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Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical...

Java is a set of computer software and specifications that provides a software platform for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform...

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

In computing, scheduling is the action of assigning resources to perform tasks. The resources may be processors, network links or expansion cards. The...

The usage share of an operating system is the percentage of computers that run that operating system (OS). These statistics are estimates as wide scale...

In computing, extract, transform, load (ETL) is a three-phase process where data is extracted from an input source, transformed (including cleaning), and...

In computing, overclocking is the practice of increasing the clock rate of a computer to exceed that certified by the manufacturer. Commonly, operating...

In systems engineering and software engineering, requirements analysis focuses on the tasks that determine the needs or conditions to meet the new or altered...

In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals...

Links is a free software text and graphical web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support (including...

In the context of hardware and software systems, formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of a system with respect to a...

BBC BASIC is an interpreted version of the BASIC programming language. It was developed by Acorn Computers Ltd when they were selected by the BBC to supply...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a distribution of Java technology by Oracle Corporation. It implements the Java Language Specification (JLS) and the...

VideoCore is a series of low-power mobile multimedia processors originally developed by Alphamosaic Ltd and now owned by Broadcom. Alphamosaic marketed...

In number theory, a Woodall number (Wn) is any natural number of the form W n = n ⋅ 2 n − 1 {\displaystyle W_{n}=n\cdot 2^{n}-1} for some natural number...

Peer exchange or PEX is a communications protocol that augments the BitTorrent file sharing protocol. It allows a group of users (or peers) that are collaborating...

In computer science, the process calculi (or process algebras) are a diverse family of related approaches for formally modelling concurrent systems. Process...

The Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a network protocol for encapsulating Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames inside Ethernet frames....

Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943) is a computer scientist specializing in database systems. Through a series of academic prototypes and...

GNU Classpath is a free software implementation of the standard class library for the Java programming language. Most classes from J2SE 1.4 and 5.0 are...