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  Internet Service Pros - Glossay
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  List of fictional computers - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Computers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies and in other forms of media.
CABAL (Computer Assisted Bio-engineered Artificial Life-form) the computer of Nod in Westwood's Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun, Command and Conquer: Renegade, and, by implication, Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn.
See the List of fictional robots and androids for all fictional computers which are described as existing in a mobile or humanlike form.
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 ipedia.com: List of fictional computers Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Zen, the somewhat aloof computer of the Liberator in Blake's 7.
CABAL (Computer Assisted Bio-engineered Artificial Life-form) the computer of Nod in Westwood's Command and Conquer 3.
Skynet, the malevolent fictional world-AI of The Terminator and its sequels.
www.ipedia.com /list_of_fictional_computers.html   (1061 words)

  
  Artificial intelligence - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
AI systems are now in routine use in economics, medicine, engineering and the military, as well as being built into many common home computer software applications, traditional strategy games like computer chess and other video games.
Evolutionary computation: applies biologically inspired concepts such as populations, mutation and survival of the fittest to generate increasingly better solutions to the problem.
In science fiction AI — almost always strong AI — is commonly portrayed as an upcoming power trying to overthrow human authority as in HAL 9000, Skynet, Colossus and The Matrix or as service humanoids like C-3PO, Data, KITT and KARR, the Bicentennial Man, the Mechas in A.I. or Sonny in I, Robot.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/AI   (1815 words)

  
 .:Computer Defense:. » Top 59 Influencers in IT Security (2007)
I've already mentioned this list once and said I disagreed with a good chunk of it...
These are people who have blogs that we feel are worth reading (because we learn something when we do or, at the very least, they are informative), developers of software that drives security, and individuals who have earned a name for themselves with interesting research and are still around with something informative to say.
I'm numbering this list, not to signify importance but to make this distinction...
www.computerdefense.org /?p=291   (568 words)

  
 List of fictional computers
HAL 9000, in 2001: A Space Odyssey (and sequels) in which the computer (HAL) starts murdering the crew when it discovers that they plan to disconnect its higher brain functions because of what they believe to be a problem.
XERXES The ship computer system which is under the control of the annelids in the computer game System Shock 2.
See separate article for all fictional computers which are described as existing in in a mobile or humanlike form:- List of fictional robots and androids
www.askfactmaster.com /List_of_fictional_computers   (1189 words)

  
 Artificial intelligence - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although AI has a strong science fiction connotation, it forms a vital branch of computer science, dealing with intelligent behavior, learning and adaptation in machines.
In science fiction AI is commonly portrayed as an upcoming power trying to overthrow human authority as in HAL 9000, Skynet, Colossus and The Matrix or as service humanoids like C-3PO, Data, the Bicentennial Man, the Mechas in A.I. or Sonny in I, Robot.
The BBC television series Blake's 7 featured a number of intelligent computers, including Zen (Blake's 7), the controlling computer of the starship Liberator (Blake's 7); Orac, a highly advanced supercomputer in a portable perspex case that had the ability to reason and even to predict the future; and Slave, the computer on the starship Scorpio.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Artificial_Intelligence   (1086 words)

  
 History of Calculators, Computers, and Internet
To fully understand and appreciate the impact computers have on our lives and promises they hold for the future, it is important to understand their evolution.
This 10th anniversary issue of Creative Computing contains a large number of articles that are reflective on the previous 10 year's progress in the field of computers in education.
This collection of materials relating to the history of computing is provided courtesy of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (CDA-9312611).
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 List of reference tables - Gurupedia
This is a list of reference tables, similar to the collection of reference tables found at the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
List of mean centers of U.S. population during the 20th century
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 AI - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However despite the hype, excitment about Bayesian AI is perhaps now fading again as successful Bayesian models have only appeared for tiny statistical tasks (such as finding principal components probabilistically) and appear to be intractable for general perception and decision making.
A notable exception is Mike in Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: a supercomputer that becomes aware and aids in a local revolution.
Some fiction writers, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, have also speculated that the advent of strong AI is likely to cause abrupt and dramatic societal change.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=AI   (1967 words)

  
 AI
Early computer design was driven mainly by the complex mathematics needed to target weapons accurately, with analog feedback devices inspiring an ideal of cybernetics.
The failure of the work funded at the time to produce immediate results, despite the grandiose promises of some AI practitioners, led to correspondingly large cutbacks in funding by government agencies in the late 1980s, leading to a general downturn in activity in the field known as AI winter.
Computer vision systems are used in many industrial applications ranging from hardware verification to security systems.
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 Computer naming schemes Post on IMEEM   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Must be the name of a fictional computer from a book or movie.
The computer must have no physical body or humanlike avatar associated with it.
Those are some that this list missed, and really, this is the list you probably need.
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 List of fictional computers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Library Computer, from Star Trek, the otherwise unnamed computer of the Starship Enterprise.
KITT fictional computer built into a car from the television show Knight Rider.
CABAL (Computer Assisted Bio-engineered Artificial Life-form) the computer of Nod in Westwood's Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun, Command and Conquer: Renegade, and, by implication, Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_computers   (4106 words)

