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Algorithms
A–M
- ALPAE
- Anytime A*
- Anytime B*
- Baldi–Chauvin algorithm - [1]
- BALZ - [2]
- BCJ (algorithm) - mentioned in the 7z article
- BCJ2
- Coercibility
- Cohen-Grossberg neural network
- Collaborative Diffusion
- CrowdControlHQ
- Data exploration
- Deutsch–Schorr–Waite algorithm/Link inversion algorithms
- Distributed tree search - by Korf and Ferguson
- Double-dummy solver (see computer bridge) - This is one of the cornerstones in solving bridge play with computers. Considering that solving of chess and other games is detailed in several articles, it is reasonable to have an article on double-dummy analysis. To some extent it is just another game tree search, but there are also some important differences compared to typical board games.
- Double ended heaps (deaps)
- EBCOT (JPEG 2000)
- ECPG - embedded SQL in C
- ELBG - enhanced LBG (VQ algorithm)
- ELS-coder
- Farthest Addition - constructive greedy algorithm (see nearest neighbour, nearest addition)
- Find-S - [3]
- Frequent subtree mining
- Fully Automatic Clustering System - vector quantization algorithm (linked from FACS)
- Fully threaded binary search tree
- Geansai gorm
- Gentleboost
- Gur game
- Hunter–gatherer algorithm
- Hyper-pipes algorithm
- Intelligent Web Algorithm
- Jump point search - very fast way to find the shortest path between two points in a grid with obstacles; [4]; [5]
- Jump string - somehow related to jump tables
- Kernel Perceptron - a Perceptron that uses the kernel trick
- Lasserre Hierarchy - hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations
- Map matching - assistance for dead reckoning used e.g. in car navigation, see Etak and AGORA
- March C+ algorithm
- Maximum cardinality search algorithm - see Lex BFS
- MOR velmai - see www.myownreporter.com and Tania Peitzker
- MQ-coding (JPEG 2000)
- Multihop data propagation
- Multilist structure
- Multipacket reception - ability of a router to transmit and receive packets on different frequencies simultaneously, using, and therefore built upon, MIMO
- Murray polygon - apparently invented by Jack Cole (scientist); also listed at Requested articles/Mathematics
N–Z
- Nested means
- Neuromimetic intelligence - see Cortex project
- Oriented Energy Filters - used in computer vision
- Program analysis and transformation - methods for semantically understanding and modifying programs (as far as I can tell); such as [6]
- Rao-Blackwellized particle filter - for performing approximate inference in dynamic systems with both discrete and continuous state
- Raptor looping
- Reference Broadcast Synchronization - relatively new method of time synchronization that is superior to Network Time Protocol when applied to for wireless networks; [7]
- ServEnt Threads - used by W-PuTTY-CD-; W-PuTTY-CD, PuTTY communication in a Microsoft Windows™ DLL shell
- Suffix Tree Clustering or STC - approach for clustering that uses suffix trees; [8]; [9]
- Syncscan
- Transrating - process similar to transcoding in which files are coded to a lower bitrate without changing video formats
- 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
- Well-Separated Pair Decomposition - WSPD seems to be a staple of multidimensional computational geometry
Computer books
- ARM Assembly Language Programming - Peter Cockerell; ISBN 0951257900; 1987
- 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.
- Opensource - Understanding FOSS, published 2009 2010. (Article about Free Open Source Software , "Author K.S.Sampathkumar Coimbatore India have experience of developing Open Source Projects and telematic projects currently under research [http://technog.org ]".); notability
Widget toolkits
Computer management
Computer architecture
- Block floating-point
- Declarative Transaction Management
- Dynamic System Domain (Servers) See [10] [11] [12] [13]
- Electronic BatchRecords
- Hardware/software co-design [14], exploiting the integrated design of hardware and software created in parallel.
- Independent timing - how this feature of host bus adapter works and helps to access devices without losing speed
- Intel BSD - demand-based switching
- 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 - [15]
- List of instruction sets by number of instructions
- Localizer (computer science) - in networking of mobile devices (?)
- Managed Testing Services
- memory overcommitment - virtualization
- micropipeline
- modular bays - i.e., the wee dashboard that pops up every time you use your brother printer)
- MoSCoW scale - scale used for evaluating specifications after if Must be, should be, could be or wouldn't be part of the specification design
- MPS Table - multiprocessor system table
- PEMIC (pedagogical model of instructional computer)
- Petascale simulation
- Pseudomultitasking
- Resource Allocation Graphs - system to keep track of deadlocks in operating systems
- Simplescalar Computer Architecture simulator
- 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
- TyanPSC multiprocessor as a Personal SuperComputer
Computer languages
- AMISYS Advance - a standard for the health plan industry, providing administrative solutions that manage sophisticated processing requirements, including consumer-directed healthcare products. See reference AMISYS Advance: Health Plans Core Transactions and Business Rules
- Chameneos-Redux - program used to measure programming language processing efficiency
- dylan.NET - new language for .NET and Mono; [16]; [17]; [18]
- Edison (programming language) - minimalistic, block-structured, modular, real-time, multiprocessor language designed by Per Brinch Hansen; [19][20][21]
- EMC-SNAS EMC filesystem? EMC Scalable Network Accelerator in front of their storage?
- kryonet - Java external libraries intended for networking
- LiScript - "a programming language that combines JavaScript's high level features, ridiculous cross-platformness and blazing speed with lisp's awesome, powerful syntax" - https://github.com/viclib/LiScript/#readme
- OMeta - new object-oriented language for pattern matching; based on a variant of Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs) which have been extended to handle arbitrary data types; [22]; EvgenyLuttsev (talk) 08:03, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- Playbasic - powerful 2d programming language using the BASIC dialect; [23]
- Potion (programming language). "Potion is an object- and mixin-oriented (traits) language." per [24]; (apparently under development - I'm not sure whether this is currently notable)
- Pythonect - general-purpose dataflow programming language; based on Python; written in Python
- Robot interaction language (ROILA) - spoken language that researchers in the Netherlands are working on to help people talk to their growing number of helper robots; [25]; [26]
- Themable Widget Library (TWL) (a Java external library intended for GUI designing, based on OpenGL)
- Velneo - [27]
- WhizBase - WhizBase 5 is a hypertext pre-processor for Windows®-based web servers; [28]
Early computer models/processors
- Canon Communicator
- The Glickiac demo counter machine was a small-scale model invented by Joseph Glickauf Jr. (a computer-consulting pioneer) to demonstrate the power of electronic computing [29]
Hardware
Human input devices
- text-entry device - computing - Technology is moving beyond mechanical keyboards for character entry into sofware systems; virtual keyboards, stroke recognition, etc. for non-alphabetic languages, other types of character entry are use; voice methods as well; overview article is needed (links to keyboards, etc.; Codwiki (talk) 15:11, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
bitcoin mining hardware
Displays and screens
- List of Reference Design display adapters - Vendors often start with reference design from ATI or NVIDIA but quickly turn to their own designs. It's really frustrating to try to find reference design cards.
Audio sub-systems
Memory devices
Microprocessors
A–M
- 4B/5B-NRZI - signal encoding scheme for 100BASE-X Physical Media
- A4tech - company that makes PC peripherals
- AJ-100 - direct execution processor for java
- Apacer Technology Inc. - company which makes Memory modules, Flash drives and other computer hardware; [30]
- 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. [31] [32]
- BTTV - Analog V4L capture card BTTV based tuners
- BBWC - Battery Backed Write Cache
- Bluetrack Technology
- C-Tick - common certificate mark for electromagnetic interference
- CAMLINK - digital video (frame grabber) interface
- Conductive Pen - silver pen used for circuit boards
- Creative Labs - CT6870 - a video card
- DFA Chip
- DLP Monitor/DLP
- Drive Xpert
- ECL monitors
- eeepc s101
- 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.
- 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)
- Hardware/software co-design - [33]; exploiting the integrated design of hardware and software created in parallel
- Holographic System - Queens University's "TeleHuman System"; see May 10, 2012, article, "Get Ready for Star Wars-Style Holographic Chat", at [34]; and the authors' paper at [35]
- 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; [36]
- LRDIMM - "load reduced" DIMM; [37]
- Madd Electronics Group - Romanian company of hardware distribution; [38]
- Mica2 Motes - Wireless Sensor Network; [39]
- Micro Solutions Backpack - external CD-ROM drive
- Multi channel data link - [40] (page 2.5)
- mycpu TTL processor - processor and complete 8 bit computer system. a "do it yourself" computer, in a manner uncommon amongst computer enthusiasts since the 1970s; [41]
N–Z
- 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; [42]; [43]; [44]; [45]
- 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) - type of of user authentication often using a digital certificate; [46]; [47]
- powder display, more exactly quick response liquid powder display or QRLPD – roughly an e-paper variant developed by Bridgestone (and produced by Hitachi)
- 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 ([48]); 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
- Radeon r800
- Secondary Precharge Transistor - domino logic charge sharing trick
- SecureDisc - feature on many LG brand DVD writers
- Select Bay
- self-tending drive doors - mechanisms on Dell's XPS 700 computer
- Siemens C166 processor
- 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.
