EDITING GUIDELINES for DISAMBIGUATION DAB PAGES DAB pages are not normal articles and have a special style DAB pages help users find specific articles Please Point to link only one article on each line Please Start each line with the target article Remember These are guidelines not absolute rules More information WP MOSDAB The Word may mean in Music Surfin Bird The Bird is the Word The Word band , a blues jam rock group The Word song The Word song , a song by The Beatles The Word 1953 film The Word 1953 film , a 1953 documentary film The Word 1955 film The Word 1955 film or Ordet , a 1955 Danish film in bookstores The Word Bookstore , a philosophy and poetry bookstore in Montreal Word bookstore , a Christian bookstore chain in Australia in the Christian faith The Bible Christ the Logos The Word Bible Software , Bible study software in Media The Word novel The Word novel , a novel by Irving Wallace The Word radio The Word radio , a weekly BBC World Service book programme The Word TV series The Word TV series , a British late night variety series Recurring segments on The Colbert Report The W.C3.B8rd The W rd , a recurring segment on Stephen Colbert s The Colbert Report The Word magazine The Word magazine , a UK music magazine The Word free love The Word free love , a 19th century anarchist free love magazine edited by Ezra and Angela Heywood See also Word & Void , a series of fantasy novels by Terry Brooks disambig ... more details
Other uses pp move indef In language , a word is the smallest element that may be uttered in isolation ... stand on its own. A word may consist of a single morpheme for example oh , rock, red, quick, run, expect ... to stand on its own as a word in the words just mentioned, these are s, ness, ly, ing, un , ed . A complex word will typically include a root linguistics root and one or more affix es rock s, red ness, quick ly, run ning, un expect ed , or more than one root in a compound word compound black board, rat ... . The term word may refer to a spoken word or to a written word, or sometimes to the abstract concept ... morphology The ease or difficulty of deciphering a word depends on the language. Dictionaries categorize ... of what constitutes a word in the opinion of the writers of that language. Semantic definition ..., the word bears has semantic features it denotes real world objects, bear s , Lexical category ... a certain way , etc. Word boundaries The task of defining what constitutes a word involves determining where one word ends and another word begins&mdash in other words, identifying word boundaries. There are several ways to determine where the word boundaries of spoken language should be placed ... will tend to insert pauses at the word boundaries. However, this method is not foolproof the speaker ... words will tend to be added in the word boundaries of the original sentence. However, some languages have infix es, which are put inside a word. Similarly, some have separable affix es in the German ... boundaries Some languages have particular rules of pronunciation that make it easy to spot where a word ... of a word, a word boundary is likely to fall after each stressed syllable. Another example can ... within a given word share the same quality , so a word boundary is likely to occur whenever the vowel ... of what is considered a single word. Word separator s typically space punctuation spaces are common ... , get up , and these must thus be considered as more than one word. Ice , cream , air etc. indisputably ... more details
About the formal concept of computation computation the magazine Computing magazine the scientific journal Computing journal File Babbage Difference Engine Being utilised .jpg thumb 300px A difference engine computing the solution to a polynomial function File Moody Hall computer lab.jpg thumb 250px ... Wikimedia Foundation Wikimedia Server computing server s Computing is the activity of using computer hardware and computer software software . Definitions Computing Curricula 2005 ref name curricula The Joint Task Force for Computing Curricula 2005. http www.acm.org education curric vols CC2005 March06Final.pdf Computing Curricula 2005 The Overview Report pdf ref defined computing as blockquote In a general way, we can define computing to mean any goal oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers. Thus, computing includes designing and building hardware and software ... The term computing has sometimes been narrowly defined, as in a 1989 Association for Computing Machinery ACM report on Computing as a Discipline ref http cs.gmu.edu cne pjd GP CompDisc.pdf Computing as a Discipline pdf ref blockquote The discipline of computing is the systematic study of algorithmic ..., and application. The fundamental question underlying all computing is What can be efficiently automated? blockquote Computing Curricula 2005 ref name curricula also recognizes that the meaning of computing depends on the context blockquote Computing also has other meanings that are more ... will view computing somewhat differently from a software engineer. Regardless of the context, doing computing well can be complicated and difficult. Because society needs people to do computing well, we must think of computing not only as a profession but also as a discipline. blockquote The term computing is also synonymous with counting and calculating. In earlier times, it was used in reference to mechanical computing machines. A computer is a machine that reads, stores, manipulates and displays ... more details
Multiple issues orphan March 2012 The A Word is a radio show on CFCR 90.5 FM in Saskatoon , also heard on cfcr.ca , that is focused on visual arts and culture in the Saskatoon and sometimes wider Saskatchewan area, hosted by Bart Gazzola, a local artist, writer, curator and critic. He also hosts a blog where past radio shows are available for download in MP3 format, at no cost. In April 2012, the show will begin its fifth year on the air. update after 2012 05 Description The description of the show found at the blog is as follows blockquote This blog started partly in response to how despite my writing something for nearly ever issue of Planet S Magazine, and producing The A Word on CFCR 90.5 FM that there are often exhibitions and events that fall through the cracks, worthy of notice both for positive and negative reasons, and although blogs are often best described as being like an opinion everyone has one, but some should never leave their kitchens , I thought I would see what shape this would take. And its all for the art bitches of Saskatoon to bastardize the wonderful words of Frida Kahlo, when confronted with the art bitches of Paris . I also toyed with naming this blog Denkverbot , as a nod to Slavoj i ek, but also for the literal translation of the word, being a prohibition to think this may be an acknowledgement of the sad state of art criticism these days, propagated by many sites and writers , which is alternately cheerleading or publishing the press release. That is something I ve never been accused of, and probably never will. ref http www.bartgazzola.com aword aword s blog ref blockquote Guests Past guests have included Jayce Salloum, Jeff Thomas, David Clark, Adrian Stimson and other artists and cultural producers who may call the city of Saskatoon home, or others who may have exhibitions at any of a number of local galleries, such as curators Shauna McCabe ... A Word ... more details
