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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Link%20Men
The Link Men was an Australian television series shown in 1970. Synopsis The series was the first drama series made in-house by the Nine Network as part of an attempt to rival the cop shows produced by Crawford Productions such as Homicide and Division 4. The Link Men starred Kevin Miles, Bruce Montague and Tristan Ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui%20Cluster%20Scheduler
Maui Cluster Scheduler is a job scheduler for use on clusters and supercomputers initially developed by Cluster Resources, Inc. Maui is capable of supporting multiple scheduling policies, dynamic priorities, reservations, and fairshare capabilities. It improves the manageability and efficiency of machines ranging fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Message%20service%20center
A Short Message Service Center (SMSC) is a network element in the mobile telephone network. Its purpose is to store, forward, convert and deliver Short Message Service (SMS) messages. The full designation of an SMSC according to 3GPP is Short Message Service - Service Center (SMS-SC). Basic trajectories SMS can be di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore
Boyer–Moore may refer to: Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm Boyer–Moore theorem prover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20keyboards
Apple Inc. has designed and developed many external keyboard models for use with families of Apple computers, such as the Apple II, Mac, and iPad. The Magic Keyboard and Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad designed to be used via either Bluetooth and USB connectivity, and have integrated rechargeable batteries; The Smar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20DeKay
Timothy Robert DeKay (born June 12, 1963) is an American actor. He starred in the USA Network series White Collar (2009–2014) Early life Tim DeKay was born June 12, 1963, to Jim DeKay and Jill Vaughn in Lansing, New York, where he and his brother Jamey grew up. He attended Lansing High School. Growing up, DeKay enjoye...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Marriage%20%28American%20TV%20series%29
The Marriage is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from July to August 1954. The series is noted as the first prime time network color television series. Broadcast live by NBC for seven episodes in the summer of 1954, the series stars real-life couple Hume Cronyn (who also produced the show) and Jessica Tandy as a Ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cscope
cscope is a programming tool which works in console mode, text-based interface, that allows computer programmers or software developers to search source code of the programming language C, with some support for C++ and Java. It is often used on very large projects to aid code comprehension to find source code, function...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEARL%20%28programming%20language%29
PEARL, or Process and experiment automation realtime language, is a computer programming language designed for multitasking and real-time programming. Being a high-level language, it is fairly cross-platform. Since 1977, the language has undergone several standardization iterations by the Deutsches Institut für Normung...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFM
SAFM (official callsign: 5SSA) is a commercial FM radio station owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo as part of the Hit Network. The station is broadcast to Adelaide, South Australia from studios in Franklin Street. History The station began broadcasting on 12 September 1980, on the frequency of 107.5 MHz, wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor%20Alley
Armor Alley is a computer wargame for DOS and Mac OS published by Three-Sixty Pacific in 1991. It is modelled on the Apple II game Rescue Raiders. Player can compete against the computer or other humans via LAN. The game supports cooperative multiplayer of up to two players per side. The player controls a helicopter ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley%20R.%20Elsberry
Wesley Royce Elsberry (born January 23, 1960) is a data scientist with an interdisciplinary background in marine biology, zoology, computer science, and wildlife and fisheries sciences. He also became notably involved in the defense of evolutionary science against creationist rejection of evolution. Early life Elsber...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QMAS
QMAS may refer to: Quality Management and Analysis System, a computer system used by the United Kingdom's National Health Service Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, a points-based immigration system in Hong Kong Quality Measurement Advisory Service, a non-profit health organisation in the United States Queensland Mu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine%20Woman
Medicine Woman is a documentary show first produced for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, an aboriginal television network in Canada. A doctor's journey to investigate traditional healing in different cultures is the focus. Created and directed by Shirley Cheechoo, it was co-produced by Gerry Sperling and 4 S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo%20%28software%29
Majordomo is a mailing list manager (MLM) developed by Brent Chapman. It is written in Perl and works in conjunction with sendmail on UNIX and related operating systems. The name majordomo is derived from the Latin "major domus" meaning "master of the house"; in English, the word is used to refer to a large household'...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Squad%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29
Special Squad is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten in 1984. Overview The series focused on an elite division of the Victoria Police, which handled crimes either too sensitive or specialist for regular squads. The Special Squad was headed by Det. Insp. Don Anderson (Alan Cass...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy%20%28TV%20series%29
Bellamy was an Australian television series made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981. Synopsis The series focused on a maverick cop named Steve Bellamy (John Stanton). His partner was Detective Mitchell (Tim Elston). Recurring characters in the series were the disapproving Daley (James Condon) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Collar%20Blue