- 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
- Viatron - I don't know of this is "hardware" or "organizations." Viatron was a company that manufactured (if I recall correctly) an intelligent terminal in the 1970's. It made quite a splash at the time but folded, whether because of pricing, reliability, or what-all. I'm really surprised there isn't already an article. Regarding Viatron: Some of the original user manuals and programming guides, complete with photos of the system, are available here. I think there is enough information here to write a coherent article.
- 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?
The Internet
0–9
- .hyod - .hyod generic domain - Host Your Own Domain Project
- 12secondstv - [49]; [50]
- 3301 Cicada - either an Alternate Reality Game, or job recruiting, or a genuine Internet mystery; treasure hunt spanning Internet, history, literature, art, telephone numbers, locations around the world, Tor .onion addresses, music, and more. First time an ARG might have been used as job recruitment. Some sources: Nova, Cryptographyic Puzzle Game...Best Job Hire in Disguise, Joel Eriksson's Article, Thinking Deeply
A–I
- Acolite Internet Hosting - UK Internet-hosting provider using backbone of Heart Internet; founded 2009; [51]
- 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.
- 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. [52]; description from semi-outsider perspective on [53] (cf. ?Alternate reality game)
- allyve - big German internet SSO[clarification needed] startpage, [54]; [55]; Handelsbatt Template:De icon
- Amazon test Drive - web application provided by amazon for testing android apps directly in browser.similar tool is pieceable for ios apps; [56]; [57]
- Animal Vegetable Video - A research project that uses cameras on animals and certain plants to get their point of view.
- Arbitrary URL - No real definition anywhere of what this term means
- Atom3 standard - Apparently Atom is a subset of Atom3? (Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol)
- AVING - news company; specializes in global electronics reporting that ranges from brands, trade shows and mobile and multimedia; [58]
- Britekite - page deleted, please replace.[clarification needed]
- Closed Platform - a software system, as opposed to Open Platform
- Coding for a Cause - a movement of open-source technology advocates supporting not-for-profits by building them websites for free; [59]; [60]
- CollegeACB - anonymous confession board for colleges; [61], [62]; [63][dead link]
- CometBird - browser; [64]; [65]
- Comparison of Internet search engines
- Damoria - web-based game; recently translated into English; [66]
- Delivery Buzz - [67] NY Food Delivery Service
- Dragon Cave - online game; gaining popularity at an exponential speed; [68]; [69][verify notability]
- Dud3 os - very large os project for c# operating systems on YouTube
- EasyBib - largest online bibliography service; [70]
- ExitReality - Makes the entire Internet 3D - a 3D architecture for the Internet with open standards
- Givebackmail - an email service which donates a share of its profits to charity [71]
- Global Research [clarification needed]
- Grepolis - A browser-based strategy game set in ancient Greece with over 200,000 active users. From Innogames, the creators of The West and Tribal Wars. [72]
- Illogicopedia - Previously deleted
- Internet Rush Hours - time in which Internet servers break down
- Internet Week New York - [73]
- iPBFree - free forum host that allows near complete customization and control;[74]
J–R
- Link Management Protocol - a link management protocol (LMP) that runs between a pair of nodes and is used to manage traffic engineering links (from RFC 4204)
- Local Lizard - Local business directory using picture and video adverts. [75]
- Log-in / Log-on Loop - Where successful attempts at logging in to a website / webpage with a user name and password results in being returned to the initial log-in request. Can also encompass initial log-in privileges, with privileged results as account information; but returning to the initial log-in request when delving into a deeper subsection of log-in privileges (ie. initial privilege: "My Account", subsection privilege: "My Account/Billing Information"). (One example: [76])
- Loop'd Network - site for athletes to get sponsors; 300,000+ members; millions of hits a day; ability to make profile; [77]
- 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. (Link currently redirects to Excite, which bought Magellan)
- Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange (MICE) - non profit internet exchange oint in Minneapolis, MN; [78]
- Mixcloud
- Mothballing (Internet) - the process of leaving old and un-updated pages on the internet for further reference
- NATGRID (NATGRID) - India's security intelligence database designed to consolidate and make searchable data gathered by existing security and law enforcement agencies in order to prevent terrorist activity within the country; [79]
- Naviance, Inc. - division of Hobsons, which is a subsidiary of DMG Information, which in turn is part of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc; [80] (Naviance Corporate Website)
- Naviance Succeed - features a survey builder that reports statistical data about college acceptance rates, college admissions, rankings, college placement, school GPAs, admission criteria, etc; [81]
- Neoseeker - Canada's largest hardware and software reviews site; runs one of the largest gaming communities; owned by Neo-Era media; [82]
- Onnetworks - company; offers shows outside ff television
- Opennet - opposite of the darknet, see subheading of Darknet versus Opennet
- papercritters - create your own 3d "Paper Critters" by designing it, printing it, and cutting/glueing it; [83]
- Partly Cloudy Technology - term created by Jeff M. White, Robert Linton and Colleen Rudio, about having a balance between cloud computing and local computing; primarily focused upon protecting the users software and data under any disaster or technical failure; [84]
- Paymo Time Tracker - 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; [85]; [86]
- Pokemon Tower Defense (PTD) - a game on samdangames.blogspot.com about pokemon in a tower defence themed game; game on the Internet
- Project Deploy* - free open-source online tool that allows users to quickly generate a web project framework; [87]
- RFC 2606 - reserved DNS names for private use; RFC 2606; there actually are articles for each of the reserved names
- RVSiteBuilder - website builder for cPanel hosting provide; [88]; [89]
- Roccat Browser - Popular browser for Mac (Intel and PPC) and iOS; [90]; [91]; [92];[93]; [94]; [95];[96];[97];[98];
S–Z
- socnet - a slang term seems to become common reference to social networks (see also the article at Urban Dictionary) google search
- ShoutWiki - a free, ad-supported wiki hosting service; [99]
- SklogWiki - 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 es:Patricio Lorente (president of Wikimedia Argentina); [100]
- social seating - concept created to allow airline passengers to choose a seatmate based on their social network profiles; airlines such as Malaysia Airlines and KLM have already explored this space, and companies such as SeatID are developing an industry standard, SaaS, of-the-shelf solution
- Svtble - minimalist, invite-only blogging platform; [101]; [102]; [103]
- 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 [104]
- Tower of Babble BBS - Milwaukee, WI, Online Data Systems BBS, and Metro Big 10/Big 12 BBSes; notable BBSes (see Archives:BBS Addition (Dec 2008)
- Twible
- Usenet servers - computers that can serve, or distribute Usenet posts; some of these are free
- virtualmanager - a football manager site used by over half a miilion people with an average of 200 clubs joining everyday
- Waffles.fm - a private BitTorrent music tracker
- WebLems - web-based problems
- Wikinazi - editors of WikiPedia articles (mostly admins) that suck the fun out of participating, by nit-pickingly enforcing every rule, thus driving out those who have knowledge of the subject matter, leaving only fellow WikiNazis
- xRTML - (Extensible Real Time Markup Language) New markup language based on HTML that allows developers to add real time to their websites; [105]; [106]; [107]
- X-OriginalArrivalTime - mail header possibly used by webmailers; time possibly in UTC
- YaBB - type of Internet bulletin board, that is commonly available as an option to phpbb; [108]
- 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; [109]
- Yontoo Layers - web browser graphic layout thingy
- YoungWeBBuilder - website aimed at helping young-web developers; [110] [111]; [112]
- YouNow- live-streaming video website [113]
People
A–G
- Antonio Acosta - certified Genesys CTI expert; [114]
- Ari Luotonen - CERN & Mosaic Communications Corporation employee; de:Ari Luotonen
- Bastian 'Zoid' Scholz - programmer, cyberpunk, activist; founder of ubnhd2;[115] and teutonpe [116]
- Changyu Dong - lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde; his research focuses on information security, more specifically trust and privacy management, applied cryptography, access control and policy-based management; before Strathclyde, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Policy group at Imperial College London; he received my PhD and MSc from Imperial, BSc from Fudan University; also worked several years as a network engineer back in China
- 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
- Christopher Beales - founder of the ICTCLOUD community engagement & online portal business analysis; recognised for his contribution to open-source software as cost effective and viable solutions for not-for-profit organisations
- Christopher P. Yarger - freelancer; founder of IT Systems; contributor to open-source software
- Daniel Brandt - Googlewatcher, Scroogler
- Daniel Spiewak - American software developer; based in Wisconsin; 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
- Dave Small (computer scientist) - creator of the Spectre GCR, an Apple Mac emulator for the Atari ST series of computers
- David R. Kaeli - computer scientist/engineer; research professor at NEU; in particular GPU computing; author Of "Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL"; [117]
- Dinesh C Verma - about his works on peer-to-peer architecture
- Ed Bott - journalist; worked at PCWorld; currently works at ZDnet
- Egoraptor - animator for YouTube and newgrounds
- Emmy Cicierega
- Geoffrey Grosenbach - founder of PeepCode Screencasts and Ruby on Rails podcast; [118]]
- George J Padayatty - expert programmer; honored by Chennai IIT
- George Radin (computer scientist) - IBM Fellow; one of the developers of the PL/I language and perhaps the inventor of the RISC concept; responsible for the IBM 801 (ROMP) processor
- Greg Newton-Ingham - expert in audio, video, computer security and on-line information; [verify notability]
- 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)
- Gustavo Moya - ixaya.com open-source community sponsor and foundator; [verify notability]
H–M
- Scott Hartley - Formerly worked at Google, Facebook, The White House, contributing author to "Shopping for Good", published by Mit_press. (Source: Bloomberg_TV).
