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Steven Anthony Ballmer (/ˈbɔːlmər/; March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000...

In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding information. This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext...

Vector graphics are a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as...

In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using an integer with a fixed precision, called the...

In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup...

The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971. Sold for US$60 (equivalent to $450 in 2023), it was the...

Quality of service (QoS) is the description or measurement of the overall performance of a service, such as a telephony or computer network, or a cloud...

In computer science, declarative programming is a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that expresses...

In computing, an optical disc drive is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of...

In computing, a pipeline, also known as a data pipeline, is a set of data processing elements connected in series, where the output of one element is the...

Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was sold...

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a policy mechanism that helps to protect websites against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade...

OS/360, officially known as IBM System/360 Operating System, is a discontinued batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360...

Programming language theory (PLT) is a branch of computer science that deals with the design, implementation, analysis, characterization, and classification...

RARBG was a website that provided torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. From 2014 to 2023...

40°05′50″N 88°14′44″W / 40.097128°N 88.245690°W / 40.097128; -88.245690 Wolfram Research, Inc. (/ˈwʊlfrəm/ WUUL-frəm) is an American multinational company...

The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer, later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer, is a series of home computers developed and sold by Tandy Corporation...

Claris International Inc., formerly FileMaker Inc., is a computer software development company formed as a subsidiary company of Apple Computer (now Apple...

In programming language theory, lazy evaluation, or call-by-need, is an evaluation strategy which delays the evaluation of an expression until its value...