Computer Modern is the original family of typefaces used by the typesetting program TeX. It was created by Donald Knuth with his Metafont program, and...
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A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation). Modern digital...
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regulated DC power for the internal components of a desktop computer. Modern personal computers universally use switched-mode power supplies. Some power...
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Fundamental areas of computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines...
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Concrete Roman (redirect from Computer concrete)
famous sibling, Computer Modern. Some favour it for use on the computer screen because of this, as the thinner strokes of Computer Modern can make it hard...
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include TeX for typesetting, Metafont for font construction and the Computer Modern typefaces that are the default fonts used by TeX. In the series of...
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computers are connected to a computer network, such as the global Internet or an embedded network such as those found in modern cars. Many applications have...
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some computer functionality. Since 2010, the typical display aspect ratio of both televisions and computer monitors changed from 4:3 to 16:9 Modern computer...
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same results on all computers, at any point in time (together with the Metafont language for font description and the Computer Modern family of typefaces)...
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tabstops. The ampersand itself can be applied in TeX with \&. The Computer Modern fonts replace it with an "E.T." symbol in the cmti# (text italic) fonts...
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Information technology (redirect from Computer services)
Zuse Z3, completed in 1941, was the world's first programmable computer, and by modern standards one of the first machines that could be considered a...
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A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer...
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The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science, usually appearing in forms like mathematics or physics. Developments...
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Screensaver (category Computer-related introductions in the 1970s)
was to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT or plasma computer monitors (hence the name). Though most modern monitors are not susceptible to this issue (with...
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Blinkenlights (category Computer jargon)
applies to status lights of modern network hardware (modems, network hubs, etc.). Blinkenlights disappeared from more recent computers for a number of reasons...
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Donald Knuth (category American computer scientists)
rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces. As a writer and scholar, Knuth created the WEB and CWEB computer programming systems designed...
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Central processing unit (redirect from Personal computer Central Processing Unit)
processor, is the primary processor in a given computer. Its electronic circuitry executes instructions of a computer program, such as arithmetic, logic, controlling...
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badly with the default TeX font Computer Modern.[citation needed] All the alphabets were implemented with the computer-assisted design system Metafont...
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program distinguish it from modern computers. The computer was designated an IEEE Milestone in 1990. Atanasoff and Berry's computer work was not widely known...
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An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computation machine (computer) that uses physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic...
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Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.: 3 ...
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numerals are called old-style numerals. (Some italic fonts, such as Computer Modern italic, put a descender on the numeral 4 but not on any other numerals...
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Metafont (category Computer-related introductions in 1977)
foundry to produce a modernized and extended variant of Computer Modern, called Latin Modern. mf2pt1, which is also based on Metapost, was developed by...
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Most modern mice use optical movement detection with no moving parts. Though originally all mice were connected to a computer by a cable, many modern mice...
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This glossary of computer hardware terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts related to computer hardware, i.e. the physical and structural...
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large, thousands to millions of nodes. The computational speed of modern computers, capable of processing tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of...
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Translations of AI: A Modern Approach". aima.cs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-26. "AIMA" (1st ed.). S Russell. "AIMA". Computer Science Division (4th ed...
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Analytical engine (category Computer-related introductions in 1837)
memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete. In other words, the structure...
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Peripheral (redirect from Computer peripheral)
adapter Many modern electronic devices, such as Internet-enabled digital watches, video game consoles, smartphones, and tablet computers, have interfaces...
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Programming language (redirect from Computer programming language)
used to produce a computer program. A language allows a programmer to develop human readable content that can be consumed by a computer but only after translation...
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