- Ioannis Aslanidis - Gentoo developer, Bluetooth documentation for Linux, research proceedings, open-source developer
- Jackson Peebles - web developer; started independent web design company at young age; now founder/developer of multiple softwares and websites
- James J. Odell - expert in information engineering; developer of object-oriented development method known as Martin/Odell Method; chair of OMG's UML task force [119]
- James King (website developer) (a.k.a Jamesking56) - website developer; [120]; PHP programmer, sells software, does website development freelance; original pwner and founder of HeroHost Hosting Company
- James Kutsch, Ph.D. - inventor of the first talking computer for blind people; [121] (National Institute for the Blind)
- John W. Carr III - early pioneer, researcher, professor at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering
- Jonathan Heiliger - creator of Open Compute Project while VP of Infrastructure at Facebook; notable investor; board member of two publicly traded companies (DuPont Fabros Technology & Jive Software); TR35 recipient
- Joseph Glickauf Jr. - computer-consulting pioneer; inventor of the Glickiac demo counter machine (a small-scale model to demonstrate the power of electronic computing); promoter/evangelist of business use of computers; [122]; [123]; [124]
- Jürgen Höller - Spring Framework designer, developer, and front-man
- Laura Chappell - Wireshark expert and founder of the university Laura Chappell's Wireshark University
- Luciano Bello - Debian developer; discovered an epic fail in OpenSSl package
- 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.)
- Marc Sokol - author of Realia Cobol; VP at Computer Associates; [125][verify notability]
- Michael Buen - co-developer of the I LOVE YOU virus
- 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
- Michael Shrayer - author of the Electric Pencil
- Michelle Levesque - member of the OpenNet Initiative; employee at Google and author of [126][verify notability]
- Morris Mano
N–Z
- Paul Irish - inventor of the HTML5 Boilerplate and developer for JQuery and Google Chrome
- Peter Löthberg - Swedish Internet patriarch and optical Internet guru
- Randy Ubillos - video editing pioneer; developed Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro
- Robert J. Santellan - founder and sole-editor of the blog The Tech Tipster which has several articles and videos on technology-related news, tips and reviews; also works as an IT professional in his regular day job outside of running the blog; [127]
- Saul Greenberg, PhD - influential and prolific researcher in human computer interaction; Fellow of ACM CHI Academy; inventor of Phidgets; professor, University of Calgary; [128]
- Simon Foster - created the graphics for RollerCoaster Tycoon series, as well as Transport Tycoon
- Somenath Biswas - professor of computer science, IIT Kanpur; doctoral adviser of Manindra Agarwal; author of several papers and inventor of Agrawal-Biswas Identity Testing; interested in logic and theoretical computer science in general; invented the concept of 'solution preserving universal relations" and "NP Creative Sets" along with Manindra Agarwal; list of his papers and contributions can be found on DBLP; [129]
- Sonya Keene - Lisp
- Steve Chamberlain - original programmer of Cygwin Cygwin#History
- Steve Ward (computer scientist) - computer scientist at MIT
- Tam Hanna - online and offline journalist; covering handheld computers; said to also offer marketing advice to mobile computing companies; CEO of Tamoggemon
- Tyler Pitchford - o-founder of the Azureus Bittorrent Client; computer-security expert; appellate attorney; lecturer on both computer and legal issues; [130]; [131];[132]; [133]; [134]; [135]; [136]
- Val Henson - hacker of various kernel-space tecnologies; [137]
- 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; [138]; [139]
- Wilhelm Oddo Ml
- William Cheswick - Internet security pioneer, author, and Internet mapper
- Xeke - prolific computer hacker
Organizations
A–M
- ACTUNIV - computer training and technology software
- AppDirect - Business Application Network – a network of app stores — providing secure Web-based software for businesses Source 1; [Source 2
- Berkeley Speech Technologies - [140]; [141]
- BlazeStudios - software-development company; specialising in Web, WordPress, WHMCS, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS (iPhone & iPad), Android and Graphic Development
- CloudBees - platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider (i.e. Cloud Computing) [www.cloudbees.com] - I am the CEO doing the request for addition. Some information can be found in those articles: TechCrunch article on Series-B that contains company information, GigaOM on launch of PaaS production-ready platform in Jaunary 2011 after CloudBees' acquisition of Stax Networks; GigaOM article when offering went for-pay in June 2011; Another GigaOM article describing what they perceive as distinct attributes of the company, feel free to contact me if different information is needed, thanks.
- Cloudworks - hosted computing or cloud computing company; [142]
- Colocation America - colocation hosting provider
- Comment Crew (also known as "Shanghai Group") - Chinese hacking organization believed by the US government to be state-sponsored; [143]
- cplusplus.com - A very good C++ reference site, seems to have no advertising and does have reliable information. Who are these people? Would be an interesting article.
- Cyberpowerpc - computer hardware company that sells and manufactures high-performance desktop and laptop computers
- Computer Game Museum Berlin museum; opened 2011; [144]
- Electric Rain
- Envoy Services Limited - UK-based company offering merchants secure access to an expanding global network of established corporate banks and popular local services
- Fachak - A company that provides online content sharing platform [www.fachak.com]
- Giga Information Group - (Company providing research in IT industry taken over by Forrester Research)
- Global Domains International, Inc. - multi-level marketing (MLM) company that hosts and sells web space www.website.ws or www.jacobwyatt.com
- HackingTag Security - IT company; [145]
- INAIC - The Internet Names Authority and Information Center, the authority overseeing new public and corporate Top Level Domain applications
- Indian Computer Emergency Response Team - [146]
- International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) - [147]
- The Knight Labs - An Indian IT Development Company.[www.theknightlabs.com]
- LEADconcept - Leading Edge Technology To Match your Bussiness Solution - [148]
- List of Computer Museums in the world
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Intel - tens of billions of dollars spent acquiring companies and technologies
- Little Apps - software company in Calgary, Canada; develops programs under the GNU GPLv3 including a registry cleaner and a disk cleaner
- LANCAST - IT company; [149]
- Laura Chappell's Wireshark University - university run by Laura Chappell with a curriculum centred around the network scanner Wireshark
- Madd Electronics Group - Romanian It Company; [www.pcmadd.com]
- Maxeler Technologies - company which provides solutions for high performance computing and FPGAs; works closely with Imperial College London computer scientists and provides a MaxCompiler for a high level interface with the dataflow engines; the language is not VHDL, it is implemented in a java variant known as MaxJava and run in kernels; they provide services for scientific computing and banks; [150]
- Magid Computers - advanced web solutions company based in New York, with offices in Los Angeles and Dallas, supporting small businesses; [151]
- MetaRam - company that aims to quadruple computers' maximum RAM limits; [152][verify notability]
- Micantro Pty Ltd - Australian game-design studio based in Newcastle NSW; makes iPhone games, console games, PC games
- Microhardxce (MHX) - [153]; Canadian-based software company specializing in free educational and computer protection software
- Museum of Soviet arcade machines - museum in Moscow; dedicated to Soviet games; [154]
N–Z
- OCR Research Team - group of CAPTCHA crackers
- OSSCube - US-based company offering open source training, consulting and development services, specializing in healthcare, education, sugarcrm, drupal and php development services; [155]
- Oxxbowz United Feelings
- PaloAltoNetworks - firewall company; [156]
- ParcPlace Systems - smalltalk company
- PeepCode - company specializing in providing video tutorials for advanced and professional web developers; [157]
- PuppetLabs - company sponsoring the development of Puppet open source configuration management software; formerly known as Reductive Labs
- Rosedu (Romanian Open Source Education) - open-source organisation from Romania
- Sambreel - San Diego, CA-based software company; received substantial media coverage for its browser add-on products; in 2011,received mainstream television, newspaper, and online coverage for its products Drop Down Deals, PageRage, and OverApps; in late 2011, substantial media attention focused on a disagreement between the company and popular social network website Facebook about the operations of its product, PageRage; [158]
- Security Certified Program – company that issues the SCNS, SCNP and Security Certified Network Architect professional certifications.
- Selskabet for Rationel Almen Planlægning [[159] - Danish organisation that is the source of many locale definition files at the GNU C Library; their home page does not say much about them; the locale definition files refer to them as RAP, which is quite hard to decrypt
- Service Strategies Corporation – company that issues the Service Capability & Performance standards.
- Shareware Industry Awards Foundation
- silex labs - non-profit organization; based in France; dedicated to open source web applications; official maintainer of Silex, [160]; Oof and Flog; offers open-source projects to help with their communication; [161]
- Software Tools User Group - organization focused on a the development of license-free, UNIX-like utilities and system calls, written in Ratfor and Pascal
- Softwrap - UK-based company; offers DRM technology to developers
- Sumerge- Egypt-based software-development company; specializes in developing, customizing and integrating business and technical software solutions and services to clients worldwide
- SKGOLD Hosting - Canadian-based web-hosting company; [162]
- Shockley Transistor Company - there exists an article on the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, but not a wikified article on the business organization behind the lab. This business and its employees was the start of Silicon Valley, so it definitely should have a good quality article.
