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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20California%20Television
University of California Television (known simply as UCTV) is a 24-hour television channel presenting educational and enrichment programming from the campuses, national laboratories, and affiliated institutions of the University of California system. UCTV's non-commercial programming delivers science, health and medici...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPRA
CPRA may refer to: Central progressive retinal atrophy, a type of progressive retinal atrophy (an eye problem) California Privacy Rights Act (a privacy and data protection law) California Public Records Act (a freedom-of-information law)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMBFAST
In physical cosmology, CMBFAST is a computer code, written by Uroš Seljak and Matias Zaldarriaga, for computing the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background. It was the first efficient program to do so, reducing the time taken to compute the anisotropy from several days to a few minutes by using a novel semi-analy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroMUSE
MicroMUSE is a MUD started in 1990. It is based on the TinyMUSE system, which allows members to interact in a virtual environment called Cyberion City, as well as to create objects and modify their environment. MicroMUSE was conceived as an environment to allow people in far-flung locations to interact with each other...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Schools%20of%20the%20Sacred%20Heart
The School of the Sacred Heart is an international network of private Catholic schools that are run by or affiliated with the Society of the Sacred Heart, which was founded in France by Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat. Membership of the network exceeds 2800. The Schools of the Sacred Heart were brought to the United State...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20computer
Organic computer may refer to: Wetware computer, a computer made from biological materials Organic computing, an emerging computing paradigm in which a system and its components and subsystems are well coordinated in a purposeful manner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20data%20type
In computer programming, an ordinal data type is a data type with the property that its values can be counted. That is, the values can be put in a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers. For example, characters are ordinal because we can call 'A' the first character, 'B' the second, etc. The term is ofte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagination
Pagination, also known as paging, is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages. In reference to books produced without a computer, pagination can mean the consecutive page numbering to indicate the proper order of the pages, which was rarely found in documents pre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Seely%20Brown
John Seely Brown (born 1940), also known as "JSB", is an American researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bend towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities. Brown served as Director of Xerox PARC from 1990 to 2000 and as Chief Scientist at Xerox from 1992 to 20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigore%20Moisil
Grigore Constantin Moisil (; 10 January 1906 – 21 May 1973) was a Romanian mathematician, computer pioneer, and titular member of the Romanian Academy. His research was mainly in the fields of mathematical logic (Łukasiewicz–Moisil algebra), algebraic logic, MV-algebra, and differential equations. He is viewed as the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20%28disambiguation%29
A timeline is a graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events. Timeline or time line may also refer to: Computing and technology TimeLine, project management software TimeLine Product Group, former business unit of Symantec Corporation Timeline (Facebook), a feature of the social network Facebook...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta%20noise
Meta noise refers to inaccurate or irrelevant metadata. This is particularly prevalent in systems with a schema not based on a controlled vocabulary, such as certain folksonomies. Examples: misspelled tags ( instead of white), or tags with multiple spellings (hip-hop and hip hop) obviously inaccurate or joke tags (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy%20Point
Mercy Point is an American science fiction medical drama, created by Trey Callaway, David Simkins, and Milo Frank, which originally aired for one season on United Paramount Network (UPN) from October 6, 1998, to July 15, 1999. With an ensemble cast led by Joe Morton, Maria del Mar, Alexandra Wilson, Brian McNamara, Sal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylophorbus
Hylophorbus is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to New Guinea. Common name Mawatta frogs has been coined for them. Molecular data suggest that Hylophorbus is monophyletic and that its sister taxon is Callulops. Species There are 12 recognized species: References External links taxon Hylophorbus at http://www.e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backjumping
In backtracking algorithms, backjumping is a technique that reduces search space, therefore increasing efficiency. While backtracking always goes up one level in the search tree when all values for a variable have been tested, backjumping may go up more levels. In this article, a fixed order of evaluation of variables ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-1
Sun-1 was the first generation of UNIX computer workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, launched in May 1982. These were based on a CPU board designed by Andy Bechtolsheim while he was a graduate student at Stanford University and funded by DARPA. The Sun-1 systems ran SunOS 0.9, a port of UniSoft's UniP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel%20%28disambiguation%29
An eel is a fish in the order of Anguilliformes. Eel, EEL or eels may also refer to: Animals Amphibians Congo eel, amphibians of the genus Amphiuma (order Caudata) Siren intermedia or two-legged eel or mud eel Rubber eel, an aquatic caecilian of the family Typhlonectidae (order Gymnophiona) Ray-finned fish Ele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS%20Alpha%20Centauri
