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Algorithms
- ALPAE - See http://web.mahaserver.com/papers.php?id=326
- Anytime A*
- Anytime B*
- Baldi-Chauvin algorithm - see [1]
- BCJ - mentioned in the 7z article.
- BCJ2
- Burke-Fisher error repair
- Coercibility
- Data exploration
- Deutsch-Schorr-Waite algorithm/Link inversion algorithms
- Distributed tree search by Korf and Ferguson
- EBCOT (JPEG 2000)
- ELS-coder
- ELBG - Enhanced LBG (VQ algorithm)
- ECPG-Embedded SQL in C
- Farthest Addition Constructive greedy algorithm (see nearest neighbour, nearest addition)
- Find-S - see [2]
- Free-form deformation, a non-linear transformation
- Fully threaded binary search tree
- Fully Automatic Clustering System, a vector quantization algorithm (linked from FACS)
- Frequent subtree mining
- Geansai gorm
- Golly (program), a cellular automata simulator - see [3]
- Gossip-based multicast protocol
- Gur game
- Hunter-gatherer algorithm
- Jump string, somehow related to Jump tables
- Kernel Perceptron, a Perceptron that uses the kernel trick
- Map matching used e.g. in car navigation, see Etak and AGORA
- March C+ algorithm
- Maximum cardinality search algorithm - see Lex BFS
- Multihop data propagation
- Multilist structure
- Multipacket reception - The ability of a router to transmit and receive packets on different frequencies simultaneously, using, and therefore built upon, MIMO.
- MQ-coding (JPEG 2000)
- Nested means
- Neuromimetic intelligence See Cortex project.
- Normalized Compression Distance - An algorithm for calculating the differences between sets of data by using compression algorithms.
- Rao-Blackwellized particle filter - For performing approximate inference in dynamic systems with both discrete and continuous state
- Raptor Looping
- Reference Broadcast Synchronization - A relatively new method of time synchronization that is superior to Network Time Protocol when applied to for wireless networks. More info can be found here (PDF technical paper).
- Rocchio's algorithm
- ServEnt Threads used by W-PuTTY-CD- See W-PuTTY-CD, PuTTY communication in a Microsoft Windows™ DLL shell.
- Spectral test
- Syncscan
- Unparser
- Value range analysis - analysis for compiler optimizations like redundancy elimination, dead code elimination, instruction selection, etc. that tracks various properties of values defined and changed in a program (min-max integer bounds, set-reset bits, etc.) - implemented in Intel compiler, to be implemented in GNU GCC, etc.
- Wavefront Expansion Motion Planner
- Nesting problem - The nesting problem, called " marker making problem " (MMP) in apparel industry, belongs to the class of two-dimensional packing problems
- Gentleboost
Computer books
- UNIX Network Programming
- What to do when you get your hands on a microcomputer - ISBN 0830600825, published 1982. (Article originally requested under mis-worded title, "What To Do If You Ever Get Your Hands On A Microcomputer".) Need to evaluate notability.
Widget Toolkits
Computer management
Computer architecture
- Simplescalar Computer Architecture simulator
- Block floating-point
- Declarative Transaction Management
- Dynamic System Domain (Servers) See [4] [5] [6] [7]
- Electronic BatchRecords
- Independent timing - how this feature of host bus adapter works and helps to access devices without losing speed
- indivisibility - is the required property of a Test-and-set instruction used to implement a semaphore. uninterruptible. — 'Indivisibility' and 'uninterruptible' are generic words and deserve DABs; in the context of CS, Atomicity (programming), Indivisibility (programming) and Uninterruptibility (programming) now redirect to Linearizability. – Regregex (talk) 13:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
- Kernel Based Methods - See www.kernel-machines.org
- Kernel Machines - See www.kernel-machines.org
- List of instruction sets by number of instructions
- Localizer in networking of mobile devices (?)
- MARIE - pl:MARIE
- Micropipeline
- MIPSel
- MPS Table - Multiprocessor system table
- Petascale simulation
- Test design Could someone elaborate on this, please.
- Duncan's Taxonomy
- Snoopy Cache in protocols and hardware (already mentioned in the DEC article, as well as in the article on Butler Lampson)
- Resource Allocation Graphs A system to keep track of deadlocks in operating systems.
- modular bays, i.e. the wee dashboard that pops up every time you use your brother printer).
- throughput computing In contrast to high-performance computing which focuses on pure performance (speed of individual operations), throughput computing focues on operations per unit time.
- PEMIC PEdagogical Model of Instructional Computer.
- Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS)
Computer languages
- EMC-SNAS EMC filesystem? EMC Scalable Network Accelerator in front of their storage?
- Potion (programming language). "Potion is an object- and mixin-oriented (traits) language." per http://github.com/why/potion/tree/master (Apparently under development - I'm not sure whether this is currently notable or not.)
- Seed7 see http://seed7.sourceforge.net Other links: Abstract of diploma thesis (in german, about MASTER, a predecessor of Seed7), Doctorate thesis (in german, about MASTER, a predecessor of Seed7), Paper from Daniel Zingaro: Modern Extensible Languages (alternate link) (paragraph about Seed7 at page 16), The Quest for the Ultimate Cycle explores the 3n+C extension of the Collatz Conjecture with Seed7 programs, A FreeBSD port / see also here (not maintained by Mr. Mertes)
- Velneo See http://english.velneo.com
- Comparison of Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET - the reason of creation is stated in the section Adding a link of the page Template talk:DotNET. UU (talk) 18:35, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- WhizBase - WhizBase 5 is a hypertext pre-processor for Windows® based web servers. - http://www.whizbase.com
- Fancy (programming language) - A dynamic, pure object-oriented programming language inspired by Smalltalk, Ruby and Erlang. http://www.fancy-lang.org
Early computer models/processors
Hardware
- A4tech is a company that makes PC peripherals
- Intel X-25m The fastest reads of any single hard drive ever. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/intel_x25m
- Madd Electronics Group - A romanian company of hardware distribution - www.pcmadd.com
- Glare screen - a new laptop kind of screen now in "mass" use -- Do you mean Glossy display? MaxVT (talk) 18:11, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
- 4B/5B-NRZI - Signal encoding scheme for 100BASE-X Physical Media
- AJ-100 - Direct execution processor for java
- Apacer Technology Inc. - A company which makes Memory modules, Flash drives and other computer hardware - http://www.apacer.com
- Apple Media Wall - Apple 3x8 feet multi-touch computer.
- bridge media adapter
- Bridging chipset Chipsets used to adapt eSATA hard drives to Firewire, USB, etc. Discuss faster/slower chipsets i.e Oxford, Prolific, etc. and why they are so. [8] [9]
- BTTV - Analog V4L capture card BTTV based tuners
- BBWC - Battery Backed Write Cache
- CAMLINK - A digital video (frame grabber) interface.
- Conductive Pen - A silver pen used for circuit boards
- DFA Chip
- DLP Monitor/DLP
- Domino Logic
- Drive Xpert
- eeepc s101
- ECL monitors
- Front Panel Audio - Two most common types are onboard AC97 and Azalia from Realtek. The problem is that the PC case connector descriptions always differ from m/b description, which is rather confusing. An article about existing case FP types, m/b FP types and their correlations would be good.
- IEEE 1680
- IOdrive an SSD produced by Fusion-IO which is attached via pci-e
- IPC-A-610 is a workmanship standard for the manufacture of electronic assemblies. There are three classes, class III being the most stringent, such as for life support and mission critical systems. [10]
- Kraken (Supercomputer) see http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114373&org=OCI&from=news (or NICS, analogous to TACC). See also Teragrid
- Micro Solutions Backpack - External CD-ROM drive
- Mica2 Motes - Wireless Sensor Network - http://www.xbow.com/products/Product_pdf_files/Wireless_pdf/MICA2_Datasheet.pdf
- Multi channel data link - http://high_speed_video.colostate.edu/camera_manual.pdf page 2.5
- N8VEM - home brew Z80 CP/M computer project http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem
- Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device - Ultra mobile PC created by Oregon State students for Oregon State students as a platform for learning device for computer science and ece. http://beaversource.oregonstate.edu/projects/cspfl/, http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2009/inventive-education-research-with-an-edge/, http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/130, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSU_Computer_Science_Platform
- P90 year - cf. MIPS-year. It seems like there should be some generic unit of computation, but I can't find it. — Ken g6 (talk) 21:03, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- Personal Security Environment PSE, a type of of user authentication often using a digital certificate. See http://www.bridge-ca.de/html/glossary.html, and http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm32/helpdata/EN/b8/821feedadd11d2a60a0000e835363f/content.htm.
- PSMI
- Quad small form factor pluggable - Apparently some sort of digital connector used in Infiniband and storage applications, often abbreviated QSFP. There are about 24,000 results for it on Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=%22quad+small+form+factor+pluggable%22 It is notable to the extent that lots of very high end hardware seems to employ the connectors in applications and handling data in ways that are not immediately obvious to the uninitiated.
- Qualcomm Gobi - the first multi-mode 3G (GSM, EV-DO, HSPA) WWAN solution for mobile computer devices (notebooks, UMPCs)
- radeon r800
- RLDRAM - Reduced Latency DRAM
- Secondary Precharge Transistor - Domino logic charge sharing trick
- SecurDisc - A feature on many LG brand DVD writers
- Select Bay
- self-tending drive doors meachanisms on Dell's XPS 700 computer.
- Siemens C166 processor
- SmartQ 5 and SmartQ 7 - Tablets (aka MIDs) created by SmartDevices. As mobile computing becomes ever more important, these devices are notable because of their inexpensiveness and stance of open technology. They also represent increased efforts by firms in China to enter the embedded-linux market. References to these wikipages already exist from the Portable Linux Devices page.
- Soft AP - Software that enables a normally client-only WiFi adaptor to be used as an Access Point.
- Toshiba Satellite A300
- UAJ (Universal Audio Jack) - a way to sense the type of audio a computer has. I.e., dolby 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1.
- Virtual Extended Bus - Some type of physical storage bus extension to PCI-X present on certain high-end Xeon motherboards: uses the acronym VXB
- VPR matrix
- Wavescalar modern research dataflow processor
- Way prediction (reducing conflict misses in a cache Socket M AMD processor)
- Wireless Networks Cable Low Loss Cable varieties and appropriate usage
- Worldisk Hard disk supplier. Remanufactured or relabeled Fujitsu??
- xpsport New port format?
- powder display, more exactly quick response liquid powder display or QRLPD – roughly an e-paper variant developed by Bridgestone (and produced by Hitachi)
- mycpu TTL processor, Processor and complete 8 bit computer system. a "do it yourself" computer, in a manner uncommon amongst computer enthusiasts since the 70's. www.mycpu.eu
The Internet
- AcmeFiles.com A website where you can download lots of software for free. One of the most visited download sites around the world.[11] [2009|5|05] 4:40 p.m.
- Acolite Internet Hosting - Acolite Internet Hosting -- New UK Internet Hosting Provider using backbone of Heart Internet. Founded in 2009.
- Aggregator site — There's already the Category:Video game review aggregators but this needs an introduction page. And there are also other kinds of aggregator sites than just movie and video game review sites. The article could contain at least something about the history and business model of these sites. —ZeroOne (talk / @) 07:31, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
- Agora (Nomic) - as mentioned in Nomic this game has the distinction of having been running since 1993 (rather early, in Internet time) and is obviously rather special in the world of Nomic... official website at http://www.agoranomic.org/ ; description from semi-outsider perspective on http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php/Agora
- allyve - big German internet SSO startpage, www.allyve.com [12] [13]
- Animation vs Animator -A flash movie on the internet.
- Awards site - a site where people can come and enter their site into a competition and other people come and vote on other peoples sites.
- BanglaGamer -- [14] the fastest growing e-sports community of Bangladesh.
- bash.org - biggest online quote database, important part of internet culture [15]
- Betanews - a computer news and download site
- Britekite -- page deleted, please replace.[clarification needed]
- Burning Board - A forum software used by ClassicPro's official site
- Buzzillions - buzzillions.com -- It's one of those review websites,like Epinions.Consumers review tons of products of many kinds.There are 2 reviews about it:Venturebeat/buzzillions,Businesswire/buzzillions
- Chelsio Communications, a leading manufacturer of high-end networking equipment, such as iSCSI, InfiniBand and 10GbE NICs
- CloudOS A web based application platform, developed by microsoft [16] [17]
- Coding for a Cause - a movement of open source technology advocates supporting not-for-profits by building them websites for free. See [18] & [19]
- CollegeACB.com - http://CollegeACB.com an Anonymous Confession Board for colleges. Notability: [20], [21]
- Comparison of Internet search engines
- Computer Programmers Forum -Site is here The independent article-- A computer programming forum that is very popular in the programming world. 71.212.148.61 (talk) 03:15, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- Cooltoad -- [Cooltoad http://www.cooltoad.com], a website for free email, search, and music. Wiki5d (talk) 14:54, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
- EasyBib - Largest online bibliography service Easybib Website
- Elovix -- [22], a new community, focussing on Social Networking, Help, troubleshooting, Downloads and much more
- ExitReality - Makes the entire Internet 3D - a 3D architecture for the Internet with open standards
- FC2.com - Recently deleted for G11 (advertisement), but it seems fairly important as it's Japan's #4 most visited site according to Alexa, and #1 most visited only-Japanese site (see http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fc2.com). CharonM72 (talk) 22:59, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
- Fizy.com -- [23] [24] Music and video search engine with interface in 26 languages. I created the item myself but was deleted as (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) although I have no affiliation with the site :( --Nevit (talk) 18:45, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
- Flickrvision.compopular well known website that shows realtime geolocated images from flickr.comMancgollum (talk) 08:39, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
- Fluther - Fluther -- Website where users can ask questions about many topics and receive answers from people with knowledge on the topic in a short time. Users may also answer questions which they know the answer to.
- FPS Bay - FPS Bay -- Free Public Sharing Bay. Website where users can Upload and Download files directly, without sign-up, totally free of charge, with minimal/no limitations. (File sharing, Internet, Resources, fpsbay.com).
- Global Research
- GROU.PS - [25] -- Alexa ranking 6k, 12m monthly unique visitors, 100m monthly page views, with Ning's closure of their free networks, became the world's largest *free* do-it-yourself social networking platform. more information available on techcrunch
- i-doser - I-Doser is a brainwave synchronizer that emulates the use of a prescription drug.Offical website
- I've got a jar of dirt - internet meme, from "Pirates of the Caribbean" - --Gondana (talk) 00:41, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
- icloud.com -- [26] a free Cloud OS from icloud, available in 8 languages. Vision: To give everyone a free online computer
- Internet Week New York
- iPBFree -- [27] a free forum hoster that allows near complete customization and control.
- Itch.com - [28] Itch.com - Massively Multiplayer Browser-based Games -- Basically, it is a portal with a great variety of games, which at the same time has many subdomains with more games… People on charge of this site are tech guys who firstly built companies that provided IT solutions to businesses. Then, they realized it wasn't their calling, so they couldn't resist filling what they see as a huge gap in pure browser-based games. As a result, Itch.com became a community for players of free to play multiplayer online games. The page has a variety of games and an active and supportive community of players and moderators.
- JavaStore - A new online store by Sun Microsystems for selling and distributing Java apps.Java Store Website
- Jowki - Jowki - Tech Blog ran by a 15 year old from Bradford, United Kingdom. News and reviews on web-tools, applications, gadgets etc.
- Link Management Protocol - a link management protocol (LMP) that runs between a pair of nodes and is used to manage traffic engineering links (from RFC4204)—C45207 | Talk 05:39, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
- Loop'd Network - A Site for Athletes to Get Sponsors with Over 300,000 Members and Millions of Hits a Day, With The Ability to Make a Profile [29]
- MacedonianFootball.com - Macedonian Football website - Internet project for popularization of the Macedonian football
- Macy Gray (neopet) Macy Gray is also a kind of neopet but it was retired 2001 or 2002 for legal reasons.
- Magellan (search engine) -- one of the early search engines that became the basis of the Excite web portal.
- Merawatan.Merawatan is a social networking site for people of Pakistan. Address: http://www.merawatan.pk/
- mothballing -- the prosess of leaving old and un-updated pages on the internet for further refrence
- Naviance Succeed - Naviance Succeed suite -- Features a Survey Builder that reports statistical data about College acceptance rates, college admissions, rankings, college placement, school GPAs, admission criteria, etc.
