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  2. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    CS—Computer Science; CSE—Computer science and engineering; CSI—Common System Interface; CSM—Compatibility support module; CSMA/CD—Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection; CSP—Cloud service provider; CSP—Communicating sequential processes; CSRF—Cross-site request forgery; CSS—Cascading style sheets; CSS—Content ...

  3. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...

  4. Unified process - Wikipedia

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    The unified software development process or unified process is an iterative and incremental software development process framework. The best-known and extensively documented refinement of the unified process is the rational unified process (RUP).

  5. Fabric computing - Wikipedia

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    While the term has been in use since the mid to late 1990s [2] the growth of cloud computing and Cisco's evangelism of unified data center fabrics followed by unified computing (an evolutionary data center architecture whereby blade servers are integrated or unified with supporting network and storage infrastructure) starting March 2009 has renewed interest in the technology.

  6. Unified interoperability - Wikipedia

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    Computer operating systems are a prime example of interoperability, wherein several programs from different vendors are able to co-exist and, in many cases, exchange data in a meaningful way. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] An operating system is also “unified” in the sense that it presents the user with a common, easy to understand computer interface for ...

  7. Computing education - Wikipedia

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    Initially, only colleges and universities offered computer programming courses, but as time went on, high schools and even middle schools implemented computer science programs. [ 12 ] In comparison to science education and mathematics education , computer science (CS) education is a much younger field. [ 13 ]

  8. Uniform memory access - Wikipedia

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    Uniform memory access (UMA) is a shared memory architecture used in parallel computers.All the processors in the UMA model share the physical memory uniformly. In an UMA architecture, access time to a memory location is independent of which processor makes the request or which memory chip contains the transferred data.

  9. Reservation station - Wikipedia

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    Reservation station as part of Intel's Nehalem microarchitecture. A unified reservation station, also known as unified scheduler, is a decentralized feature of the microarchitecture of a CPU that allows for register renaming, and is used by the Tomasulo algorithm for dynamic instruction scheduling.