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121Saffron Type System — The Saffron Type System is a system for rendering high quality scalable type on digital displays. Developed by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboritories (MERL), Saffron is built on a core of Adaptively Sampled Distance Field (ADF) technology.… …
122Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics — The Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics was a school of mathematics and astronomy founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama in Kerala, South India, which included among its members: Parameshvara, Neelakanta Somayaji, Jyeshtadeva, Achyuta… …
123IBM 704 — right|thumb|280px|An IBM 704 mainframe (image courtesy of LLNL)The IBM 704, [http://www 03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe 2423PH704.html 704 photos from IBM] ] the first mass produced computer with floating point arithmetic… …
124Volume rendering — is a technique used to display a 2D projection of a 3D discretely sampled data set.A typical 3D data set is a group of 2D slice images acquired by a CT or MRI scanner.Usually these are acquired in a regular pattern (e.g., one slice every… …
125CPU cache — Cache memory redirects here. For the general use, see cache. A CPU cache is a cache used by the central processing unit of a computer to reduce the average time to access memory. The cache is a smaller, faster memory which stores copies of the… …
126History of personal computers — This article covers the history of the personal computer. A personal computer is one which is directly used by an individual, as opposed to a mainframe in which the end user s requests are filtered through an operating staff, or a time sharing… …
127Array data type — Not to be confused with Array data structure. In computer science, an array type is a data type that is meant to describe a collection of elements (values or variables), each selected by one or more indices that can be computed at run time by the …
128Rank (linear algebra) — The column rank of a matrix A is the maximum number of linearly independent column vectors of A. The row rank of a matrix A is the maximum number of linearly independent row vectors of A. Equivalently, the column rank of A is the dimension of the …