- Naviance, Inc. - (Naviance Corporate Website) -- Naviance is division of Hobsons, which is a subsidiary of DMG Information, which in turn is part of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc
- Neoseeker http://www.neoseeker.com. Canada's largest hardware and software reviews site, and runs one of the largest gaming communities. Owned by Neo-Era media
- Newsbook - term is currently a redlink in Web search engine. Looks like it should mean something but I'm not familiar with this term. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 02:00, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
- Onnetworks-A Company That Offers Shows Outside Of Television
- OpenBittorrent - OpenBitTorrent is a bittorrent tracker free for anyone to use. You don't need to register, upload or index a torrent anywhere, all you have to do is to include the OpenBitTorrent tracker URL in your torrent. [30] (This could just be added into the BitTorrent tracker article --Dan LeveilleTALK 22:09, 27 September 2009 (UTC))
- Opennet - opposite of the darknet, see subheading of Freenet Freenet#Darknet_versus_Opennet
- papercritters.com -- [31] Create your own 3d "Paper Critters" by designing it, printing it, and cutting/glueing it.
- Pay.gov A website portal for the US government.
- Paymo Time Tracker [32] Seems to be quite a popular free time tracker, went to do a background check on wikipedia but there's nothing here. i found it mentioned on a bunch of sites and blogs. [33]
- Project Deploy* -- [34], Project Deploy* is a free open source online tool that allows users to quickly generate a web project framework.
- RareShare RareShare is a social hub connecting patients, families, and health care professionals affected by rare medical disorders.
- RFC 2606 - Reserved DNS names for private use: RFC 2606. The actually are articles for each of the reserved names.
- RVSiteBuilder - Website Builder for cPanel Hosting Provider [35] & [36]
- SEO Resource (search engine Optimization) -- List of seo resources that includes free directories list, seo articles and many more. Address:http://dailyupdatedirectories.blogspot.com
- SklogWiki - www.SklogWiki.org is a science wiki site dedicated to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, especially that of simple liquids, complex fluids, and soft condensed matter. SklogWiki is particularly oriented towards theoretical and computational studies. Notability example: one of the two specialised on-line encyclopaedias mentioned in a presentation by Patricio Lorente (President of Wikimedia Argentina).
- SlideShare - a Web 2.0 site for sharing presentations and documents online [37]
- SnapFiles - a software download site
- Soompi.com [38] Alexa rankingSoompi is the largest Asian American community site online and the largest site for English fans of Asian pop.
- TakeOnIt - a website which compares the opinions of the Earth's leading experts and influencers [39]
- The Great IPv6 Experiment -- an attempt to stress test the IPv6 protocol by serving up masses of porn for free if you could connect using IPv6. There's a little bit of information here [40] Friism (talk)
- The Worlds Smallest Violin [Theworldssmallestviolin.com] A site which is funded by views and a site which gives 50% of its revenue each month to charity. Used to be a popular single flash button which played a violin noise. Hosts videos, pictures and games daily. Created by Josh Burton Joshbburton (talk) 01:42, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thinkature.com - Online real-time collaboration website
- Thumbdive -- [41] a social networking site designed for connecting and sharing with others in a more private way. Thought to aim at privacy problems encountered by Facebook and MySpace users. Currently on private beta only. Tonyngkh (talk) 18:43, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- Tower of Babble BBS (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Online Data Systems BBS, and Metro Big 10/Big 12 BBSes - notable BBSes (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Drawing_board/Archives/2008/December#BBS_Addition/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Drawing_board#BBS_Addition)ReveurGAM (talk) 11:15, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- Usenet servers - Computers that can serve, or distribute Usenet posts. Some of these are free.
- virtualmanager.com It is a football manager site used by over half a miilion people with an average of 200 clubs joining everyday
- WebLems -- web-based problems
- wixi.com - The discussion about radio station WIXI says, "Wixi.com should have its own article." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:WIXI.
- WWF Pak - http://wwfpak.org a site of pakistan (releated to WWF) for supporting nature
- X-OriginalArrivalTime - Mail header possibly used by webmailers - Time possibly in UTC
- X-Originating-IP- Mail header possibly used by webmailers - Used by Hotmail and Lycos - original IP that send the mail?
- Yahoo! Profile In 2008 Yahoo introduced a new universal Yahoo! Profile replacing Yahoo! 360 Profiles and other types of profiles used throughout Yahoo!'s products. The use of "adult" profiles was discontinued at that time.[42]
- ZookZ - ZookZ - A site that provides legal movie and music downloads for a monthly subscription. Founded in 2008.
People
- HD Moore, creator of Metasploit, and influential security researcher and Open Source pioneer.
- Saul Greenberg, PhD, influential and prolific researcher in Human Computer Interaction. Fellow of ACM CHI Academy, inventor of Phidgets, Professor at the University of Calgary [43].
- Jean-Francois Lévesque, Video game programmer. Known to have programmed the fire propagation in Far Cry 2. Named #22 game industry hero of 2008 according to Edge Magazine. [44]
- Antonio Acosta, Certified Genesys CTI expert [45]
- Michael Buen, co-developer of the I LOVE YOU Virus.
- Emmy Cicierega
- Christophe de Dinechin, French video games and 3D graphics pioneer (Alpha Waves), programming languages researcher (XL Programming Language, concept programming, Exception handling), also designed HP Integrity Virtual Machines
- Eiichi Goto (1931–2005), Japanese computer pioneer, one of the developers/inventors of the Parametron Computer 1, the quantum flux parametron, and hash consing. See obituary. — Tobias Bergemann (talk) 07:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
- Val Henson, a hacker of various kernel-space tecnologies [46]
- M. Tim Jones, author ("GNU/Linux Application Programming", "Artificial Intelligence: A Systems Approach", "AI Application Programming", "BSD Sockets Programming from a Multilanguage Perspective", and "TCP/IP Application Layer Protocols for Embedded Systems"), and 60+ articles of which some are referenced in Wikipedia (Cloud Computing, BusyBox, Platform virtualization, O(1) scheduler, QEMU, Security-Enhanced Linux, Slab allocation, Journaling file system, Asynchronous I-O, Service Location Protocol, Stream Control Transmission Protocol, Linux startup process, etc.).
- James Kutsch, Ph.D., inventor of the first talking computer for blind people[47] (National Institute for the Blind)
- Michelle Levesque, member of the OpenNet Initiative, employee at Google and author of [48][verify notability]
- Ari Luotonen, CERN & Mosaic Communications Corporation employee. See de article
- Peter Löthberg, Swedish Internet patriarch and optical Internet guru
- Gustavo Moya, ixaya.com OpenSource Community Sponsor and Foundator.[verify notability]
- Marc Sokol Author of Realia Cobol, VP at Computer Associates[49][verify notability]
- Michael Shrayer, Author of the Electric Pencil. Special:Whatlinkshere/Michael_Shrayer.
- Jürgen Höller, Spring Framework designer, developer, and front-man.
- Greg Newton-Ingham, Expert in Audio, Video, Computer Security and On-line information][verify notability]
- Randy Ubillos, video editing pioneer. He developed Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro.
- Daniel Brandt, Googlewatcher, Scroogler.
- Ed Bott, journalist. He worked at PCWorld, and currently works at ZDnet
- Luciano Bello, Debian Developer who discovered an epic fail in OpenSSl package.
- Steve Chamberlain, original programmer of Cygwin Cygwin#History
- Wilhelm Oddo Ml
- Tam Hanna Online and offline journalist covering handheld computers. Said to also offer marketing advice to mobile computing companies; CEO of Tamoggemon
- Ioannis Aslanidis Gentoo Developer, Bluetooth Documentation for Linux, Research Proceedings, Open Source Developer.
- Morris Mano
- Laura Chappell, Wireshark expert and founder of the university Laura Chappell's Wireshark University
- Varun Mittal, Programmer in Web Scripting and Action Scripting . Known to have programmed the Amazon Web Services implementation for Tekmedia , a product of Tekriti Software.[50]
- Michael Osinski former owner of software company that handled mortgage issues that caused crash. Wrote washington post op ed. Lots of articles exist about him.
