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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted%20index
In computer science, an inverted index (also referred to as a postings list, postings file, or inverted file) is a database index storing a mapping from content, such as words or numbers, to its locations in a table, or in a document or a set of documents (named in contrast to a forward index, which maps from documents...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20state%20routing
Hierarchical state routing (HSR), proposed in Scalable Routing Strategies for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks by Iwata et al. (1999), is a typical example of a hierarchical routing protocol. HSR maintains a hierarchical topology, where elected clusterheads at the lowest level become members of the next higher level. On the h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah%2C%20The%20Hidden%20Massacre
Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre is a documentary film by Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta which first aired on Italy's RAI state television network on November 8, 2005. The film documents the use of chemical weapons, particularly the use of incendiary bombs containing white phosphorus, and alleges that insurgents ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20Mart
Micro Mart was a weekly computer magazine published in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing Ltd. As of 2015, it had a circulation of 5,422. In a letter to subscribers in December 2016 it was announced that the magazine would cease publication with issue No 1445 (published just after Christmas 2016): "After 30 amazin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20client%20platform
The rich client platform (RCP) is a programmer tool that makes it easier to integrate independent software components, where most of the data processing occurs on the client side. Overview RCP is a software consisting of the following components: A core (microkernel), lifecycle manager A standard bundling framework...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exatron
Exatron manufactures a series of automated handling, testing, programming, and marking equipment for the packaged integrated circuit industry. Products Exatron designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and services a wide variety of I.C. component handling and testing equipment. Exatron products are used in the testi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Lisa%20Goes%20to%20Washington
"Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" is the second episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 26, 1991. In the episode, Lisa wins a patriotic essay contest about the United States. She and her family attend the c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20expression
In computer science, a Boolean expression is an expression used in programming languages that produces a Boolean value when evaluated. A Boolean value is either true or false. A Boolean expression may be composed of a combination of the Boolean constants true or false, Boolean-typed variables, Boolean-valued operators,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another%20Life%20%281981%20TV%20series%29
Another Life is an American television soap opera produced and broadcast by The Christian Broadcasting Network from June 1, 1981 to October 5, 1984. It was co-created by Roy Winsor and Bob Aaron, and ran for 875 episodes. It attempted to combine standard afternoon intrigue with religious overtones, as many characters w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall%20Hart
Kendall Hart is a fictional character from All My Children, an American soap opera on the ABC network. The character was portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar from February 24, 1993, to July 3, 1995, and by Alicia Minshew from January 2002 until the show's series finale on September 23, 2011. On March 7, 2013, it was anno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner%20Verkehrsbetriebe
The (German: 'Berlin Transport Company') is the main public transport company of Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It manages the city's (underground), tram, bus and ferry networks, but not the urban rail system. The generally used abbreviation, BVG, has been retained from the company's original name, (Berlin T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogues%20of%20Fundamental%20Stars
The Catalogue of Fundamental Stars is a series of six astrometric catalogues of high precision positional data for a small selection of stars to define a celestial reference frame, which is a standard coordinate system for measuring positions of stars. Publication history The six volumes in the fundamental catalogue ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikodom
Taikodom was a computer game by Brazilian developer Hoplon Infotainment. Considered by the developers to be a Massive Social Game rather than MMORPG, Taikodom featured a persistent online outer space environment. In 2007, an English version of the beta was released. The game was eventually shut down in May 2015. Hopl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20England%20temperature
The Central England Temperature (CET) record is a meteorological dataset originally published by Professor Gordon Manley in 1953 and subsequently extended and updated in 1974, following many decades of painstaking work. The monthly mean surface air temperatures, for the Midlands region of England, are given (in degrees...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative%20human%20interpreter