White Collar Blue is an Australian television series made by Knapman Wyld Television for Network Ten from 2002 to 2003. Starring Peter O'Brien as Joe Hill and Freya Stafford as Harriet Walker, the series dealt with a division of the police force working in the city of Sydney and the personal and professional tensions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Ferrovi%C3%A1ria%20Nacional
REFER, Rede Ferroviária Nacional, EP (i.e. National Railway Network) was the Portuguese rail infrastructure manager. It was a state-owned company and was created to manage the Portuguese rail infrastructure, previously under control of CP, which became exclusively a train service operator. It was incorporated on 29 Ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle%20%28chess%20machine%29
Belle was a chess computer developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs. In 1983, it was the first machine to achieve master-level play, with a USCF rating of 2250. It won the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship five times and the 1980 World Computer Chess Championship. It was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuts%20%28TV%20series%29
Cuts is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from February 14, 2005, to May 11, 2006, and is a spinoff of another UPN series, One on One. The show was canceled when UPN and The WB networks merged to form The CW. Premise For years, the Barnes' family-run barber shop was a place where guys could get a haircut while soci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fits
Fits may refer to: FITS, a data format in astronomy FITS (board game), a 2009 board game Fits (album), a 2009 album by White Denim The Fits, an album by Aly Tadros The Fits, a British punk rock band The Fits (film), a 2015 American drama film Fury in the Slaughterhouse, a German rock band See also Fit (disambi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-pass%20compiler
A multi-pass compiler is a type of compiler that processes the source code or abstract syntax tree of a program several times. This is in contrast to a one-pass compiler, which traverses the program only once. Each pass takes the result of the previous pass as the input, and creates an intermediate output. In this way,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunskapskanalen
Kunskapskanalen (in English: The Knowledge Channel) is a Swedish language television channel broadcasting educational and factual programming between 9 a.m. and 01 a.m. all days of the week. The channel is operated by Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR) and is broadcast by satellite, cable and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20drilling
Data drilling (also drilldown) refers to any of various operations and transformations on tabular, relational, and multidimensional data. The term has widespread use in various contexts, but is primarily associated with specialized software designed specifically for data analysis. Common data drilling operations Ther...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20Man%20Battle%20Network%206
and are 2005 tactical role-playing video games developed and published by Capcom for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld game console. They are the sixth and final games in the Mega Man Battle Network series, and involves Lan's family and MegaMan.EXE moving to Cyber City, only to need to stop the returning WWW (World ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA
The term CDATA, meaning character data, is used for distinct, but related, purposes in the markup languages SGML and XML. The term indicates that a certain portion of the document is general character data, rather than non-character data or character data with a more specific, limited structure. CDATA sections in XML ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Crow
George L. Crow Jr. was a member of the original Apple Macintosh team in 1984 at Apple Computer. Crow left Apple in 1985 to become a co-founder of Steve Jobs' NeXT. Prior to working at Apple, Crow worked at HP; after leaving NeXT he worked for SuperMac and then Truevision. In 1999, Crow came back to Apple, recalling tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Gamer
Computer Gamer was a video game magazine published in the United Kingdom by Argus Specialist Publications, covering home gaming from April 1985 to June 1987. It was a colourful relaunch of the failing magazine Games Computing, a more conservative magazine published throughout in monochrome. Like many similar magazines...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular%20Computing%20Weekly
Popular Computing Weekly was a computer magazine in the UK published from 1982 to 1990. It was sometimes referred to as PCW (although that abbreviation is more commonly associated with Personal Computer World magazine). Overview The magazine was first published on 23 April 1982. Its subject range was general, covering...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Media%20Commons
The Open Media Commons, sometimes referred to as the Open Media Commons initiative, is a computer industry group whose goal is to "develop open, royalty-free digital rights management and codec solutions". One of their largest supporters is Sun Microsystems, who released their internal digital rights management (DRM) p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20Evaluation%20and%20Review%20Technique
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique, commonly known as GERT, is a network analysis technique used in project management that allows probabilistic treatment both network logic and estimation of activity duration. The technique was first described in 1966 by Dr. Alan B. Pritsker of Purdue University and WW Happ. C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCTV
WCTV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Thomasville, Georgia, United States, serving the Tallahassee, Florida market as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Live Oak, Florida–licensed MeTV affiliate WFXU (channel 57). Both stations share studios on Halstead Boulevar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s%20algorithm