- Greg Wiggleton Creator of the services such as Simple URL, Simple Image, and a forum site called ZeNfA.net Forums 74.232.21.249 (talk) 05:04, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
- Dave Small (computer scientist) Creator of the Spectre GCR, an Apple Mac emulator for the Atari ST series of computers.
- Jackson Peebles, Web Developer, Started independent web design company at young age, now founder/developer of multiple softwares and websites
*Christopher Curry should be a forward to Chris Curry, co-founder of Acorn Computers. Done, but, use WP:AFC/R Chzz ► 09:03, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
- Simon Foster, created the graphics for the extremely successful RollerCoaster Tycoon series, as well as Transport Tycoon
- Daniel Spiewak, is a software developer based out of Wisconsin, USA. Over the years, he has worked with Java, Ruby, Scala, SQL, C and C++, ML, and half-a-dozen experimental languages. His current Open Source endeavor is the ActiveObjects ORM, which seeks to be a more intuitive and lightweight database access layer than existing Java solutions.
- Xeke, prolific computer hacker.
- James King (Website Developer) (a.k.a Jamesking56), Website Developer (http://jamesking56.uk.to)
- Steve Ward (computer scientist), computer scientist at MIT
Organizations
- OSSCube - A US-based company offering open source training, consulting and development services, specializing in healthcare, education, sugarcrm, drupal and php development services. More Details - [52]
- Envoy Services Limited - A UK-based company offering merchants secure access to an expanding global network of established corporate banks and popular local services
- Digitalk - Smalltalk company
- INAIC - The Internet Names Authority and Information Center, the authority overseeing new public and corporate Top Level Domain applications
- Global Domains International, Inc. - A multi-level marketing (MLM) company that hosts and sells web space www.website.ws or www.jacobwyatt.com
- Cloudworks - A hosted Computing or Cloud Computing company [www.cloudworks.com]
- Cyberpowerpc - A computer hardware company that sells and manufactures high-performance desktop and laptop computers.
- Fachak - A company that provides online content sharing platform [www.fachak.com]
- Madd Electronics Group - A Romanian It Company - [www.pcmadd.com]
- Electric Rain
- International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) [53]
- LANCAST IT company, see [54]
- Laura Chappell's Wireshark University, a university run by Laura Chappell with a curriculum centred around the network scanner Wireshark
- MetaRam, company that aims to quadruple computers' maximum RAM limits[55][verify notability]
- Microhardxce (MHX) [56], a Canadian-based software company specializing in free educational and computer protection software.
- ParcPlace Systems - Smalltalk company
- Rosedu, Romanian Open Source Education, open source organisation from Romania
- Security Certified Program – company that issues the SCNS, SCNP and Security Certified Network Architect professional certifications.
- Service Strategies Corporation – company that issues the Service Capability & Performance standards.
- Softwrap, a UK-based company offering DRM technology to developers.
- Sumerge, a Egypt-based software development company that specializes in developing, customizing and integrating business and technical software solutions and services to clients worldwide
- Ufanet, Russian Internet service provider. Ufa city, Bashkortostan. [57]
- Zvents - Event search company powering most of newspaper industry
- ACTUNIV - Computer Training and Technology Software
- LEADconcept - Leading Edge Technology To Match your Bussiness Solution - www.leadconcept.com
- Oxxbowz United Feelings
- Wireless Innovation Alliance - The Wireless Innovation Alliance is a coalition of companies, organizations, and advocates working to unlock the potential that lies inside the “White Spaces” of our Television spectrum. [58]
- Tangible and Embedded Interaction, international conference on tangible and embedded interaction. See [59]
- Magid Computers - Advanced web solutions company based in New York, with offices in Los Angeles and Dallas, supporting small businesses. [60]
- Shareware Industry Awards Foundation
- Webteh - A Slovenian software company that produces BS.Player
- Little Apps - A software company based out of Calgary, Canada that develops programs under the GNU GPLv3 including a registry cleaner and a disk cleaner.
Operating Systems
- CMX RTOS -- Adding links CMX, RTOS, CMX RTOS -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 15:58, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
- Nova Linux / Nova (Linux) (Not sure preferred format). - Distro being developed by Cuba to assist independence from Microsoft and other U.S. companies. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Cuba-Launches-Own-Linux-Variant-to-Counter-US/?kc=rss
- Paranoid Linux - a distro designed for privacy and security, that "assumes that its operator is under assault from the government ... and it does everything it can to keep your communications and documents a secret." [61] -- Update: Cite given ( paranoidlinux.org ) is dead/parked as of this date. Fnord. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 16:05, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
- RTOS-UH Real Time Operating System-University Hannover using a DIN 66253-2 language called PEARL. The article is locked, because it was deleted sometimes ago. See http://www.irt.uni-hannover.de/rtos/rtos-gb.html that we are talking about a real operating system, and not vaporware.
- TOSS Linux - Popular all new Linux Distribution being developed entirely by CSE Dept of Thiagarajar College of Engg. aiming Engineers and developers. http://www.intrepidkarthi.com/toss
- ZyNOS - is ZyXEL's proprietary Network Operating System. It is the platform on all Prestige routers that delivers network services and applications. It is designed in a modular fashion so it is easy for developers to add new features. New ZyNOS software upgrades can be easily downloaded from our FTP sites as they become available [62] Almogo (talk) 16:33, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
- Chakra (operating system) - a fast, user-friendly and extremely powerful Live CD "distrolet" based on KDEmod and Arch Linux. Currently in alpha stage, it features a graphical installer, automatic hardware configuration, and some more tools and extras. [63]
Linux Kernel
- Woof (Linux) - a build script from Barry Kauler which automatically downloads packages from any Linux distro and assembles them into a lightweight Linux OS. [64]
Programming
- Coding Dojo
- Action Event Paradigm[verify notability]
- Agent Oriented Programming - AOP on [65]
- Annotative programming - http://www.flare.org[verify notability]
- ANT OPTS -does this mean the ANT_OPTS environment variable for Apache Ant? Better to add it there
- Bsymbolic
- Bytecode instrumentation
- Capuchin Project http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/newsandevents/latestnews/newsapr08/p_project_capuchin_announcement.jsp
- CT-API (CardTerminal Application Programming Interface)
- DRLVM stands for Dynamic Runtime Layer Virtual Machine a clean-room implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition 1.5.0 virtual machine.
- DOM API applications using DOM API to comunicate over networks and internally
- DooPHP - high performance PHP framework
- EJB-QLSQL/HQL-like query language for Enterprise Java Beans
- Ephemeral random constant, related to genetic programming
- Fractional programming
- Front Controller Design Pattern
- FSML Financial Services Markup Langage - http://xml.coverpages.org/FSML-v1500a.pdf
- FWEB - documentation system for Fortran
- Genome strength
- Global offset table
- GoASM - an assembler for x86 platforms [verify notability]
- HLAPI (High-level Application Programming Interface) - perhaps the same thing as HLLAPI (High-level Language Application Programming Interface)? [verify notability]
- Jeff Duntemann o'reilly biography
- LateralGM
- Libclear Description of libclear [verify notability]
- List of sound libraries (computing) - and linking to it from other pages.
- Loop rotation - trying to optimize loops somehow, referred to in [66]
- McAfee SLATES model[verify notability]
- Moravec interest operator
- Muenchian method (Grouping method in XSLT)
- Nanothreads
- Ninject a IOC container
- Nuweb literate programming tool
- Open Hypermedia Systems[verify notability]
- Page Controller Design Pattern
- Pageflow
- Render Target - [67] and [68] NoodlePowa (talk) 02:50, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
- RosAsm - an assembler for x86 platforms [verify notability]
- RxML - RxML standard[verify notability]
- SafeArray - I (User:Gerbrant) can write a stub, but documentation is hard to find so it'd be better to let an expert have a go.
- Samstyle PHP Framework - fast and lightweight PHP framework. Hellclanner (talk) 15:30, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
- SAP-BW (Related to data warehousing )
- Shadow table - system for managing multiple versions of records in a relational database.
- Skrit[verify notability]
- STL.NET — STL for Microsoft .NET[verify notability]
- Synchronization domain - terminology in thread synchronization.