The collaborative human interpreter (CHI) is a proposed software interface for human-based computation (first proposed as a programming language on the blog Google Blogoscoped, but implementable via an API in virtually any programming language) specially designed for collecting and making use of human intelligence in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC%20Reports
MSNBC Reports (formerly MSNBC Live) is the blanket title for the daytime rolling news programming block of the American cable news channel MSNBC. Programs under the banner are broadcast from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on weekdays, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on Saturdays, and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on Sundays. The p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Invention%20Network
Open Invention Network (OIN) is a company that acquires patents and licenses them royalty-free to its community members who, in turn, agree not to assert their own patents against Linux and Linux-related systems and applications. History The company was incorporated on 31 October 2005. Based in Durham, NC, it was foun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S6
S6 or S-6 may refer to: Routes S6 (Berlin), a S-Bahn line S6 (Milan suburban railway network) S6 (Munich), a S-Bahn line in Munich S6 (Rhine-Main S-Bahn) S6 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn), line S6 (St. Gallen S-Bahn) S6 (ZVV), a S-Bahn line in the cantons of Zürich and Aargau in Switzerland County Route S6 (California) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut%20Food%20Bank
Connecticut Food Bank is a nonprofit organization, based in Wallingford, Connecticut. As a member of Feeding America, Connecticut Food Bank secures food donations from a national and regional network of food donors, retail partners, manufacturers, wholesalers and farms. Connecticut Food Bank supplies food to a networ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mu%20Emulator%20X
Emulator X is a software-based audio sampler that was produced by E-MU Systems from 2004 to 2009. Emulator X software is compatible with PCs running the Microsoft Windows operating system. The sampler can operate as a stand-alone program or as a VST instrument and, as of Emulator X3, is available in both 32-bit and 64...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJMN-TV
WJMN-TV (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Escanaba, Michigan, United States, serving the Central and Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and maintains studios off US 41/M-28 on Wright Street in Marquette Township; its transmitte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20P.%20Friedman
Daniel Paul Friedman (born 1944) is a professor of Computer Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His research focuses on programming languages, and he is a prominent author in the field. With David Wise, Friedman wrote a highly influential paper on lazy programming, specifically on lazy streams (ICA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Vari%20Engineering%20and%20Computing%20Centre
The George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre is a 4-story building that is part of Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Initially, in 2000, Santiago Calatrava proposed that the engineering building be 33 floors. The cost was $90 million and $25 million over the university's budget. Complet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witty%20%28computer%20worm%29
The Witty worm was a computer worm that attacked the firewall and other computer security products written by a particular company, the Internet Security Systems (ISS) now IBM Internet Security Systems. It was the first worm to take advantage of vulnerabilities in the very pieces of software designed to enhance networ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20MTA-2
The Cray MTA-2 is a shared-memory MIMD computer marketed by Cray Inc. It is an unusual design based on the Tera computer designed by Tera Computer Company. The original Tera computer (also known as the MTA) turned out to be nearly unmanufacturable due to its aggressive packaging and circuit technology. The MTA-2 was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok%20Bank
Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited (, RTGS: Thanakhan Krung Thep) is one of the largest commercial banks in Thailand. Its branch network includes over 1,165 branches as of September 2018, within Thailand, with 32 international branches in 15 economies, including wholly owned subsidiaries in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloom%20%28video%20game%29
Gloom is a 1995 computer game for the Amiga computer. Gloom was the first commercially released Amiga clone of first-person shooter Doom. Gameplay Gloom features 'Messy' or 'Meaty' graphics settings. If 'Messy' graphics are enabled, gibs from enemies explode more violently but disappear promptly, and if 'Meaty' grap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner%20Bros.%20Discovery%20EMEA
Warner Bros. Discovery Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery. The division is responsible for managing the collection of their cable and satellite networks around the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. History WarnerMedia EMEA As Turner Broadcasting System EMEA In 1985, Te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20optical%20interface