GURPS Alpha Centauri is a sourcebook for GURPS Third Edition. Contents GURPS Alpha Centauri details the setting of the Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri computer game. Publication history Steve Jackson Games published GURPS Alpha Centauri, a sourcebook for the GURPS role-playing game set in the Alpha Centauri universe. Rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20synchronous%20transfer%20mode
Dynamic synchronous transfer mode (DTM) is an optical networking technology standardized by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in 2001 beginning with specification ETSI ES 201 803-1. DTM is a time-division multiplexing and a circuit-switching network technology that combines switching and tran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotthuss%20mechanism
The Grotthuss mechanism (also known as proton jumping) is a model for the process by which an 'excess' proton or proton defect diffuses through the hydrogen bond network of water molecules or other hydrogen-bonded liquids through the formation and concomitant cleavage of covalent bonds involving neighboring molecules. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20binary%20search
Uniform binary search is an optimization of the classic binary search algorithm invented by Donald Knuth and given in Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. It uses a lookup table to update a single array index, rather than taking the midpoint of an upper and a lower bound on each iteration; therefore, it is optimize...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal%20warm-up
A vocal warm-up is a series of exercises meant to prepare the voice for singing, acting, or other use. There is very little scientific data about the benefits of vocal warm-ups. Relatively few studies have researched the effects of these exercises on muscle function and even fewer have studied their effect on singing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945%20Pacific%20typhoon%20season
The 1945 Pacific typhoon season was the first official season to be included in the West Pacific typhoon database. It was also the first season to name storms. It has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1945, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board%20representation%20%28computer%20chess%29
Board representation in computer chess is a data structure in a chess program representing the position on the chessboard and associated game state. Board representation is fundamental to all aspects of a chess program including move generation, the evaluation function, and making and unmaking moves (i.e. search) as w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Vulnerabilities%20and%20Exposures
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system provides a reference method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. The United States' National Cybersecurity FFRDC, operated by The MITRE Corporation, maintains the system, with funding from the US National Cyber Security Division of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fityk
Fityk is curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical, bell-shaped functions to experimental data. It is positioned to fill the gap between general plotting software and programs specific for one field, e.g. crystallography or XPS. Originally, Fityk was developed to analyse powder ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional%20memory
In computer science and engineering, transactional memory attempts to simplify concurrent programming by allowing a group of load and store instructions to execute in an atomic way. It is a concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory in concurrent computing. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWLC
KWLC (1240 AM) is a college radio station. The station's programming consists primarily of music, but also includes sports, religious services, and educational content. In September 2015, KWLC added a Sunday afternoon news program. Licensed to Decorah, Iowa, United States. The station is currently owned by Luther C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMEG
KMEG (channel 14) is a television station in Sioux City, Iowa, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by Waitt Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox/MyNetworkTV/CBS affiliate KPTH (channel 44), for the provisio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Parallel%20Computing%20Centre
EPCC, formerly the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, is a supercomputing centre based at the University of Edinburgh. Since its foundation in 1990, its stated mission has been to accelerate the effective exploitation of novel computing throughout industry, academia and commerce. The University has supported high pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCAS
DCAS may be: DCAS keys, control keys on the computer keyboard, see Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (disambiguation) Derive computer algebra system Double compare-and-swap Downloadable Conditional Access System New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIO
HIO may refer to: Hillsboro Airport, in Washington County, Oregon, United States Hypoiodous acid, an oxidising agent Hybrid input-output algorithm, in coherent diffraction imaging Oslo University College, the largest state university college in Norway Østfold University College, a further and higher education inst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20Storage%20Management
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is a feature provided by Oracle Corporation within the Oracle Database from release Oracle 10g (revision 1) onwards. ASM aims to simplify the management of database datafiles, control files and log files. To do so, it provides tools to manage file systems and volumes directly inside t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Type%20System
In Microsoft's .NET Framework, the Common Type System (CTS) is a standard that specifies how type definitions and specific values of types are represented in computer memory. It is intended to allow programs written in different programming languages to easily share information. As used in programming languages, a typ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment%20decisions
