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A pseudonym (/ˈsjuːdənɪm/; from Ancient Greek ψευδώνυμος (pseudṓnumos) 'lit. falsely named') or alias (/ˈeɪli.əs/) is a fictitious name that a person assumes...

Objective-C is a high-level general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language. Originally...

Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license,...

gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler...

In computer science, stream processing (also known as event stream processing, data stream processing, or distributed stream processing) is a programming...

Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is a technique for improving the overall efficiency of superscalar CPUs with hardware multithreading. SMT permits multiple...

Miro (formerly named Democracy Player or DTV) was an audio, video player and Internet television application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation...

Manycore processors are special kinds of multi-core processors designed for a high degree of parallel processing, containing numerous simpler, independent...

PhysX is an open-source realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Nvidia as a part of Nvidia GameWorks software suite. Initially, video games...

In computer programming, flow-based programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that defines applications as networks of black box processes, which exchange...

In quantum computing, the threshold theorem (or quantum fault-tolerance theorem) states that a quantum computer with a physical error rate below a certain...

Speech processing is the study of speech signals and the processing methods of signals. The signals are usually processed in a digital representation,...

Active Desktop was a feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0's optional Windows Desktop Update that allowed users to add HTML content to the desktop...

KeePass Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager primarily for Windows. It officially supports macOS and Linux operating systems through...

Groklaw is a website that covered legal news of interest to the free and open source software community. Started as a law blog on May 16, 2003, by paralegal...

Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. Its primary author is...

A conceptual graph (CG) is a formalism for knowledge representation. In the first published paper on CGs, John F. Sowa (Sowa 1976) used them to represent...

Real-time Multitasking eXecutive (iRMX) is a real-time operating system designed for use with the Intel 8080 and 8086 family of processors. Intel developed...

In computer science, marshalling or marshaling (US spelling) is the process of transforming the memory representation of an object into a data format suitable...

Although all RAID implementations differ from the specification to some extent, some companies and open-source projects have developed non-standard RAID...