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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORMAC
FORMAC, the FORmula MAnipulation Compiler, was the first computer algebra system to have significant use. It was developed by Jean E. Sammet and her team, as an extension of FORTRAN IV. The compiler was implemented as a preprocessor taking the FORMAC program and converting it to a FORTRAN IV program which was in turn ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepardson%20Microsystems
Shepardson Microsystems, Inc. (SMI) was a small company producing operating systems and programming languages for CP/M, the Atari 8-bit family and Apple II computers. SMI is most noted for the original Apple II disk operating system, Atari BASIC, and Atari's disk operating system. Shepardson Microsystems was founded by...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergistic%20Software
Synergistic Software was a video game developer based in Seattle. Founded in 1978, the company published some of the earliest available games and applications for the Apple II family of computers. They continued developing games for various platforms into the late 1990s. History Synergistic was founded in 1978 by Robe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propane%20%28data%20page%29
This page provides supplementary chemical data on propane. Structure and properties Thermodynamic properties Density of liquid and gas Propane is highly temperature dependent. The density of liquid and gaseous propane are given on the next image. Vapor pressure of liquid Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Z%20Tools
The Community Z Tools (CZT) initiative is based around a SourceForge project to build a set of tools for the Z notation, a formal method useful in software engineering. Tools include support for editing, typechecking and animating Z specifications. There is some support for extensions such as Object-Z and TCOZ. The too...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZT
CZT may stand for: Community Z Tools, a set of tools for the Z notation Cadmium zinc telluride, a semiconductor material Chirp_Z-transform, another name for Bluestein's FFT algorithm Changzhutan, Changsha-Zhuzhou-xiangTan City Cluster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20McGee
Timothy Farragut "Tim" McGee () is a fictional character from the CBS television series NCIS. He is portrayed by Sean Murray. McGee specializes in cybersecurity and computer crime, and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and MIT. Murray appeared as a guest star in eight episodes of the first season of NCIS. In s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Girl%20Who%20Slept%20Too%20Little
"The Girl Who Slept Too Little" is the second episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 18, 2005, and was seen by 9.79 million people during this broadcast. Plot When construction on a stamp museum...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah%20GLX
Utah GLX was a project aimed at creating a fully free and open-source basic hardware-accelerated 3D renderer using the OpenGL rendering API on Linux kernel-based operating systems. Utah GLX predates Direct Rendering Infrastructure, which is what is used as of 2014. John D. Carmack worked on Utah GLX. History Referen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20C.%20Gordon
Michael John Caldwell Gordon (28 February 1948 – 22 August 2017) was a British computer scientist. Life Mike Gordon was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, England. He attended Dartington Hall School and Bedales School. In 1966, he was accepted to study engineering at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, but tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokosuka%20Wars
is a 1983 action-strategy role-playing video game developed by Kōji Sumii (住井浩司) and released by ASCII for the Sharp X1 computer, followed by ports to the MSX, FM-7, NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-8801 and NEC PC-9801 computer platforms, as well as an altered version released for the Family Computer console and later the Virtual ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20May%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Michael David May FRS FREng (born 24 February 1951) is a British computer scientist. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and founder of XMOS Semiconductor, serving until February 2014 as the chief technology officer. May was lead architect for the transputer. As of 2017...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPerspective
MacPerspective was a 3D perspective drawing program developed for the Apple Macintosh computer in 1985. It featured an intuitive system for creating "wireframe" drawings by specifying the X, Y, and Z coordinates of lines to be drawn on the screen. It was developed and distributed by B. Knick Drafting, Inc., which still...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20Felleisen
Matthias Felleisen is a German-American computer science professor and author. He grew up in Germany and immigrated to the US in his twenties. He received his PhD from Indiana University under the direction of Daniel P. Friedman. After serving as professor for 14 years in the Computer Science Department of Rice Unive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20Data%20Services
Remote Data Services (RDS, formerly known as Advanced Data Connector or ADC) is an older technology that is part of Microsoft SQL Server, and used in conjunction with ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). RDS allowed the retrieval of a set of data from a database server, which the client then altered in some way and then sent b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Lin%20%28dissident%29
Zhang Lin (born 1963 in Bengbu, Anhui) is a cyber-dissident from the People's Republic of China. He led student hunger strikes in Bengbu in 1989. He was imprisoned on 29 January 2005, in Bengbu's No. 1 Detention Center. August 2009, Lin was released free. However, he has constantly been harassed by Chinese government ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Plotkin
