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95 relations: ACM Computing Reviews, Amiga, ARPANET, Artificial intelligence, BBN Technologies, Berkeley Software Distribution, Boing Boing, Byte (magazine), C (programming language), Carnegie Mellon University, CoEvolution Quarterly, Cybercrime, Cyberpunk, Digital Equipment Corporation, Don Woods (programmer), Eric S. Raymond, Fear, uncertainty and doubt, File Transfer Protocol, Flaming (Internet), Foobar, Gareth Branwyn, Geoff Goodfellow, Glossary, Guy L. Steele Jr., Hacker culture, Hugh Kenner, IBM, IBM Personal Computer, IEEE Spectrum, Incompatible Timesharing System, Internet slang, Jargon File, Jupiter project, Language for specific purposes dictionary, Lisp (programming language), Lisp machine, LOL, London Review of Books, Macintosh, Mainframe computer, Mark Crispin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Route 128, Matter of Britain, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Press, MIT Technology Review, Mondo 2000, MTV, Mung (computer term), ..., National Geographic Society, Neologism, New Scientist, Newsweek, O'Reilly Media, Oxford English Dictionary, PC Magazine, PC World, PDP-10, Penguin Books, People (magazine), Philip Wadler, Programmer, Proprietary software, Quotation marks in English, Random House, Raphael Finkel, Richard Stallman, SAGE Publications, Science (journal), SCO Group, SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp., Security hacker, Silicon Valley, Slang, SMS language, Stanford University, Stanford University centers and institutes, Steve Jackson (American game designer), Steve Jackson Games, Stewart Brand, Style guide, Tech Model Railroad Club, The Chicago Manual of Style, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Time (magazine), TOPS-20, UBM plc, Unix, Usenet, William Safire, Wired (magazine), Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Expand index (45 more) »
ACM Computing Reviews
ACM Computing Reviews (CR) is a scientific journal that reviews literature in the field of computer science.
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Amiga
The Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.
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ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.
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BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies (originally Bolt, Beranek and Newman) is an American high-technology company which provides research and development services.
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Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) was a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995.
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Boing Boing
Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog.
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Byte (magazine)
Byte was an American microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.
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C (programming language)
C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.
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Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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CoEvolution Quarterly
CoEvolution Quarterly (1974–1985) is a descendant of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog.
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Cybercrime
Cybercrime, or computer oriented crime, is crime that involves a computer and a network.
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Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
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Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC and using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Don Woods (programmer)
Don Woods (born April 30, 1954) is an American perennial hacker and computer programmer.
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Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar and other works, and open-source software advocate.
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Fear, uncertainty and doubt
Fear, uncertainty and doubt (often shortened to FUD) is a disinformation strategy used in sales, marketing, public relations, talk radio, politics, cults, and propaganda.
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File Transfer Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.
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Flaming (Internet)
Flaming is a hostile and insulting interaction between persons over the Internet, often involving the use of profanity.
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Foobar
The terms foobar, or foo and others are used as placeholder names (also referred to as metasyntactic variables) in computer programming or computer-related documentation.
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Gareth Branwyn
Gareth Branwyn (born January 21, 1958) is a writer, editor, and media critic.
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Geoff Goodfellow
Geoff Goodfellow (born 1956 in California) associated with early wireless email ventures.
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Glossary
A glossary, also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.
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Guy L. Steele Jr.
Guy Lewis Steele Jr. (born October 2, 1954) is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages.
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Hacker culture
The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming limitations of software systems to achieve novel and clever outcomes.
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Hugh Kenner
William Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 – November 24, 2003) was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor.
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IBM
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.
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IBM Personal Computer
The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform.
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IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum is a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Incompatible Timesharing System
Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) is a time-sharing operating system developed principally by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, with help from Project MAC.
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Internet slang
Internet slang (Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, or chatspeak) refers to various kinds of slang used by different people on the Internet.
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Jargon File
The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers.
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Jupiter project
The Jupiter project was to be a new high-end model of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10 mainframe computers.
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Language for specific purposes dictionary
A language for specific purposes dictionary is a reference work which defines the specialised vocabulary used by experts within a particular field, for example, architecture.
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Lisp (programming language)
Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.
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Lisp machine
Lisp machines are general-purpose computers designed to efficiently run Lisp as their main software and programming language, usually via hardware support.
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LOL
LOL, or lol, is an acronym for laugh(ing) out loud or lots of laughs, and a popular element of Internet slang.
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London Review of Books
The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British journal of literary essays.
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Macintosh
The Macintosh (pronounced as; branded as Mac since 1998) is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. since January 1984.
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Mainframe computer
Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing.
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Mark Crispin
Mark Reed Crispin (July 19, 1956 in Camden, New Jersey – December 28, 2012 in Poulsbo, Washington) is best known as the father of the IMAP protocol, having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Massachusetts Route 128
Route 128 (designated as the Yankee Division Highway) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).
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Matter of Britain
The Matter of Britain is the body of Medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain, and sometimes Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.
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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).
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MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review is a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Mondo 2000
Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s.
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MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.
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Mung (computer term)
Mung is computer jargon for a series of potentially destructive or irrevocable changes to a piece of data or a file.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.
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Neologism
A neologism (from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language.
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New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.
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O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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PC Magazine
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
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PC World
PC World, stylized PCWorld, is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.
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PDP-10
The PDP-10 is a mainframe computer family manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1966 into the 1980s.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house.
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People (magazine)
People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Meredith Corporation.
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Philip Wadler
Philip Lee Wadler (born April 8, 1956) is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory.
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Programmer
A programmer, developer, dev, coder, or software engineer is a person who creates computer software.
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Proprietary software
Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code, but sometimes patent rights.
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Quotation marks in English
In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
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Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.
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Raphael Finkel
Raphael Finkel (born 1951) is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky.
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Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms—is an American free software movement activist and programmer.
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SAGE Publications
SAGE Publishing is an independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in California.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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SCO Group
SCO, The SCO Group, The TSG Group, Caldera Systems, and Caldera International are the various names of an American software company that became known for acquiring the Santa Cruz Operation's Server Software and Services divisions, and UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, and then, under CEO Darl McBride, pursuing a series of legal battles known as the SCO-Linux controversies.
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SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp.
SCO v. IBM is a civil lawsuit in the United States District Court of Utah.
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Security hacker
A security hacker is someone who seeks to breach defenses and exploit weaknesses in a computer system or network.
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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley (abbreviated as SV) is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, referring to the Santa Clara Valley, which serves as the global center for high technology, venture capital, innovation, and social media.
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Slang
Slang is language (words, phrases, and usages) of an informal register that members of special groups like teenagers, musicians, or criminals favor (over a standard language) in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
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SMS language
SMS language, textese or texting language is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used with mobile phone text messaging, or other Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Stanford University centers and institutes
Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics.
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Steve Jackson (American game designer)
Steve Jackson (born c. 1953) is an American game designer.
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Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.
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Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.
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Style guide
A style guide (or manual of style) is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization, or field.
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Tech Model Railroad Club
The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) is a student organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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The Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated in writing as CMOS or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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TOPS-20
The TOPS-20 operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was a proprietary OS used on some of DEC's 36-bit mainframe computers.
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UBM plc
UBM plc is a global business-to-business (B2B) events organiser headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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Usenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.
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William Safire
William Lewis Safir (December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009), better known as William SafireSafire, William (1986).
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Wired (magazine)
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, focusing on the instruction and research of technical arts and applied sciences.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File