- T4 (Microsoft) - see [69] for a commercial tool
- Vanilla object
- VHPI - VHDL Procedural Interface
- W-PuTTY-CD - SSH, Telnet, Rlogin and Raw TCP clients in a Microsoft Windows™ DLL shell. See W-PuTTY-CD, PuTTY communication in a Microsoft Windows™ DLL shell.
- web.py - a web framework for Python, see webpy.org
- Writeln
- XBreed
- XMLdoc see XML File Documentor
Protocols
- SIP2 - the standard protocol for library interfaces, originally created by 3com. A couple of existing pages link to this topic, but it's hard to find a general introduction anywhere (detailed developers guides etc are easily found, but not simple tutorials, howtos etc). Not to be confused with SIP (session initiation protocol) which is something else.
- Versatile Automation Random Access Network - Versatile Automation Random Access Network. VARAN bus.
- Network Access Bridge TO - A fusion of VOIP/SIP and HTTP, makes you able to create a direct http connection between a browser and a webserver even if both peers are behind a NAT or firewall etc.
- FIPA Contract Net Interaction Protocol The FIPA Contract Net Interaction Protocol (IP) is a minor modification of the original contract net IP pattern.
Real-Time computing
Searching/search engines
- search2.net is a search engine based on opensource software nutch and online since 2009.
- www.fuzzfind.com : FuzzFind is a web meta search mashup that combines the leading search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo) and social bookmarking sites (del.icio.us), with personalizable results [1][2][3]
- Speedy Spider from Entireweb, apparently a large Swedish search engine. Purpose?
- www.zookfind.com is a search engine that delivers the search results of Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN - Offers Pay Per Click Advertising similar to Google Adwords[verify notability]
- Optevi.com : "User-controlled ranking" search engine[verify notability]
- VidSerp.com--would love an article telling anything and everything that there is to be told on VidSerp.com[verify notability]
- Junoba.com : Meta search engine[verify notability]
- Document ranking
- Search portal
- Zitku : Is a search engine, web crawler, and internet archiver that uses only community edited data from ODP and wikipedia.[verify notability]
- Document Clustering-- I would like to have information about different clustering algorithms, how they work and their application for the search engines.[verify notability]
- people search - the process of searching for people, a class of vertical search engine that specializes in searching for people
- DASL or DAV Searching and Locating - A protocol for searching WebDAV repositories http://webdav.org/dasl/
- Soovle.com - Search suggestions from the major providers on the net - provided in a visually appealing fashion. First site to focus on helping the user get to the best search terms.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
- Video search engine optimization (VSEO)
Security
- 40-track mode - Method of data concealment on a 3.5" floppy disk used by the KGB and collaborator Robert Hanssen. The Norwegian Wikipedia page on this can be consulted.
- adsttnmq1 - some kind of exploit that has infected a lot of web pages.
- AD Mutate - Mutation integration in Hacking
- Alliance of Security Analysis Professionals
- Ashar
- Asprox - Phishing botnet gaining significant popularity
- Authority Information Access
- Biggleman's Safe - A fictional hypothetical cryptology problem where a builder designs an unbreakable safe, builds it, and locks the designs within the unbreakable safe.
- BlackEnergy - Distributed denial of service tool [70]
- Blue Ridge Networks - a company responsible for creating the BorderGuard and manages VPNs.[verify notability]
- CCSK Cyclic Code Shift Keying
- Chaotic Cryptosystems
- CROOK Unix OS
- crypto-chip
- CryptoHeaven
- Database Encryption
- Defender Pro Internet Security - An Antivirus Program
- Enterprise Security Client - Redhat program to work with smart cards & security certificates; inherited from Netscape in 2004; http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/cert-system/ ; mentioned by dwheeler in a blog entry about the size of Linux distributions
- EKE Authentication Standard - is an authentication standard that uses the Diffie-Hellman algoritm
- Executable Protection
- Entrust TruePass tm[verify notability]
- eXtensible Content Protection[verify notability]
- eraser software homepage for this opensource eraser/wipe program
- Fortify (programming) - provides a suite of tools to perform source code analysis[verify notability]
- Generalized Framework for Access Control (GFAC)[verify notability]
- HenWen (software)
- HMBr57 - A PHP shell used by hackers and script kiddies.
- InfoJack - a malicious program targeted at Windows Mobile smartphones. See http://www.switched.com/2008/06/24/mobile-phones-next-big-target-for-hackers/?icid=100214839x1204932576x1200226997
- Information Asset Profiling
- Information Technology Baseline Protection Manual
- Identification, Authentication & Authorization
- Internet Grooming
- K7 Computing - One of the software company, developing internet security suite and antivirus softwares.
- Key continuity management - Distributed public key infrastructure based on whether several messages were signed with the same self-signed cert. This is used by Mac OS X code signing and by the PGP web of trust.
- LARIAT - A virus research system at MIT. See [71]
- Link Layer Security
- List of security and privacy software - A comparision of diverse security and privacy/anonymity applications in different subcategories: data encryption, communication encryption, traceless erasing, firewalls, tor, i2p, freenet. Just a list with the most important information to each system so a person interested in these fields will get an overview about the software available and then read on in the respective article.
- Low integrity mode
- Local File Include
- Mini-certificates - WTLS mini-certificates, used for wireless devices.
- Model-driven security - this is also related to "model-based security": the application to model-driven engineering concepts to security
- Multicast encryption
- Needham-Schroeder-Lowe - encryption algorithm. Should this be simply included in Needham-Schroeder_protocol?
- NSTISSC - National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee
- OS-178B
- PassWindow - Online visual one time password method
- PLP (Personal License Password)
- PolyUnpack
- Power-Line Exploit - Featured on Network World, will be unveiled during Black Hat 2009 USA in Las Vegas in late July. Conference Page
- SHALB Security High Availability Load Balancing concept. Information Security Agency - see http://shalb.com
- Secure Signature Creation Device
- Spy Shredder
- Survivability and Information Assurance - [76]
- TICSA - Security certification, possibly obsolete
- Tiny Fragment Attack - Another IDS evasion technique
- Trusted Network Interpretation of the TCSEC (the Red Book)
- Trusted Zone Management
- Theory of Security Maxims I ask to create an Article, based on the Information at this website: http://www.ne.anl.gov/capabilities/vat/seals/maxims.html so the article could be easyly translated to other languages and linked there from the english article. (The author of the article on the website should be asked, first)
- YaSSL - A dual licensed (GPLv2 and comercial)) lightweight SSL library for embedded applications/devices
- xp-police-av - fake spyware removal tool that takes control of the victim's browser and redirects them to its website, giving them a "special offer" on a licence for xpPoliceAntiVirus. Imitates genuine microsoft logos, trademarks and packaging [77] [78]
Software
A-E
- activeCollab --Project management and collaboration tool
- AIMP -- An Open Source audio player
- Arctic Core - An open source AUTOSAR implementation.
- Appetizer (software) - See http://app.etizer.org. Appetizer is one of the few open source docks for Windows. It can be fully customized via skins and plugins and is available in 12 languages. It is also fully portable (it was initially a PortableApps.com application) and is still actively developed. It has been reviewed in several websites and magazines: "Freeware of the month" on UpdateStar [79]; 5/5 and "Top 10 of the best launchers" on Clubic [80][81]; 9/10 on Softonic.com [82]; and 4/5 on PC Tools (magazine) (half page review on issue #10). It has also been reviewed today on DownloadSquad and Lifehacker.
- AmTax
- Analog Rails - An EDA tool/platform and start-up company aimed at providing 100% automation and simulation of analog/mixed-signal IC layouts, see http://www.analograils.com and EETimes article
- AfterLogic WebMail Lite - open-source cross-platform webmail script, available for PHP and ASP.NET. See [83], [84]
- Avantstar [85]
- BDV DataHider - portable application for encryption and hiding data on a flash drives. Source: [86].
- BDV Notepad - portable plain text editor, freeware. Source: [87].
- BleachBit open source, cross-platform cleaner of disk space and privacy (article started)
- Bluebeam PDF Revu – A professional PDF editor for the architecture, engineering and construction industry and other technical users. See http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/software/2241459/bluebeam-pdf-revu-pdf-creation and http://www.dcd.com/bpr/bpr_mayjun_2_2009.html.