In electrical engineering and computer science, Lloyd's algorithm, also known as Voronoi iteration or relaxation, is an algorithm named after Stuart P. Lloyd for finding evenly spaced sets of points in subsets of Euclidean spaces and partitions of these subsets into well-shaped and uniformly sized convex cells. Like t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20Weseluck
Cathy Weseluck is a Canadian actress and comedian who frequently works with Ocean Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia and is known for her roles as Near in Death Note, Cybersix/Adrian Seidelman in Cybersix, and Spike in the Discovery Family animated TV series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Early life Cath...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20size
File size is a measure of how much data a computer file contains or, alternately, how much storage it consumes. Typically, file size is expressed in units of measurement based on the byte. By convention, file size units use either a metric prefix (as in megabyte and gigabyte) or a binary prefix (as in mebibyte and gibi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Finch%20%28comics%29
David Finch is a comics artist known for his work on Top Cow Productions' Cyberforce, as well as numerous subsequent titles for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, such as The New Avengers, Moon Knight, Ultimatum, and Brightest Day. He has provided album cover art for the band Disturbed, and done concept art for films such as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20sieve
In mathematics, the rational sieve is a general algorithm for factoring integers into prime factors. It is a special case of the general number field sieve. While it is less efficient than the general algorithm, it is conceptually simpler. It serves as a helpful first step in understanding how the general number field ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20requirements%20document
The user requirement(s) document (URD) or user requirement(s) specification (URS) is a document usually used in software engineering that specifies what the user expects the software to be able to do. Once the required information is completely gathered it is documented in a URD, which is meant to spell out exactly wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiver%20%28disambiguation%29
A quiver is a container for archery ammunition. Quiver may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Quiver (video game), a 1997 first-person shooter video game Quiver, the code-name for the computer game Half-Life during early development Literature Quiver (comics), a Green Arrow story arc The Quiver, an English magazi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian%20algorithm
The Hungarian method is a combinatorial optimization algorithm that solves the assignment problem in polynomial time and which anticipated later primal–dual methods. It was developed and published in 1955 by Harold Kuhn, who gave the name "Hungarian method" because the algorithm was largely based on the earlier works o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20for%20Control%20Networks
Architecture for Control Networks (ACN) is a suite of network protocols for control of entertainment technology equipment, particularly as used in live performance or large-scale installations. For example, lighting, audio or special effects equipment. ACN is maintained by Entertainment Services and Technology Associat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Girl%20in%20the%20Big%20Ten
"Little Girl in the Big Ten" is the twentieth episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 12, 2002. In the episode, Lisa befriends two college students at a gym and attends college with them. Meanwhile, aft...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astalavista.box.sk
astalavista.box.sk was founded in 1994 as one of the first search engines for computer security information. In practice it turned out to be used as a search engine for security exploits, software for hacking, cracking and different keygenerators and software cracks. In the early 1990s and 2000s, the site was popular...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit%20bureau
A credit bureau is a data collection agency that gathers account information from various creditors and provides that information to a consumer reporting agency in the United States, a credit reference agency in the United Kingdom, a credit reporting body in Australia, a credit information company (CIC) in India, Speci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception%20chaining
Exception chaining, or exception wrapping, is an object-oriented programming technique of handling exceptions by re-throwing a caught exception after wrapping it inside a new exception. The original exception is saved as a property (such as cause) of the new exception. The idea is that a method should throw exceptions ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203480%20family
The 3480 tape format is a magnetic tape data storage format developed by IBM. The tape is wide and is packaged in a cartridge. The cartridge contains a single reel; the takeup reel is inside the tape drive. Because of their speed, reliability, durability and low media cost, these tapes and tape drives are still in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal%20data%20system
Longitudinal data system is a data system capable of tracking student information over multiple years in multiple schools. The term appears in Federal law of the United States to describe such a system. Federal funding is provided to aid the design and implementation of such systems. References Student assessment and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo%2C%20Where%20Are%20You%21
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is an American animated comedy television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning cartoon schedule on September 13, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. In 1978, a select...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarene%20Youth%20United%20Kingdom
Nazarene Youth United Kingdom (NYUK), is an organisation for the youth of the Church of the Nazarene of the United Kingdom. The organisation supports young Christians in the UK through a network of friends and fellowship. Although the Nazarene youth in the UK have been active for many years, use of the term NYUK is fa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness%20to%20a%20Prosecution