Investment decisions are made by investors and investment managers. These decision are made based on the finding of analysis tools based on data available about the companies. Investors commonly perform investment analysis by making use of fundamental analysis, technical analysis and gut feel. Investment decisions ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRESULT
HRESULT is a computer programming data type that represents the completion status of a function. It is used in the source code of applications targeting Microsoft Windows and earlier IBM/Microsoft OS/2 operating systems, but its design does not limit its use to these environments. It could be used in any system suppor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Larson
Paul Larson (Per-Åke Larson) is a computer scientist. He is most famous for inventing the linear hashing algorithm with Witold Litwin. Paul Larson is currently a senior researcher in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. He is frequent chair and committee member of conferences such as VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE. In 200...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SageMath
SageMath (previously Sage or SAGE, "System for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation") is a computer algebra system (CAS) with features covering many aspects of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, graph theory, numerical analysis, number theory, calculus and statistics. The first version of SageMath was rele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMF%20Flanders
TMF was a Belgian pay television channel whose programming was centred towards pop music videoclips. TMF was operated by Viacom International Media Networks. Originally an abbreviation of "The Music Factory", the channel was launched as TMF Vlaanderen in 1998, mainly due to the success of the eponymous Dutch music tel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome%20%28software%29
SALOME is a multi-platform open source (LGPL-2.1-or-later) scientific computing environment, allowing the realization of industrial studies of physics simulations. This platform, developed by a partnership between EDF and CEA, sets up an environment for the various stages of a study to be carried out: from the creatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerator%20table
In Windows programming, an accelerator table allows an application to specify a list of accelerators (keyboard shortcuts) for menu items or other commands. For example, Ctrl+S is often used as a shortcut to the File→Save menu item, Ctrl+O is a common shortcut to the File→Open menu item, etc. An accelerator takes preced...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Shalleck
Alan J. Shalleck (November 14, 1929 – February 6, 2006) was an American writer and producer for children's programming on television, most known for his work on later Curious George books and the 1980s television shorts. Shalleck studied drama at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York and went to work for CBS in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20crafting
Packet crafting is a technique that allows network administrators to probe firewall rule-sets and find entry points into a targeted system or network. This is done by manually generating packets to test network devices and behaviour, instead of using existing network traffic. Testing may target the firewall, IDS, TCP/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitingCare%20Australia
UnitingCare Australia is the national body for the UnitingCare network, made up of the Uniting Church in Australia's (UCA) community services agencies. It is a sister body to UnitingJustice Australia, and UnitingWorld. All are agencies of the Uniting Church in Australia, National Assembly. UnitingCare Australia advoc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOSDIS
The Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is a key core capability in NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program. Designed and maintained by Raytheon Intelligence & Space, it is a comprehensive data and information system designed to perform a wide variety of functions in support of a heterogeneous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthol%20%28data%20page%29
This page provides supplementary chemical data on Menthol. Material Safety Data Sheet The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommended that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI or the links below, and follow ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce%27s%20criterion
In robust statistics, Peirce's criterion is a rule for eliminating outliers from data sets, which was devised by Benjamin Peirce. Outliers removed by Peirce's criterion The problem of outliers In data sets containing real-numbered measurements, the suspected outliers are the measured values that appear to lie outsi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable%20Server%20Pooling
Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) is a computer protocol framework for management of and access to multiple, coordinated (pooled) servers. RSerPool is an IETF standard, which has been developed by the IETF RSerPool Working Group and documented in RFC 5351, RFC 5352, RFC 5353, RFC 5354, RFC 5355 and RFC 5356. Introduc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Eppstein
David Arthur Eppstein (born 1963) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a Distinguished Professor of computer science at the University of California, Irvine. He is known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics. In 2011, he was named an ACM Fellow. Bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo%20hashing
Cuckoo hashing is a scheme in computer programming for resolving hash collisions of values of hash functions in a table, with worst-case constant lookup time. The name derives from the behavior of some species of cuckoo, where the cuckoo chick pushes the other eggs or young out of the nest when it hatches in a variatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Bywater
