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A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics...

ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators...

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced /ˌeɪ.aɪ.ˈɛks/ ay-eye-EKS) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for...

In computing, an interface is a shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a computer system exchange information. The exchange can...

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), also called 2.5G, is a mobile data standard on the 2G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications...

Anonymity describes situations where the acting person's identity is unknown. Some writers have argued that namelessness, though technically correct, does...

A virtual local area network (VLAN) is any broadcast domain that is partitioned and isolated in a computer network at the data link layer (OSI layer 2)...

OpenVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) system that implements techniques to create secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged...

A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. It can also be a form of wireless ad hoc...

Automatic summarization is the process of shortening a set of data computationally, to create a subset (a summary) that represents the most important or...

A bitstream (or bit stream), also known as binary sequence, is a sequence of bits. A bytestream is a sequence of bytes. Typically, each byte is an 8-bit...

Eating your own dog food or "dogfooding" is the practice of using one's own products or services. This can be a way for an organization to test its products...

In computing, reactive programming is a declarative programming paradigm concerned with data streams and the propagation of change. With this paradigm...

MrSID (pronounced Mister Sid) is an acronym that stands for multiresolution seamless image database. It is a file format (filename extension .sid) developed...

True BASIC is a variant of the BASIC programming language descended from Dartmouth BASIC—the original BASIC. Both were created by college professors John...

Tiled rendering is the process of subdividing a computer graphics image by a regular grid in optical space and rendering each section of the grid, or tile...

Hardware-based encryption is the use of computer hardware to assist software, or sometimes replace software, in the process of data encryption. Typically...

Kathleen Rita Antonelli (née McNulty; formerly Mauchly; 12 February 1921 – 20 April 2006), known as Kay McNulty, was an Irish computer programmer and one...

Cynthia Dwork (born June 27, 1958[citation needed]) is an American computer scientist best known for her contributions to cryptography, distributed computing...

Consumer IR, consumer infrared, or CIR is a class of devices employing the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum for wireless communications...