A parallel optical interface is a form of fiber optic technology aimed primarily at communications and networking over relatively short distances (less than 300 meters), and at high bandwidths. Parallel optic interfaces differ from traditional fiber optic communication in that data is simultaneously transmitted and re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Showdown
The Big Showdown is an American game show that aired on the ABC television network from December 23, 1974 to July 4, 1975. Jim Peck (in his national television debut) hosted the program and Dan Daniel (then a disc jockey on New York City's WHN) served as announcer. The series was recorded at ABC's New York studio TV15...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-water%20mark%20%28computer%20security%29
In the fields of physical security and information security, the high-water mark for access control was introduced by Clark Weissmann in 1969. It pre-dates the Bell–LaPadula security model, whose first volume appeared in 1972. Under high-water mark, any object less than the user's security level can be opened, but the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20systems%20management
Telecommunications systems management (Telecomm or TSM for short, also Telecommunication systems, Telecommunications management, Network management) is an interdisciplinary area of study offered at some universities to fill the need for a liaison between the technical aspect and the business aspect of telecommunication...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airespace
Airespace, Inc., formerly Black Storm Networks, was a networking hardware company founded in 2001, manufacturing wireless access points and Controllers. The company developed the AP-Controller model for fast deployment and the Lightweight Access Point Protocol, the precursor to the CAPWAP protocol. Corporate history ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Tropsha
Alexander Tropsha is a chemist and professor at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Tropsha is Associate Dean for Pharmacoinformatics and Data Science at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. His primary fields of research are cheminformatics and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modeling ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20file
A data file is a computer file which stores data to be used by a computer application or system, including input and output data. A data file usually does not contain instructions or code to be executed (that is, a computer program). Most of the computer programs work with data files. Types of data files Data files...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20Flanders%20Failed
"When Flanders Failed" is the third episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 3, 1991. In the episode, Homer makes a wish for Ned Flanders's new left-handed store to go out of business. The wish comes true ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar-based%20code
Grammar-based codes or Grammar-based compression are compression algorithms based on the idea of constructing a context-free grammar (CFG) for the string to be compressed. Examples include universal lossless data compression algorithms. To compress a data sequence , a grammar-based code transforms into a context-free ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC%20flight%20simulator
An RC flight simulator is a computer program that allows pilots of radio-controlled aircraft to practice on a computer, without the risk and expense of damaging a real model. Besides the obvious use of training beginners, they are also used for practising new aerobatics, evaluating a model before buying it, and to allo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20Mortiz
Edgardo Mortiz (born August 30, 1954) is a Filipino actor, comedian, singer and director who is currently affiliated with GMA Network and Brightlight Productions. He previously directed numerous shows under ABS-CBN, until its shutdown where he left the network after 34 years. Filmography As director Isa, Dalawa, Takb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hospitals%20in%20Romania
The list below is a database that contains hospitals in Romania. All public hospitals receive funding from the Ministry of Health. Romania has a universal healthcare system, hence all public hospitals are charge-free and available to each citizen of the European Union. There are 425 operational hospitals across the cou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20Sisters
The Satellite Sisters, is an internet–based podcast. Previously, the show was a syndicated radio program heard on Public Radio International and ABC News & Talk (via ABC Radio Networks). The program began on Public Radio International in 2000; A year after its launch, it was syndicated on 70 radio stations. The show r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime%20NebrasKon
Anime NebrasKon is an annual three-day anime convention held during October at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. It is organized by the Nebraska Japanese Animation Society. Programming The convention typically offers an artist's alley, anime idol, anime music video contest, cosplay contests, cosplay masq...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMH
PMH may stand for: Phú Mỹ Hưng urban area, a planned city in Vietnam Greater Portsmouth Regional Airport, IATA code OAI-PMH, the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Past medical history Princess Margaret Hospital (disambiguation), various hospitals Portsmouth Harbour railway station, Hampshire, England, Natio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATV%20Offroad%20Fury
ATV Offroad Fury is a 2001 racing video game developed by Rainbow Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation 2 in North America and Europe. A sequel, ATV Offroad Fury 2, was released in 2002. Gameplay The player may choose between 12 different types of all-terrain vehicles an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend%20or%20Foe
Friend or Foe may refer to: Film and television Friend or Foe (film), a 1982 British film by John Krish Friend or Foe (game show), a 2002–2003 American game show that aired on Game Show Network Friend or Foe (SpongeBob SquarePants), animated TV series episode Music Friend or Foe (album), album by Adam Ant "Friend or ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20networks%20by%20country
This is a list of television networks by country, as officially available at major countries. Mostly are free-to-air digital terrestrial television channels and also digital satellite television channels. Åland Islands Åland24 TV Åland D Channel A1 A2 A24 ATVR (Åland Island television radio) Afghanistan RTA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sunday%20Roast
The Sunday Roast was an Australian sports talk show that dealt with the issues in the National Rugby League. Created by sports presenter Andrew Voss, it aired on the Nine Network, first screening in 2005, beginning at and leading into The Sunday Footy Show. In 2006, with the axing of Voss's previous show, Boots N' All...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWE
TWE may refer to: Test of Written English, a required component of the computer-based TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) TransWest Express, an electricity transmission line in the US Trans World Express, an airline Treasury Wine Estates, a company See also Twe, a Cyrillic letter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoSy
CoSy, short for Conferencing System, was an early computer conferencing system developed at the University of Guelph. The CoS software grew out of an interest in group computer mediated communication systems in 1981 by Dick Mason and John Black. A project was initiated in the Institute of Computer Science to investiga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Edwards%20%28artist%29
Benjamin Edwards (born 1970) is an American visual artist known for his work with satellite maps, architectural blueprints, and computer models as source material. He is the husband of political consultant and government official Neera Tanden. Early life and education Benjamin Edwards was born in Iowa City, Iowa. He e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20in%20Scotland
Television in Scotland mostly consists of UK-wide broadcasts, with regional variations at different times which are specific to Scotland. The BBC and ITV networks both began broadcasting in the country during the 1950s. There were further expansions in the early 1960s with the arrival of Grampian, Border and BBC2 telev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20suffix%20tree
In computer science, a generalized suffix tree is a suffix tree for a set of strings. Given the set of strings of total length , it is a Patricia tree containing all suffixes of the strings. It is mostly used in bioinformatics. Functionality It can be built in time and space, and can be used to find all occurrenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386MAX
{{DISPLAYTITLE:386MAX}} 386MAX (originally 386 to the Max, later Qualitas MAX) is a computer memory manager for DOS-based personal computers. It competed with Quarterdeck's QEMM memory manager. It was manufactured by Qualitas. BlueMax was a special version designed for the IBM PS/2 with ROM compression to get the mos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Root
Jane Fairbairn Root (born 18 May 1957) is a creative executive in the media industry, who has run major television networks on both sides of the Atlantic. As Controller of BBC Two (1999 to 2004), she was the first woman to be a channel controller for the BBC, and was later President of Discovery Networks in the United ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-industry%20standard%20process%20for%20data%20mining
The Cross-industry standard process for data mining, known as CRISP-DM, is an open standard process model that describes common approaches used by data mining experts. It is the most widely-used analytics model. In 2015, IBM released a new methodology called Analytics Solutions Unified Method for Data Mining/Predictiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Network
Democratic Network (RED Democratico, RED) is a progressive, green political party in Aruba. Since the 2017 Aruban general election it has one seat in the Estates of Aruba and is part of the government coalition under Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes. History founded the party. During the 2005 Aruban general electio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20medium%20dependent
Physical medium dependent sublayers or PMDs further help to define the physical layer of computer network protocols. They define the details of transmission and reception of individual bits on a physical medium. These responsibilities encompass bit timing, signal encoding, interacting with the physical medium, and the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pose%20%28computer%20vision%29