Michael Bywater (born 11 May 1953) is an English non-fiction writer and broadcaster. He has worked for many London newspapers and periodicals and contributed to the design of computer games. Biography Bywater was educated at the independent Nottingham High School and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was a long...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool%20Registrar
In computing, a Pool Registrar (PR) is a component of the reliable server pooling (RSerPool) framework which manages a handlespace. PRs are also denoted as ENRP server or Name Server (NS). The responsibilities of a PR are the following: Register Pool Elements into a handlespace, Deregister Pool Elements from a handl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Presario
Presario is a discontinued line of consumer desktop computers and notebooks originally produced by Compaq. The Presario family of computers was introduced in September 1993. In the mid-1990s, Compaq began manufacturing PC monitors under the Presario brand. A series of all-in-one units, containing both the PC and the m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20learning
In constraint satisfaction backtracking algorithms, constraint learning is a technique for improving efficiency. It works by recording new constraints whenever an inconsistency is found. This new constraint may reduce the search space, as future partial evaluations may be found inconsistent without further search. Clau...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfers%20per%20second
In computer technology, transfers per second and its more common secondary terms gigatransfers per second (abbreviated as GT/s) and megatransfers per second (MT/s) are informal language that refer to the number of operations transferring data that occur in each second in some given data-transfer channel. It is also kno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4018%20road
The A4018 is an A-road connecting the city centre of Bristol to the M5 motorway at Cribbs Causeway. It is one of the four principal roads which link central Bristol to the motorway network (the others being the M32 motorway, the A38 and the Portway). Route The A4018 runs for , starting at a junction with the A4 and A3...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Hamblin
Ken Loronzo Hamblin II (born October 22, 1940), the self-titled Black Avenger, was host of the Ken Hamblin Show, which was syndicated nationally on Entertainment Radio Networks. His show peaked in the 1990s, but he left the air, without warning, in July 2003 due to a contractual dispute with his syndicator, the America...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMIC
MIMIC, known in capitalized form only, is a former simulation computer language developed 1964 by H. E. Petersen, F. J. Sansom and L. M. Warshawsky of Systems Engineering Group within the Air Force Materiel Command at the Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It is an expression-oriented continuous block...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDB%20Human%20Genome%20Database
The GDB Human Genome Database was a community curated collection of human genomic data. It was a key database in the Human Genome Project and was in service from 1989 to 2008. History In 1989 the Howard Hughes Medical Institute provided funding to establish a central repository for human genetic mapping data. This pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-FTPd
Pure-FTPd is a free (BSD license) FTP Server with a strong focus on software security. It can be compiled and run on a variety of Unix-like computer operating systems including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris, Tru64, Darwin, Irix and HP-UX. It has also been ported to Android. History Pure-FTPd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20specification
Algebraic specification is a software engineering technique for formally specifying system behavior. It was a very active subject of computer science research around 1980. Overview Algebraic specification seeks to systematically develop more efficient programs by: formally defining types of data, and mathematical op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.120
T.120 is a suite of point-to-multipoint communication protocols for teleconferencing, videoconferencing, and computer-supported collaboration. It provides for application sharing, online chat, file sharing, and other functions. The protocols are standardised by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Consoles%20Inc.
Computer Consoles Inc. or CCI was a telephony and computer company located in Rochester, New York, United States, which did business first as a private, and then ultimately a public company from 1968 to 1990. CCI provided worldwide telephone companies with directory assistance equipment and other systems to automate va...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty%20Mike
Mighty Mike may refer to: A re-release of the computer game Power Pete Michael van Gerwen, darts player Mighty Mike McGee, slam poet Mike Anchondo, boxer Mike Arnaoutis, boxer Mike Van Sant, drag racer Mike Cuozzo, saxophonist "Mighty Mike C", a member of the Fearless Four Mighty Mike (TV series), a French CGI-animat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20queue
In system software, a job queue ( batch queue, input queue), is a data structure maintained by job scheduler software containing jobs to run. Users submit their programs that they want executed, "jobs", to the queue for batch processing. The scheduler software maintains the queue as the pool of jobs available for it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20WB%20affiliates
This is a list of stations which were affiliated with The WB in the United States at the time of the network's closure. The WB shut down September 17, 2006. Former affiliates of The WB became affiliates of The CW, MyNetworkTV, another network, reverted to independent status, or shut down entirely. Some WB affiliates d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gems%20TV
Gems TV was a jewellery manufacturer and reverse auction TV shopping network headquartered in Chanthaburi, Thailand. It began its operations in October 2004 in the UK, and then expanded to Germany, America, Japan and China. Gems TV was formed from the merger of Thaigem Limited and Eagle Road Studios, which formed Gems ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP%20Scientific