  
 List of fictional computers
It is interesting to note that while science fiction writers have anticipated many of the advances in technology which have occurred (with varying degrees of accuracy), almost no writer foresaw the computer as we know it today.
Proteus IV, the computer self-programmed to rape in the film/novel Demon Seed by Dean Koontz.
Earth, the greatest computer of all time in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, bought and run by mice to find the Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
www.reboom.com /article/List_of_fictional_computers.html   (2973 words)

  
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The list is a forum for discussion on topics related to development of intrusion detection systems.
While most reporting has been about the external computer "hackers", it is suggested that the internal penetrators have been cause for most security incidents (some estimates as high as 80-90%).
What follows is a list of many of the systems which have been or still are being developed.
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 Lists
Since many constructed languages have a fictional background, this description is complicated by not being able to use possible descriptive terms such as "human language" which would be descriptive, if it were not prejudicial to the Alien conlangs.
The list, despite its title, is not specifically limited to Elvish languages; discussion of Mannish and Dwarvish tongues, of the so-called "minor" languages, and of proto-languages derived by reconstruction based on the published languages, is encouraged.
The list operates under the belief that the created languages of Tolkien fully merit scholarly and technical study as language systems in their own right, and as an outstanding example of language-creation for aesthetic and artistic purposes (glossopoesy), quite apart from the study of Tolkien's work within the field of literary criticism.
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 cars - Archive of fictional things
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in the media.
List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction and myth
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: Lists of television shows by city setting; and List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations.
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 Lists   (Site not responding. Last check: )
List of city nicknames (with a separate list of city nicknames in the United States)
List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition
List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by seat
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 Robotics Information and Facts
This form of robot (commonly referred to as an android) is common in science fiction stories.
The word robot first appeared in Karel Čapek's science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1921, and was probably invented by the author's brother, painter Josef Čapek.
Direct dynamics is used in computer simulations of the robot.
www.mbceo.com /computers/index.php?c=Robotics   (4102 words)

  
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In a household, clothes hangers are the single one item that you own the most of, yet no one can name even one brand?
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 Regents' Testing Program
Following is a complete list of the essay topics approved for use on the Regents' Test.
If you could be a fictional character who could walk off the page of a book, what character would you become and what would you do?
Many educators are now looking to computers as the key to improving education.
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 August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web (Ftrain.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
That your specific model of computer requires a new motherboard and a faster bus before it can be upgraded to a Pentium 18.
The learning curve was as steep as a cliff, and there wasn't a great incentive for new coders to climb it and survey the world from their new vantage.
As you know, computers still aren't listening to us as well as we'd like, but in the meantime the Semweb technology matured, and all of a sudden centralized databases - and Amazon and Ebay were prime examples of centralized databases with millions of items each - could suddenly be spread out through the entire web.
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 Gehlen Catholic School
We need 8 more desktop computers for all staff members to be up to speed.
These are the matching computers to the 28 we purchased this past summer - $799 each or $6,392
Computers on wheels that allow teachers and/or students to take portable laptops from classroom to classroom
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 Talking Book and Braille Catalog
Please refer to Commonly Asked Questions or the Help Manual for assistance using this catalog, or phone 800-992-9012.
If you would like to add books to your request list to be sent later, or to order books by their "RC" or "BR" number, please see the on-line request list submission form.
To order by book number, please see the on-line request list submission form.
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 Remove Fictional Daemon 4.4
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 Writing.Com: By Genre:   Computers  
When computer screens were fl and cursors a blinking green square!
Computer failure while writing an erotic piece leads to poem on heart-break.
Fiction Writing * Blog Writing * Creative Writing * Essay Writing * Letter Writing * Poetry Writing * Technical Writing * Story Writing
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 List of Wikia - Wikia Central
This is a list of existing Wikis on Wikia.
For an offsite list that can be sorted by various parameters, see s23.org.
Fiction, for creating fictional works of any kind.
www.wikia.com /wiki/List_of_Wikia   (192 words)

  
 AI Newsletter
From the late 1970’s and until the mid-1980’s, artificial intelligence was an important part of the computer business - many companies were started with the then-abundant venture capital available for high-tech start-ups.
A barcode scanner and a computer read-out act as a mental amplifier enabling someone to perform a task that, without it, would require greater mental capacity than he could deploy unaided.
So, jokes written by a computer are not particularly funny to humans, but perhaps they would be hilarious to other computers.
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