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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Baszucki
David Baszucki
David Baszucki (born January 20, 1963), also known by his Roblox username builderman, is a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, engineer, and innovator. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation. He previously co-founded and served as the CEO of Knowledge Revolution, which was acquired by MSC Sof...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScreenSaver
XScreenSaver
XScreenSaver is a free and open-source collection of 240+ screensavers for Unix, macOS, iOS and Android operating systems. It was created by Jamie Zawinski in 1992 and is still maintained by him, with new releases coming out several times a year. Platforms The free software and open-source Unix-like operating systems ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20computer
Serial computer
A serial computer is a computer typified by bit-serial architecture i.e., internally operating on one bit or digit for each clock cycle. Machines with serial main storage devices such as acoustic or magnetostrictive delay lines and rotating magnetic devices were usually serial computers. Serial computers require much ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Samuel
Arthur Samuel
Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 – July 29, 1990) was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. He popularized the term "machine learning" in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs, and as such a very early demons...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TENEX%20%28operating%20system%29
TENEX (operating system)
TENEX was an operating system developed in 1969 by BBN for the PDP-10, which later formed the basis for Digital Equipment Corporation's TOPS-20 operating system. Background In the 1960s, BBN was involved in a number of LISP-based artificial intelligence projects for DARPA, many of which had very large (for the era) me...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20%28Unix%29
Type (Unix)
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, type is a command that describes how its arguments would be interpreted if used as command names. Function Where applicable, type will display the command name's path. Possible command types are: shell built-in function alias hashed command keyword The command returns a n...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20particle
Free particle
In physics, a free particle is a particle that, in some sense, is not bound by an external force, or equivalently not in a region where its potential energy varies. In classical physics, this means the particle is present in a "field-free" space. In quantum mechanics, it means the particle is in a region of uniform pot...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWireless.org
OpenWireless.org
The Open Wireless Movement hosted at OpenWireless.org is an Internet activism project which seeks to increase Internet access by encouraging people and organizations to configure or install software on their own wireless router to offer a separate public guest network or to make a single public wireless access point. I...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twocanoes
Twocanoes
Twocanoes Software, Inc. is a small software company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Naperville, Illinois. The company develops and sells software and hardware, including Winclone, Smart Card Utility, Boot Runner, and MDS. References External links Software companies based in Illinois Mobile software IOS sof...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Palace%20%28computer%20program%29
The Palace (computer program)
The Palace is a computer program to access graphical chat room servers, called palaces, in which users may interact with one another using graphical avatars overlaid on a graphical backdrop. The software concept was originally created by Jim Bumgardner and produced by Time Warner in 1994, and was first opened to the pu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive%20hacking
Automotive hacking
Automotive hacking is the exploitation of vulnerabilities within the software, hardware, and communication systems of automobiles. Overview Modern automobiles contain hundreds of on-board computers processing everything from vehicle controls to the infotainment system. These computers, called Electronic control unit...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20P.%20Greenberg
Donald P. Greenberg
Donald Peter Greenberg (born 1934) is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Graphics at Cornell University. Early life Greenberg earned his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, where he played on the tennis and soccer teams and was a member of Tau Delta Phi and the Quill and Dagger society...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeam%20Software%2C%20Inc.
Bluebeam Software, Inc.