- StartupBus - annual competition in America and Europe where a team of strangers have to create a tech startup on a bus, of which 500 people have done so to date; extensive online media coverage (tech blogs such as TechCrunch and Wired, The Huffington Post, Time, etc) with television and newspaper coverage as well
- Tangible and Embedded Interaction - international conference on tangible and embedded interaction; [163]
- The Bureau of Internet Accessibility - provides a revolutionary tool for businesses that allows for an easy way to create website accessibility for Section 508, WCAG requirements; [164]
- Webteh - Slovenian software company that produces BS.Player
- Wireless Innovation Alliance - coalition of companies, organizations, and advocates working to unlock the potential that lies inside the "White Spaces" of our television spectrum; [165]
- Ufanet - Russian Internet service provider; Ufa city, Bashkortostan; [166]
- VoiceThread; [167]
- Zvents - event search company powering most of newspaper industry
Operating systems
- Amazon Linux - OS that runs only in Amazon EC2; [168]
- AV Linux - Debian Distro specifically for multimedia needs; [169]
- Blackbuntu - Ubuntu base distro for Penetration Testing with GNOME Desktop Environment; being built using the Ubuntu 10.10; [170]
- CMX RTOS - adding links CMX, RTOS, CMX RTOS; 201.37.230.43 (talk) 15:58, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
- Circle Dock - circular dock (open source) for Windows platform; [171]
- Closed Shell System - a shell is a piece of software that provides an interface for users of an operating system which provides access to the services of a kernel. However, the term is also applied very loosely to applications and may include any software that is "built around" a particular component, such as web browsers and email clients that are "shells" for HTML rendering engines. The name shell originates from shells being an outer layer of interface between the user and the internals of the operating system (the kernel). But someone should create a topic on a CLOSED Shell system, because I have no idea what it is.
- DoudouLinux - [172]; system targeting young children; aims at making computer use as simple and pleasant as possible; while also making computer use more accessible to all children on earth, without discrimination; [173]
- Dynamic Protection Structure
- Elementary OS
- Fluke operating system
- Init scripts - topics on scripts in /etc/rc.d on a Unix/Linux OS, naming conventions, how to create one, etc.; [174]
- Lighthouse Linux - a CD-based distro designed for speed, simplicity and lightness; currently at version 0.0.1; [175]
- Mac OSX 11 - [176]
- 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."; [177] -- 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; [178]; we are talking about a real operating system, and not vaporware
- RuggedOS- mission-critical operating system developed and deployed (in, among others, SCADA applications) by Ruggedcom, a Siemens subsidiary; has recently been criticized and targeted by many articles for the undocumented presence of a backdoor and an embedded private key
- SpiralOS
- toor (username) - The superuser username, similar to root; this article might just entail extracting the UNIX username info from the existing page Toor which has all sorts of different info
- TOSS Linux - Popular all new Linux Distribution being developed entirely by CSE Dept of Thiagarajar College of Engg. aiming Engineers and developers; [179]
- ubnhd2 - ARM-compiled and Ubuntu-based Pentest OS for the HTC HD2 phone; [180]
- Windows Construct Edition
- Windows Research Kernel - Windows kernel source code for research
Programming
A–M
- Action Event Paradigm[verify notability]
- Akiban Server - [181]; [182]
- aMazer - a program used to create 3D games. "aMazer is an Adobe Shockwave program that is played in your browser."
- Annotative programming - [183][verify notability]
- ANT OPTS - does this mean the ANT_OPTS environment variable for Apache Ant? Better to add it there
- Arbitrary Shapes in Microsoft Analysis Services - avoid using Arbitrary Shapes in MDX; [184]
- AVFoundation - an Apple framework that provides an Objective-C interface for managing and playing audio-visual media; [185]
- Ballmer Peak – The Ballmer Peak, a reference to Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, holds that imbibing alcohol improves cognitive ability, up to a point
- Bitset (C++ container)
- Bsymbolic
- Bytecode instrumentation
- Capuchin Project
- CT-API (CardTerminal Application Programming Interface)
- Cascade of attention-deficit teenagers (CADT model) - [186]; [187]
- Cellpadding & Cellspacing
- Coding Dojo - [188]
- Common data - There is no article (that I can find) that defines the use of common data as in FORTRAN's COMMON or BLOCK DATA statements, or PL/I's EXTERNAL data. I'm not sure if this should be a separate article or included somewhere else, but I think the history and usage should be included somewhere.
- DRLVM - stands for Dynamic Runtime Layer Virtual Machine a clean-room implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition 1.5.0 virtual machine
- EJB-QLSQL/HQL-like query language for Enterprise Java Beans
- End-User Software Engingeering - end-users using simple programming environments to create programmes that help them in some way ex: CoScriptor, and IBM Product
- Ephemeral random constant - related to genetic programming
- Flozoids - individual scripts running independently of eachother, displaying group behavior as a whole
- Front Controller Design Pattern
- FSML Financial Services Markup Langage - [189]
- 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] (See EHLLAPI.)
- Jeff Duntemann o'reilly biography
- jUDDI - an Apache Group open source Java implementation of the UDDI specification; [190]
- LateralGM
- Libclear - [191] [verify notability]
- List of sound libraries (computing) - and linking to it from other pages
- Logback - Java logging framework; intended as successor to Log4J; [192]
- Loop rotation - trying to optimize loops somehow, referred to in [193]
- McAfee SLATES model[verify notability]
- Moravec interest operator
- Muenchian method - grouping method in XSLT
N–Z
- Nanothreads
- Ninject - a IOC container
- Nuweb - literate programming tool
- Open Hypermedia Systems[verify notability]
- Page Controller Design Pattern
- Paidi OS - [194]; check out the video for hidden tag reference material
- Openedge Progress Software Development - [195] for Progress Software Development and Application Modernization
- Pageflow
- Pythonect - general-purpose dataflow programming language based on Python, written in Python
- Queue (C++ container adapter)
- RxML - RxML standard[verify notability]
- RealTimeBattle - free programming game; [196]
- 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
- Simulation of simplicity - "a general-purpose programming technique... which can be used to cope with degenerate input data for geometric algorithms" CiteSeerx: 10.1.1.38.5997
- Skrit[verify notability]
- Stack (C++ container adapter)
- STL.NET — STL for Microsoft .NET[verify notability]
- Synchronization domain - terminology in thread synchronization
- Type Hinting
- Unreal Writer
- Vanilla object
- VHPI - VHDL - procedural interface
- W-PuTTY-CD - SSH, Telnet, Rlogin and Raw TCP clients in a Microsoft Windows™ DLL shell; W-PuTTY-CD, PuTTY communication in a Microsoft Windows™ DLL shell.
- web.py - web framework for Python; webpy.org
- Writeln
- XBreed
- XMLdoc - XML File Documentor
Protocols
- BDLC (Burroughs Data Link Control)
- Ethernet alarm indication signal (EthAIS) - see Alarm indication signal
- FIPA Contract Net Interaction Protocol - a minor modification of the original contract net IP pattern
- K Sequence - [197]
- 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.
- Poll and Select - Burroughs byte-oriented communications protocol
- The ϕ(Phi) Accrual Failure Detector - [198]
- UUSee - a P2P TV proprietary software; [199]; used by CNC World (Xinhua's new English language TV channel at [200]); Spanish description here: [201]
- VARAN (Versatile Automation Random Access Network) - VARAN bus
- Verified Email Protocol - looks like this is already getting renamed; [202])
- Errlog Copy Service - an error logging service that runs on port 704/UDP
- Asymmetric Logical Unit Access - A SCSI standard widely implemented across mid-range storage arrays
Real-time computing
Searching; search engines
- DASL or DAV Searching and Locating - a protocol for searching WebDAV repositories; [203]
- document clustering - I would like to have information about different clustering algorithms, how they work and their application for the search engines; [verify notability]
- document ranking
- Entireweb - one of the largest crawler-based, second-tier search engine
- FuzzFind - www.fuzzfind.com - web meta search mashup; combines the leading search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo) and social bookmarking sites (del.icio.us), with personalizable results; [204]; [205]; [206]
- Google privacy policy (or new Google privacy policy) – an expansion of Google#Privacy with an emphasis on the historical evolution of the policy, and on what neutral, third-party sources say about the changes to Google's privacy policy that are scheduled to take effect March 1, 2012?
- Mojeek - largest crawler search engine in the UK, so along with Gigablast and Entireweb should have a page, also considering there are so many meta-engines listed then the few true crawler ones out there definately should, shouldn't they?
- people search - the process of searching for people, a class of vertical search engine that specializes in searching for people
- Reverse SEO - combination of SEO and online reputation management; while a positive topic is written on, the negative topic is basically optimized via unethical black hat tactics in order to lead to a ban
- search portal
- search2.net - search engine; based on opensource software nutch; online since 2009
- site search - a service for finding information on a specific site; for example, the search in Wikipedia is a site search, working only on the information in wikipedia.org; site search engine is a big class of search engines, that should be right next to web search engine and probably even before enterprise search in the listing of search; [207]; [208]; [209]
- 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; [210]; [211]; [212]; [213]; [214]; [215]
- Speedy Spider - from Entireweb; apparently a large Swedish search engine; purpose?
