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A video codec is a device or software that enables compression or decompression of digital video. The compression is usually lossy. Historically video was stored as an analog signal on […]

A computer algebra system (CAS) is a software program that allows computation over mathematical expressions in a way which is similar to the traditional manual computations of mathematicians and scientists.

A jazz band (jazz ensemble or jazz combo) is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. Jazz bands usually consist of a rhythm section and a horn section in the […]

A disassembler is a computer program that translates machine language into assembly language—the inverse operation to that of an assembler. A disassembler differs from a decompiler which targets a high-level […]

Desktop publishing (abbreviated DTP) is the creation of documents using page layout skills on a personal computer. Desktop publishing software can generate layouts and produce typographic quality text and images […]

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. It has come to be used as a […]

Oulipo (French pronunciation: ​[ulipo] short for French: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: workshop of potential literature) is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to […]

A strategy game or strategic game is a game (e.g. video or board game) in which the players’ uncoerced and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining […]

A terminal emulator terminal application term or tty for short is a program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or […]

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer computer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network such as the Internet.FTP is […]