Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic...

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct...

of information in quantum computing, the qubit (or "quantum bit"), serves the same function as the bit in classical computing. However, unlike a classical...

of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888. He gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906. In his work...

platform. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. A computing platform is...

common goal for their work. The terms "concurrent computing", "parallel computing", and "distributed computing" have much overlap, and no clear distinction...

In computer information systems, a dashboard is a type of graphical user interface which often provides at-a-glance views of data relevant to a particular...

and databases. In the early days of computing, a number of terms for the practitioners of the field of computing were suggested in the Communications...

Edge computing is a distributed computing model that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data. This often makes applications faster...

parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has...

Compute! (ISSN 0194-357X), often stylized as COMPUTE!, was an American home computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994. Its origins can be...

Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed concurrently—during overlapping time periods—instead of sequentially—with...

In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security...

alternatively, large computing clusters may be composed of many relatively simple, replaceable server components. The use of the word server in computing comes from...

belonging to either network bordering it. This metaphor applies to the computing use as the DMZ acts as a gateway to the public Internet. It is neither...

The First, CSIRAC: Australias First Computer. University of Melbourne Computing Science. pp. 8–11, 13, 91. ISBN 0-7340-2024-4. Linda Null; Julia Lobur...

Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime...

Church–Turing thesis conjectures that there is no effective model of computing that can compute more mathematical functions than a Turing machine. Computer scientists...

In computing, a cache (/kæʃ/ KASH) is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the...

1% rule (Internet culture) Anonymous post Prosumer Pseudonym End-user computing, systems in which non-programmers can create working applications. End-user...

In computing, scheduling is the action of assigning resources to perform tasks. The resources may be processors, network links or expansion cards. The...

In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or...

This is a list of computing and IT acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References...

updates have not succeeded in gaining widespread popularity in corporate computing environments, partly because of the aforementioned glitches, but also...

Execution in computer and software engineering is the process by which a computer or virtual machine interprets and acts on the instructions of a computer...

In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon (/ˈdiːmən/ or /ˈdeɪmən/) is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being...

Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system...

confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for reading, not for computing. But he went ahead and did it. That is, he compiled the eval in my paper...

Confidential computing is a security and privacy-enhancing computational technique focused on protecting data in use. Confidential computing can be used...

 73–74. "Ask an Ethicist: Vulnerability Disclosure". Association for Computing Machinery's Committee on Professional Ethics. 17 July 2018. Retrieved...