- bsdiff open source executable comparison tool
- BS.Player - an audio and video player which is now an adware. It has been widely used by downloaders. Now the article is deleted. Hope someone look for at least two reviews from reliable secondary sources such as CNet, FileHippo.com and Softpedia
- Business Cataylst - a hosted (SaaS) platform for building and managing Online Businesses - Acquired by Adobe Systems in August, 2009. Source: [88]
- Codelobster - Free PHP IDE; Free PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript code editor with plug-ins for Drupal, WordPress, Smarty, Joomla, JQuery, Facebook, Codeigniter, CakePHP; see [89]; Several independent reviews: http://www.softsea.com/review/Codelobster.html, http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/CodeLobster-Review-37401.shtml, http://review.techworld.com/applications/3212761/codelobster-review/, http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/04/programming/codelobster-free-ide-for-php-coding-and-php-debugging.html
- Comparison of X Window Systems - see X_Window_System#Implementations
- Corel Home Office is a sleek new office suite for word processing, spreadsheets and presentation projects.
- CursorFX - a tool to create or apply existing cursor themes to change cursors
- DevelSoftware assembler x86-64 - freeware x86-64 assembler
- Disco Project erlang/python mapreduce+ framework: Disco
- DNSKong "DNSKong is an Internet privacy filter, which uses simple text files. The program filters Domain Name Server requests on a local machine or home router. DNSKong comes in a version 1 with visual cues and version 2 w/o visual cues and more advanced configuration." http://www.pyrenean.com/
- D-Pixed D-Pixed is image editor specializing in 256 color images. Originally a Japanese program, it has been translated to English.
http://www.flat2d.fr/dpixed_en.aspx
- Driver Genius Professional Edition [90] - a sound device manager and updater
- eDexter "eDexter is an Internet privacy filter-supplement, working with DNSKong, to reduce unncessary & unwanted graphic-file downloading. The program speeds up web-page display by replacing remote images with smaller, local ones." http://www.pyrenean.com/
- Eshbel Technologies - an ERP software developer, notable as the first to offer an ERP system fully based on .Net and WPF technologies. I wrote up a page about it but can't post as I have a COI. Several articles including a case study in conjunction with Microsoft have been published and links included in the mock-up page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ThinkERP/Eshbel_Technologies
- Eventum - issue tracking software from MySQL.org see Comparison of issue tracking systems, http://eventum.mysql.org/
- EHCP - A free GNU/GPL hosting conttrol panel solution
- Lelogiciel - Language lab software india log on to http://www.lelogiciel.in
F-O
- Fluff Busting Purity - a greasemonkey script for cleaning up the application spam on Facebook users homepages. http://www.fbpurity.com http://facebook.com/fluffbustingpurity
- Feudalism 2 an online computer game
- FontReview - a good replacement for Windows 9x/NT's built-in font viewer
- FourCC Changer - a tool to alter an AVI file's description code
- Freevo - A home theatre PC platform
- Greymatter (software) - A popular CGI-based blogging software written in PERL.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/greymatter/
- G2 Rule Engine Platform A real-time rule engine platform used in a wide variety of fields. See http://www.gensym.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=54
- G3D Engine "G3D is a commercial-grade 3D Engine available as Open Source (BSD License). It is used in games, tech demos, research papers, military simulators, and university courses. It provides a set of routines and structures so common that they are needed in almost every graphics program. It makes low-level libraries like OpenGL and sockets easier to use without limiting functionality or performance. G3D gives you a rock-solid, highly optimized base from which to build your application." http://g3d-cpp.sourceforge.net/
- History of Bangla computing the history of how the softwares of Bengali/Bangla script interfacing developed at 1980s-present
- Hive (Hadoop) a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop.[91]
- Iolo System Mechanic computer maintenance software; comes in differerent packages: cleans computer, registry, speeds up computer and internet, keeps computer protected, etc.
- IconEdit2 TrueColor icon editor. Supports 256x256 Vista icons. Source: [92] References: [93] , [94] , [95]
- Jinzora - A PHP internet jukebox manager.
- JPCSP - An emulator of the Playstation Portable platform written in Java, or recently C++. As found on http://jpcsp.org/ Source: [96]
- JuggleMaster - A program written by Ken Matsuoka, and Per Johan Groland, who converted it to C++, which displays an animated juggler juggling balls. Source: [97]
- Kajona - A CMS written in PHP. [98]
- KDEmod - A modular KDE for Arch Linux, part of the Chakra Project; also offers some minor bug fixes and extra icons; used in the Chakra LiveCD [99] [100]
- Koteret-Lakoach-Nachas-Zefa Hebrew for koteret = title, lakoach = client/customer, nachash = snake, zefa = viper. It is a name of a service window in Mercury Winrunner Web Add-In. WinRunner is a software testing tool. I think the particular module has been developed by somebody from Israel (Possibly by Dan Tsirlin).
- LBackup - Backup system aimed at systems administrators - home page : http://www.lbackup.org/, published article : http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.08/2408LBackup/index.html
- lexiCan - lexiCan Knowledge Management Software, commonly called just lexiCan, is a software application for Microsoft Windows by vetafab Software GmbH. lexiCan Reader, is a read only client which allows knowledge distribution across a company network, e.g. for instructions, course material, faqs, manuals. As found on Hane, Paula (2009-06-29). "New Version of Knowledge Management Software: lexiCan 3". Information Today. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/New-Version-of-Knowledge-Management-Software-lexiCan--54906.asp. Retrieved on 2009-07-07
- Lzip - A lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/archives?issue=113
- McAfee Total Protection Service – How does it differ from McAfee ViruScan?
- Move player/Move Player (used by Fox on Demand)
- MHSVLC Player
- MAHASERVER TV
- Naiture - mysterious artificial life project
- Native Client - Google FOSS for runnning x86 native code in a browser.
- Nav4All - Satelite Navigation Software Nav4All.com
- NDIF - an early Mac OS Disk Image file format
- Network Broadcast Sound
- NetworkMiner - Open Source Network Forensics Application see: http://networkminer.wiki.sourceforge.net/NetworkMiner 62.116.231.10 (talk) 13:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Ninan (Server-side Usenet binary downloader and manager) [101]
- Nodebug
- ocad - Software for creating maps (www.ocad.com)
- OCP art studio - Art package for the 48K spectrum and related models.
- OnShare
- Open Colour Standard ([102], [103], [104])
- OpenP2M, File sharing software prodyced by Glauber Magalhães Pires
- Open Linux Router, http://www.openlinuxrouter.com/ The Open Linux Router has a modular design that gives the user the ability to choose what features that will be implemented.
- OS/161
- Orange Juice (game company)
P-R
- Pacifist (Mac OS X), an installer for Mac OS X that can install software that the default installer will not. Presumed notable as per inclusion in Pacifist_(disambiguation)
- Paludis, a package mangler. It is one of the alternatives of the Gentoo package manager portage [105].
- PaperCut NG http://www.papercut.biz/pcng/ print and internet monitoring / quota software
- PC Health Software
- PCSP - A PSP Emulator for windows coded in C++ started by hlide and shadow [106]
- PCShowBuzz
- Phone Support Tools (PST)
- PhotoShare - An iPhone application [107]
- Picket - a Bugtracker writen in Python over Django.
- Picture Converter [108] - Image resizing and conversion software
- Pilot running
- PLURK Trends
- Pixelshop [109] - Icon and cursor editing software
- podfading
- PowerPad http://quickmediasoftware.com/software/powerpad/powerpad.html - Text Editor
- Printer's Apprentice [110] - a powerful font manager
- PrintingWorks http://www.lucidsystems.org print monitoring / quota software
- Problem Steps Recorder A program that will be available in Windows 7 for simplifying troubleshooting
- ProcessGuard
- PropertyBox (real estate website generation software) [111]
- Prozilla is a download accelerator for Linux [112]
- ProxMox Virtual Environment (virtualization) [113]
- PSEmu - [114]
- Pview http://www.mssm.edu/cnic/tools.pview.html
- Pykota http://www.pykota.com/ print monitoring / quota software
- qualxserve service agreement
- Qlikview
- Quick Format
- Quick View Plus - Official website
- Quick Virus Remover - Official website
- Raven DB Official website
- Raece Conquest
- Rapture3D an Ambisonic OpenAL driver bundled with DiRT 2. There's a first attempt without adequate sources at User:Rfurse/Rapture3D.
