Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and the science and technology of mathematical calculations. Today, "computing" means using computers and other computing machines. It includes their operation and usage, the electrical processes carried out within the computing hardware itself, and the theoretical concepts governing them (computer science).
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See also: List of programmers, List of computing people, List of computer scientists, List of basic computer science topics, List of terms relating to algorithms and data structures.
Topics on computing include:
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1.TR.6 – 100BaseFX – 100BaseTX – 100BaseT – 100BaseVG – 100VG-AnyLAN – 10base2 – 10base5 – 10baseT – 120 reset – 16-bit – 16-bit application – 16550 UART – 1NF – 1TBS –
2.PAK – 20-GATE – 20-GATE – 28-bit – 2B1D – 2B1Q – 2D – 2NF –
3-tier (computing) – 32-bit application – 32-bit – 320xx microprocessor – 320xx – 386BSD – 386SPART.PAR – 3Com Corporation – 3DO – 3D computer graphics – 3GL – 3NF – 3Station –
4.2BSD – 404 error – 431A – 473L system – 486SX – 4GL – 4NF –
51-FORTH – 56 kbit/s line – 5ESS switch – 5NF – 5th Glove –
6.001 – 64-bit – 680x0 – 6x86 –
8-bit clean – 8.3 filename – 80x86 – 82430FX – 82430HX – 82430MX – 82430VX – 8514 (display standard) – 8514-A – 88open – 8N1 – 8x86 –
90-90 Rule – 9PAC
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ABC ALGOL – ABLE – ABSET – ABSYS – Accent – Acceptance, Test Or Launch Language – Accessible Computing – Ada – Addressing mode – AIM alliance – AirPort – AIX – Alan – ALGOL – Algorithm – AltiVec – Amdahl's law – America Online – Amiga – AmigaE – Analysis of algorithms – AOL – APL – Apple Computer – Apple II – Apple Macintosh – AppleScript – Array programming – Arithmetic and logical unit – ASCII – Active Server Pages – ASP.NET – Assembly language – Atari – Atlas Autocode – AutoLISP – Automaton – AWK –
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B – Backus–Naur form – Basic Rate Interface (2B+D)-- BASIC – Basic Object System – Batch job – BCPL – Befunge – BeOS – Berkeley Software Distribution – BETA – Big Mac – Big O notation – Binary symmetric channel – Binary Synchronous Transmission – Binary numeral system – Bit – BLISS – Blue – Blu-ray Disc – Blue screen of death – Bourne shell (sh) Bourne-Again shell (bash) Brainfuck – Btrieve – Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic – Business Computing –
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C++ – C# – C – Cache – Canonical LR parser – Cat (Unix) – CD-ROM – Central processing unit – Chimera – Chomsky normal form – CIH virus – Classic Mac OS – COBOL – Cocoa (software) – Code and fix – Code Red worm – ColdFusion – Colouring algorithm – COMAL – Comm (Unix) – Command line interface – Command line interpreter – COMMAND.COM – Commercial at (computing) – Commodore 1541 – Commodore 1581 – Commodore 64 – Commodore Amiga – Common logarithm – Common Unix Printing System – Compact disc – Compiler – Computability theory – Computational complexity theory – Computation – Computer-aided design – Computer-aided manufacturing – Computer architecture – Computer cluster – Computer hardware – Computer network – Computer numbering formats – Computer programming – Computer science – Computer security – Computer software – Computer system – Computer – Computing – Context-free grammar – Context-sensitive grammar – Context-sensitive language – Control flow – Control store – Control unit – CORAL66 – CP/M operating system – CPL – Cracking (software) – Cracking (passwords) – Cryptanalysis – Cryptography – Cybersquatting – CYK algorithm – Cyrix 6x86 –
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D – Data compression – Database normalization – Decidable set – Deep Blue – Desktop environment – Desktop publishing – Deterministic finite automaton – Dialer - DIBOL – Diff – Digital camera – DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) – Digital signal processing – Digital visual interface – Direct manipulation interface – Disk storage – Distance transform – Distance map – Distance field – DVD – DVI (TeX) – Dvorak Simplified Keyboard – Dylan –
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Earth Simulator – EBCDIC – ECMAScript (a.k.a. JavaScript) – Electronic data processing (EDP) – Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) – ENIAC – Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) – Entscheidungsproblem – Equality (relational operator) – Erlang – Enterprise resource planning (ERP) – ES EVM – Ethernet – Euclidean algorithm – Euphoria – Exploit (computer science) –
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Federated Naming Service – Final Cut Pro – Finite state automaton – FireWire – First-generation language – Floating point unit – Floppy disk – Formal language – Forth – Fortran – Fourth-generation language – Fragmentation – Free On-line Dictionary of Computing – Free Software Foundation – Free software movement – Free software – Freescale 68HC11 – Freeware – Function-level programming – Functional programming –
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G4 – G5 – GEM – General Algebraic Modeling System – Genie – GNU - GNU bison – Gnutella – Godiva – Graphical user interface – Graphics Device Interface – Greibach normal form – G.hn –
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hack (technology slang) – Hacker (computer security) - Hacker (hobbyist) - Hacker (programmer subculture) – Hacker (term) - Halting problem – Hard Drive – Haskell – HD DVD History of computing – History of computing hardware – History of Microsoft Windows – History of operating systems – History of the graphical user interface – Hitachi 6309 – Home computer – Hugo – Human-computer interaction –