In the fields of computing and computer vision, pose (or spatial pose) represents the position and orientation of an object, usually in three dimensions. Poses are often stored internally as transformation matrices. The term “pose” is largely synonymous with the term “transform”, but a transform may often include scale...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS%20Set-top%20Gateway
DOCSIS Set-top Gateway (or DSG) is a specification describing how out-of-band data is delivered to a cable set-top box. Cable set-top boxes need a reliable source of out of band data for information such as program guides, channel lineups, and updated code images. Features DSG is an extension of the DOCSIS protocol g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20coding%20sublayer
The physical coding sublayer (PCS) is a networking protocol sublayer in the Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards. It resides at the top of the physical layer (PHY), and provides an interface between the Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) sublayer and the media-independent interface (MII). It...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Raiders%20II
Star Raiders II is a video game released in 1986 for the Atari 8-bit family as a sequel to 1979's Star Raiders, which was the killer app for the Atari computers. The game was originally developed as part of a tie-in with the movie The Last Starfighter, which featured an arcade game of the same name as part of its plotl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland%E2%80%93Altman%20plot
A Bland–Altman plot (difference plot) in analytical chemistry or biomedicine is a method of data plotting used in analyzing the agreement between two different assays. It is identical to a Tukey mean-difference plot, the name by which it is known in other fields, but was popularised in medical statistics by J. Martin B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft%20Corner%20Deathmatch
Craft Corner Deathmatch was a television show aired on the Style Network in 2005. Two contestants are challenged by host Jason Jones to make things such as notebooks and handbags out of various objects. After ten minutes, the contestants show their projects to a panel of judges who then rate it on a scale from one to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%20%281991%20video%20game%29
is a puzzle video game released for the Family Computer in 1991 by Human. It was released only in Japan. It is an object elimination type puzzle game. A player controls a spherical jewel and jumps from tile to tile. Stepping on an arrow shifts a row or column in the direction of the arrow. Placing two or more of the sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy%20%28British%20TV%20channel%29
Galaxy was a short-lived British satellite television channel, owned and operated by British Satellite Broadcasting. The station, focused on general entertainment and children's programming, was one of the five BSB channels, based at the network's headquarters at Marco Polo House in Battersea. Galaxy broadcast a mix ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20airports%20by%20ICAO%20code%3A%20A
Format of entries is: ICAO (IATA) – airport name – airport location AG - Solomon Islands AN - Nauru AY - Papua New Guinea References - includes IATA codes Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes A Airport designator, ICAO:A Airport designator, ICAO:A Airports by ICAO code: A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-polynomial%20time
In computational complexity theory, a numeric algorithm runs in pseudo-polynomial time if its running time is a polynomial in the numeric value of the input (the largest integer present in the input)—but not necessarily in the length of the input (the number of bits required to represent it), which is the case for poly...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20Networks
Metro Networks was a broadcasting outsourcing company based in Houston, Texas. It was a subsidiary of Westwood One until its sale to Clear Channel Communications in 2011. The company operated local and regional news and traffic operations that provided regular reports to affiliates, together with its sister company Sha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKFX-CD
KKFX-CD (channel 24) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to San Luis Obispo, California, United States, serving the Central Coast of California as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside Santa Barbara–licensed ABC/CBS affiliate KEYT-TV (channel 3)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikroDatorn
MikroDatorn was a Swedish computer magazine. The first issue of MikroDatorn was published in 1978, which makes it one of the oldest computer magazines in Sweden (Datornytt, published by Nordpress and disestablished in 1991, was older). MikroDatorn was published on a monthly basis. MikroDatorn focused on reviews of com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover%21
Hover! is a video game that combines elements of the games bumper cars and capture the flag. It was included on CD-ROM versions of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. It was a showcase for the advanced multimedia capabilities available on personal computers at the time. It is still available from Microsoft. The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%E2%80%93Wolfe%20algorithm