Bluebeam, Inc. is an American software company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Pasadena, California, United States, with additional offices in Chicago, Illinois; San Diego, California; and Manchester, New Hampshire. The company specializes in designing tools for creating, editing, marking up, collaborating and sh...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACACS
TACACS
Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS, ) refers to a family of related protocols handling remote authentication and related services for networked access control through a centralized server. The original TACACS protocol, which dates back to 1984, was used for communicating with an authentication ser...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20aircraft%20engines
List of aircraft engines
This is an alphabetical list of aircraft engines by manufacturer. 0–9 2si 2si 215 2si 230 2si 430 2si 460 2si 500 2si 540 2si 690 3W 3WSource: RMV 3W 106iB2 3W-110 3W-112 3W-170 3W-210 3W-220 A Abadal (Francisco Serramalera Abadal) Abadal Y-12 350/400 hp ABC Source: Lumsden. ABC 8 hp ABC 30hp V-4 ABC...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla%20Prism
Mozilla Prism
Mozilla Prism (formerly WebRunner) is a discontinued project which integrated web applications with the desktop, allowing web applications to be launched from the desktop and configured independently of the default web browser. As of November 2010, Prism is listed as an inactive project at the Mozilla labs website. Pr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Command%20and%20Control%20Squadron
3rd Command and Control Squadron
The United States Air Force's 3d Command and Control Squadron (3 CACS) was a command and control unit located at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. Mission The 3d Command and Control Squadron mission was shrouded in secrecy, however some details from its location, successor unit, and unit emblem shed some light on its operations. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerJ
PeerJ
PeerJ is an open access peer-reviewed scientific mega journal covering research in the biological and medical sciences. It is published by a company of the same name that was co-founded by CEO Jason Hoyt (formerly at Mendeley) and publisher Peter Binfield (formerly at PLOS ONE), with initial financial backing of US$950...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophalexios
Sophalexios
In Greek mythology, Sophalexios (“skilled defender”) was the son of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, and Creusa, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. Mythology As Jason was still married to Medea, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, when Sophalexios was born, Sophalexios’ true parentage was kept secret for fear tha...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess
Chess
Chess is a board game played between two players. It is sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi and shogi. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from chaturanga, a similar but m...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baan%20Corporation
Baan Corporation
Baan was a vendor of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that is now owned by Infor Global Solutions. Baan or Baan ERP, was also the name of the ERP product created by this company. History The Baan Corporation was created by Jan Baan in 1978 in Barneveld, Netherlands to provide financial and administrative ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20USC%20Trojans%20bowl%20games
List of USC Trojans bowl games
The USC Trojans football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the University of Southern California in the South Division of the Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12). Since the establishment of the team in 1888, USC has appeared in 5...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator%20code
Creator code
A creator code is a mechanism introduced in the classic Mac OS to link a data file to the application program which created it. The similar type code held the file type, like "TEXT". Together, the type and creator indicated what application should be used to open a file, similar to (but richer than) the file extensions...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%20%28trojan%29
Andromeda (trojan)
Andromeda is a modular trojan which was first spotted in 2011. The behavior of this malware is its capability of checking whether it is being executed or debugged in a virtual environment by using anti-virtual machine techniques. It downloads other malware from its control servers, often in order to steal information f...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorChat
TorChat
TorChat was a peer-to-peer anonymous instant messenger that used Tor onion services as its underlying network. It provided cryptographically secure text messaging and file transfers. The characteristics of Tor's onion services ensure that all traffic between the clients is encrypted and that it is very difficult to tel...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot
Gnuplot
gnuplot is a command-line and GUI program that can generate two- and three-dimensional plots of functions, data, and data fits. The program runs on all major computers and operating systems (Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows, macOS, FreeDOS, and many others). It is a program with a fairly long history, dating back to 1986...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20RTX
Nvidia RTX
Nvidia GeForce RTX (Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme) is a high-end professional visual computing platform created by Nvidia, primarily used for designing complex large-scale models in architecture and product design, scientific visualization, energy exploration, games, and film and video production. Nvidia RTX enables real-t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20copyright%20license
