The Computer Originated World (COW) was the method of creating the BBC1 symbol that was used between 18 February 1985 and 16 February 1991. It was later...

also used the same clock face as before, with some changes. The Computer Originated World was replaced on 16 February 1991 by a new virtual globe, designed...

World!" program is usually a simple computer program that emits (or displays) to the screen (often the console) a message similar to "Hello, World!"...

1997 Cow, a character in the animated series Cow and Chicken Computer Originated World, referring to the globe ID the BBC1 TV network used from 1985...

mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the "father of the computer", he conceptualized and invented...

are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. They have been used to name entities...

device of a rotating world: the Computer Originated World, which had previously been used on BBC One between 1985 and 1991. The world symbol remained the...

solid-state computer device, not unlike the one used later for BBC1's Computer Originated World, built by BBC engineers, and designed by Oliver Elmes. The concept...

Another World was commercially successful, selling about one million copies during the 1990s. The game received critical acclaim. Computer Gaming World criticized...

years. Most notably, on 18 February 1985, the "Computer Originated World" was introduced. This was a computer-animated globe with the land coloured gold and...

1985, with the first showing of the globe's replacement: the Computer Originated World or COW for short. The globe was retired because of the fact it...

refer to Occupy Wall Street, a political protest starting in 2011 that originated in New York City at Zucotti Park OGC Web Service Common, a standard of...

relaunch, along with the introduction of a new ident, the COW (Computer Originated World). Also, computerised weather maps were used for the first time...

A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. Today almost all computers are connected...

against these attacks is much more difficult. Such attacks can originate from the zombie computers of a botnet or from a range of other possible techniques...

as "a crime committed on a computer network, especially the Internet"; Cybercriminals may exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems and networks to gain...

seen for the final time an hour later. Its replacement, the COW (Computer Originated World), makes its debut at 7pm. The first usage of the COW ident introduces...

computer graphics began during the vacuum tube era with the IBM 740 CRT Data Recorder and the Whirlwind light pen. Programming languages originated in...

counting operations. Colossus is thus regarded as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and plugs...

developed a systems dynamics simulation computer model. These works can be seen as following the path originated with the work of Fritz Machlup who in his...

Human–computer interaction (HCI) is the process through which people operate and engage with computer systems. Research in HCI covers the design and the...

World War III, also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945)...

fourth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales, the largest vendor of tablet computers, and the largest vendor of mobile phones in the world. Apple became...

origins of computer-related terms or terms used in the computing world (i.e., a list of computer term etymologies). It relates to both computer hardware...

The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers. The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical...

A black hat (black hat hacker or blackhat) is a computer hacker who violates laws or ethical standards for nefarious purposes, such as cybercrime, cyberwarfare...

ethics promoted, among others, by Luciano Floridi. The concept of computer ethics originated in the 1940s with MIT professor Norbert Wiener, the American mathematician...

quantum computer is a type of quantum computer. It utilizes anyons, a type of quasiparticle that occurs in two-dimensional systems. The anyons' world lines...

and imagining of what computers could do. ~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates. Biography portal Lists portal Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John...

John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline...