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8 unusual facts about computer program


Art pipeline

These highly customizable programs allow users to apply plug-ins or add-ons to tailor the interactions each program will have with one another as an element moves along the pipeline from concept to completion.

Artificial imagination

The term artificial imagination is also used to describe a property of machines or programs: Among some of the traits that researchers hope to simulate using machines include creativity, vision, digital art, humor, satire, etc.

John Mauchly

John Mauchly has also been credited for being the first one using the verb "to program" in his 1942 paper on electronic computing, although in the context of ENIAC, not in its current meaning.

PC Globe

Distributed on floppy disk, the program is divided into several menus that allows one to access the data.

Pinch analysis

Both detailed and simplified (spreadsheet) programs are now available to calculate the energy targets.

Roboboa

Roboboa can be 'programmed' by entering commands with the remote; up to 40 commands can be recorded and played back in sequence.

Robopet

Like the other WowWee products to date, the Robopet can be programmed.

Uncompressed video

Any other significant program activity including background processes - for example not needed Windows startup processes (use for example Autoruns) or Windows services (use Service Control Manager), including automatic updates or virus scanners - may disrupt, distort or stop the video recording.


Adobe Distiller

Adobe Distiller was a computer program for converting documents from PostScript format to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format), the native format of the Adobe Acrobat family of products.

AS-Interface

In order to retain full forward and backward compatibility, the size of the data frame exchanged between the network master (Scanners and Gateways) was not increased.

Background process

On a Windows system, this term may be used to either refer to a computer program that does not create a user interface, or a Windows service.

Biskit

building on the library, a set of programs for solving specific tasks, for example, the automatic prediction of Protein structures by Homology modeling or (an attempt at) the prediction of Protein complex structures through flexible Protein-protein docking

Blackboard system

Famous examples of early academic blackboard systems are the Hearsay II speech recognition system and Douglas Hofstadter's Copycat and Numbo projects.

Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo

Instructors are also taught how to use technological devises such as computers, scanners, printers, digital cameras and sound recorders, software (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Inspiration), and the Internet.

Dialog tree

The first computer dialogue system was featured in ELIZA, a primitive natural language processing computer program written by Joseph Weizenbaum between 1964 and 1966.

Email attachment

However, in practice this advice is not enough – "known trusted sources" were the senders of executable programs creating mischief and mayhem as early as 1987 (with the mainframe-based Christmas Tree EXEC), so since the ILOVEYOU and Anna Kournikova worms of 2000 and 2001 email systems have increasingly added layers of protection to prevent potential malware – and now many block certain types of attachments.

Fabien Chéreau

Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French Research Engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.

General Problem Solver

General Problem Solver (GPS) was a computer program created in 1959 by Herbert A. Simon, J.C. Shaw, and Allen Newell intended to work as a universal problem solver machine.

Help Fight Childhood Cancer

Treating it as a problem in ligand docking, a computer program called AutoDock will virtually attempt to fit each molecule to each protein in such a way that the protein is disabled.

Imperative programming

Recipes and process checklists, while not computer programs, are also familiar concepts that are similar in style to imperative programming; each step is an instruction, and the physical world holds the state.

Mosaic notation program

Several factors can be theorized: Sibelius and Finale were the competitor notation packages; they were developed for both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

Odyssey Through O2

It also contains a computer program, JArKaos, a scaled down version of the ArKaos software used by Jarre to produce visual accompaniment to his music at concerts.

PdfTeX

The computer program pdfTeX is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

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).

Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey

Wishbone and The Amazing Odyssey is a computer program published by Palladium Interactive in 1996 featuring the Jack Russell Terrier (voiced by Larry Brantley) from the Wishbone television series on PBS.


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Analog ear

The last full report employed a relatively early version of a computer program written in time-shared BASIC.

Bulls and cows

A computer program moo, written in 1970 by J. M. Grochow at MIT in the PL/I computer language for the Multics operating system, was amongst the first Bulls and Cows computer implementations, inspired by a similar program written by Frank King in 1968 and running on the Cambridge University mainframe.

Control unit

The idea of microprogramming was introduced by Maurice Wilkes in 1951 as an intermediate level to execute computer program instructions.

CSharpBuilder

C#Builder, from Borland Software Corporation, is a computer program that allows programmers to create Microsoft Windows and Web applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework using the programming language C#.

Deeper Understanding

It is directed by Bush herself and stars Robbie Coltrane, Frances Barber, Noel Fielding, and the voice of her son Albert, who plays the role of the computer program.

Der Schlangemann

In 2008, after receiving a series of Call-for-Paper e-mails, a couple of students used the SCIgen computer program to generate a false scientific paper titled Towards the Simulation of E-Commerce, using "Herbert Schlangemann" as the author.

Eliza

ELIZA, 1966 computer program designed to simulate a therapist or psychoanalyst

Evergreen Game

The Chessmaster computer program annotation says "this sacrifice is not without danger, as Black now obtains an open g-file for counterplay."

Game of the Amazons

Michael Keller wrote the first computer program to play the Game of the Amazons in 1994 (in Fortran with a text interface; a later version was written in Visual Basic; see References).

Hunveyor

Mathematica demonstrations (a computer program of the Wolfram Research) help planning and studying motions, extensions, and other operations with the new instruments.

I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus

Many of the things the computer said were based on ELIZA, a computer program which simulated a Rogerian psychotherapist.

Jennifer Porter

Porter has promoted educational and cultural programs, including a computer program to teach students words from the Kutenai language.

KAI KT-1 Woongbi

Development was initiated under the KTX program for the Republic of Korea Air Force in 1988 using the CATIA computer program to completely develop the aircraft, the first of its class.

Maze solving algorithm

The random mouse, wall follower, Pledge, and Trémaux algorithms are designed to be used inside the maze by a traveler with no prior knowledge of the maze, whereas the dead-end filling and shortest path algorithms are designed to be used by a person or computer program that can see the whole maze at once.

Newsreader

News aggregator, a computer program for syndicated Web content supplied in the form of a web feed

Nooj

NooJ, a computer program for natural language processing

Portability

Porting, the ability of a computer program to be ported from one system to another in computer science

Project Houdini

Project Houdini is a computer program used by the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign of Barack Obama.

Project Space Track

In 1960, Aeronutronic, a division, of the Ford Motor Company, had a contract with Space Track to develop improved methods of predicting the orbits of decaying satellites, a computer program called Spiral Decay, and for other software for new computers in the new building.

Riddim Driven: Liquid

This riddim also features Tanto Metro & Devonte's "Give it to Her," one of the first popular uses of the warbling effect created by Anatares Audio Technologies' Auto-Tune computer program.

Robert M. French

French is the inventor of Tabletop, a computer program that forms analogies in a microdomain consisting of everyday objects placed on a table.

Sketchpad

Sketchpad (aka Robot Draftsman) was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012.

STK

Systems Tool Kit (formerly Satellite Tool Kit), an astrodynamics computer program from Analytical Graphics, Inc.

Technical Difficulties

Software bugs that make it difficult or impossible to perform some action using a particular computer program

ToneLoc

ToneLoc was a popular war dialing computer program for MS-DOS written in the early to mid-1990s by two programmers known by the pseudonyms Minor Threat (Chris Lamprecht) and Mucho Maas.

Userland

Radio UserLand, a computer program to aid maintaining blogs or podcasts

VERTCON

VERTCON is a computer program that computes the modeled difference in orthometric height between the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) and the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) for a location in the contiguous United States.

William Chamberlain

William Chamberlain (technologist), author of the poetry-generating computer program Racter

Williams Mix

Larry Austin later created a computer program, the "Williams (re)Mix(er)", based on an analysis of ""Williams Mix"", which could "yield ever-new Williams Mix scores.