Public copyright license
A public license or public copyright licenses is a license by which a copyright holder as licensor can grant additional copyright permissions to any and all persons in the general public as licensees. By applying a public license to a work, provided that the licensees obey the terms and conditions of the license, copyr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux%20Racer
Tux Racer
Tux Racer is a 2000 open-source winter sports racing video game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. It was originally developed by Jasmin Patry as a computer graphics project in a Canadian university. Later on, Patry and the newly founded Sunspire Studios, composed of several former students of the university, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Thacker
Charlie Thacker
Charles Michael Thacker (born 10 August 1996) is an English rugby union centre who plays for Nottingham in the RFU Championship. He previously played for Leicester Tigers in Premiership Rugby. Early life Thacker was born in Leicester. His elder brother is Bristol Bears hooker Harry Thacker, and his father Troy Thacker...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILO%20%28boot%20loader%29
SILO (boot loader)
The SPARC Improved bootLOader (SILO) is the bootloader used by the SPARC port of the Linux operating system; it can also be used for Solaris as a replacement for the standard Solaris boot loader. SILO generally looks similar to the basic version of LILO, giving a "boot:" prompt, at which the user can press the Tab key...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold%20Lipski
Witold Lipski
Witold Lipski Jr. (July 13, 1949, in Warsaw, Poland – May 30, 1985, in Nantes, France) was a Polish computer scientist (habilitation in computer science), and an author of two books: Combinatorics for Programmers (two editions) and (jointly with Wiktor Marek Combinatorial analysis. Jointly with his PhD student, Tomasz ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-PLUS
S-PLUS
S-PLUS is a commercial implementation of the S programming language sold by TIBCO Software Inc. It features object-oriented programming capabilities and advanced analytical algorithms. Due to the increasing popularity of the open source S successor R, TIBCO Software released the TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR) ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge%20Analytica%20data%20scandal
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected without their consent by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, predominantly to be used for political advertising. The data was collected through an app called "This Is Your Digital Life", developed by data scientist Aleksandr Kog...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice
OnlyOffice
OnlyOffice (formerly TeamLab), stylized as ONLYOFFICE, is a free software office suite developed by Ascensio System SIA, a company headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It features online document editors, platform for document management, corporate communication, mail and project management tools. OnlyOffice is delivered ei...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%207090
IBM 7090
The IBM 7090 is a second-generation transistorized version of the earlier IBM 709 vacuum tube mainframe computer that was designed for "large-scale scientific and technological applications". The 7090 is the fourth member of the IBM 700/7000 series scientific computers. The first 7090 installation was in December 1959....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priam
Priam
In Greek mythology, Priam (; , ) was the legendary king of Troy during the Trojan War. He was the son of Laomedon. His many children included notable characters such as Hector and Paris. Etymology Most scholars take the etymology of the name from the Luwian 𒉺𒊑𒀀𒈬𒀀 (Pa-ri-a-mu-a-, or “exceptionally courageous”), at...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psygnosis
Psygnosis
Psygnosis Limited (known as SCE Studio Liverpool or simply Studio Liverpool from 1999) was a British video game developer and publisher headquartered at Wavertree Technology Park in Liverpool. Founded in 1984 by Ian Hetherington, Jonathan Ellis, and David Lawson, the company initially became known for well-received gam...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataGravity
DataGravity
DataGravity Inc. was an industry data management company, which produced security software. The company was founded in April 2012 by Paula Long and John Joseph. DataGravity announced its first products at VMworld in 2014. It won Best of Show, and New Technology awards for the event. It began shipping their first produ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana
OpenIndiana
OpenIndiana is a free and open-source Unix operating system derived from OpenSolaris and based on illumos. Forked from OpenSolaris after OpenSolaris was discontinued by Oracle Corporation, OpenIndiana takes its name from Project Indiana, the internal codename for OpenSolaris at Sun Microsystems before Oracle’s acquisi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerUP%20%28accelerator%29
PowerUP (accelerator)
PowerUP boards were dual-processor accelerator boards designed by Phase5 Digital Products for Amiga computers. They had two different processors, a Motorola 68000 series (68k) and a PowerPC, working in parallel, sharing the complete address space of the Amiga computer system. History In 1995, Amiga Technologies GmbH a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrel%20Jernigan
Jerrel Jernigan