CAP Scientific Ltd was a British defence software company, and was part of CAP (Computer Analysts and Programmers) Group plc. In 1988, CAP Group merged with the French firm Sema-Metra SA in 1988 as Sema Group plc. In 1991 Sema Group put most of its defence operations (CAP Scientific Ltd and YARD Ltd) into joint ventu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiki%20%28disambiguation%29
Contiki can refer to: Contiki, an open-source operating system designed for computers with limited memory. Contiki Tours, a series of bus holidays operated by Contiki Holidays for 18-35s. Con-Tici or Kon-Tiki, an old name for the Andean deity Viracocha See also Kontiki (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20TPNS
Teleprocessing Network Simulator (TPNS) is an IBM licensed program, first released in 1976 as a test automation tool to simulate the end-user activity of network terminal(s) to a mainframe computer system, for functional testing, regression testing, system testing, capacity management, benchmarking and stress testing. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20WB%20100%2B%20Station%20Group
The WB 100+ Station Group (originally called The WeB from its developmental stages until March 1999) was a national programming service of The WB—owned by the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, the Tribune Company, and group founder and longtime WB network president Jamie Kellner—intended primarily for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Virginia%20trolleys
The Northern Virginia trolleys were the network of electric passenger rails that moved people around the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., from 1892 to 1941. They consisted of six lines operated by as many as three separate companies connecting Rosslyn, Great Falls, Bluemont, Mount Vernon, Fairfax City, Ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nin
Nin or NIN may refer to: National identification number, a system used by governments around the world to keep track of their citizens National Information Network National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, an institution in Hyderabad, India Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, a neuroscience research institu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-dimensional%20nuclear%20magnetic%20resonance%20spectroscopy
Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2D NMR) is a set of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) methods which give data plotted in a space defined by two frequency axes rather than one. Types of 2D NMR include correlation spectroscopy (COSY), J-spectroscopy, exchange spectroscopy (EXSY), and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan%20Community%20College
Metropolitan Community College may refer to Metropolitan Community College (Nebraska), a three-campus public community college in Omaha, Nebraska Metropolitan Community College (Missouri), a network of five community colleges in Kansas City, Missouri Metropolitan Community College (Illinois), a community college in Eas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arping
arping is a computer software tool for discovering and probing hosts on a computer network. Arping probes hosts on the examined network link by sending link layer frames using the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request method addressed to a host identified by its MAC address of the network interface. The utility pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20queuing
Fair queuing is a family of scheduling algorithms used in some process and network schedulers. The algorithm is designed to achieve fairness when a limited resource is shared, for example to prevent flows with large packets or processes that generate small jobs from consuming more throughput or CPU time than other flow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20hashing
In mathematics and computing, universal hashing (in a randomized algorithm or data structure) refers to selecting a hash function at random from a family of hash functions with a certain mathematical property (see definition below). This guarantees a low number of collisions in expectation, even if the data is chosen b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20in%20New%20Zealand%20television
This is a list of New Zealand television-related events in 1989. Events 3 April – Network News at Six was reduced in duration from an hour to 30 minutes; Holmes premiered on TV One and screened at 6.30pm (right after Network News at Six); and the regional news programmes – Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellingto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Ponsonby
Bernard Ponsonby is a Scottish broadcast journalist for regional news and current affairs programming for STV. He joined the station in 1990 and was appointed political editor in 2000, following the retirement of longstanding political editor Fiona Ross. Since 2019, Ponsonby has been Special Correspondent for STV News....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut%20Esslinger
Hartmut Esslinger (born 5 June 1944) is a German-American industrial designer and inventor. He is best known for founding the design consultancy frog, and his work for Apple Computers in the early 1980s. Life and career Esslinger was born in Beuren (Simmersfeld), in Germany's Black Forest. At age 25, Esslinger finish...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20LPFK
The Lighted Program Function Keyboard (LPFK) is a computer input device manufactured by IBM that presents an array of buttons associated with lights. Each button is associated to a function in supporting software, and according to the availability of that function in current context of the application, the light is swi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn
The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn () is a polycentric and electrically driven S-bahn network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr (and cities such as Dortmund, Duisburg and Essen), the Berg cities of Wuppertal and Solingen and parts of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNAT-TV