- ranqit user-driven top ten lists - see http://www.ranqit.com/
- rasdaman (raster data manager) array database system - see http://www.rasdaman.com/
- rapget - downloader for file-sharing sites (Rapidshare, megaupload, ...)
- RBAU
- RD Tabs - third party windows remote desktop application (tabbed like firefox)
- Real3d (rendering software) Real3D, 3d-rendering software for Amiga computers, first released in 1989(?)
- RealProducer
- Reloaded (software type)
- Resin Application Server - Java application server. See [115], [116], [117], [118]
- RMAN (Oracle Backup Utility)
- RosAsm - 32-bit assembler for Windows and Wine
- Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) - See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/rras/
- rsnapshot- Open Source filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems - http://www.rsnapshot.org/
- Rational Functional Tester- An IBM product - See http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/functional/index.html
- Remindo - SaaS corporate company network - See http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/02/20/remindo-corporate-social-networking
S
- Scarab (software) - A highly customizable java-based issue tracking system hosted at scarab.tigris.org. Included in Comparison of issue tracking systems 198.6.216.9 (talk)
- San Andreas Multiplayer A multiplayer modification for the PC version of Rockstar North game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. More information is available at the program's official website.
- SANmelody - Storage Virtualization Software
- Sega X See Sega X Blog -The site no longer exists --Peppage (talk) 17:32, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
- Safarp
- SAIL LABS Technology automatic speech recognition
- Screenmate. Examples: eSheep, Neko, etc.
- ScreenScenes Software package with Screensavers that includes Claria adware
- SecDoK Unknown
- Selective display - Option in the Emacs text editor; see [119]
- ServletExec
- SESAM/SQL-Server Relational database system from Fujitsu, see software homepage
- shared browsing - what it is, how it works and which software is available (with links)
- SICSIM - A Discrete Event, Flow Level simulator for simulating Peer-to-Peer overlays. Developed in SICS
- smartctl - see smartmontools Control/Monitor Utility for S.M.A.R.T. in UNIX
- SmartStartMenu - see[120] An application launcher for WINDOWS
- smilez tab add-on for aol instant messenger, can be found on aim ad hack site.
- snoop filter - see: [121]
- Socialbox - Facebook's IM Client
- Softsaurus
- Sound Designer II, an audio/music file format by Digidesign.
- Software of Unknown Pedigree an alternative to COTS software where origin is unknown / documentation not available for verification purposes
- Source Navigator
- SpamFilter ISP software created by LogSat Software (http://www.logsat.com) in August 2002, and used by companies and governments to block spam emails before they enter their networks. According to CNET (http://www.download.com/Spam-Filter-ISP/3000-2382_4-10753030.html) there are more than 111,000 downloads for it to-date from that download site alone.
- Spectrum, XMPP multiprotocol gateway based on libpurlpe (http://spectrum.im/)
- Spold
- SpriteWorld (Mac OS/Mac OS X game creation SDK)
- SProbe
- Spyware Terminator
- Stampede Linux
- StarTron a computer game[122], uses registered TCP port 1057[123]
- StaxRip — free video converter
- Stikipad
- Swiftlight - project management and communication software
- sXid - Flags changes in SUID programs in Unix like OS
- SupremeSched
- surl (command line tool application for url shortening) https://launchpad.net/surl
- Summarize (software) (OS X service utility)
- Summation (computer software) – principal competitor to Concordance®
- SurveyEngine - human decision modelling software
- Sentinel System Driver (A piece of software that runs on Windows XP)
- SuperCopier (A software that replaces Windows explorer file copy and adds many features.)
- Synchronization Primitive something to do with threads and parallel processes
- System Mechanic - an awarded system suite released by iolo technologies
- SQLiteTool - SQLite database client
T-V
- TalkAndWrite An online tutoring tool.A Skype whiteboard. Server freeHomepage
- Taskpad
- TeamTalk (a Voice over IP conferencing tool. Homepage)
- TeraCopy
- TGB Dual (a game boy emulator)
- ThinkVantage
- ThirdVoice
- ThreatFire
- Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
- Tversity
- TLSF Allocator TLSF (Two-Level Segregate Fit) allocator TLSF
- Toad's Tool 64 A level editor for Super Mario 64 created by VL-Tone. (This deserves to be added, ad the level editor for Sims has a page)
- TimeSnapper
- TrackMeNot - a privacy-enhancing Mozilla Firefox plugin that performs searches on a number popular search engines, at somewhat randomized intervals, with a self-evolving set of keywords
- Trumpet (IRC client)) - Fairly notable DOS IRC client
- Turtle Tracks (Logo), the Logo interpreter
- Tux Commander - file manager on linux [tuxcmd.sourceforge.net]
- Type Library
- Typing software (quite a few articles on specific applications, many of questionable notability (see Category:Typing software), but no broader article on the subject)
- UDP Host Cache - One method used by Gnutella to find an initial host; See [124]
- Unblocker A software that unblocks deleting or modifying files in a computer's system which normally only the system itself can do
- Video.X driver - the file included from Mac-on-Linux [125] and PearPC [126]
- VAJLEBKA System (specialy designed cascade captcha guard for php pages)
- VAX Floating Point Format (Including VAX D, VAX G, and VAX F formats)
- Versato.exe
- Video titling (software list that will title videos)
- Virtual Peer Programming (Something being pioneered in Jbuilder 2006)
- Visual Autorun [127] - CD Menu and slideshow software
- Visual Page (By Symantec - Abandoned HTML WYSIWYG editor)
- VQC1 and VQC2, video/audio codecs
- Viero Clear Channels prg\ogram for managing Commercials. here
- vizrea Website here
W-Z
- Warbears (Website) - People play as a created character and play missions and play games for credits
- Warbirds (Computer game) - Combat Flight Simulator
- Web Client Network
- w32codecs/win32codecs - commonplace package of questionably legal drivers for Linux incorporating wrappers for win32 codecs
- WebFerret (Desktop metasearch utility for Microsoft Windows)
- Webpublishing System - A program or system that allows you to apply your content to the web. ie. Wordpress,Blogger.
- Webrip - Commonly associated with mp3s. I believe it's an mp3 encoded at 128kbs or lower to get a small filesize for web distribution?
- Webstump - Software from the Free software foundation
- WhiteSmoke (writing software), see [128]
- WIKIWYG
- Winchester OS - I remember we had this at school running on the 186. It could run both from floppy or hard drive, had a blue boot up screen and used the function buttons to choose from the menu. We had it from 1990 to 1994 to give an idea of dates.
- WinHex/Winhex
- WinSoft Software
- WisBar task management software for pocket pc
- Wolverine (offline mail reader) (offline mail reader)
- WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere)
- wvWare
- Writing With Symbols 2000 - abbv. WWS2000, a program that helps children with severe learning difficulty's
- X Video Driver
- XDP (PDF files)
- XLiveCD - See xlivecd.indiana.edu
- XMDF (file format) - eXtensible Model Data Format[129], developed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
- XPde (desktop environment)
- Zarafa (Software)
- Zzaph
- ZynOS - An ZyXEL router operating system
- unified information systems
Software engineering
- Acceptance criteria
- application signatures
- Arthur van Hoff
- Astroinformatics
- B-method
- Bayes error rate
- Behavioral entity
- Brownfield Development - A systems development method that acknowledges the existance of legacy codebases during design, build and test phases
- Business Delegate - A Java BluePrints' pattern[130]
- Quality in business systems
- CDM Rule Frame Oracle Custom Development Method (CDM)[131] - ...consists of a template package and utilities that boost productivity. It now also includes CDM RuleFrame a powerful framework for the implementation of business rules.
