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81Hal Abelson — Infobox Scientist name = Hal Abelson image width = 150px caption = Abelson in 2007 birth date = birth place = death date = death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = ethnicity = field = computer science, ethics, law, methodology,… …
82X-machine — The X machine ( XM ) is a theoretical model of computation introduced by Samuel Eilenberg in 1974.S. Eilenberg (1974) Automata, Languages and Machines, Vol. A . Academic Press, London.] The X in X machine represents the fundamental data type on… …
83Gadfly (database) — Gadfly is a relational database management system written in Python. Gadfly is a collection of Python modules that provides relational database functionality entirely implemented in Python. It supports a subset of the standard RDBMS Structured… …
84Cluster (computing) — A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely so that in many respects they form a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other through fast local area networks.… …
85Babbage, Charles — born Dec. 26, 1791, London, Eng. died Oct. 18, 1871, London British mathematician and inventor. Educated at Cambridge University, he devoted himself from about 1812 to devising machines capable of calculating mathematical tables. His first small… …
86information processing — Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer based operations. Information processing consists of locating and capturing information, using software to… …
87Human–computer interaction — This article is about the interaction between users and computers. For the direct communication between brain cells and computers, see Brain–computer interface. A mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two dimensional motion… …
88Folding@home — Original author(s) Vijay Pande Developer(s) Stanford University / Pande lab Initial release 2000 10 01 …
89Trusted Computing — (TC) is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group. The term is taken from the field of trusted systems and has a specialized meaning. With Trusted Computing the computer will consistently behave in specific ways, and… …
90X86 assembly language — is the assembly language for the x86 class of processors, which includes Intel s Pentium series and AMD s Athlon series. Like all assembly languages, it uses short mnemonics to represent the fundamental operations that the CPU in a computer can… …