Jerrel Marquis Jernigan (born June 14, 1989) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the third round of the 2011 NFL Draft and won Super Bowl XLVI with the team against the New England Patriots. He played college football at Troy. Jerrel currently works at Eufaula High Scho...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20testing%20tactics
Software testing tactics
This article discusses a set of tactics useful in software testing. It is intended as a comprehensive list of tactical approaches to Software Quality Assurance (more widely colloquially known as Quality Assurance (traditionally called by the acronym "QA") and general application of the test method (usually just called ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXist
EXist
eXist-db (or eXist for short) is an open source software project for NoSQL databases built on XML technology. It is classified as both a NoSQL document-oriented database system and a native XML database (and it provides support for XML, JSON, HTML and Binary documents). Unlike most relational database management system...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSC%20Adams
MSC Adams
MSC ADAMS (Automated Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems) is a multibody dynamics simulation software system. It is currently owned by MSC Software Corporation. The simulation software solver runs mainly on Fortran and more recently C++ as well. According to the publisher, Adams is the most widely used multibody dyn...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX
PhysX
PhysX is an open-source realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Nvidia as a part of Nvidia GameWorks software suite. Initially, video games supporting PhysX were meant to be accelerated by PhysX PPU (expansion cards designed by Ageia). However, after Ageia's acquisition by Nvidia, dedicated PhysX cards hav...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP
ABAP
ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming, originally Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor, German for "general report preparation processor") is a high-level programming language created by the German software company SAP SE. It is currently positioned, alongside Java, as the language for programming the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual%20BCI%20Research%20Award
Annual BCI Research Award
The BCI Award is an annual award for innovative research in the field of brain-computer interfaces. It is organized by the BCI Award Foundation. The prize is $3000 for first, $2000 for second, and $1000 for third place. The prizes are provided by g.tec medical engineering, Cortec, Intheon and IEEE Brain.. Christoph Gug...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Kennedy%20Award
Ken Kennedy Award
The Ken Kennedy Award, established in 2009 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society in memory of Ken Kennedy, is awarded annually and recognizes substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and substantial community service or mentoring contributions. The aw...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20shelf%20label
Electronic shelf label
An electronic shelf label (ESL) system is used by retailers for displaying product pricing on shelves. The product pricing is automatically updated whenever a price is changed under the control of a central server. Typically, electronic display modules are attached to the front edge of retail shelving. The ESL market...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20private%20server
Virtual private server
A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. The virtual dedicated server (VDS) also has a similar meaning. A virtual private server runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, s...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20to%20Create%20a%20Mind
How to Create a Mind
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed is a non-fiction book about brains, both human and artificial, by the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. First published in hardcover on November 13, 2012 by Viking Press it became a New York Times Best Seller. It has received attention from The Washington Pos...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused%20deputy%20problem
Confused deputy problem
In information security, the confused deputy problem is often cited as an example of why capability-based security is important. A confused deputy is a legitimate, more privileged computer program that is tricked by another program into misusing its authority on the system. It is a specific type of privilege escalatio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag%20Sj%C3%B8berg
Dag Sjøberg
Dag I.K. Sjøberg (born 24 January 1961) is a Norwegian computer scientist, software engineer, and politician. He is a professor of software engineering at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. From 2001 to 2008 he was Research Director at Simula Research Laboratory and headed the Department of Softwa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
Intel
Intel Corporation, stylized as intel, is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is the developer of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymas%20of%20Phrygia
Dymas of Phrygia
In Greek mythology, Dymas (Ancient Greek: Δύμας) was a Phrygian king. Mythology The father of Dymas was given as one Eioneus, son of Proteus, by some ancient mythographers. According to Dictys, he was a descendant of Phoenix, son of Agenor, as recounted by Helen to Hecuba to prove their kinship. Dymas' wife was calle...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%2013
Android 13
Android 13, codenamed Tiramisu is an upcoming major release and 20th version of the Android mobile operating system. The first preview version was released on February 10, 2022. History Android 13 (internally codenamed Tiramisu) was announced in an Android blog posted on February 10, 2022, and the first Developer Pre...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20OpenGL%20applications