- Video search engine optimization (VSEO)
Security
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Security
A–M
- adsttnmq1 - some kind of exploit that has infected a lot of web pages.
- AD Mutate - Mutation integration in Hacking
- All or Nothing Disclosure Of Secrets (ANDOS) - Cryptographic process. I'm not sure of the difference between this and Simultaneous exchange of secrets.
- Alliance of Security Analysis Professionals
- 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; [216]
- Blue Ridge Networks - company responsible for creating the BorderGuard and manages VPNs[verify notability]
- Bubblebabble digest
- CCSK Cyclic Code Shift Keying
- Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
- Chaotic Cryptosystems
- Coranti Inc - information needed about Coranti Inc, a provider of Multiscanning security applications
- CROOK Unix OS
- crypto-chip
- CryptoHeaven
- Database Encryption
- DeepSight - feature of Norton Internet Security that accesses a blacklist of IP addresses supposedly “maintained by the U.S. government.”
- Defender Pro Internet Security - antivirus program
- Enterprise Security Client - Redhat program to work with smart cards & security certificates; inherited from Netscape in 2004; [217]; 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]
- export-crippled cipher (a dictdef. or a redirect to a related Wikipedia article would be sufficient as long as the Wikipedia article to which this title redirects actually defines the term in language understandable to lay users.)
- 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)
- High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC) - weapon as supposedly used by Anonymous; [218]
- HMBr57 - PHP shell used by hackers and script kiddies
- InfoJack - a malicious program targeted at Windows Mobile smartphones; [219]
- Information Asset Profiling
- Information Technology Baseline Protection Manual
- Intel Anti-Theft Technology
- Identification, Authentication & Authorization
- Internet Grooming
- 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 [220]
- 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.
- List of Web Proxy Servers -another list, but not highlights of important information, rather, since the security world is ever-changing, a list of Reliable Web Proxies. Contains information (crowdsourced) of security of their servers, retention of your information, removal of headers, and helps choose the best for user needs.
- Low integrity mode
- Local File Include
- Mini-certificates - WTLS mini-certificates, used for wireless devices
- mod_gnutls - mod_gnutls uses the GnuTLS library to provide SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and 1.2 encryption for the Apache Web Server
N–Z
- Needham-Schroeder-Lowe - encryption algorithm. Should this be simply included in Needham-Schroeder_protocol?
- OnionCat
- OS-178B
- 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; [221]
- Simultaneous exchange of secrets (Sometimes just Exchange Of Secrets (EOS)) - Cryptographic process to atomically exchange secrets. The aim is to avoid a limbo case where one party has the secret they want but another party doesn't get theirs in return. See also ANDOS.
- Secure Signature Creation Device
- Shadow network - currently a redirect to a section of IPv6, and I've found some other information out there, but I think an expert would know where to find more. Technical 13 (talk) 15:49, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
- Smart Fortress 2012 - scareware program similar to SpySheriff that is common as of April 2012
- SOC 2 - type II audit; [222]
- South Carolina tax record theft - largest-ever cyberattack on a US state government; 3.8 million unencrypted Social Security numbers (equivalent to over 81% of the SC population) were stolen along with private and business-related financial information; tax records from 1998 to 2011 and employee password hashes were remotely compiled and downloaded over a period of months; attacker compromised 44 systems in all; [223]; [224]; [225]
- Spy Shredder
- Strokejacking
- Survivability and Information Assurance - [226]
- SusPacked virus
- Software Diversity
- TICSA - Security certification, possibly obsolete
- Tiny Fragment Attack - another IDS evasion technique
- Token - disambiguation page, add (missing) computing sense expressed in Tokenization (data security)
- Trusted Network Interpretation of the TCSEC (the Red Book)
- Trusted Zone Management
- Theory of Security Maxims - [227]
- UCON Usage Control (UCON) Model; [228]
- 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; [229]; [230]
- Web Security
Software
A-B
- activeCollab --project management and collaboration tool
- AccessData - software; designs FTK and FTK Imager; industry standards
- ACOS/MACOS - language used for bulletin board software GBBS II Pro on (almost entirely) Apple II computers
- Adobe Presenter - software
- Adobe SVG Viewer - software
- Adobe Type Reunion - software
- Adobe Type on Call - software
- Advanced BKF Repair - nominated for Epsilon Award 2010
- Advanced Exchange Recovery - nominated for Epsilon Award 2010
- Advanced Outlook Express Repair - nominated for the Epsilon Award 2010
- Afaria - mobile device management software
- Ahsay - rebrandable backup software
- AmTax
- Anvi Smart Defender - Anvi Smart Defender delivers smart and powerful protection against malicious software, such as virus, Trojans, adware, spyware, bots and other threats. With the newly designed swordfish engine, it scans and detects Internet security threats fast and lightly. It adds system optimization function to speed up slow PC and provides cloud scan feature to give PC more effective and powerful protection; [231]
- Analog Rails - EDA tool/platform and start-up company aimed at providing 100% automation and simulation of analog/mixed-signal IC layouts; [232]; [233]
- API Manager - [234]; Other vendors are Apigee and Mashery. Wikipedia does not contain an article on this segment of the industry
- ApiGen - tool to create PHP 5.3+ API documentation; Home. It can be installed using a PEAR channel. It's supported by NetBeans since version 7.2.
- Arctic Core - An open source AUTOSAR implementation
- Auto Shutdown Manager - nominated for Epsilon Award 2010
- AutoRune - first RuneScape cheat; the author, Aivars Kaitnieks, created his own programming language for people to write scripts that the program could execute
- Avantstar - [235]
- BannerSnack - an online app for creating Flash banners; [236]; [237]
- BBIS Blood Bank Information System
- BDV DataHider - portable application for encryption and hiding data on a flash drives; [238]
- BDV Notepad - portable plain text editor, freeware; [239]
- beatmapping - the process of detecting tempo and beats in music using software
- B Lyrics Mimer - portable Karaoke creator freeware; [240]; [241]; [242]; [243]
- BlackwoodApps - Mac software developer; [244]
- Bluebeam PDF Revu – professional PDF editor for the architecture, engineering and construction industry and other technical users; [245]; [246]
- bsdiff - open-source executable comparison tool
- BS.Player - 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
- Bugherd - A issue tracking software which is embedded in a website
- Business Cataylst - a hosted (SaaS) platform for building and managing online businesses; acquired by Adobe Systems in August, 2009; [247]
- Byobu software - a convenient wrapper, profiles, configuration utility, and keybindings for GNU Screen; [248]
C–D
- Capture NX and/or Capture NX 2 - graphic program used by many photographers; [249]
- Chankast - Sega Dreamcast emulator, wich seem to be the first and, although now unmaintained, has opened the way to other emulators like NullDC
- Clock-on-Desktop - a tool to allow you to display analog and digital clocks on your desktop
- Clock-on-Tray - a replacement for standard Windows tray clock; nominated for Epsilon Award 2010
- Cloud System Booster - system maintenance & optimization tool based on cloud technology; all-in-one PC repair and system maintenance program; [250]; [251]
- Codelobster - free PHP IDE; Free PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript code editor with plug-ins for Drupal, WordPress, Smarty, Joomla, JQuery, Facebook, Codeigniter, CakePHP; [252]; [253]; [254]; [255]; [256]
- Codename24 - internet application suite [257];[258]. The article was nominated for speedy deletion some days ago
- Color Chat - type of word processing using colors and shapes; [259]
- Comparison of X Window Systems - see X_Window_System#Implementations
- Component Based Servicing - built into Windows Vista and later; [260]
- Conceptworld Corporation
- Concerto signage - open-source digital signage software; started at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; [261]
- Copywhiz - a flexible file copy program. It was formerly known as Piky Basket
- Corel Home Office is a sleek new office suite for word processing, spreadsheets and presentation projects
- CrazyBump is a program for making bumpmaps, normal maps and displacement maps from pictures.
