s%20Choice
"Selma's Choice" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 21, 1993. In the episode, Selma decides to have a baby, inspired by her late aunt's wish that she not spend her life alone. She ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Stoy
Joseph E. Stoy is a British computer scientist. He initially studied physics at Oxford University. Early in his career, in the 1970s, he worked on denotational semantics with Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Com...