List of OpenGL applications
This is a non-exhaustive list of popular OpenGL programs. Many programs that use OpenGL are games. Games developed in OpenGL Ballenger a Platformer Sauerbraten an open source 3D FPS and also a game engine Doom (2016 video game) a FPS Minecraft a sandbox video game Photography and video Adobe After Effects, a di...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin%20M4000
Merlin M4000
The BT Merlin M4000 was a Personal computer sold by British Telecom during the 1980s as part of the Merlin range of electronic machinery for businesses. It was not developed by BT but was a rebadged Logica VTS-2300 Kennet, and a completely different machine from the Merlin Tonto which was a rebadged ICL OPD. Merlin M40...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%20Entertainment
Loki Entertainment
Loki Entertainment Software, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Tustin, California, that ported several video games from Microsoft Windows to Linux. It took its name from the Norse deity Loki. Although successful in its goal of bringing games to the Linux platform, the company folded in January 2002 aft...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenate%20mineral
Arsenate mineral
Arsenate minerals usually refer to the naturally occurring orthoarsenates, possessing the (AsO4)3− anion group and, more rarely, other arsenates with anions like AsO3(OH)2− (also written HAsO42−) (example: pharmacolite Ca(AsO3OH).2H2O) or (very rarely) [AsO2(OH)2]− (example: andyrobertsite). Arsenite minerals are much ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC
MECC
The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC, was an organization founded in 1973. The goal of the organization was to coordinate and provide computer services to schools in the state of Minnesota; however, its software eventually became popular in schools around the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wiki
A wiki ( ) is a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project and could be either open to the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledg...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified%20digital%20certificate
Qualified digital certificate
In the context of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 (eIDAS), a qualified digital certificate is a public key certificate issued by a qualified trust service provider that ensures the authenticity and data integrity of an electronic signature and its accompanying message and/or attached data. Description eIDAS defines severa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP%20hole%20punching
UDP hole punching
UDP hole punching is a commonly used technique employed in network address translation (NAT) applications for maintaining User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packet streams that traverse the NAT. NAT traversal techniques are typically required for client-to-client networking applications on the Internet involving hosts connec...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciena
Ciena
Ciena Corporation is an American telecommunications networking equipment and software services supplier based in Hanover, Maryland. The company has been described by The Baltimore Sun as the "world's biggest player in optical connectivity." The company reported revenues of $3.57 billion for 2019. Ciena had approximatel...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Applications
Oracle Applications
Oracle Applications comprise the applications software or business software of the Oracle Corporation both in the cloud and on-premises. The term refers to the non-database and non-middleware parts. The suite of applications includes enterprise resource planning, enterprise performance management, supply chain & manufa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20Video%20Decoder
Unified Video Decoder
Unified Video Decoder (UVD), previously called Universal Video Decoder, is the name given to AMD's dedicated video decoding ASIC. There are multiple versions implementing a multitude of video codecs, such as H.264 and VC-1. UVD was introduced with the Radeon HD 2000 Series and is integrated into some of AMDs GPUs and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20access
Internet access
Internet access is the ability of individuals and organizations to connect to the Internet using computer terminals, computers, and other devices; and to access services such as email and the World Wide Web. Internet access is sold by Internet service providers (ISPs) delivering connectivity at a wide range of data tra...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Radar%20Establishment%20Automatic%20Computer
Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer
The Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer, or the RREAC, was an early solid-state computer in 1962. It was made with transistors; many of Britain's previous experimental computers used the thermionic valve, also known as a vacuum tube. History Background Britain had built the world's first electronic computer...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVirt
OVirt
oVirt is a free, open-source virtualization management platform. It was founded by Red Hat as a community project on which Red Hat Virtualization is based. It allows centralized management of virtual machines, compute, storage and networking resources, from an easy-to-use web-based front-end with platform independent a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%20Stuart%20University
Bishop Stuart University
