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Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting...

Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes...

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms...

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC /dɛk/ ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s...

In computer science and operations research, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a metaheuristic inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the...

RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five": 1 ) is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC)...

This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Mojibake (Japanese: 文字化け;...

The Intel 80286 (also marketed as the iAPX 286 and often called Intel 286) is a 16-bit microprocessor that was introduced on February 1, 1982. It was the...

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation...

Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a given...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN /ˈaɪkæn/ EYE-kan) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered...

"Dial up modem noises" Typical noises of dial-up modem (North America and United Kingdom) while a modem is establishing connection with a local ISP-server...

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is a family of wireless broadband communication standards based on the IEEE 802.16 set of standards...

WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser and web page editor. It was...

Academia.edu is a commercial platform for sharing academic research that is uploaded and distributed by researchers from around the world. All academic...

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols on the Internet Protocol (IP) that permits networked devices, such as personal computers...

Resilient File System (ReFS), codenamed "Protogon", is a Microsoft proprietary file system introduced with Windows Server 2012 with the intent of becoming...

The tooltip, also known as infotip or hint, is a common graphical user interface (GUI) element in which, when hovering over a screen element or component...

Alienware Corporation is an American computer hardware subsidiary brand of Dell. Their product range is dedicated to gaming computers and accessories and...

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG or MJPEG) is a video compression format in which each video frame or interlaced field of a digital video sequence is compressed separately...