- CursorFX - a tool to create or apply existing cursor themes to change cursors
- DataNumen
- Demantra - Oracle Demantra is a best-in-class provider of demand management, sales & operations planning, and trade promotions management solutions; [262]
- DeskDeco - free wallpaper management software; [263]
- DevelSoftware assembler x86-64 - freeware x86-64 assembler
- Dictator (software) - [264]; for on-screen reading of text files
- Disco Project - erlang/python mapreduce+ framework; [265]
- 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."; [266]
- D-Pixed - image editor specializing in 256 color images; originally a Japanese program, it has been translated to English; [267]
- Driver Genius Professional Edition - [268] a sound device manager and updater
- 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."; [269]
E–F
- Email Director - Email, fax and SMS marketing solution widely used in government, large and medium businesses; [270]
- 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; [271]
- EHCP - a free GNU/GPL hosting conttrol panel solution
- EAServer - es:EAServer
- Lelogiciel - language lab software; India; [272]
Disk Formatters - general
- Fabric (Python tool) - remote execution, deployment and automation tool in Python
- FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Network Library) - neural network libraries; [273]
- FatBooth - Apple application for Iphone and Ipod Touch which is extremely popular and uses an algorithm to make the person's face fatter
- FBackup - freeware backup software for Windows; [274]; [275]; [276]; [277]; [278]
- File Scavenger - a shareware for restoring files which has been deleted from the hard disk, or in case the entire device became unavailable (in case of unplugging the device insecurely)
- FlexHex Editor - a hex editor specially designed to help you securely inspect and edit binary files, OLE compound files, logical devices, and physical drives
- Fluff Busting Purity - previously known as "Facebook Purity" until Facebook threatened a lawsuit; a greasemonkey script for cleaning up the application spam and other junk messages and visual clutter on Facebook users homepages; [279]; [280]
- Feudalism 2 - online computer game
- Focus Photoeditor - software application for image editing and photo-retouch; [281]
- FontCreator - created by software company High-Logic; software to create own fonts or even edit fonts already installed on PC; [282]
- FontReview - a replacement for Windows 9x/NT's built-in font viewer
- FourCC Changer - tool to alter an AVI file's description code
- FreeCommander - alternative to the standard Windows File Manager; [283]; [284]
- Freevo - an open source HTPC media center; [285]; [286]
- FriendlySeats - a software, that allows up to 8 users to work simultaneously and independently from each other on a single PC. New workstations are organized by connecting additional monitors, keyboards and mice to one base unit; [287]; [288]; [289]
- Fring (VoIP) - VoIP client software; [290]; he:Fring, id:Fring, it:Fring, ja:Fring, nl:Fring, pl:Fring, ru:Fring, sk:Fring and uk:Fring
G–J
- galera cluster - synchronous replication cluster based on MySQL; [291]
- Gentran (IBM Sterling Gentran) EDI Gateway; [292]
- GetSimple CMS Flat-file content management system based on PHP with modern user interface and a relatively big community. Frequently updated. I created an info collection on my user page: User:Jesus_Presley/GetSimple_CMS. Article was deleted in 2010 due to WP:ADS. By now, 2 years later, notability is justified, also neutrality needs will be met. Please comment & help writing. Jesus Presley (talk) 09:02, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
- gmask - image editing software
- G2 Rule Engine Platform - real-time rule engine platform used in a wide variety of fields; [293]
- 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." [294]
- GNU/Linux Distrobution Timeline (see also Linux distribution and File:Linux Distribution Timeline.svg)
- Grammatica (software) - application designed to display stress marks and linguistic information for all words in a Russian text; [295]; targeted at serious Russian learners; SlavFile Summer 2011 ([296] (page 27)); [297]; [298]; SRAS.org June 2011 Newsletter ([299]); SRAS.org language resources ([300])
- Heaventools Software
- History of Bangla computing - 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.[301]
- Horizon QCMS - open source CMS programmed in PHP; [302]; [303]
- IconEdit2 - TrueColor icon editor. Supports 256x256 Vista icons; [304]; [305]; [306]; [307]
- Indigo-rose - software development tools; [308]
- Jinzora - PHP internet jukebox manager
- JobTraQ - web-based task & workflow system; [309]
- Jpeg Resize - tool to resize JPEG images more easily
- JSCAPE MFT Server - platform independent managed file transfer server
- JuggleMaster - program written by Ken Matsuoka and Per Johan Groland, who converted it to C++, which displays an animated juggler juggling balls; [310]
K–L
- 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; [311]; [312]
- Kohana (web framework) - open-source, object-oriented MVC web framework; [313]; [314]
- Konvertor - a file viewer/converter supporting conversion among 2483 3D, image, photo, animation, audio, video and text formats quickly and easily; nominated Epsilon Award 2010
- 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).
- L3DT - large-scale terrain generation software; [315]
- LBackup - backup system aimed at systems administrators; [316]; [317]; [318]; [319]; [320]; [321]; [322]; [323] (mentions Lucid Information Systems, currently key contributor); [324]; [325]; [326]; [327]; [328]
- LBMMPS (Location Based Mobile Multimedia Pusher System)
- lexiCan - lexiCan Knowledge Management Software, commonly called just lexiCan; 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. [329]. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- lightIRC - A popular web-based IRC client written for the Adobe Flash Platform. [330]
- Little Apps - Our aim is to create free, open source, redistributable programs. We license our programs under the GNU General Public License, which means that we will never charge you and it allows (you) the customer to edit the software. One of our noted programs is Little Registry Cleaner. [331]
- Linux Tycoon - Linux Distro Building Simulator; [332]
- Log Analyzer: Trends - website statistics software; nominated for Epsilon Award 2010
- Luakit - highly configurable microbrowser that uses Lua as a configuration language; [333]
- National Instruments Lookout
- LXDM [334] - Lightweight X11 Display Manager, the login etc. part of LXDE
- LPMT http://hv-a.com/lpmt/?page_id=51 - we are working on a free software video tools manual and I found there is no page or mention of this projection software. Given that there will be a task and case study published soon it would be great for there to be a wikipedia page.
M–N
- MacKeeper – published by a company called ZeoBit.
- Mac Data Recovery Guru – product made by www.MacOSXFileRecovery.com
- MainType - font manager and font viewer for Windows; nominated for the Epsilon Award 2010, later it won the fourth place of the award
- MASS-11 - a 1980s character-based document processing system for VAX and PC from Microsystems
- Matali Physics - a cross-platform, advanced 3D physics engine [335]
- Mathematical Programming Language - MPL Modeling System; [336]
- McAfee Total Protection Service - how does it differ from McAfee ViruScan?
- Move player/Move Player - used by Fox on Demand
- MKVToolNix - an open source toolbox for editing .mkv files home page
- MHSVLC Player
- Magnifique - an outdated theme manager for Mac OS X Leopard which may be updated anytime; featured on: [337] and [338]
- MAHASERVER TV
- Musophobia the Particle Painter - particle-based, generative-painting application; developed for iPhone and iPad; featured at SIGGRAPH 2010; abstact can be found at ACM PORTA;L [339]
- Nav4All - satellite navigation software; [340]
- navfree - open-source satellite navigation application for ipad
- Neck Diagrams - a tool to create fretboard diagram; nominated for the Epsilon Award 2010
- Net-C - a multi-platform serverless lan messenger and chat; recognized as a valuable alternative for LAN messengers in forums, web sites, etc.; [341]
- Network Broadcast Sound
- NetworkMiner - open-source network forensics application; [342]62.116.231.10 (talk) 13:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Ninan - server-side Usenet binary downloader and manager; [343]
- Nodebug
- Notes (application) – application created by Apple Inc. for iOS and OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" or later
- Notezilla - an elegant sticky notes software for Windows. It is the new version of Quick Notes Plus
- nuttcp - network performance measurement tool on raw TCP/UDP level [344]
O–P
- ocad - software for creating maps; [http://www.ocad.com
- Octalyzer - music editor for Amiga's Atari 1040STE
- OCP art studio - art package for the 48K spectrum and related models
- OneClick - business application builder; [345]
- OnShare
- Open Colour Standard - [346], [347]; [348]
- OpenGamma - open-source risk- and trading-analytics platform for the financial services industry; [349]; [350]; [351]; [352]; [353]; [354]; [355])
- OpenP2M - file-sharing software; produced by Glauber Magalhães Pires
- Open Linux Router - [356]; has a modular design that gives the user the ability to choose what features that will be implemented
- orocos - the Open RObot COntrol Software project; [357]
- OS/161
- Orange Juice (game company)
- Origo (platform) - open-source and closed-source software development platform [358]
- OW-CCA - a claim of security against chosen ciphertext attack; other claims, such as IND-CCA are already covered; [hthttp://eprint.iacr.org/cgi-bin/print.pl]
- 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; one of the alternatives of the Gentoo package manager portage; [359]
- PaperCut NG - [360]; print and internet monitoring / quota software
- Papervision3D - an ActionScript 3.0 framework built to deal with 3D computer graphics
- ParmisPDF - [361]; software for creating, processing and securing PDF files; both graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line (CLI) versions are available
- path of least astonishment - some kind of software development model or philosophy
- PC Health Software
- PCSP - PSP emulator for windows coded in C++ started by hlide and shadow; [362]
- PCShowBuzz
- PE Explorer - tool to view and edit PE Files; won first place, Epsilon Award 2010
- Phone Support Tools (PST)
- PhotoShare - iPhone application [363]
- PhotoSnack - online photo slideshow maker; [364]; [365]
- Photo Renamer - EXIF renamer that puts photos in chronological order; [366]; [367]
- Phoxo - open-source image and photo editor for MS-Windows; [368]
- Phraseanet - open-source digital-asset management software; [369]
- Picket (software) - a Bugtracker writen in Python over Django
- Pictavo [370] - web-based yearbook, military book, and church directory creation software
- Picture Converter - [371]; image resizing and conversion software
- Pilot running
- PLURK Trends
- Pixelshop - [372]; icon and cursor editing software
- Png Resize - tool to resize PNG images more easily
- podfading
- PollDaddy - online survey and poll tool
- Pop Up Notification - notification methodology employed by software developers to communicate with the computer end user
- Posibolt Software
- PowerPad - [373]; text editor
- Printer's Apprentice - [374]; powerful font manager
- PrintingWorks - [375]; 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; [376]
- Prozilla - a download accelerator for Linux; [377]
- ProxMox Virtual Environment - virtualization; [378]
- PSEmu - [379]
- Pview - [380]
- Pykota - [381]; print monitoring / quota software
Q–R
- qualxserve service agreement
- Qlikview
- Quibids - auctioning website
- Quick Format
- Quick Notes Plus - a desktop note program for Windows which has fewer functions than Notezilla (but is cheaper)
- Quick View Plus - [382]
- Quick Virus Remover - [383]
- Raven DB - [384]
- Raece Conquest
- Rama (software) - mobile application for self-guided historical walking tours; ranked among BBC's "Top Ten New Travel Apps"; created by Crimson Bamboo; would require a note in the disambiguation page
- Rapture3D an Ambisonic OpenAL driver bundled with DiRT 2. There's a first attempt without adequate sources at User:Rfurse/Rapture3D.