Bishop Stuart University (BSU) is a private, not-for-profit, multi-campus university in Uganda. Location BSU has its main campus, measuring approximately , at Kakoba Hill, off of Buremba Road, approximately east of downtown Mbarara. The coordinates of the main campus of the university are 0°36'10.0"S, 30°41'44.0"E (...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poem%20code
Poem code
The poem code is a simple, and insecure, cryptographic method which was used during World War II by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) to communicate with their agents in Nazi-occupied Europe. The method works by the sender and receiver pre-arranging a poem to use. The sender chooses a set number of words ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20menu
Apple menu
The Apple menu is a drop-down menu that is on the left side of the menu bar in the classic Mac OS, macOS and A/UX operating systems. The Apple menu's role has changed throughout the history of Apple Inc.'s operating systems, but the menu has always featured a version of the Apple logo. System 6 and earlier In System ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%2037
Mach 37
MACH37 is an American startup accelerator that was established in 2013 as a division of the Virginia-based Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) with funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 2017 CIT partnered with VentureScope, a strategic innovation consultancy and venture firm, to revamp MACH37's operating mod...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsair%20Gaming
Corsair Gaming
Corsair Gaming, Inc. is an American computer peripherals and hardware company headquartered in Fremont, California. The company, known previously as Corsair Components and Corsair Memory, was incorporated in California in January 1994 as Corsair Microsystems and was reincorporated in Delaware in 2007. Corsair designs a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Tognazzini
Bruce Tognazzini
Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini (born 1945) is an American usability consultant and designer. He currently works in partnership with Donald Norman and Jakob Nielsen in the Nielsen Norman Group, which specializes in human-computer interaction. He was with Apple Computer for fourteen years, then with Sun Microsystems for four yea...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi%20Ground%20Forces%20Command
Iraqi Ground Forces Command
The Ground Forces Command at Victory Base Complex near Baghdad Airport was the most important fighting formation in the Iraqi Army. The headquarters of the Iraqi Ground Forces Command and the Iraqi Joint Forces Command are the same entity. Since 2006, and probably up to U.S. withdrawal in 2011, the Ground Forces Comma...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Asia%20Institute%20of%20Technology%20and%20Humanities
First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities
First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities FAITH Colleges (First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities) is an institution of higher learning and research located in the City of Tanauan in Batangas. Since its inception on 8 September 2000, FAITH Colleges is envisioned to be a premier educational organizatio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morfeo%20Open-Source%20Software%20Community
Morfeo Open-Source Software Community
Morfeo Open-Source Software Community is a group that promotes the use of open source software, focused on improving technical transfer between companies, and on generating social networks for collaboration, and to encourage for small-sized companies providing certain resources for carrying out this task. The group is...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credential%20service%20provider
Credential service provider
A credential service provider (CSP) is a trusted entity that issues security tokens or electronic credentials to subscribers. A CSP forms part of an authentication system, most typically identified as a separate entity in a Federated authentication system. A CSP may be an independent third party, or may issue credentia...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOVIAL
JOVIAL
JOVIAL is a high-level programming language based on ALGOL 58, specialized for developing embedded systems (specialized computer systems designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions, usually embedded as part of a larger, more complete device, including mechanical parts). It was a major system programming langua...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20mobility%20spectrometry
Ion mobility spectrometry
Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) is an analytical technique used to separate and identify ionized molecules in the gas phase based on their mobility in a carrier buffer gas. Though heavily employed for military or security purposes, such as detecting drugs and explosives, the technique also has many laboratory analytica...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Computing%20and%20Information%20Sciences%2C%20Saint%20Louis%20University%2C%20Baguio
School of Computing and Information Sciences, Saint Louis University, Baguio
School of Computing and Information Sciences CHED Center of Development for Information Technology The youngest School in SLU traces its roots to the vision of then VP for Finance and later University President, Rev. Fr. Ghisleen de Vos (1976–1983). Forward thinking and possessed with a progressive management style, F...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Kilmer
Richard Kilmer
Richard Kilmer (born Hemet, California, 1969) is a technology entrepreneur, software programmer and conference host and speaker in the open-source software community. He is an open-source contributor and developer of commercial software applications built in Ruby and Flash. His best known open-source software creatio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata-based%20programming%20%28Shalyto%27s%20approach%29
