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The IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) addresses key topics and issues related to computer communications, with emphasis on traffic management and protocols for both wired and wireless networks. [1] The first INFOCOM conference took place in the United States in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1982.
[7] In 1983, NAVA changed names to the International Communications Industries Association (ICIA). [8] In 2005, ICIA changed names again to InfoComm International (or, more commonly, InfoComm). [9] In 2017, InfoComm International again changed its name to the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association, or AVIXA. [10]
Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth was based on Quarterstaff, a game released by Simulated Environment Systems in 1987. [1] Simulated Environment Systems designed the game to support add-on modularity, and planned to create a town module to serve as a hub from which to send the characters of Quarterstaff on other adventures, retaining their inventories and experience.
The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games.Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files or Z-code files) and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform.
A "Don't Panic!" badge, shipped with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984). A feelie is a physical item included to supplement a video game.Likely deriving their name from the fictional media in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, feelies were popularized by the American video game company Infocom in the 1980s and subsequently adopted by such companies as Origin Systems and ...
The term Infocommunications, or in short form, Infocom(s) or Infocomm(s) first emerged in the beginning of eighties at scientific conferences and then was gradually adopted in the 1990s by the players of telecommunications sector, including manufacturers, service providers, regulatory authorities and international organizations to clearly express their participation in the convergence process ...
History of the ICC conference Year City Country Date 2027: Washington, D.C. United States: 30 May–3 June 2026: Glasgow: United Kingdom: 24-28 May 2025: Montreal
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction video game based on the comedic science fiction series of the same name.It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom's Steve Meretzky, and it was first released in 1984 for the Apple II, Mac, Commodore 64, CP/M, MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari 8-bit computers, and Atari ST.