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PC/Computing

When the technology bubble burst in mid-2000, the rechristened "Ziff-Davis Smart Business" lost its ad market.


Advanced Audio Coding

AAC supports inclusion of 48 full-bandwidth (up to 96 kHz) audio channels in one stream plus 16 low frequency effects (LFE, limited to 120 Hz) channels, up to 16 "coupling" or dialog channels, and up to 16 data streams.

Alejandro Strachan

Gerhard Klimeck and Mark Lundstrom of Special Issue to appear in Computing in Science and Engineering on "Cyber-enabled simulations in nanoscale science and engineering" March/April 2010.

AMD mobile platform

Both low-power APU versions feature two Bobcat x86 cores and fully support DirectX11, DirectCompute (Microsoft programming interface for GPU computing) and OpenCL (cross-platform programming interface standard for multi-core x86 and accelerated GPU computing).

Andrew Herbert

As part of his ANSA work, Herbert played an active role in many standards and consortia for distributed computing including TINA-C, RM-ODP, OSF DCE and OMG CORBA.

AQC

Adiabatic quantum computation, a quantum computing model that relies on the adiabatic theorem to do calculations

Bogus colleges in the United Kingdom

An example of a bogus college run as a scam is the Middlesbrough-based National Distance Learning College, which operated between 1999 and 2001 and offered distance learning courses in computing and business related subjects which it claimed were accredited by official qualification bodies such as BTEC and City & Guilds.

C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram

ER&DCI Institute of Technology (ER&DCI IT) is an educational institution under the direct control of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Thiruvananthapuram.

CacheFly

CacheFly was the first company to offer CDN service that rely solely on TCP Anycast for routing, rather than DNS based global load balancing.

Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis

The project aims to accelerate genomic research by amassing a large repository of metagenomic data generated by independent members of the research community at large, by developing a custom bioinformatics toolset optimized for cluster computing, and by offering the high-performance computing infrastructure on which to run it.

DaCast

Unlike platforms such as YouTube or Livestream, the service requires broadcaster to purchase bandwidth (through pay as you go or a monthly plan) to stream.

Dutch Open Telescope

Then by using statistics and a lot of computing (a 35 dual-Xeon computer-cluster powers these despeckle algorithms) the image is improved.

Elaine Weyuker

She is the chair of the ACM-W Council, a member of the executive committee of the Coalition to Diversify Computing, a member of the Rutgers University Graduate School Advisory Board, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association.

Fitts's law

Proceedings of ACM CHI 1992 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.

Fosscomm

The fourth FOSSCOMM took place at the University of Patras on May 7–8, 2011 and was co-organized by the department's Laboratory for Computing and the Patras Linux Users Group.

Gdium

The Gdium netbook is marketed as an interface device to the Gdium "learning community" -- a website that provides hardware support, MIPS builds of Open Source software, Linux computing tips, and educational resources targeted towards teachers and students within the K-12 demographic.

Genevieve Bell

Her book, Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, written in collaboration with Paul Dourish, is an exploration of the social and cultural aspects of ubiquitous computing, with a particular focus on the disciplinary and methodological issues that have shaped the ubiquitous computing research agenda.

Hans Bock

Hans Georg Bock (born 1948), German professor of mathematics and scientific computing

IBM Research

IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show.

Intel Tera-Scale

Intel Tera-scale Computing is a research and development program aiming at scaling Intel multi-core architectures for the future.

IP fragmentation

In a case where a router receives a protocol data unit (PDU) larger than the next hop's MTU, it has two options if the transport is IPv4: drop the PDU and send an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) message which indicates the condition Packet too Big, or fragment the IP packet and send it over the link with a smaller MTU.

J. Presper Eckert

Mauchly's proposal for building an electronic digital computer using vacuum tubes, many times faster and more accurate than the differential analyzer for computing ballistics tables for artillery, caught the interest of the Moore School's Army liaison, Lieutenant Herman Goldstine, and on April 9, 1943 was formally presented in a meeting at Aberdeen Proving Ground to director Colonel Leslie Simon, Oswald Veblen, and others.

JIT

Just-in-time compilation, a technique for improving the performance of virtual machines in computing

Killer NIC

Bigfoot also publishes some of their own applications; these include a firewall, BitTorrent client, FTP application, and Telnet service that allows access to the Killer NIC's OS.

Larry Wall

Wall grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later Pre-med with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before being graduated with a self-styled bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.

Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0

MATLAB is a high-level programming language for numerical computing, data acquisition and analysis.