Gordon David Plotkin, (born 9 September 1946) is a theoretical computer scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Plotkin is probably best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and his work on denotational semantics. In particular, his notes on A Structural A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20assembler/disassembler
A packet assembler/disassembler, abbreviated PAD is a communications device which provides multiple asynchronous terminal connectivity to an X.25 (packet-switching) network or host computer. It collects data from a group of terminals and places the data into X.25 packets (assembly). A PAD also does the reverse, it take...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Farmer%27s%20Almanac
The Old Farmer's Almanac is an almanac containing weather forecasts, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, and articles. Topics include gardening, sports, astronomy, folklore, and predictions on trends in fashion, food, home, technology, and living for the coming year. Published every September, The Old Farmer's...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASmallWorld
ASmallWorld (stylized as ASMALLWORLD, or ASW) is a media company and a social network based in Zürich, Switzerland. The company markets itself as "the world's leading travel & lifestyle community" and offers its services to travellers around the world. Membership The social network has a membership subscription model...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Institute%20of%20Computer%20Science
RISE SICS (previously Swedish Institute of Computer Science) is a leading research institute for applied information and communication technology in Sweden, founded in 1985. It explores the digitalization of products, services and businesses. In January 2005, SICS had about 88 employees, of which 77 were researchers,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Software%20Engineering
The IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Computer Society. It was established in 1975 and covers the area of software engineering. It is considered the leading journal in this field. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional%20hierarchical%20toolkit
The Multidimensional hierarchical toolkit or Multi-Dimensional and Hierarchical (MDH) Database Toolkit is a Linux-based, open-sourced, toolkit of portable software that supports very fast, flexible, multi-dimensional and hierarchical storage, retrieval and manipulation of information in databases ranging in size up to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20National%20Radio%20and%20Television
Lithuanian National Radio and Television (Lithuanian: Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija) is a non-profit news network that has been providing regular radio services since 1926 and television broadcasts since 1957. LRT joined the European Broadcasting Union in 1993. LRT operates three national television chann...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager
IBM Storage Protect (IBM Spectrum Protect, Tivoli Storage Manager) is a data protection platform that gives enterprises a single point of control and administration for backup and recovery. It is the flagship product in the IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) family. It enables backups and recovery for virtu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Queue
ACM Queue is a bimonthly computer magazine founded and published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The magazine was established in 2003. Steve Bourne helped found the magazine when he was president of the ACM and is chair of the editorial board. The magazine is produced by computing professionals and is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacenet
Acquired by SageNet in 2014, Spacenet, Inc. was a provider of VSAT satellite-based data network services as well as hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks and network management services. Spacenet was headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia in the United States. Spacenet's primary business was providing VSAT and hybri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod%20slurping
Pod slurping is the act of using a portable data storage device such as an iPod digital audio player to illicitly download large quantities of confidential data by directly plugging it into a computer where the data are held, and which may be on the inside of a firewall. There has been some work in the development of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTEC
UTEC (University of Toronto Electronic Computer Mark I) was a computer built at the University of Toronto (UofT) in the early 1950s. It was the first computer in Canada, one of the first working computers in the world, although only built in a prototype form while awaiting funding for expansion into a full-scale versio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPLL
DPLL stands for: DPLL algorithm, for solving the boolean satisfiability problem Digital phase-locked loop, an electronic feedback system that generates a signal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumi
Sumi may refer to: People Names Sumi Haru (1939–2014), American film and television actress Sumi Hakim (born 1944), Indonesian fashion designer and former model Sumi Helal, is a computer scientist Sumi Hwang (born 1986), South Korean soprano Sumi Jo (born 1962), South Korean lyric coloratura soprano Sumi Khadka ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%209800%20series
The HP 9800 is a family of what were initially called programmable calculators and later desktop computers that were made by Hewlett-Packard, replacing their first HP 9100 calculator. It is also named "98 line". The 9830 and its successors were true computers in the modern sense of the term, complete with a powerful BA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Antonia%20%28film%29
My Antonia is a 1995 American cable made-for-television drama film based on the 1918 novel of the same name written by Willa Cather, produced for the USA Network. The movie was directed by Joseph Sargent and starred Jason Robards, Eva Marie Saint, and Neil Patrick Harris. It was filmed in part at the Stuhr Museum in Gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpsychology
Cyberpsychology (also known as Internet psychology, web psychology, or digital psychology) is a scientific inter-disciplinary domain that focuses on the psychological phenomena which emerge as a result of the human interaction with digital technology, particularly the Internet. Overview Cyberpsychology is the study of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVEN-TV
WVEN-TV (channel 43) is a television station licensed to Melbourne, Florida, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Orlando area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside low-power, Class A UniMás outlet WRCF-CD (channel 29). Both stations share studios on Douglas Avenu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARJ
WARJ is a radio station licensed to Shawsville, Virginia, broadcasting the Air1 network to Roanoke, Virginia and the New River Valley. WARJ is owned by the Educational Media Foundation. History The station signed on in 2013 as WBZS. From its sign-on, the station was leased by owner George S. Flinn, Jr., to Three Daugh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECosCentric
eCosCentric Limited is a privately held company dedicated to open source software, with a distinct focus on eCos (Embedded Configurable Operating System). Founded in 2002 by the original eCos developers, it has headquarters in Cambridge, England from where it continues to support, develop and provide commercial service...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedBoot
RedBoot (an acronym for Red Hat Embedded Debug and Bootstrap firmware) is an open-source application that uses the eCos real-time operating system Hardware Abstraction Layer to provide bootstrap firmware for embedded systems. RedBoot allows download and execution of embedded applications via serial or Ethernet, includ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%2093.7
Nova 93.7 (call sign: 6PER) is a commercial radio station in Perth, Western Australia. Jointly owned by NOVA Entertainment and Australian Radio Network, it was established in the Perth market on 5 December 2002. Nova 93.7 was launched at 3pm by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and by current drive presenter Tim Blackwell, wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%203D
Universal 3D (U3D) is a compressed file format standard for 3D computer graphics data. The format was defined by a special consortium called 3D Industry Forum that brought together a diverse group of companies and organizations, including Intel, Boeing, HP, Adobe Systems, Bentley Systems, Right Hemisphere and others ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDB
UDB may refer to: Computing Universal Database, the original name of the IBM Db2 database Universal Desktop Box, a line of desktop computers originally named DEC Multia User database, for T9 predictive text Ultimate Doom Builder, the level/script editor for the first-person shooter Doom and its derivatives. Undo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20%28computer%29
The ATM Turbo (ru: "АТМ-ТУРБО"), also known simply as ATM (from ru: "Ассоциация Творческой Молодёжи", meaning "Association of Creative Youth") is a ZX Spectrum clone, developed in Moscow in 1991, by two firms, MicroArt and ATM. It offers enhanced characteristics, compared to the original Spectrum, such as a , RAM, R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBR
UBR may refer to: Unspecified Bit Rate, a traffic contract used to guarantee quality of service for networks Universal broadband router, an alternate name for a cable modem termination system Uniform Business Rate, see Business rates in England and Wales "U.B.R. (Unauthorized Biography of Rakim)", a song by Nas f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Atari%20ST%20games
The following list contains game titles released for the Atari ST home computer systems. 0–9 'Nam 1965–1975 007: Licence to Kill 1st Math 10th Frame 12. Jahrhundert (Das) 1943: The Battle of Midway 1944 1789 la Révolution Française 1st Division Manager 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 221B Baker Street 3-D Asteroids 3D ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede4
Rede4, now Pop, is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, launched in 2005 in Portugal, over the network Optimus Telecomunicações, S.A. Telecommunications companies established in 2005 Mobile virtual network operators 2005 establishments in Portugal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20register
In quantum computing, a quantum register is a system comprising multiple qubits. It is the quantum analogue of the classical processor register. Quantum computers perform calculations by manipulating qubits within a quantum register. Definition It is usually assumed that the register consists of qubits. It is also...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Cheriton
David Ross Cheriton (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group. He is a distributed computing and computer networking expert, with insigh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Braden
Robert Braden (28 January 1934 – April 2018) was an American computer scientist who played a role in the development of the Internet. His research interests included end-to-end network protocols, especially in the transport and network layers. Career Braden received a Bachelor of Engineering Physics from Cornell Univ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Borges
Ron Borges is an American sportswriter for the Talk of Fame Network. He has previously written for The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald and was a regular guest on The Mike Felger Show, which aired on 890 ESPN radio until July 2008. Borges also was a regular contributor to the HBO.com's Boxing website until 2008. Borges ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb%20Grosch
Herbert Reuben John Grosch (September 13, 1918 – January 18, 2010) was an early computer scientist, perhaps best known for Grosch's law, which he formulated in 1950. Grosch's Law is an aphorism that states "economy is as the square root of the speed." Biography Born September 13, 1918, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Gros...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDEV
WDEV (550 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Waterbury, Vermont. Programming is simulcast on WDEV-FM (96.1 MHz) licensed to Warren, Vermont. The stations' studios and offices are located near U.S. Route 2 in Waterbury. WDEV also operates two translator stations, W243AT (96.5 FM), licensed to Barre, Vermont, an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogle%20DVD%20Player
Ogle is a DVD player for Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. It was released as free software under the GNU GPL license. It was originally developed in 1999 by a few students at Chalmers Tekniska Högskola (Chalmers University of Technology) in Göteborg, Sweden, and maintained until late 2003. It was the firs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMpad
The SIMpad is a portable computer developed by the company Keith & Koep by order of Siemens AG, with an 8.4" TFT touchscreen. Commonly used with wireless network cards, it was marketed as a device to browse the World Wide Web. Initially announced in January 2001 at the Consumer Electronics Show. There are five k...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20segment%20lifetime
Maximum segment lifetime or MSL is the time a TCP segment can exist in the internetwork system. It was defined in 1981 to be . The specification calls for this value to be used for the "time-wait" interval, the minimum time a system must keep the socket in the state before designating the socket closed, thus prevent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20hardware%20vendor
An independent hardware vendor (IHV) is a company specializing in making or selling computer hardware, usually for niche markets. See also Independent software vendor Software company Computer industry vendor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%E2%80%93Karlhede%20algorithm
The Cartan–Karlhede algorithm is a procedure for completely classifying and comparing Riemannian manifolds. Given two Riemannian manifolds of the same dimension, it is not always obvious whether they are locally isometric. Élie Cartan, using his exterior calculus with his method of moving frames, showed that it is al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Crossman
Craig Crossman is a national newspaper columnist for McClatchy newspapers, specializing in computer-related articles. Throughout the years his articles have appeared in hundreds of newspapers including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Orange County Register, The Hawaiian Advertiser, The San Jose Mercury News ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20America
The Computer America Show is a talk radio/video program about technology ranging from consumer-level to new developments. Airing every weekday for two hours, it features interviews, regular correspondents who specialize in various fields, and a review of developments in technology news. History Craig Crossman began ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20Fv1976%20107
This runic inscription, designated as U Fv1976;107 under the Rundata catalog, is located at the Uppsala Cathedral in Uppsala, Sweden. Description The runic inscription consists of text inscribed on a thin intertwined beast with one upper loop around a Christian cross and two lower loops. This runestone was discovered ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20security
Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks. The term may also refer to the protection of the wireless network itself from adversaries seeking to damage the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the network. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDSF
The System Display and Search Facility (SDSF) is a component of IBM's mainframe operating system, z/OS, is an interactive user interface that allows users and administrators to view and control various aspects of the mainframe's operation and system resources. Some of the information displayed in SDSF includes Batch jo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29
Nickelodeon (commonly shortened to Nick) is a British pay television network aimed at children aged 5 to 14. On 1 September 1993, a localised version of the US channel launched in the United Kingdom and launched at a later date in Ireland. In the United Kingdom, the channel is available on Sky, Virgin Media, and TalkT...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%20Update%20Services
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), previously known as Software Update Services (SUS), is a computer program and network service developed by Microsoft Corporation that enables administrators to manage the distribution of updates and hotfixes released for Microsoft products to computers in a corporate environment. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Brunner
Robert Brunner (born 1958) is an American industrial designer. Brunner was the Director of Industrial Design for Apple Computer from 1989 to 1996, and is a founder and current partner at Ammunition Design Group. Biography Brunner received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Design from San José State Universit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20Multimedia%20Services%20Identity%20Module
An IP Multimedia Services Identity Module (ISIM) is an application residing on the UICC, an IC card specified in TS 31.101. This module could be on a UMTS 3G or IMS VoLTE network. It contains parameters for identifying and authenticating the user to the IMS. The ISIM application can co-exist with SIM and USIM on the sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A594%20road%20%28Leicester%29
The A594 Central Ring is the name of Leicester's central distributor road network. With the continuing regeneration of the inner city, the Central Ring has become a route within the city centre rather than one that encloses it; especially near the New Walk/Freemen's/University of Leicester and the Bede Island/Watersid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Security%20Death%20Index
The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) was a database of death records created from the United States Social Security Administration's Death Master File until 2014. Since 2014, public access to the updated Death Master File has been via the Limited Access Death Master File certification program instituted under Title 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Kaykobad
