• In computer programming, a reference is a value that enables a program to indirectly access a particular datum, such as a variable's value or a record...
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  • software, data science, and computer programming. Contents:  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 abstract data type...
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  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media since 1973. The series contains proceedings...
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  • Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles (also known as AP CSP) is an AP Computer Science course and examination offered by the College Board...
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  • A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side...
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    Part number Personally identifiable information Product code Reference (computer science) Referent Representation term Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine...
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    In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated...
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  • Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) is a computer science journal published by Elsevier, started in 1975 and covering theoretical computer science. The journal...
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    In computer science, data (treated as singular, plural, or as a mass noun) is any sequence of one or more symbols; datum is a single symbol of data. Data...
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    Logic in computer science covers the overlap between the field of logic and that of computer science. The topic can essentially be divided into three...
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  • Bachelor of Computer Science (abbreviated BCompSc or BCS) is a bachelor's degree for completion of an undergraduate program in computer science. In general...
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  • In computer science, an offset within an array or other data structure object is an integer indicating the distance (displacement) between the beginning...
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  • In computer science and software programming, a value is the representation of some entity that can be manipulated by a program. The members of a type...
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  • In computer science, locality of reference, also known as the principle of locality, is the tendency of a processor to access the same set of memory locations...
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    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formed by the...
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  • In computer science, an operation, function or expression is said to have a side effect if it has any observable effect other than its primary effect of...
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  • another. Reference or reference point may also refer to: Reference (computer science) Reference (C++) Reference (film), a 1985 Bulgarian film Reference, a citation...
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  • In computer science, a record (also called a structure, struct, or compound data type) is a composite data structure – a collection of fields, possibly...
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  • In computer science, persistence refers to the characteristic of state of a system that outlives (persists for longer than) the process that created it...
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  • In computer programming, a variable is an abstract storage location paired with an associated symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity...
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  • In computer science, synchronization is the task of coordinating multiple processes to join up or handshake at a certain point, in order to reach an agreement...
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  • In computer science, reference counting is a programming technique of storing the number of references, pointers, or handles to a resource, such as an...
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  • In computer science, robustness is the ability of a computer system to cope with errors during execution and cope with erroneous input. Robustness can...
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    aspects. Major computing disciplines include computer engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, data science, information systems, information technology...
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  • In computer programming, a guard is a Boolean expression that must evaluate to true if the execution of the program is to continue in the branch in question...
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    Knowledge Sharing" by Tom Gruber used ontology as a technical term in computer science closely related to earlier idea of semantic networks and taxonomies...
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    'Taming' self-reference from potentially paradoxical concepts into well-behaved recursions has been one of the great successes of computer science, and is now...
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    different areas but is often referenced alongside computer science because of the incredibly useful nature of computers and computer programs in helping those...
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  • In computer programming, the scope of a name binding (an association of a name to an entity, such as a variable) is the part of a program where the name...
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  • In computer science, an instance is an occurrence of a software element that is based on a type definition. When created, an occurrence is said to have...
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