Witness to a Prosecution is a Hong Kong television series produced by TVB. The original broadcast was on the TVB Jade network with 45-minute episodes airing five days a week from 20 December 1999 to 16 January 2000. The drama stars Bobby Au-yeung as the famous historical forensic medical expert Song Ci ("Sung Chee" in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20and%20manufacturing%20information
Product and manufacturing information, also abbreviated PMI, conveys non-geometric attributes in 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and Collaborative Product Development systems necessary for manufacturing product components and assemblies. PMI may include geometric dimensions and tolerances, 3D annotation (text) and dime...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTAT-TV
WTAT-TV (channel 24) is a television station in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. The station is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, a partner company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. However, although Sinclair effectively owns WTAT-TV (as the majority of Cunningham's stock is ow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Jazeera%20English
Al Jazeera English (AJE; , , meaning "The Peninsula") is a globally recognized 24-hour English-language news channel. It operates under the ownership of the Al Jazeera Media Network, which, in turn, funded by the goverment of Qatar. It is the first English-language news channel to be headquartered in Western Asia. Al J...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight%20Live%20with%20Steve%20Vizard
Tonight Live with Steve Vizard was a nightly Australian comedy chat show broadcast on Seven Network in Australia, featuring live musical performances. Synopsis It was a one-hour live studio based show broadcast nationally 5 nights a week from 29 January 1990 to 26 November 1993, usually commencing at 10:30 pm every we...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Diagnostics
Microsoft Diagnostics (MSD) was a software tool developed by Microsoft to assist in the diagnostics of 1990s-era computers. Users primarily deployed this tool to provide detailed technical information about the user's software and hardware and to print the gathered information, usually for use by support technicians i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Annals%20of%20the%20History%20of%20Computing
The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the IEEE Computer Society. It covers the history of computing, computer science, and computer hardware. It was founded in 1979 by the AFIPS, in particular by Saul Rosen, who was an editor until his death in 1991. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented%20analysis%20and%20design
Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) is a technical approach for analyzing and designing an application, system, or business by applying object-oriented programming, as well as using visual modeling throughout the software development process to guide stakeholder communication and product quality. OOAD in modern...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%20v.%20Flook
Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584 (1978), was a 1978 United States Supreme Court decision that ruled that an invention that departs from the prior art only in its use of a mathematical algorithm is patent eligible only if there is some other "inventive concept in its application." The algorithm itself must be considered as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Joint%20Conference%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence
The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) is the leading conference in the field of artificial intelligence. The conference series has been organized by the nonprofit IJCAI Organization since 1969, making it the oldest premier AI conference series in the world. It was held biennially in odd-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Business%20Cloud
The Business Cloud is an API enabled self-service platform, developed by Domo, that provides an array of services like data connection and data visualization. History Domo, Inc. was founded in 2010 by Josh James who also co-founded the web analytics software company Omniture in 1996, which he took public in 2006. Dom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find-a-drug
Find-a-Drug (often abbreviated as 'FAD') was a not for profit volunteer computing project which was set up in April 2002 by Treweren Consultants, the company who developed the THINK software. Find-a-Drug aimed to run a series of projects in parallel addressing a number of diseases which have a major impact on health. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasPar
MasPar Computer Corporation was a minisupercomputer vendor that was founded in 1987 by Jeff Kalb. The company was based in Sunnyvale, California. History While Kalb was the vice-president of the division of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that built integrated circuits, some researchers in that division were bui...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Genome%20Size%20Database
The Animal Genome Size Database is a catalogue of published genome size estimates for vertebrate and invertebrate animals. It was created in 2001 by Dr. T. Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph in Canada. As of September 2005, the database contains data for over 4,000 species of animals. A similar database, the P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20network
An Omega network is a network configuration often used in parallel computing architectures. It is an indirect topology that relies on the perfect shuffle interconnection algorithm. Connection architecture An 8x8 Omega network is a multistage interconnection network, meaning that processing elements (PEs) are connected...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20DNA%20C-values%20Database
The Plant DNA C-values Database (https://cvalues.science.kew.org/) is a comprehensive catalogue of C-value (nuclear DNA content, or in diploids, genome size) data for land plants and algae. The database was created by Prof. Michael D. Bennett and Dr. Ilia J. Leitch of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The database ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20Solutions