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IA-32 – IA-64 – IBM PC – Interactive computation - IBM – iBook – iCab – iCal – Icon – iDVD – IEEE 802.2 – IEEE 802.3 – IEEE floating-point standard – iMac – image processing – iMovie – Inform – Instruction register – Intel 8008 – Intel 80186 – Intel 80188 – Intel 80386 – Intel 80486SX – Intel 80486 – Intel 8048 – Intel 8051 – Intel 8080 – Intel 8086 – Intel 80x86 – Intel – INTERCAL – International Electrotechnical Commission – Internet Explorer – Internet – iPhoto – iPod – iResQ - iSync – iTunes –
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J – Java Platform, Enterprise Edition – Java Platform, Micro Edition – Java Platform, Standard Edition – Java API – Java – Java Virtual Machine – JavaScript – JPEG –
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K&R – KDE – Kid – Kilobyte – Kleene star – Klez – KRYPTON –
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LALR parser – Lambda calculus – Lasso – LaTeX – Leet – Legal aspects of computing – Lex – Limbo – Linked list – Linux – Lisp – List of coding terms – List of computing terms that end in "ware" – List of IBM products – List of information technology management topics – List of Intel microprocessors – List of programming languages – List of operating systems – List of Soviet computer systems – LL parser – Logical programming – Logo – Lotus 1-2-3 – LR parser – Lua – Lynx language – Lynx browser
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m4 – macOS Server – macOS – MAD – Mainframe computer – Malware - Mary – Mealy machine – Megabyte – Melissa worm Mercury – Mesa – Microcode – Microprocessor – Microprogram – Microsequencer – Microsoft Windows – Microsoft – Miranda – ML – MMC – MMU – MMX – Mobile Trin – Modula – MOO – Moore's Law – Moore machine – Morris worm – MOS Technologies 6501 – MOS Technologies 6502 – MOS Technologies 650x – MOS Technologies 6510 – Motorola 68000 – Motorola 6800 – Motorola 68020 – Motorola 68030 – Motorola 68040 – Motorola 68060 – Motorola 6809 – Motorola 680x0 – Motorola 68LC040 – Motorola 88000 – Mozilla – MPEG – MS-DOS – Multics – Multiprocessing – MUMPS
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.NET – NetBSD – Netlib – Netscape Navigator – NeXT – Nial – Nybble – Ninety-Ninety Rule – Non-Uniform Memory Access – Nondeterministic finite automaton
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Oberon – Objective-C – object – OCaml – occam – OmniWeb – One True Brace Style – OpenBSD – OpenOffice.org – Open source – Open Source Initiative – Opera (web browser) – Operating system advocacy – Operating system –
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PA-RISC – Page description language – Pancake sorting – Parallax Propeller – Parallel computing – Parser (language) – Parsing (technique) – Partial function – Pascal – PDP – Peer-to-peer network – Perl – Personal computer – PHP – PILOT – PL/I – Pointer – Poplog – Portable Document Format (PDF) – Poser – PostScript – PowerBook – PowerPC – Prefix grammar – Preprocessor – Primitive recursive function – Programming language – Prolog – PSPACE-complete – Pulse code modulation (PCM) – Pushdown automaton – Python –
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QuarkXPress – QuickTime – QWERTY –
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Ram disk – RAM (random access memory) – Random access – Rascal – Ratfor – RCA 1802 – Read only memory (ROM) – REBOL – Recovery-oriented computing – Recursive descent parser – Recursion (computer science) – Recursive set – Recursively enumerable language – Recursively enumerable set – Reference (computer science) – Referential transparency – Register – Regular expression – Regular grammar – Regular language – RPG – Retrocomputing – REXX – RFC – RISC – RS/6000 – Ruby –
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Safari (web browser) – SAIL – Script kiddie – Scripting language – SCSI – Second-generation programming language – Secure Sockets Layer – sed – Self (or SELF) – Semaphore (programming) – Sequential access – SETL – Shareware – Shell script – Shellcode – SIMD – Simula – Sircam – Slide rule – SLIP – SLR parser – Smalltalk – Server Message Block – SMBus – SMIL (computer) – Smiley – SNOBOL – Software engineering – SONET – Space-cadet keyboard – SPARC International – Specialist computer – SPITBOL – SQL – SQL slammer worm – SR – SSL – Service-oriented architecture - S/SL – Stale pointer bug – Standard ML (or SML) Stateless server – Structured programming – Subject-oriented programming – subnetwork – Supercomputer – Swap space – Symbolic mathematics – Symlink – Symmetric multiprocessing – Syntactic sugar – SyQuest Technology – SYSKEY – Systemboard – System programming language – IBM System R –
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TADS – Tcl – teco – Text editor – TeX – Third generation language – Timeline of computing 1950–1979 – Timeline of computing 1980–1989 – Timeline of computing 1990–1999 – Timeline of computing hardware 2400 BC–1949 – Timeline of computing – Tk – TPU – Trac – Transparency (computing) – Trin II – Trin VX – Turing machine – Turing – 2B1Q –
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UAT – Unicode – Unicon – Unix – Unix shell – UNIX System V – UnLambda – USB – Unreachable memory –
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Var'aq – VAX – VBScript – Vector processor – Ventura Publisher – Very-large-scale integration – Video editing – Virtual Memory System – Virtual memory – Visual Basic – Visual FoxPro – Von Neumann architecture –
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-ware – Web browser – Western Design Center – Western Design Center 65C02 – Western Design Center 65816 – Whitespace – wiki – window manager – Windows 1.0 – Windows 2000 – Windows 95 – Windows Me – Windows NT – Windows XP – Word processor – World wide web – WYSIWYG –
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X Window System – X86 – X-Mouse –
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Yacc – YaST – Yet Another – Yorick –
Z
Z notation – Z shell – Zilog Z80 – Zooming User Interface – ZX80 – ZX81 – ZX Spectrum