Mohammad Kaykobad () is a computer scientist, educator, author, and columnist from Bangladesh. Along with Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, he started the national mathematics olympiad. He was a professor of computer science and engineering in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. and currently is a faculty member o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20SQL/DS
SQL/DS (Structured Query Language/Data System), released in 1981, was IBM's first commercial relational-database management system. It implemented the SQL database-query language. SQL/DS ran on the DOS/VSE and VM/CMS operating systems. A little later, IBM also introduced Db2, another SQL-based DBMS, this one for the M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Gordon%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Sarah Gordon is a computer security researcher, responsible for early scientific and academic work on virus writers, hackers, and social issues in computing. She was among the first computer scientists to propose a multidisciplinary approach to computer security. Known primarily for work relating to people and compute...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGG
VGG may refer to: Volgograd Oblast Van de Graaff generator Verkehrsgesellschaft Görlitz Visual Geometry Group, an academic group focused on computer vision at Oxford University A deep convolutional network for object recognition developed and trained by this group. Vice Grip Garage, a popular YouTube channel. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20identification%20code
The ISDN Services User Part (ISUP) Circuit Identification Code (CIC) is part of the Signaling System #7 which is used to set up telephone calls in Public Switched Telephone Networks as part of the Initial Address Message (IAM). When a telephone call is set up from one subscriber to another, many telephone exchanges wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename%3A%20Strykeforce
Strykeforce is a team of mercenary superheroes created by Marc Silvestri and published by Top Cow, an imprint Image Comics. The comic series Codename: Strykeforce was an offshoot of Cyberforce. Publication history The comic series Codename: Strykeforce (January 1994 – August 1995) was an offshoot of Cyberforce, a comi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve%20%28mail%20filtering%20language%29
Sieve is a programming language that can be used for email filtering. It owes its creation to the CMU Cyrus Project, creators of Cyrus IMAP server. The language is not tied to any particular operating system or mail architecture. It requires the use of RFC-2822–compliant messages, but otherwise generalizes to other sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired%20glove
A wired glove (also called a dataglove or cyberglove) is an input device for human–computer interaction worn like a glove. Various sensor technologies are used to capture physical data such as bending of fingers. Often a motion tracker, such as a magnetic tracking device or inertial tracking device, is attached to cap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Wave
Z-Wave is a wireless communications protocol used primarily for residential and commercial building automation. It is a mesh network using low-energy radio waves to communicate from device to device, allowing for wireless control of smart home devices, such as smart lights, security systems, thermostats, sensors, smart...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meebo
Meebo (often stylized as meebo) was an instant messaging and social networking service provider. It was founded in September 2005 by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry, and was based in Mountain View, California. Initially the company offered a web-based instant messenger service, extending its offer in more ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-R1
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 is a bridge digital camera announced by Sony in 2005. It featured a 10.3 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor (21.5 × 14.4 mm), a size typically used in DSLRs and rarely used in bridge cameras (which were using at that time 2/3" (= 6.6 × 8.8 mm) or 1/1.8" (= 5.3 × 7.1 mm)). This was the first time su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Analysis%20Services
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is an online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining tool in Microsoft SQL Server. SSAS is used as a tool by organizations to analyze and make sense of information possibly spread out across multiple databases, or in disparate tables or files. Microsoft has included a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runbook
In a computer system or network, a runbook is a compilation of routine procedures and operations that the system administrator or operator carries out. System administrators in IT departments and NOCs use runbooks as a reference. Runbooks can be in either electronic or in physical book form. Typically, a runbook cont...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20Binary%20Optimization
Adaptive Binary Optimization, (ABO), is a supposed lossless image compression algorithm by MatrixView Ltd. It uses a patented method to compress the high correlation found in digital content signals and additional compression with standard entropy encoding algorithms such as Huffman coding. External links : Repetiti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Malachowsky
Chris Malachowsky (born May 2, 1959) is an American electrical engineer, one of the co-founders of computer graphics company Nvidia. Raised in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Malachowsky graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1976. He received a B.S. degree in 1983, in electr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewheelers
Freewheelers is a British television series made by Southern Television between 1968 and 1973 for the ITV network. It was created by the television producer Chris McMaster, who was aware of the popularity of adult action series such as The Avengers and Department S amongst teenagers and saw the potential of a version a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUHT
WUHT (107.7 FM, "Hot 107.7") is an urban adult contemporary radio station that serves the Birmingham, Alabama, area. The station is also the flagship station of the UAB Blazers Radio Network which had previously been heard on sister station WWMM. Owned by Cumulus Media, the station has studios in Homewood and its tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Cowden%20Clarke
Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke (née Novello; pen names, M. H. and Harry Wandsworth Shortfellow; 22 June 1809 – 12 January 1898) was an English author, and compiler of a concordance to Shakespeare. Early life and education Mary Victoria Novello was born at 240 Oxford Street, London, 22 June 1809. She was the eldest daught...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliefors%20test
In statistics, the Lilliefors test is a normality test based on the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. It is used to test the null hypothesis that data come from a normally distributed population, when the null hypothesis does not specify which normal distribution; i.e., it does not specify the expected value and variance of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20farming
Data farming is the process of using designed computational experiments to “grow” data, which can then be analyzed using statistical and visualization techniques to obtain insight into complex systems. These methods can be applied to any computational model. Data farming differs from Data mining, as the following me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink%20Project
The Starlink Project, referred to by users as Starlink and by developers as simply The Project, was a UK astronomical computing project which supplied general-purpose data reduction software. Until the late 1990s, it also supplied computing hardware and system administration personnel to UK astronomical institutes. In ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESOP
ESOP may refer to: European Symposium on Programming, a conference in computer science Employee stock ownership plan, an employee-owner scheme See also Aesop, an ancient Greek storyteller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRTE%20Computer
The DRTE Computer was a transistorized computer built at the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE), part of the Canadian Defence Research Board. It was one of the earlier fully transistorized machines, running in prototype form in 1957, and fully developed form in 1960. Although the performance was q...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extro
Extro may refer to: Extro, an alternative term for Outro Extro (novel), an alternative title for The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty%20of%20the%20stimulus
Poverty of the stimulus (POS) is the controversial argument from linguistics that children are not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic environments to acquire every feature of their language. This is considered evidence contrary to the empiricist idea that language is learned solely through experience. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Incident-Based%20Reporting%20System
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is an incident-based reporting system used by law enforcement agencies in the United States for collecting and reporting data on crimes. Local, state and federal agencies generate NIBRS data from their records management systems. Data is collected on every incident and a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missinipi%20Broadcasting%20Corporation
Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation, or MBC Radio, is a radio network in Canada, serving First Nations and Métis communities in the province of Saskatchewan. The network's flagship station is CJLR in La Ronge. MBC Radio broadcasts to more than 70 communities in Saskatchewan, including the major urban centres, and broadc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Academy%20of%20Sciences%20and%20Arts
The European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, ) is a transnational and interdisciplinary network, connecting about 2,000 recommended scientists and artists worldwide, including 38 Nobel Prize laureates. The European Academy of Sciences and Arts is a learned society of scientists and artists, founded by Felix Unger....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-Up%20Mother%20Goose
Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose is a computer game first released by Sierra On-Line in 1987. It is, in essence, an edutainment title, directed specifically at young gamers, as well as an adventure game. It was the first multimedia game released on CD-ROM in 1991. A second game in the series, Mixed-Up Fairy Tale...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Student%20Television%20Network
The Open Student Television Network (OSTN), is a USA national student television network, headquartered in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. OSTN was founded in the fall of 2004 and launched its high-bitrate IPTV stream on February 28, 2005. History In the fall of 2004, a group of student television station managers met in C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib
lib or Lib may refer to: Computing Library (computing) .lib, a static library on Microsoft platforms , a directory on Unix-like systems Lib-80, a Microsoft Library Manager tool; see Microsoft MACRO-80 People Lib, one of two Jaredite kings in the Book of Mormon Hypocorism for Elizabeth (given name) Lib Spry, Ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20library
In computer science, a static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, producing an object file and a stand-alone executable. This executable and the p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20House%20%28film%29
Monster House is a 2006 American computer-animated supernatural horror comedy film directed by Gil Kenan, in his directorial debut, with a screenplay by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler, from a story by Harmon and Schrab. The story, set during Halloween, follows a group of kids who discover and attempt to stop...