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51Compare-and-swap — In computer science, the compare and swap (CAS) CPU instruction is a special instruction that atomically compares the contents of a memory location to a given value and, only if they are the same, modifies the contents of that memory location to… …
52Spinlock — In software engineering, a spinlock is a lock where the thread simply waits in a loop ( spins ) repeatedly checking until the lock becomes available. As the thread remains active but isn t performing a useful task, the use of such a lock is a… …
53SP-DEVS — abbreviating Schedule Preserving Discrete Event System Specification is a formalism for modeling and analyzing discrete event systems in both simulation and verification ways. SP DEVS also provides modular and hierarchical modeling features which …
54Artificial intelligence — AI redirects here. For other uses, see Ai. For other uses, see Artificial intelligence (disambiguation). TOPIO, a humanoid robot, played table tennis at Tokyo International Robot Exhibition (IREX) 2009.[1] Artificial intelligence ( …
55Windows Update — A component of Microsoft Windows Windows Update running on Windows 7 …
56Windows Installer — This article is about the Microsoft Windows component. For the installation of the operating system itself, see Windows Setup. Windows Installer Default window (after running msiexec.exe) Original author(s) Microsoft …
57October 2003 — October 2003: January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December Events See also Japan general election Iraq timeline Liberian crisis …
58Concurrent Versions System — Developer(s) The CVS Team Initial release November 19, 1990; 21 years ago (1990 11 19) Stable release …
59C (programming language) — C The C Programming Language[1] (aka K R ) is the seminal book on C …
60Transformational grammar — In linguistics, a transformational grammar, or transformational generative grammar (TGG), is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in a Chomskyan tradition. Additionally, transformational grammar is the… …