KNAT-TV (channel 23) is a religious television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located on Sandia Crest. The station formerly operated from a studio located on Coors Boulevard in northwestern Albuquerque. That ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Data%20Mining
The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) is a center of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), established in 1998 to serve as a resource for research, standards development, and outreach for high performance and distributed data mining and predictive modeling. NCDM won the High Performance Bandwidth Challenge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Computer-Assisted%20Legal%20Instruction
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, also known as CALI, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that does research and development in online legal education. CALI publishes over 1,200 interactive tutorials, free casebooks, and develops software for experiential learning. Over 90% of US law schools are members which pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome%20magnifier
A dome magnifier is a dome-shaped magnifying device made of glass or acrylic plastic, used to enlarge words on a page or computer screen. They are plano-convex lenses: the flat (planar) surface is placed on the object to be magnified, and the convex (dome) surface provides the enlargement. They usually provide between ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assortative%20mixing
In the study of complex networks, assortative mixing, or assortativity, is a bias in favor of connections between network nodes with similar characteristics. In the specific case of social networks, assortative mixing is also known as homophily. The rarer disassortative mixing is a bias in favor of connections betwee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20for%20Business%20%28blog%29
Open for Business (OFB) was an online news blog with a technology focus. It featured articles on topics including computers, technology, politics, current events, theology and philosophy. The site also contained a fiction section with short stories and poetry. History OFB was founded on October 5, 2001 as the "open-so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmet%20Nr%20I
Nr I is a class of articulated six-axle (B′2′B′ wheel arrangement), chopper-driven tram operated by Helsinki City Transport on the Helsinki tram network. All trams of this type were built by the Finnish metal industry corporation Valmet between the years 1973 and 1975. Between 1993 and 2004 all trams in the class were...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polity%20data%20series
The Polity data series is a data series in political science research. Along with the V-Dem Democracy indices project and Democracy Index (The Economist), Polity is among prominent datasets that measure democracy and autocracy. The Polity study was initiated in the late 1960s by Ted Robert Gurr and is now continued by...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Lib/Dream%20Machines
Computer Lib/Dream Machines is a 1974 book by Ted Nelson, printed as a two-front-cover paperback to indicate its "intertwingled" nature. Originally self-published by Nelson, it was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press. In Steven Levy's book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20Angels%20Broadcasting%20Network
The Three Angels Broadcasting Network, or 3ABN, is a Christian media television and radio network which broadcasts Seventh-day Adventist religious, music and health-oriented programming, based in West Frankfort, Illinois, United States. Although it is not formally tied to any particular church or denomination, much of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20Has%20Two%20Mommies
"Bart Has Two Mommies" is the fourteenth 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 March 19, 2006. In the episode, Marge babysits for Flanders' sons while Bart is kidnapped by a chimpanzee. Plot The Simpson ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard%20%282005%20video%20game%29
Wizard is a video game created in 1980 for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed the Atari 2600) by Chris Crawford while working for Atari, Inc. The game was not advertised or released by Atari. Wizard uses a 2K ROM, the last Atari 2600 game developed by Atari with less than 4K. Wizard was eventually released ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Beth%20Decker
Mary Beth Decker (born January 11, 1981) is an American former model and television personality who attended Texas A&M University. She was the "Cyber Girl of the Week" for Playboy in the fourth week of September 2002, and "Cyber Girl of the Month" for January 2003 as well as a cast member on a season of MTV's show Road...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Saxony
The narrow-gauge railways in Saxony were once the largest single-operator narrow-gauge railway network in Germany. In Saxony, the network peaked shortly after World War I with over of tracks. At first, it was primarily created to connect the small towns and villages in Saxony – which had formed a viable industry in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun386i
The Sun386i (codenamed Roadrunner) is a discontinued hybrid UNIX workstation/PC compatible computer system produced by Sun Microsystems, launched in 1988. It is based on the Intel 80386 microprocessor but shares many features with the contemporary Sun-3 series systems. Hardware Unlike the Sun-3 models, the Sun386i ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDU
Sdu or SDU may refer to: Communications Satellite Data Unit, a part of a satellite telecommunication system for aircraft Service Data Unit, a telecommunications term related to the layered protocol concept Universities University of Southern Denmark, Danish: Syddansk Universitet (SDU) Süleyman Demirel University, a u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang%20%28Unix%29
In computing, a shebang is the character sequence consisting of the characters number sign and exclamation mark () at the beginning of a script. It is also called sharp-exclamation, sha-bang, hashbang, pound-bang, or hash-pling. When a text file with a shebang is used as if it is an executable in a Unix-like operating...