Automata-based programming (Shalyto's approach)
Automata-based programming is a programming technology. Its defining characteristic is the use of finite state machines to describe program behavior. The transition graphs of state machines are used in all stages of software development (specification, implementation, debugging and documentation). Automata-based progra...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta%20Enterprise%20Beans
Jakarta Enterprise Beans
Jakarta Enterprise Beans (EJB; formerly Enterprise JavaBeans) is one of several Java APIs for modular construction of enterprise software. EJB is a server-side software component that encapsulates business logic of an application. An EJB web container provides a runtime environment for web related software components,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Lessig
Lawrence Lessig
Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination fo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Schneier
Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier (; born January 15, 1963) is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society as of November, 2013. He is a board member of the E...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20Cruiser
Cloud Cruiser
Cloud Cruiser is a cloud-based financial management company based in Silicon Valley. The company's software manages the finances of cloud computing and traditional IT environments. It was founded in January 2010 by David Zabrowski and Gregory Howard. Cloud Cruiser has offices in Roseville, California, San Jose, Califor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovieRide%20FX
MovieRide FX
MovieRide FX is a patented automated special visual effects video compositing engine used in the MovieRide FX mobile application for Android (requires Android 2.3 or later) and iOS (compatible with iPhone 4 and up, iPad, and iPod Touch (new generation), requires iOS 7 or later). MovieRide FX allows the user to persona...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10979%20Fristephenson
10979 Fristephenson
10979 Fristephenson, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous Sulamitis asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered during the Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey on 29 September 1973, by Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20mark%20recognition
Optical mark recognition
Optical mark recognition (also called optical mark reading and OMR) is the process of reading information that people mark on surveys, tests and other paper documents. OMR is used to read questionnaires, multiple choice examination papers in the form of shaded areas. OMR background Many OMR devices have a scanner t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOTA%20%28technology%29
IOTA (technology)
IOTA is an open-source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency designed for the Internet of things (IoT). It uses a directed acyclic graph to store transactions on its ledger, motivated by a potentially higher scalability over blockchain based distributed ledgers. IOTA does not use miners to validate transactions, instea...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nintendo%20development%20teams
List of Nintendo development teams
Nintendo is one of the world's biggest video game development companies, having created several successful franchises. Because of its storied history, the developer employs a methodical system of software and hardware development that is mainly centralized within its offices in Kyoto and Tokyo, in cooperation with its ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20DX%20200
Nokia DX 200
DX 200 is a digital switching platform currently developed by Nokia Networks. Architecture DX 200 is a versatile, fault-tolerant, modular and highly scalable telephone exchange and general purpose server platform, designed for high performance, high availability applications. Its hardware is built from loosely couple...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-confirmed%20reverse%20DNS
Forward-confirmed reverse DNS
Forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS), also known as full-circle reverse DNS, double-reverse DNS, or iprev, is a networking parameter configuration in which a given IP address has both forward (name-to-address) and reverse (address-to-name) Domain Name System (DNS) entries that match each other. This is the standard c...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkVantage%20Technologies
ThinkVantage Technologies
ThinkVantage Technologies is a set of system support utilities to reduce total cost of ownership of Lenovo brand desktop and laptop computers. Utilities Access Connections to graphically and securely manage and switch network connections between ethernet, wireless LAN, and wireless WAN Lenovo Mobile Broadband Activa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC%20OS
RISC OS
RISC OS is a computer operating system originally designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England. First released in 1987, it was designed to run on the ARM chipset, which Acorn had designed concurrently for use in its new line of Archimedes personal computers. RISC OS takes its name from the reduced instruction...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Parbury
George Parbury
George Parbury (1807–1881) was a British publisher with a special interest in India, a freemason in India and London, Master of Merchant Taylors livery company, Justice of the Peace for two counties and Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets. Biography George Parbury was born 24 January 1807, and baptised on 18 Februa...