Sonic Solutions was an American computer software company headquartered in Novato, California. In addition to having a number of offices in the U.S., the company also maintained offices in Europe and Asia. It was acquired by Rovi Corporation in 2010. History Sonic Solutions was created by former Lucasfilm employees R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSU%20Faculty%20of%20Computational%20Mathematics%20and%20Cybernetics
MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC) (), founded in 1970 by Andrey Tikhonov, is a part of Moscow State University. Education CMC is a Russian research and training center in the fields of applied mathematics, computing and software development . Education at CMC combines theoretical studies, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VXL
VXL, the Vision-something-Library, is a large collection of open source C++ libraries for computer vision. The idea of the naming is to replace X with one of many letters to obtain the smaller library names, i.e. G (VGL) is a geometry library, N (VNL) is a numerics library, I (VIL) is an image processing library, etc. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MotoMagx
MotoMagx was a Linux kernel-based mobile operating system developed and launched in 2007 by Motorola to run on their mid-to-high-end mobile phones. The system was based on MontaVista's Mobilinux. Originally intended for 60% of their upcoming devices, it was soon dropped in favor of Android and Windows Mobile operating ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Hilleman
Richard Hilleman is an American computer game and video game producer best known for his work creating the original Madden Football game for video game consoles for Electronic Arts. Apart from Madden, Hilleman was a key figure in building the massive EA Sports brand and has spent over 20 years working in product devel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance%20%28object-oriented%20programming%29
In object-oriented programming, inheritance is the mechanism of basing an object or class upon another object (prototype-based inheritance) or class (class-based inheritance), retaining similar implementation. Also defined as deriving new classes (sub classes) from existing ones such as super class or base class and th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20FirePro
AMD FirePro was AMD's brand of graphics cards designed for use in workstations and servers running professional Computer-aided design (CAD), Computer-generated imagery (CGI), Digital content creation (DCC), and High-performance computing/GPGPU applications. The GPU chips on FirePro-branded graphics cards are identical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelton%20Flinn
Kelton Flinn is an American computer game designer who is a major pioneer in online games. He is a co-founder (with his University of Virginia classmate John Taylor) of the seminal online game company Kesmai, which they began in 1982. His best known title is the first graphical multi-player online game offered by a m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Up-Late%20Game%20Show
The Up-Late Game Show was a late night interactive television quiz program shown in Australia on Network Ten, written and hosted by Big Brother Australia 2005 contestant Simon Deering, commonly known by the nickname Hotdogs. The show's format had the host presenting simple puzzles which viewers could attempt to solve o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTSE%20Group
FTSE International Limited trading as FTSE Russell ( "Footsie") is a British provider of stock market indices and associated data services, wholly owned by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and operating from premises in Canary Wharf. It operates the well known UK FTSE 100 Index as well as a number of other indices. FTSE...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20Submission%20Description%20Language
Job Submission Description Language is an extensible XML specification from the Global Grid Forum for the description of simple tasks to non-interactive computer execution systems. Currently at version 1.0 (released November 7, 2005), the specification focuses on the description of computational task submissions to tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20Call
Murder Call is an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and broadcast on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The series was inspired by the Tessa Vance novels by Jennifer Rowe, both of which were adapted as episodes, while Rowe also developed story treatments for 3...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider%20Your%20Verdict
Consider Your Verdict is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network originally screening from February 1961 through to June 1964. It was based on a radio series with the same name broadcast on 3DB in Melbourne from 1958 to 1960. Production The television series was recorded at t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20%281959%20Australian%20TV%20series%29
Emergency is an Australian television series produced by Nine Network Melbourne station GTV-9 in 1959. Synopsis The series was set in the busy casualty department of a major fictional Melbourne hospital, and is notable for being one of the first-ever dramas shown on Australian television. Cast Made by Melbourne's GTV...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Story%20of%20Peter%20Grey
The Story of Peter Grey was an Australian television daytime soap opera produced by the Seven Network and first broadcast in July 1962 . James Condon starred in the title role as a church minister. Produced at the Seven Network's ATN-7 studio's in Sydney, the series had a run of 156 fifteen-minute episodes, and was i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCS%20algorithm
For mathematical optimization, Multilevel Coordinate Search (MCS) is an efficient algorithm for bound constrained global optimization using function values only. To do so, the n-dimensional search space is represented by a set of non-intersecting hypercubes (boxes). The boxes are then iteratively split along an axis p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRST%20algorithm
Boender-Rinnooy-Stougie-Timmer algorithm (BRST) is an optimization algorithm suitable for finding global optimum of black box functions. In their paper Boender et al. describe their method as a stochastic method involving a combination of sampling, clustering and local search, terminating with a range of confidence in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWRL
WWRL (1600 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York City. WWRL airs an all-news radio format as an affiliate of the Black Information Network (BIN). The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. By day, WWRL broadcasts at 25,000 watts; at night, to protect other stations on 1600 AM, it reduces power to 5,000...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20Warning%20and%20Monitoring%20Organisation
The United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO) was a British civilian organisation operating to provide UK military and civilian authorities with data on nuclear explosions and forecasts of fallout across the country in the event of nuclear war. The UKWMO was established in 1957 and funded by the Home ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGames%20%28video%20game%20developer%29
eGames, Inc. was an American software publisher and developer for casual and traditional computer games based in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. History eGames was originally called Rom-Tech when it went public in 1996. The public company was formed by a merger between a software sales company (Romtech) and one of the first...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technet
Technet may refer to: Technet (comics), a fictional group in the Marvel Comics universe TechNet (computer network), Singapore's first Internet access provider Microsoft TechNet, a former resource for IT professionals See also Technetium (symbol Tc), a chemical element with atomic number 43
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAD%20standards
are a set of guidelines for the way Computer-aided drafting (CAD), or (CADD) Computer Aided Design and Drawing, drawings should appear, to improve productivity and interchange of CAD documents between different offices and CAD programs, especially in architecture and engineering. AEC (Architecture Engineering and Cons...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Care%20Bears%27%20Big%20Wish%20Movie
The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie is a 2005 computer-animated musical fantasy film, produced by Nelvana Limited and released by Lions Gate Home Entertainment. Directed by Larry Jacobs and Ron Pitts, and written by Jeffrey Alan Schechter, the film is a follow-up to the Care Bears' previous efforts in 2004's Journey to Jok...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted%20gaming
Computer-assisted gaming (CAG) and computer-assisted wargaming (CAWG) refer to games which are at least partially computerized, but where on important part of the action is not virtual but performed in real life or on a miniature terrain. Regulation of the game can be done completely by a computer or partly deferred to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20Henneberg
Mary Janne "Molly" Henneberg (born August 13, 1973) is an American former news reporter for the Fox News Channel. She had joined the network in 2001 and was based at the network's Washington, D.C. bureau. Henneberg left Fox News in December 2014. On October 3, 2015, she reported again on Fox News. Biography During he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20the%20Development%20of%20Education%20in%20Africa
The Association for the Development of Education in Africa, previously known as "Donors to African Education", is a "network and partnership" established by a World Bank initiative in 1988. It groups Ministries of Education, international Development Agencies, NGOs and education specialists. It currently focuses on he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPMD
PPMD may refer to: People Kevin Nanney, an e-sports professional known by his gamer tag PPMD Computer science the compression algorithm PPMd, a variant of the Prediction by partial matching (PPM) compression technique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twit
Twit may refer to: TWiT.tv, a podcast network This Week in Tech, a podcast on the TWiT.tv network The Twits, a children's book by Roald Dahl Twit (song), a 2019 song by Hwasa William "Twit" Scuttle, a fictional character; in the List of The Deptford Mice characters See also Upper Class Twit of the Year, a come...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-to-many
One-to-many may refer to: Fat link, a one-to-many link in hypertext Multivalued function, a one-to-many function in mathematics One-to-many (data model), a type of relationship and cardinality in systems analysis Point-to-multipoint communication, communication which has a one-to-many relationship See also Cardin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernomor-Avia
Chernomor Avia was a charter airline based in Sochi, Russia. It was established in 1994 and operates passenger charter services. Its main base was Sochi International Airport. Code data ICAO Code: CMK (not current) Callsign: Cheravia Fleet The Chernomor Avia fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at January 200...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series%2090
Series 90 may refer to: Aircraft Express Series 90, an American homebuilt aircraft design Computing UNIVAC Series 90, mainframe computers Series 90 (software platform), a platform for mobile phones that uses Symbian OS UNIVAC Series 90, line of mainframe computers Trains JNR 90 series, prototype of JNR 101 seri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radisys
Radisys Corporation is an American technology company located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States that makes technology used by telecommunications companies in mobile networks. Founded in 1987 in Oregon by former employees of Intel, the company went public in 1995. The company's products are used in mobile network appl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPYR
WPYR (1380 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The station currently airs a Catholic programming format. History WPYR was originally WYNK, a country music outlet until its format was moved to the FM side. The station signed on in 1956 and was affiliated with ABC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTK
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and scientific visualization. VTK is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License. Functionality VTK consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, ...