Computer Science

Data classification is the process of organizing data into categories that make it is easy to retrieve, sort and store for future use.

A self-driving car (sometimes called an autonomous car or driverless car) is a vehicle that uses a combination of sensors, cameras, radar and artificial intelligence (AI) to travel between destinations without a human operator.

Big data is a combination of structured, semistructured and unstructured data collected by organizations that can be mined for information and used in machine learning projects, predictive modeling and other advanced analytics applications.

A hypervisor is a function that abstracts -- isolates -- operating systems (OSes) and applications from the underlying computer hardware.

Server virtualization is a process that creates and abstracts multiple virtual instances on a single server.

Computer hardware is a collective term used to describe any of the physical components of an analog or digital computer.

A microcontroller is a compact integrated circuit designed to govern a specific operation in an embedded system.

Ambient temperature is the air temperature of any object or environment where equipment is stored.

Fiber optics, or optical fiber, refers to the medium and the technology associated with the transmission of information as light pulses along a glass or plastic strand or fiber.

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A motor vehicle record (MVR) is the documentation of a person’s driving history. The information in an MVR includes personally identifiable information (PII) as well as information about the driver's traffic citations, vehicular crimes, accidents, driving under the influence (DUI) convictions and the number of points on the individual’s driver’s license.

United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a federal cabinet agency that is tasked with overseeing the energy economy, energy policies and energy security of the U.S. The agency creates policies for nuclear power, fossil fuel and alternative energy sources.

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a distance vector protocol that uses hop count as its primary metric.

Total Quality Management is a management framework based on the belief that an organization can build long-term success by having all its members, from low-level workers to its highest ranking executives, focus on quality improvement and, thus, delivering customer satisfaction.

MIS, or management information systems, is the software and hardware to support critical business applications. MIS also refers to the staff who select and manage these systems.

Grid computing (or the use of a computational grid) is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time

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A unique identifier (UID) is a numeric or alphanumeric string that is associated with a single entity within a given system.

Data analytics (DA) is the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information.

An independent variable is a variable that is manipulated to determine the value of a dependent variable.

Server virtualization is a process that creates and abstracts multiple virtual instances on a single server.

Ice Lake is a coming Intel central processing unit (CPU) product generation that is expected to be on the long awaited 10nm process.

A blade server, sometimes referred to as a high-density server, is a compact device containing a computer used to manage and distribute data in a collection of computers and systems, called a network.

A quantum microphone is an extremely device that detects the smallest particles of sound, such as packets of vibrational energy called phonons.

A MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) is a miniature machine that has both mechanical and electronic components.

A nanocrystal is a crystalline particle with at least one dimension measuring less than 1000 nanometers (nm), where 1 nm is defined as 1 thousand-millionth of a meter (10-9 m).

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LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a software protocol for enabling anyone to locate data such as organizations, individuals and other resources such as files and devices in a network -- whether on the public internet or on a corporate intranet.

A static IP address is a 32 bit number that is assigned to a computer to be its address on the internet.

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a distance vector protocol that uses hop count as its primary metric.

A self-driving car (sometimes called an autonomous car or driverless car) is a vehicle that uses a combination of sensors, cameras, radar and artificial intelligence (AI) to travel between destinations without a human operator.

Supervised learning, in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, is a type of system in which both input and desired output data are provided.

Concentrated solar power (CSP) is an approach to generating electricity in which mirrors are used to reflect, concentrate and focus sunlight onto a specific point. The concentrated light is converted into into heat, which in turn is used to create steam. The steam is then used to drive a turbine that generates electrical power.

A cinemagraph is an image that combines still photography with active video to create a picture that contains a small moving element while the rest is frozen.

Videogrammetry is the extraction of an object’s measurements from a video; measurements may be gathered from multiple angles or multiple videos.

A digital evidence presentation system (DEPS) is a system with an overhead camera and a liquid crystal display (LCD) used in courts to present and record evidence digitally.