The Frank–Wolfe algorithm is an iterative first-order optimization algorithm for constrained convex optimization. Also known as the conditional gradient method, reduced gradient algorithm and the convex combination algorithm, the method was originally proposed by Marguerite Frank and Philip Wolfe in 1956. In each itera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Area%20Bisexual%20Network
New York Area Bisexual Network (NYABN) is a central communications network for bisexual and bi-friendly groups and resources in the five boroughs (Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island) of New York City and the surrounding Tri-State area. The mission of the New York Area Bisexual Network is to facili...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suikoden%20%28video%20game%29
is a role-playing video game published by Konami. It is the first installment of the Suikoden series. Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, it was released initially in 1995 for the PlayStation in Japan. A North American release followed one year later, and a mainland European release came the following Apr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20refresh
Memory refresh is the process of periodically reading information from an area of computer memory and immediately rewriting the read information to the same area without modification, for the purpose of preserving the information. Memory refresh is a background maintenance process required during the operation of semi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Television%20Network
Christian Television Network (CTN) is an American non-profit broadcast television network of small owned-and-operated stations (O&O) that broadcasts religious programming. It is based in Largo, Florida (with a mailing address of Clearwater), and the flagship station is WCLF channel 22, which signed on the air in the Ta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle%20Bobby
Uncle Bobby is a Canadian children's television show that aired from 1964 to 1979 on Toronto's CFTO and, for two years beginning in 1968, was a weekly show on the CTV television network (although it continued to be aired on local CTV stations across Canada thereafter). In its later run the show was known as Uncle Bobby...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFixer
WinFixer was a family of scareware rogue security programs developed by Winsoftware which claimed to repair computer system problems on Microsoft Windows computers if a user purchased the full version of the software. The software was mainly installed without the user's consent. McAfee claimed that "the primary functio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking%20system
A tracking system, also known as a locating system, is used for the observing of persons or objects on the move and supplying a timely ordered sequence of location data for further processing. Applications A myriad of tracking systems exists. Some are 'lag time' indicators, that is, the data is collected after an ite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOINC
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) is a database and universal standard for identifying medical laboratory observations. First developed in 1994, it was created and is maintained by the Regenstrief Institute, a US nonprofit medical research organization. LOINC was created in response to the demand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Limoncelli
Tom Limoncelli (born December 2, 1968) is an American system administrator, author, and speaker. A system administrator and network engineer since 1987, he speaks at conferences around the world on topics ranging from firewall security to time management. He is the author of Time Management for System Administrators fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96sterg%C3%B6tland%20Runic%20Inscription%20179
The runestone known as Östergötland Rune Inscription 179 or Ög 179, as listed in the Rundata catalog, stands on the east side of the Vadstena Abbey in Vadstena, Sweden. The stone is tinted red and is about 193 cm in height. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Fp. This is the classification ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Video%20Interactive
Digital Video Interactive (DVI) was the first multimedia desktop video standard for IBM-compatible personal computers. It enabled full-screen, full motion video, as well as stereo audio, still images, and graphics to be presented on a DOS-based desktop computer using a special compression chipset. The scope of Digital ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popful%20Mail
is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Nihon Falcom. It was originally released for the NEC PC-8801 home computer in 1991 and the PC-9801 in 1992. The game was later ported to the PC Engine CD-ROM by NEC Home Electronics, to the Sega CD by Sega, to DoJa mobile phones by Bothtec, and to the Super Famicom and Mic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtraVision
ExtraVision was a short-lived teletext service created and operated by the American television network CBS in the early to mid-1980s. It was carried in the vertical blanking interval of the video from local affiliate stations of the CBS network. It featured CBS program information, news, sports, weather, even subtitlin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercast
Intercast was a short-lived technology developed in 1996 by Intel for broadcasting information such as web pages and computer software, along with a single television channel. It required a compatible TV tuner card installed in a personal computer and a decoding program called Intel Intercast Viewer. The data for Inter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage%20Computer%20Technology
SAGE Computer Technology was a computer company based in Reno, Nevada, United States. It was founded in 1981 by Rod Coleman, Bill Bonham and Bob Needham; it went through several name changes. The change from Sage computer came about when "Sage Software" in Maryland demanded cessation of use of the name Sage in the com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker%20Royale
Poker Royale is a television series on the Game Show Network (GSN), which featured No Limit Texas hold 'em Poker. The first series began on December 7, 2004. The eighth and final series, Poker Royale: Young Bloods II, began airing on December 9, 2005. The series host at its conclusion was John Ahlers, with commentary b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production%20system%20%28computer%20science%29
A "production system" (or "production rule system") is a computer program typically used to provide some form of artificial intelligence, which consists primarily of a set of rules about behavior, but it also includes the mechanism necessary to follow those rules as the system responds to states of the world. Those rul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional%20search
Bidirectional search is a graph search algorithm that finds a shortest path from an initial vertex to a goal vertex in a directed graph. It runs two simultaneous searches: one forward from the initial state, and one backward from the goal, stopping when the two meet. The reason for this approach is that in many cases i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Labour%20Network
The Independent Labour Network was a left-wing political organisation in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1998 by MEPs Ken Coates and Hugh Kerr following their expulsion from the Labour Party. They stood candidates in the 1999 European Parliament election and were involved in setting up first local branches of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge%27s%20Son%20Poisoning
"Marge's Son Poisoning" is the fifth 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 November 13, 2005. Plot The family visits Paradise Pier, the Ferris wheel of which Marge has been looking forward all her life t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit40UK
Hit40UK was a networked Top 40 chart show broadcasting on around 130 UK commercial radio stations every Sunday from 4pm to 7pm. It was also a TV programme shown on 4Music. The radio version was produced in house by Global Radio (formerly GCap Media) and Somethin' Else. The show was cancelled on 7 June 2009 and the last...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODM
ODM may refer to: Computing .odm, Overdrive Media file IBM Operational Decision Management, IBM's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) Object Data Manager, a component of the AIX operating system used to store configuration information Object Data Modelling, similar to Object-role modeling (ORM) Operational Dat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PME
PME may refer to: Electronics and computing Physical Medium Entity, an abstract defined by the IEEE 802.3 standard Power Management Event, both a signal sent by a PCI bus and in Wake-on-LAN standard. Protective Multiple Earthing, another name for the TN−C−S earthing system Particle mesh Ewald, an algorithm used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Geodata%20Agency
The Danish Geodata Agency (GST) (), (previously National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark (, short KMS)), is the Danish state owned central agency responsible for surveying, mapping and land registering of all of Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and all waters associated with these. Geodatastyrelsen is an agency und...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK95
The TK 95 microcomputer was a 1986 ZX Spectrum clone by Microdigital Eletrônica, a company located at São Paulo, Brazil. It was an evolution of the TK90X introduced the previous year. The case was redesigned (copied from the Commodore Plus/4) and the keyboard was said to be "semi-professional" (according to the Brazi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Flight%20%28TV%20series%29
Night Flight is an online visual-arts magazine and variety television show that originated on cable TV network USA Network. It originally aired from 1981 to 1988 before moving to syndication in the early 1990s. The show relaunched online on nightflight.com in 2015 with original episodes that can be streamed on the subs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiboot%20specification
The Multiboot specification is an open standard describing how a boot loader can load an x86 operating system kernel. The specification allows any compliant boot-loader implementation to boot any compliant operating-system kernel. Thus, it allows different operating systems and boot loaders to work together and inter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bilestoad
The Bilestoad is a fighting video game by Marc Goodman (credited as "Mangrove Earthshoe") for the Apple II and published in 1982 by Datamost. In The Bilestoad, players control "meatlings" that hack and battle with axes and shields from a top-view perspective. The name is derived from the German words Beil (axe) and T...