- RecentX - tool which lets users quickly open any document, folder, program or bookmark; nominated for Epsilon Award 2010
- Resource Tuner - a tool which lets users view, extract, replace, edit, and delete the embedded resources of executable files: icons, strings, images, sounds, dialogs, menus
- Resource Tuner Console - a command-line tool which enables developers to instantly change different resource types (version numbers, icons, images and strings) in large numbers of compiled 32- and 64-bit EXE or DLL files from the batch files
- ranqit - user-driven top ten lists; [385]
- 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)
- RMAN (Oracle Backup Utility)
- rsnapshot - open-source filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems; [386]
- Rational Functional Tester - IBM product; [387]
- Remindo - SaaS corporate company network; [388]
- RT Se7en Lite
S
- Safarp
- SAI (software) (also known as PaintTool SAI - Digital illustration software; seems to be one of the most popular programs for digital speed painting; previous article was deleted under G11, so it'd probably be a good idea to base the article on reliable, third-party sources to prevent future speedy deletions
- SAIL LABS Technology - automatic speech recognition
- San Andreas Multiplayer - multiplayer modification for the PC version of Rockstar North game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas; [389]
- SANmelody - storage-virtualization software
- Shark007 - a collection of audio and video codecs for Microsoft Windows that enables the operating system and its software to play various audio and video formats generally not supported by the operating system itself; [390]; [391]; [392]
- Scanahand - font generator
- ScanQuix - standard scanning software for the Amiga computer; www.scanquix.com
- 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)
- Schedule Deluxe - The most known Android School and Study Timetable App; [393]
- Screenmate or Screen mate - type of programs/applications that shows animation(s) of character(s) or object(s) involved in various activities. Examples: Neko, XPenguins, Xsnow/Snow for Windows, Hanami, AutumnLeaves, Stray Sheep The Screen Mate (also known as Scmpoo, eSheep, Screen Mate Poo), FaFa Cat/Favour Cat/Silver Cat, etc.
- ScreenScenes - software package with screensavers that includes Claria adware
- SeatID - a social seating solution that allows airline passengers to choose a seat mate based on their social network profiles; [394]
- SecDoK - unknown
- Selective display - option in the Emacs text editor; [395]
- Sentinel System Driver - piece of software that runs on Windows XP
- ServletExec
- SESAM/SQL-Server - relational database system from Fujitsu; [396]
- 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
- Silex_RIA - open-source web application; lets one produce Flash websites/web applications/CD-R/points of sell/... without Flash and without programming skills; has a plugin system to change the framework behaviour with javascript, ActionScript2, ActionScript3, php and haXe; [397]; [398]
- smartctl - [399] - control/monitor utility for S.M.A.R.T. in UNIX
- Smart Diary Suite - completely customizable, personal information solution; nominated for Epsilon Award 2010
- SmartStartMenu - [400]; an application launcher for WINDOWS
- smilez - tab add-on for [[AOL Instant Messenger; can be found on aim ad hack site
- SMTT (Small Monitor Test Tool) - display test tool; developed by Thomas Thiemann offers a high-precision test for Display lag (aka display input lag) and a brief test for 10-bit colour depth output; [401]
- SnackTools - a suite of online apps that help Internet users create rich media content (banners, photo slideshows, etc.) [402]; [403]; [404]; [405]
- snoop filter - [406]
- Socialbox - Facebook's IM Client
- SOLVATE InfoTech
- Softsaurus
- Software of Unknown Pedigree - alternative to COTS software where origin is unknown / documentation not available for verification purposes
- SOHO Mail Extension for Google Chrome - a free plugin extension and installable web application for the Google Chrome operating system and web browser; nominated Epsilon Award 2010; please create the redirect page SOHO Mail to the article when the article gets created
- Source Navigator
- Sopcast - program that will enable you to watch live video streams using Bittorrent technology
- SpamFilter ISP - software created by LogSat Software ([407]) in August 2002; used by companies and governments to block spam emails before they enter their networks; according to CNET ([408]) there are more than 111,000 downloads for it to-date from that download site alone
- SpAsm
- Spectrum (software) - XMPP multiprotocol gateway based on libpurlpe; [409]
- Spold
- Spotie - first social network for events; [410]; [411]; [412]; [413]; [414]
- SpriteWorld - Mac OS/Mac OS X game creation SDK
- SProbe
- SQLiteTool - SQLite database client
- Spyware Terminator
- StackApplet - an application indicator for Linux
- Stampede Linux
- StarTron a computer game; [415], uses registered TCP port 1057 [416]
- StaxRip — free video converter
- Stikipad
- Stoffi Music Player - free and open music player for Windows 7 that streams from YouTube and has a focus on native design; [417]
- SynaptiCAD - a VHDL and waveform simulation program
- 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; [418]
- Summarize (software) (OS X service utility)
- Summation (computer software) – principal competitor to Concordance®
- SurveyEngine - human-decision modeling software
- Synchronization Primitive - something to do with threads and parallel processes
T-V
- TalkAndWrite An online tutoring tool.A Skype whiteboard. Server freeHomepage
- Taskpad
- tEABAG_3D - a CAPTCHA developed by OCR Research Team
- TeamTalk - a VOIP conferencing tool; [419]
- TeutonPE - custom BootCD based on OpenSource BartPE Plugins and a minimalistic GUI that comes from *nix; teutonpe.de; [420]
- TGB Dual - a game boy emulator
- ThinkVantage
- ThreatFire
- Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
- Tversity
- TLSF Allocator TLSF (Two-Level Segregate Fit) allocator - [421]
- Toad's Tool 64 - a level editor for Super Mario 64 created by VL-Tone
- TimeSnapper
- Tixati - a Linux and Windows torrent client with a highly customizable interface and a diverse but focused feature set
- torrentprivacy.com - an online anonymous proxy service for torrent downloading, using custom configured U-Torrent client
- Trace Modeler - a program dealing with sequence diagrams; nominated for Epsilon Award 2010
- 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
- T-Splines - used in CAD programs to create previously impossible freeform, organic, watertight designs; a plug in for Autodesk Maya and Rhinoceros 3D; [422]; [423];[424] (page 17); [425] (page 92); [426]; [427]; [428]; [429]; [430]
- Trumpet (IRC client)) - DOS IRC client
- Turtle Tracks (Logo) - the Logo interpreter
- Tux Commander - file manager on linux; [431]
- Twubs - Twitter topic hubs and event management software
- 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; [432]
- Unblocker - a software that unblocks deleting or modifying files in a computer's system which normally only the system itself can do
- Unified information systems
- Unified Archive - email archiving software solution from ZL Technologies
- Urban Turtle - agile development/scrum tool; [433]
- Video.X driver - the file included from Mac-on-Linux ([434]) and PearPC ([435])
- VAJLEBKA System - specially designed cascade captcha guard for php pages
- VAX Floating Point Format (Including VAX D, VAX G, and VAX F formats)
- Versato.exe
- vendavo - [436]
- Video titling - software list that will title videos
- Virtual Peer Programming (Something being pioneered in Jbuilder 2006)
- Visual Autorun [437] - CD Menu and slideshow software
- Visual Page - by Symantec - Abandoned HTML WYSIWYG editor
- VirtuaScore - a line of Mac sports scoreboard applications from BlackwoodApps
- VQC1 and VQC2 - video/audio codecs
- Viero - Clear Channels prg\ogram for managing commercials; [438]
- vizrea - [439]
W-Z
- 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)
- Webplanner - online collaborative project management software from Experience In Software, Inc., makers of Project KickStart; [440]; [441]
- Webpublishing System - program or system that allows you to apply your content to the web. i.e., 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) - [442]
- Whited00r - independent free-moded software update for iPhone and iPod Touch; [443]
- WIKIWYG
- Winchester OS - I remember we had this at school running on the 186; 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
- Windows Embedded Studio - set of development tools used for building Windows XP embedded and Windows Embedded Standard OS images; consists of tools like Target Analyzer, Target Designer, Component Designer and Component Database Manager
- Windows Presentation Foundation Everywher (WPF/E)
- WinSoft Software
- WisBar task management software for pocket PC
- Wolverine (offline mail reader) (offline mail reader)
- Writing With Symbols 2000 (WWS2000) - program that helps children with severe learning difficulties
- X Video Driver
- XDP (PDF files)
- Xibo (software) - open-source digital signage software; [444]
- XLiveCD - [445]
- XPde - desktop environment
- XPRESS - optimization software; [446]
- YATE (Yet Another Telephony Engine) - User:Diana_cionoiu/YATE_Yet_another_telephony_engine
- Zelda Classic - software for making games similar to Zelda 1; created by Armageddon Games; [447]; [448]
- ZynOS - a ZyXEL router operating system
- Zzaph
Software engineering
- Acceptance criteria
- application signatures
- Arthur van Hoff
- B-method
- 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 [449]
- Quality in business systems
- CDM Rule Frame Oracle Custom Development Method (CDM)[450] - ...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.
