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...

In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated...

In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, biased or poor quality ("garbage") information or input produces a result...

Garbage may also refer to: Litter, improperly disposed waste products Garbage (computer science), unreferenced data in a computer's memory Garbage (band)...

waste management. Garbage collection may also refer to: Garbage collection (computer science), in automatic memory management Garbage collection (SSD)...

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...

the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University. He...

In computer programming, a variable is an abstract storage location paired with an associated symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity...

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...

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...

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...

In computer science, a record (also called a structure, struct, user-defined type (UDT), or compound data type) is a composite data structure – a collection...

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson...

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...

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...

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...

In computer science, reference counting is a programming technique of storing the number of references, pointers, or handles to a resource, such as an...

the term comes from mathematics use, rather than the prior use in computer science. The authors consider this overlap in terminology to be "unfortunate...

reproducibility. Greater systematicity and reproducibility may be obtained by using fuzz testing software. Garbage in, garbage out Guard (computer science) Kludge...

In computer science, manual memory management refers to the usage of manual instructions by the programmer to identify and deallocate unused objects, or...

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...

count attached for deallocation when no longer needed, although other garbage collection methods can be used as well. In the following definitions, N...

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...

A computer algebra system (CAS) or symbolic algebra system (SAS) is any mathematical software with the ability to manipulate mathematical expressions in...

9781412988193. (2012). Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage. Sage Publishing. ISBN 9781412988193.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple...

1985). "'Weird Science': Computer Garbage". Archived 2020-01-27 at the Wayback Machine The Washington Post. Weekend, p. 23. "Weird Science (1985)". Rotten...

In computer science, thrashing occurs in a system with memory paging when a computer's real memory (RAM) resources are overcommitted, leading to a constant...

The garbage can model (also known as garbage can process, or garbage can theory) describes the chaotic reality of organizational decision making in an...

In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive that prevents state from being modified or accessed by multiple...

In computer science, region-based memory management is a type of memory management in which each allocated object is assigned to a region. A region, also...