• In computer science, a fiber is a particularly lightweight thread of execution. Like threads, fibers share address space. However, fibers use cooperative...
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  • muscle fiber, strands of muscle tissue Nerve fiber, strands of nervous tissue Fiber (computer science), a type of programmed instructions to a computer Fiber...
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  • or computer graphics. Many of the models used to simulate fibers were developed by researchers in the field of rheology. Rheologically speaking fiber suspensions...
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  • continuation Monad Ruby Unlambda C++ R Goto Continuation-passing style Fiber (computer science) David Madore, "call/cc mind-boggler" Yin Wang, "Understanding...
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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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    Fiber to the x (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide...
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  • Portable Threads Green threads (Java) Light Weight Kernel Threads Fiber (computer science) Task (computing) Task parallelism Futures and promises POSIX Threads...
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    In order to communicate, the computers and devices must be connected by wired media like copper cables, optical fibers, or by wireless communication...
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    fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage in fiber-optic...
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  • Async/await Light-weight process Coroutine Global interpreter lock Fiber (computer science) GNU Portable Threads Protothreads Rudell, Harald (2022-03-19)...
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  • Leonard Bosack (category American computer businesspeople)
    degree in computer science from Stanford University, he became Director of Computer Facilities for the university's Department of Computer Science. He became...
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  • "VCS", or Video Computer System). By 1979, the scene was set for the Golden Age of Arcade Games. The 1970s were also the start of fiber optics. In 1970...
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  • Fiber volume ratio is an important mathematical element in composite engineering. Fiber volume ratio, or fiber volume fraction, is the percentage of fiber...
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    A quantum computer is a computer that exploits quantum mechanical phenomena. On small scales, physical matter exhibits properties of both particles and...
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    In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which...
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    In mathematics, and particularly topology, a fiber bundle (Commonwealth English: fibre bundle) is a space that is locally a product space, but globally...
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  • or waveguide-to-detector. The waveguide may be dielectric (an optical fiber) or metallic. Angular misalignment loss does not include lateral offset...
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    optical fiber connectors. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibers is known as fiber optics...
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  • Multi-fiber Push-On, a type of optical fiber connector Multiset path ordering, a well-ordering in term rewriting (computer science) Matrix Product Operator, a type...
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    TOSLINK (category Fiber-optic connectors)
    standardized optical fiber connector system. Generically known as optical audio, the most common use of the TOSLINK optical fiber connector is in consumer...
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  • developed in Engineering as well as in non-Engineering sciences such as Physics, Mathematics, Computer science, Chemistry, Biology, etc. Often, some of the knowledge...
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    devices to form a computer network include electrical cables (Ethernet, HomePNA, power line communication, G.hn), optical fiber (fiber-optic communication)...
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    Passive optical network (category Fiber-optic communications)
    A passive optical network (PON) is a fiber-optic telecommunications network that uses only unpowered devices to carry signals, as opposed to electronic...
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    aspects. Major computing disciplines include computer engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, data science, information systems, information technology...
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  • has moral fiber? A cereal killer. The joke that was submitted to LaughLab the most times was: What's brown and sticky? A stick. During a Science Vs podcast...
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  • could happen is by combining an optical computer with the ternary logic system. A ternary computer using fiber optics could use dark as 0 and two orthogonal...
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    polymers. The prominent change in materials science during the recent decades is active usage of computer simulations to find new materials, predict properties...
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