The Computing for All plan (Plan Informatique pour Tous – IPT) was a French government plan to introduce computers to the country's 11 million pupils...
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Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic...
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Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct...
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computing or photonic computing uses light waves produced by lasers or incoherent sources for data processing, data storage or data communication for...
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of information in quantum computing, the qubit (or "quantum bit"), serves the same function as the bit in classical computing. However, unlike a classical...
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Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand, taking care of the servers...
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parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has...
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the underlying computing structures with addition, multiplication, permutation, mapping, and inverse as primitive computing operations. All computational...
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font in all caps (short for "all capitals") contains capital letters without any lowercase letters. For example: THIS TEXT IS IN ALL CAPS. All-caps text...
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all genres from all major publishers of computing literature. This secondary database is a rich discovery service known as The ACM Guide to Computing...
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which share a common goal for their work. The terms "concurrent computing", "parallel computing", and "distributed computing" have much overlap, and no...
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and add compute, memory, networking, and storage resources to a given node or set of nodes that make up a larger computing, distributed computing, or grid...
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Edge computing is a distributed computing model that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data. More broadly, it refers to any...
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Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly...
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Confidential computing is a security and privacy-enhancing computational technique focused on protecting data in use. Confidential computing can be used...
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of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888. He gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906. In his work...
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computing), storage, and communication locally and routed over the Internet backbone. In 2011, the need to extend cloud computing with fog computing emerged...
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PET Gazette, one of the first magazines for the Commodore PET computer. In its 1980s heyday, Compute! covered all major platforms, and several single-platform...
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Church–Turing thesis conjectures that there is no effective model of computing that can compute more mathematical functions than a Turing machine. Computer scientists...
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Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed concurrently—during overlapping time periods—instead of sequentially—with...
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The ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) is a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)...
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centralized computing exists when the majority of functions are carried out, or obtained from a remote centralized location. Decentralized computing is a trend...
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associated with computing used for scientific research or computational science. A related term, high-performance technical computing (HPTC), generally...
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reversible logic gate, applied in quantum computing Superconducting quantum computing – Quantum computing implementation Uncomputation – technique used...
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the Windows operating environment. Windows for Pen Computing was the second major pen computing platform for x86 tablet PCs; GO Corporation released their...
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history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and...
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Heterogeneous computing hardware can be found in every domain of computing—from high-end servers and high-performance computing machines all the way down...
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In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security...
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events in the history of computing from 2000 to 2009. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see the history of computing. Informational revolution...
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In computing, an epoch is a fixed date and time used as a reference from which a computer measures system time. Most computer systems determine time as...
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