LIBT at Brunel University

LIBT students complete a one or two-year university transfer programme and, subject to meeting the required progression criteria, transfer into the second year of Brunel University’s three-year undergraduate BSc degree programmes in Business & Management, Information Systems & Computing and Economics & Finance.

Mamram

Formed in 1959 under the name Maram (מר"ם), the unit bought its first computer, a US-made Philco machine. Mordechai Kikion was transferred from RAFAEL (then part of the IDF) to be the unit's first commander. Mamram facilities soon started hosting several other independent data processing units, including the Inventory Processing Center (מענ"א) and the Manpower Computing Center (ממכ"א).

Microsoft Binary Format

In computing, Microsoft Binary Format (MBF) was a format for floating point numbers used in Microsoft's BASIC language products including MBASIC, QuickBasic and GW-BASIC.

National Semiconductor PACE

PACE had four general-purpose accumulators, with an instruction set architecture loosely based on the earlier IMP-16 architecture, which in turn had been inspired by the Data General Nova minicomputer.

Neotys

Neotys develops software solutions to improve the quality and performance of information systems; its flagship solution, NeoLoad, tests the performance of web applications using customizable scenarios for load and stress.

Nick DeMartino

In addition, DeMartino initiated AFI-related sponsorships with Adobe Systems Systems), Radius, Macromedia, Claris, Avid Technology, Sony, and many others, establishing the AFI as the "go-to" place to use new media production tools.

Norton Guides

Norton Guides were a product family sold by Peter Norton Computing.

NSSC-1

The NSSC-1 had an assembler/loader/simulator toolset hosted on Xerox XDS 930 (24- bit) mainframe.

Olivetti Research Laboratory

The Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) was a research institute in the field of computing and telecommunications founded in 1986 by Hermann Hauser and Andy Hopper.

Open Cluster Framework

Original supporters included several computing companies and groups, including Compaq, Conectiva, IBM, Linux-HA, MSC Software, the Open Source Development Lab, OSCAR, Red Hat, SGI and SUSE.

Peter Naur

From 1959 to 1969, he was employed at Regnecentralen, the Danish computing institute, while at the same time giving lectures at the Niels Bohr Institute and the Technical University of Denmark.

Peter Samson

Working with Jack Dennis on the TX-0 at MIT Building 26, he developed an interest in computing waveforms to synthesize music.

Pierre Samuel

His lectures on unique factorization domains published by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research played a significant role in computing the Picard group of a Zariski surface via the work of Jeffrey Lang and collaborators.

Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

Skyglobe

A mouse can be used to change the viewing direction or to point at objects; the object under the mouse will be named in the lower-left corner of the screen, along with its horizontal and equatorial coordinates.

Text Analysis Portal for Research

The Text Analysis Portal for Research' (commonly referred as TAPoR) project is based at McMaster University, and consists of a network of six of the leading Humanities computing centres in Canada: McMaster, University of Victoria (in collaboration with Malaspina UC), University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Université de Montréal (law) and University of New Brunswick.

The Tic Tok Men

Dieter and Atian returned to Berlin, Seven surrounded himself in computing and Brian has mysteriously vanished somewhere in the United States.

TILE64

According to CTO and co-founder Anant Agarwal, Tilera will target the chip at networking equipment and digital video markets where the demands for computing processing are high.

Tuple space

Object Spaces, as a computing paradigm, was put forward in the 1980's by David Gelernter at Yale University.

Vitalize!

Vitalize! is a browser plugin created by Clickteam which processes and displays applications with a .

Wimmera Regional Library Corporation

A committee chose Stowe Computing on 1 December 1988, and the first AS400 computer was installed on 2 February 1989.

Wolfgang Steinert

: Standards and Regulations (comparing FCC 15.J - computing devices/1979, CISPR 11, 14 and VDE 0871, 0875).

Workstation

This approach was actually first attempted as a replacement for PCs in office productivity applications, with the 3Station by 3Com as an early example; in the 1990s, X terminals filled a similar role for technical computing.

Zeus Technology

In 2004 Zeus Technology released Zeus Traffic Manager (originally 'Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager', ZXTM), based on Zeus' earlier Zeus Load Balancer product, a software load balancer for TCP and UDP based network protocols, and based on a previous Zeus Load Balancer product.

Zhang Hongjiang

While with MSR Asia, he led efforts to research in Media Computing, Data Mining and Web Search, Natural Language Computing, and Distributed Systems.


see also

SpectorSoft

Spectorsoft products have been mentioned in many well known media outlets, including ZDNET, PC/Computing, Time, CNN, NBC Nightly News, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.