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  2. Institution (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    The notion of institution was created by Joseph Goguen and Rod Burstall in the late 1970s, in order to deal with the "population explosion among the logical systems used in computer science". The notion attempts to "formalize the informal" concept of logical system.

  3. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    NFS—Network File System; NGL—aNGeL; NGSCB—Next-Generation Secure Computing Base; NI—National Instruments; NIC—Network Interface Controller or Network Interface Card; NIM—No Internal Message; NIO—Non-blocking I/O; NIST—National Institute of Standards and Technology; NLE—Non-Linear Editing system; NLP—Natural Language Processing

  4. List of information technology initialisms - Wikipedia

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    Security, application layer Access control list, Cisco overview: ADSL: Asymmetric digital subscriber line Telecom ITU-T G.992.5 Annex M, for example AES: Advanced Encryption Standard Security U.S. FIPS PUB 197: ANSI: American National Standards Institute Organization ANSI: API: Application Programming Interface Software API: ARP: Address ...

  5. Computer network - Wikipedia

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    An internetwork is the connection of multiple different types of computer networks to form a single computer network using higher-layer network protocols and connecting them together using routers. The Internet is the largest example of internetwork. It is a global system of interconnected governmental, academic, corporate, public, and private ...

  6. IT infrastructure - Wikipedia

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    A server is a physical component to IT Infrastructure.. Information technology infrastructure is defined broadly as a set of information technology (IT) components that are the foundation of an IT service; typically physical components (computer and networking hardware and facilities), but also various software and network components.

  7. Information system - Wikipedia

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    A computer(-based) information system is essentially an IS using computer technology to carry out some or all of its planned tasks. The basic components of computer-based information systems are: Hardware are the devices like the monitor, processor, printer, and keyboard, all of which work together to accept, process, show data, and information.

  8. Network architecture - Wikipedia

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    Network architecture is the design of a computer network. It is a framework for the specification of a network's physical components and their functional organization and configuration, its operational principles and procedures, as well as communication protocols used.

  9. Distributed computing - Wikipedia

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    A Boolean circuit can be seen as a computer network: each gate is a computer that runs an extremely simple computer program. Similarly, a sorting network can be seen as a computer network: each comparator is a computer. Distributed algorithms in message-passing model. The algorithm designer only chooses the computer program.