Computer Science

Natural language generation (NLG) is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) programming to produce written or spoken narratives from a data set.

In technology, the singularity describes a hypothetical future where technology growth is out of control and irreversible.

A recurrent neural network (RNN) is a type of artificial neural network commonly used in speech recognition and natural language processing.

American Wire Gauge (AWG) is the standard way to denote wire size in North America.

An optoisolator (also known as an optical coupler, photocoupler, optocoupler) is a semiconductor device that transfers an electrical signal between isolated circuits using light.

Serial ATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA) is a command and transport protocol that defines how data is transferred between a computer's motherboard and mass storage devices, such as hard disk drives (HDDs), optical drives and solid-state drives (SSDs).

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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.

American Wire Gauge (AWG) is the standard way to denote wire size in North America.

Encoding and decoding are used in many forms of communications, including computing, data communications, programming, digital electronics and human communications.

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol used for initiating, maintaining, modifying and terminating real-time sessions that involve video, voice, messaging and other communications applications and services between two or more endpoints on IP networks.

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This table contains mathematical symbols and links to definitions of what they represent and how they are used.

A prime number is a whole number greater than 1 whose only factors are 1 and itself. A factor is a whole numbers that can be divided evenly into another number.

A correlation coefficient is a statistical measure of the degree to which changes to the value of one variable predict change to the value of another.

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

A processor register is one of a small set of data holding places that are part of the computer processor.

BIOS (basic input/output system) is the program a computer's microprocessor uses to start the computer system after it is powered on.

In technology, the singularity describes a hypothetical future where technology growth is out of control and irreversible.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the current and developing environment in which disruptive technologies and trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the way modern people live and work.

Quantum theory is the theoretical basis of modern physics that explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level.

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a connection-oriented network protocol for transmitting multiple streams of data simultaneously between two endpoints that have established a connection in a network.

Secure sockets layer (SSL) is a networking protocol designed for securing connections between web clients and web servers over an insecure network, such as the internet.

Time-to-live (TTL) is a value for the period of time that a packet, or data, should exist on a computer or network before being discarded.

A mobile productivity app is a software program that allows smartphone, tablet and wearable device users to perform essential day-to-day tasks.

In technology, the singularity describes a hypothetical future where technology growth is out of control and irreversible.

Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition and machine vision.

Narrow AI is an application of artificial intelligence technologies to enable a high-functioning system that replicates -- and perhaps surpasses -- human intelligence for a dedicated purpose.

Often referred to as data that describes other data, metadata is structured reference data that helps to sort and identify attributes of the information it describes.

Google Analytics is a free web analytics service that provides statistics and analytical tools for search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing purposes.

Microdata is a type of specification language that is embedded within HTML content to improve machine readability, annotate elements and analyze web pages.

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.