- Comparison of open source licenses as child of Open source
- Conceptual level design
- Confessional debugging
- Dale Luck
- Dead Letter Queue
- Decessor
- Design for diversity - Google; [451]
- 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
- Extreme binning (Data deduplication)
- Fault injection and robustness testing ?? fault injection and robustness testing
- Feaping creaturism - spoonerism of "creaping featurism"
- Five State Model for Processes
- Future Event List
- Generic software
- Graph index - An index of frequent features of a graph database (e.g., gIndex)
- Hardware/software co-design [452], exploiting the integrated design of hardware and software created in parallel.
- 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
- Junior Software Engineer
- 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
- Noah Friedman
- Object Action Interface model (OAI)
- Object Points
- 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
- Ripple Analysis
- Robert Lafore
- Real-Time Process Algebra (RTPA); [453]
- Semantic Purity
- Source code extensions
- Software Design Engineer
- Subsystem model
- Tami Friedman
- Tech Lead
- Tech Consultant
- Thomas Edmund Turner
- Visual environment full explanation/benefits
- XKERMIT - a version of Kermit which runs on X-Windows
Storage
- DVD +R/-R comparison WP is long overdue for an article on this. They seem to have their own seperate pages now, which are biased to each format.--207.216.196.118 (talk) 19:25, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- Punctured Stripe in RAID Arrays - Topic surrounding a specific type of fault that can occur to RAID arrays causing them to fail.
- 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.
- TapeAlert - A standard for tapes, autochangers, libraries used for diagnostics and health (see tapealert.org)
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; [454]
- contesters to APNG/MNG[455]:
- mPNG (aNIM or anIM chunk)
- PNG in GIF (“PIG”)
- RGBA in GIF
- Creative Voice file (.voc) - "a proprietary audio file format developed by Creative Labs for use by their Soundblaster sound cards"
- Data Definition Specification
- K3G - LG Electronics Portable Video file format, how to convert it to .avi, apps (such as Gom) which support it; a format for video on mobile phones sold in South Korea; ko:K3G
- MD4 (file format) - Quake file format for models; [456]
- NDIF - an early Mac OS Disk Image file format
- VR8 - Roland proprietary file format used with BOSS BR-1600CD, how to convert it to .wav
- SBPAX - an exchange format for quantitative systems biology data
- Sound Designer II - an audio/music file format by Digidesign
- XBP (File Format) - a package file format used in some original Xbox games to pack multiple WMA files into one
Databases
- Eloquera Database - [457], article about Eloquera Database - a native object database for .NET environments; and Eloquera Cloud based on Eloquera Enterprise Database.
- List of serverless database management systems -- there should be a page listing database management systems that don't use a server-client model such as Sqlite.
Theory and theorem
- Adversary Structure: Distributed Protocols on General Hybrid Adversary Structures and as linked to on Secure multi-party computation
- Agricultural knowledge system in SSM[verify notability]
- Atlantic City algorithm - a topic in randomized complexity theory, sibling to Monte Carlo algorithm and Las Vegas algorithm
- Bathymetric Attributed Grid
- 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 CiteSeerx: 10.1.1.49.3252 Nikolaibelkin (talk) 05:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
- Business System Domain
- Cell probe complexity - See [458]
- 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 [459] and [460]
- 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)
- Explicit polynomial - Historical usage of the term; one paper briefly describes it as: "A polynomial p (or more accurately, a sequence $(p_n)_n \in \N $ of n-variate polynomials) is considered explicit if it is of degree polynomial in n, and there is a polynomial time Turing machine that when specified a monomial, outputs its coefficient in p."
- Gamma-Neighborhood Graph - parametric generalisation of beta skeleton and convex hull.
- GCSL - Growing context-sensitive languages
- Generalized recursion theory Recursion theory for computations that are not necessarily finite, e.g., hyperarithmetical theory
- 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, A Domain-Theoretic Approach to Computability on the Real Line CiteSeerx: 10.1.1.39.7467, 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: [461]
- Optic-based quantum computers
- Parametric Diagrams - The parametric diagram represents constraints on system property values such as performance, reliability, and mass properties, and serves as a means to integrate the specification and design models with engineering analysis models [[462]]
- Point Splatting as it relates to surface tracking and visualization and how it differs from marching cube
- Pure Lisp/Pure LISP - See [463] and [464]
- Reverse Shannon theorem - the classical RS theorem in context is referenced e.g. here: [465]
- Row polymorphism
- Software Diverity
- Sparse maps - [http://goog-sparsehash.sourceforge.net
- Symbol (data) - currently redirects to Symbol rate, but this is incorrect, the intended sense of Symbol (data) can be seen in the articles on various forms of Code
- Timmothy Stowe[verify notability]
- Transdichotomous RAM - [466]
- WYSIWYN - 'What You See Is What You Need' theory of interface design
Other uncategorized computer-science terms
- IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing An annual conference that usually consists of academics submitting papers regarding P2P computing.
- 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
- Drivers download sites A list of legitimate drivers download websites. for instance, is "nodevice.com" a legitimate site or just another scam ? Since so many hardware vendors are no longer providing proper driver support, more and more fake drivers download sites are cropping up. which ones are legitimate ?
- File and Registry Virtualization – Microsoft Windows security feature.
- heap bag – probably related to heap (data structure) or to heap (dynamic memory allocation); not sure which?
- Heroglyph (Plug-in about Video titling for ProDAD, Edius and other DVD software)
- Insanely Great (A phrase attributed to Steve Jobs to describe the Macintosh and/or Macintosh software, used by him in his Playboy interview in 1987 and perhaps earlier)
- Internet Tweeter (A term used to classify, recognize, and manage a type of blog,forum, or netgroup vandal)
- ISO/IEC 24711 (Method for the determination of ink cartridge yield for color inkjet printers and multi-function printers)
- List of Compose Key combinations - comprehensive lists of Compose Key combinations for each operating system. Mac 10.4 list started at Talk:Compose_key.
- Microsoft Cibai (Microsoft CIBAI; Class Invariants by Abstract Interpretation) - [467]
- Multimedia application CD-ROM (or Multimedia CD-ROM application?) - referring to the commercial CD-ROM "multimedia titles" of the 1990s software market; most of them were encyclopedic or had the form of documentary; notable titles include Encarta, Compton's Encyclopedia and Microsoft Cinemania; their specific nature as a "genre" of software is not covered in available articles such as multimedia or education software; [468]; [469][470]; [471]
- Microsoft_Windows-like - for upcoming ReactOS and its clones
- nested paging - 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
- PCMEF (Presantation 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
- Situated automata - paradigm by Rosenschein and Kaelbling where an angent specification is compiled down to a digital machine
- Starfield simulation - popular screen saver for old Windows
- Sun Academic Initiative - academic program from Sun Some; [472]
- TCTT.DLL[importance?]
- Theorem proving tactics - used for interactive theorem proving
- timed automata - timing extensions to petri nets, especially finite state machines
- Topo computer
- VAX floating point numbers, D-floating point, F-floating point, G-floating point
- Veiled, simple browser-based Darknet (file sharing) tool [473]; 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
- Zalgo text - Strange font effect resembling Mojibake that I don't understand and can't find much information about, :-) - Something here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6579844/how-does-zalgo-text-work
- Computer system failure - a definition of the term with examples; [474]; see software bug
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These items were moved from Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences:
- 5View capture file
- Quasi the Robot
- ASM diagram - graphical modeling language describing discrete state machines; used in digital circuit design
- CMX RTOS - basic concepts on the CMX RTOS
- directory structure in operating systems
- Domain Name Portfolio - open-source project; [475][verify notability]
- GVCP (GigE Vision Control Protocol) - [476] - protocol and deserves an article as much as HTTP or FTP
- Harwell-Boeing Exchange Format - [477]
- Library of Parameterized Modules (LPM) - VHDL/Verilog modules for basic digital logic functions (e.g., decoders, encoders, FSMs) supplied by vendors for their target PDL
- Model 2 Emulator - emulator used to emulate arcade games that ran on SEGA Model 2/2a/2b and 2c hardware
- Nath323 - IPtables module supporting NAT for H.323 protocols
- reward-punishment algorithm
- Robert Noguchi]] - former electrical engineer at Digital Equipment; patent holder of the several patents related to hard disk drives; various honors from Western Digital and Seagate; graduate of Drexel University
- Virut
- WindieTM - CFD code for wind engineering; coupling with mesoscale models, advanced forest canopy modelling, with vertical tree description and horizontal interpolations, capturing of thermal effects through full solution of temperature equation, fed by mesoscale data, Buoyancy and Coriolis effects included; [478]; [479]; [480]
- Master Area Reference File
Uncategorized terms requiring cleanup
The following terms have been listed as "uncategorized" for an extended period, and attempts to categorize using Google and other search methods have failed. If you are familiar with a term, please move it to the appropriate category and add a brief description.
- PM Quadtree (These are Polygon Map Quadtrees which are spatial, or GIS mapping structures.
- EncuentroLinux - The Chilian Linux Conference [481]