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...

A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is an environment in which software is executed. Computing platforms have different levels...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand, taking care of the servers...

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

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

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

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...

(see above) as used in computer science. Format placeholder, used in computing to format strings within print functions (printf). Line stander, a person...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Winnie the Pooh. Canary trap Client honeypot Cowrie Defense strategy (computing) HoneyMonkey Honeytoken Network telescope Operation Trust Tarpit Cole...

In computing, a shell is a computer program that exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other programs. In general, operating system...

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

Optical computing or photonic computing uses light waves produced by lasers or incoherent sources for data processing, data storage or data communication...