- Code debt (definition, origin of term)
- Comparison of open source licenses as child of Open source
- Component-based software development
- Conceptual level design
- Confessional debugging
- Dale Luck
- Dead Letter Queue
- Decessor
- Design for diversity (google, http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/nver-tse.pdf)
- eCollaboration and eBusiness (near-synonyms), in the context of dynamic, cooperative networks formed by a group of autonomous enterprises using e.g. the Service-Oriented Architecture paradigm. (definition)
- Effect correspondence diagram
- Enterprise design pattern
- Event bubbling
- Event delegation
- Fault injection and robustness testing ?? fault injection and robustness testing
- Five State Model for Processes
- Generic software
- Graph index - An index of frequent features of a graph database (e.g., gIndex)
- Ideafarm (IP well known ports 902 & 903) Homepage
- Infinite Plane Rendering
- Infrastructure software (definition and explanation of the term, examples)
- instance member
- ISO 19109 - Metamodels
- IT Consolidation
- Jamagic
- Jay Elroy Sulzberger
- JFG interlocked functions
- Jim Blandy
- Joel N. Weber II
- List of FreeBSD developers
- List of GNU Project people
- Logical view
- MIDAG (Medical Image Display Analysis Group) Homepage
- MoLIC - acronym for “Modeling Language for Interaction as Conversation” - UI extension to UML
- Multi-Touch, Physics and Gestures - The writer Mike Elgan put it this way in this buzz: "My view is that what I call MPG devices (multi-touch, physics and gestures) are the third generation of computing UI. The first was command line interfaces, and the second was WIMP (windows, icons, menus and pointing devices).
- Noah Friedman
- Object Action Interface model (OAI)
- Object Points
- Peter Bos
- Plugin architecture development
- Positive acknowledgement with retransmission
- Preliminary Investigation - What it is and how to write one
- Program management (software)
- Project MAC people
- Requirements document
- Robert Lafore
- Real-Time Process Algebra (RTPA) - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=590763
- Semantic Purity
- Source code extensions
- Subsystem model
- Tami Friedman
- Thomas Edmund Turner
- Use Case Points
- Value-based software engineering
- Visual environment full explanation/benefits
- XKERMIT - (A version of Kermit which runs on X-Windows]]
Storage
- Geoplexing
- TapeAlert - A standard for tapes, autochangers, libraries used for diagnostics and health (see tapealert.org)
- SFSZ - Disk format, Used by Netgear SC101. What is it and how is it used? Its this.ZFS Solaris's new file system, which is used by several other OEMS as its new and very efficient.
File formats
- CD5 (Chasys Draw Image) - CD5 is a tag-based image format used by the photoshop competitor Chasys Draw IES. It supports free-style layers with independent color formats and blend modes, animation, multiple-resolution images, metadata, multi-level lossless compression (multiple codecs), and full alpha channels. See the details page [132] for more details.
- contesters to APNG/MNG[133]:
- mPNG (aNIM or anIM chunk)
- PNG in GIF (“PIG”)
- RGBA in GIF
- VR8 - Roland proprietary file format used with BOSS BR-1600CD, how to convert it to .wav
- K3G - LG Electronics Portable Video file format, how to convert it to .avi, apps (such as Gom) which support it.
- Creative Voice file (.voc) - "a proprietary audio file format developed by Creative Labs for use by their Soundblaster sound cards"
- mp3HD - a new audio file format by Thomson ([134])
- DDS (Data Definition Specification)
- MD4 (file format) - Quake file format for models. ([135])
Theory and theorem
- Agricultural knowledge system in SSM[verify notability]
- Bias-Variance dilemma a topic in most introductory texts on machine learning and pattern recognition.
- Boom Hierachy - Hierachy named after H.J. Boom, containing Trees, Lists, Bags, Sets, in order of decreasing information stored. See [136], pdf located here: [137] Nikolaibelkin (talk) 05:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
- Business System Domain
- Cell probe complexity - See [138]
- Computational basis, Hadamard basis - In quantum computing. We already have Bell basis (although it's a redirect).
- Connection trap
- The Conservation of Complexity which was proposed by Larry Tesler when he was working at Xerox PARC. See [139] and [140]
- Everything is a File The principle that in the unix operating system, everything is represented as a file. See [141]
- Exact Real Arithmetic/Exact real arithmetic - Umbrella term for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, interval arithmetic and the like. See e.g. here. — Tobias Bergemann (talk) 08:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- Generalized regular expression It's referred to by the article on star height, but i don't really understand it. this might be more of a mathematical topic, but if it is, i'm not sure which category
- Hughes phenomenon - related to VC dimension, a result in learning theory that states that increasing the number of input dimensions while keeping the number of examples constant will result in an increase in the classification error
- Interval domain - proposed by Dana Scott in 1970 (I think) as a domain-theoretic model for real numbers, see Abbas Edalat and Philipp Sünderhauf, Template:Citeseer, and Andrej Bauer and Iztok Kavkler, The Role of the Interval Domain in Modern Exact Real Arithmetic. — Tobias Bergemann (talk) 07:31, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- Isoefficiency Analysis in parallel algorithm development
- No-valley theorem - theorem regarding the properties of an AS path in BGP routing. One explanation: [142]
- Optic-based quantum computers
- Point Splatting as it relates to surface tracking and visualization and how it differs from marching cube
- Pure Lisp/Pure LISP - See [143] and [144]
- Reverse Shannon theorem - the classical RS theorem in context is referenced e.g. here: [145]
- Software modules
- K-median problem
- Sparse Distributed Memory
- Sparse maps - see Google Sparse Hash
- Timmothy Stowe[verify notability]
- Transdichotomous RAM - See [146]
- WYSIWYN - 'What You See Is What You Need' theory of interface design
Other uncategorized computer science terms
- ADOVARS
- Ambiguous Name Resolution (ANR) (used in LDAP queries)
- Bag Blogs
- Bistable Cholesteric Display
- Counter string (or Counterstring, not sure how it's spelled correctly) — a string that self-documents its length. Example: "*3*5*7*10*", where the number before the last asterisk, 10, indicates the string length. See Counterstrings: Self-Describing Test Data and Test Utilities in Excel (section CounterStrings). In particular, the description of the counter string generation algorithm will be useful. — Modbear (talk) 19:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
- Ctrl-scroll lock (or control-scroll lock) – according to the Wikipedia article on the scroll lock key, this key combination is identical to ctrl-break. But this article suggests a special use for this key combination.
- Desideratabase
- Distributed key (Databases, not cryptography)
- Giga Information Group - (Company providing research in IT industry taken over by Forrester Research)
- Heroglyph (Plug-in about Video titling for ProDAD, Edius and other DVD software)
- Human Vs Computer Who has more processing power?
- Internet Tweeter (A term used to classify, recognize, and manage a type of blog,forum, or netgroup vandal)
- List of Compose Key combinations Comprehensive lists of Compose Key combinations for each operating system. Mac 10.4 list started at Talk:Compose_key.
- Most Network - a fiber optic network that provides a very efficient and low-cost mechanism for transporting high volumes of data. (From http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms859428.aspx)
- Nested paging The term "Nested paging" is mentioned on the VirtualBox article, but it doesn't say what "Nested paging" means.
- Pattern discovery (might be the same as pattern recognition)
- PCI Expansion Port 3 - Used for connecting a docking station or a port replicator.
- PCMEFPresantation Control Mediator Control *PinoyMT Corpus Based Machine Translation System
- Q30IsIdxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc (component of JPEG file, as seen in Kaspersky Anti-Virus)
- RHDB
- Remotely Queued(when downloading)
- Screencast Central
- Serializer construct - referred to in the Actor model article
- Sinclair Programs - independent magazine of type-in programs for Sinclair Computers
- Situated automata - paradigm by Rosenschein and Kaelbling where an angent specification is compiled down to a digital machine.
- Sun Academic Initiative Academic program from Sun Some information can be founded here:[147]
- TCTT.DLL
- Theorem proving tactics (used for interactive theorem proving)
- timed automata - timing extensions to petri nets, especially finite state machines
- Topo computer
- Veiled, simple browser-based Darknet (file sharing) tool --- http://www.darkreading.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=217801293 -- Note: Veiled is currently a music album --- we'll probably need a disamb page. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 16:28, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
- Winstation Library - Microsoft components
Uncategorized terms requiring cleanup
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- EURACE eurace.org
- PM Quadtree (These are Polygon Map Quadtrees which are spatial, or GIS mapping structures.
- EncuentroLinux The Chilian Linux Conference http://2008.encuentrolinux.cl/