• In computer science, garbage includes data, objects, or other regions of the memory of a computer system (or other system resources), which will not be...
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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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  • In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, biased or poor quality ("garbage") information or input produces a result...
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  • Garbage may also refer to: Litter, improperly disposed waste products Garbage (computer science), unreferenced data in a computer's memory Garbage (band)...
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  • waste management. Garbage collection may also refer to: Garbage collection (computer science), in automatic memory management Garbage collection (SSD)...
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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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  • This glossary of computer science is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in computer science, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including...
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    the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University. He...
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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the...
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  • In computer science, coalescing is a part of memory management in which two adjacent free blocks of computer memory are merged. When a program no longer...
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    The North Atlantic garbage patch is a garbage patch of man-made marine debris found floating within the North Atlantic Gyre, originally documented in 1972...
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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, 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 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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    formal languages, which are used in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, a string is a finite sequence of symbols that are chosen from a set...
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    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson...
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  • In computer science, thrashing occurs in a system with virtual memory when a computer's real storage resources are overcommitted, leading to a constant...
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  • the term comes from mathematics use, rather than the prior use in computer science. The authors consider this overlap in terminology to be "unfortunate...
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  • reproducibility. Greater systematicity and reproducibility may be obtained by using fuzz testing software. Garbage in, garbage out Guard (computer science) Kludge...
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    A waste container, also known as a dustbin, rubbish bin, trash can, garbage can, wastepaper basket, and wastebasket, among other names, is a type of container...
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  • A computer algebra system (CAS) or symbolic algebra system (SAS) is any mathematical software with the ability to manipulate mathematical expressions in...
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  • In computer science, manual memory management refers to the usage of manual instructions by the programmer to identify and deallocate unused objects, or...
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    A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...
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  • In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive that prevents state from being modified or accessed by multiple...
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    count attached for deallocation when no longer needed, although other garbage collection methods can be used as well. In the following definitions, N...
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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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    2014-01-24. Zorn, Benjamin (1990). Barrier methods for Garbage Collection. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado in Boulder: Citeseer. pp. 11–18...
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  • 1985). "'Weird Science': Computer Garbage". Archived 2020-01-27 at the Wayback Machine The Washington Post. Weekend, p. 23. "Weird Science (1985)". Rotten...
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    Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed...
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    The garbage can model (also known as garbage can process, or garbage can theory) describes the chaotic reality of organizational decision making in an...
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