WebInterface (computing), a shared boundary between system components Interface (Java) Interface (object-oriented programming) Application binary interface, between two binary program modules; Application programming interface, between a client and a server; Network interface, between two pieces of equipment or protocol layers in a computer …

WebIn computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.).It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or …

WebRooting is the process by which users of Android devices can attain privileged control (known as root access) over various subsystems of the device, usually smartphones.Because Android is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative permissions as on Linux or any …

WebSmalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed reflective programming language.It was designed and created in part for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, at the Learning Research Group (LRG) of Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Diana Merry, Scott Wallace, and others during the 1970s.. The …

WebIn computer science, a heap is a specialized tree-based data structure which is essentially an almost complete tree that satisfies the heap property: in a max heap, for any given node C, if P is a parent node of C, then the key (the value) of P is greater than or equal to the key of C.In a min heap, the key of P is less than or equal to the key of C. The node at the …

WebGEM (for Graphics Environment Manager) is an operating environment released by Digital Research (DRI) in 1985 for use with the DOS operating system on Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors.. GEM is known primarily as the graphical user interface (GUI) for the Atari ST series of computers, and was also supplied with a series of IBM PC …

WebDVD-Audio (commonly abbreviated as DVD-A) is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD.DVD-Audio uses most of the storage on the disc for high-quality audio and is not intended to be a video delivery format. The standard was published in March 1999 and the first discs entered the marketplace in 2000. DVD-Audio was in a …

WebThe File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network.FTP is built on a client–server model architecture using separate control and data connections between the client and the server. FTP users may authenticate themselves with a clear-text sign-in …

WebOverview. D-Bus is an inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism initially designed to replace the software component communications systems used by the GNOME and KDE Linux desktop environments (CORBA and DCOP respectively). The components of these desktop environments are normally distributed in many processes, each one providing …

WebSpeech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the main benefit of searchability.It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition …

WebHistory of discovery. The first gamma ray source to be discovered was the radioactive decay process called gamma decay.In this type of decay, an excited nucleus emits a gamma ray almost immediately upon formation. Paul Villard, a French chemist and physicist, discovered gamma radiation in 1900, while studying radiation emitted from …

WebwebOS, also known as LG webOS and previously known as Open webOS, HP webOS and Palm webOS, is a Linux kernel-based multitasking operating system for smart devices such as smart TVs that has also been used as a mobile operating system.Initially developed by Palm, Inc. (which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard), HP made the platform open source, …