About word processing text processing in Natural Language Processing Natural language processing Word processing is the creation of documents using a word processor . It can also refer to advanced shorthand techniques, sometimes used in specialized contexts with a specially modified typewriter . The term was coined at IBM s Boeblingen, West Germany at that time Laboratory in the 1960s. See also Word processor External links http www.business software books.us word processing.php Business Software Books.us A collection of word processor application books available for free download. http www.tomandmaria.com tom Writing Annals2006WP.pdf Remembering the Office of the Future Word Processing and Office Automation before the Personal Computer A comprehensive history of early word processing concepts, hardware, software, and use. By Thomas Haigh, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 28 4 October December 2006 6 31. Category Word processors Category Computing terminology WordProcessor stub cs Wordprocessing et Tekstit tlus es Tratamiento de textos it Videoscrittura kk mk wuu ... more details
Wikify date April 2010 Orphan date November 2006 Task computing is a computation to fill the gap between tasks what user wants to be done , and services functionalities that are available to the user . Task computing seeks to redefine how users interact with and use computing environments. It is built on pervasive computing . Task Computing Framework TCF and Task Computing Environment TCE A Task Computing Framework TCF is a framework that supports Task Computing, by providing support for The workflows of Task Computing, i.e., at a minimum, Discovery, followed by Composition and Execution Semantic description of tasks and services Specification, Execution and Re Usability of tasks by end users Manipulation including creation and disposal of services by the end users This definition of a Task Computing Framework does not make reference to computational components. Here an embodiment of a Task Computing Framework will be referred to as a Task Computing Environment TCE . A TCE is a computational system that includes, at a minimum, the following components One or more Task Computing Clients TCCs , One or more Semantically Described Services SDSs , One or more Semantic Service Discovery Mechanisms SSDMs , and Optionally one or more Service Controls SCs Applications Using Task Execution EditoR STEER ref http www.flacp.fujitsulabs.com rmasuoka papers Task Computing ISWC2003 202 color final.pdf Microsoft Word Task Computing ISCW2003 202 final.doc Bot generated title ref , embodiments of multiple Semantically Described Services and Service Controls the following applications are possible Exchanging Business Cards Showing and Sharing the Presentation Scheduling a Future Presentation Checking and Printing Directions to the Airport Notes references References Cite journal ref harv first Seng W. last Loke authorlink coauthors title Building Taskable Spaces over Ubiquitous Services journal IEEE Pervasive Computing volume 8 number 4 pages 72 78 year 2009 Related work http csdl2.computer.org ... more details
wiktionary Wordword words A word is a unit of language. Word s may also refer to tocright ComputingWord computer architecture , a group of bits or digits characters processed as a unit words Unix , a standard file in UNIX Microsoft Word , a word processing application Calligra Words , a word processing application William Whitaker s Words , a program for translating Latin Lexicography WORD journal WORD journal , the journal of the International Linguistic Association formerly the Linguistic Circle of New York William Whitaker s Words , a popular Latin English Latin dictionary and grammatical parser Mathematics Word mathematics , an ordered sequence of symbols chosen from a predetermined set or alphabet Word group theory , a product of group elements and their inverses Media WORD AM , a radio station 950 AM in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States WORD FM , a radio station 101.5 FM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Music Word Records , a record label Words Sherri Austin album Words Sherri Austin album , 1997 Words Tony Rich album Words Tony Rich album Words F. R. David album Words F. R. David album anchor Songs Words Bee Gees song Words Bee Gees song , 1968 The Word song The Word Beatles Song , 1965 Words Between the Lines of Age , a song by Neil Young Words The Christians song Words The Christians song , 1989 Words Anthony David song Words Anthony David song , 2008 Words F. R. David song Words F. R. David song , 1982 Words Doves song Words Doves song Words , a song ... Edenroth of The Real Group Other uses Word bookstore , a Christian bookstore chain in Australia Word, a finite string of symbols in automata theory Word comics , a fictional cosmic entity in DC Comics See also The Word disambiguation disambiguation DEFAULTSORT Word Disambiguation Category Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages cs Slovo rozcestn k de Word es Word desambiguaci n fr Word ja pl Word ujednoznacznienie pt Word sk Slovo tl Word ... more details
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Merge Munchers date August 2009 Unreferenced date June 2007 Word Munchers is an educational game educational edutainment computer game in the Munchers series produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium MECC for several operating system s. Designed to teach basic grammar skills, it was popular among United States American schoolchildren in the 1980s and 1990s. Related to the game Number Munchers , it was a teaching aid widely used in schools. Gameplay was essentially that of the other Munchers games. Specific to Word Munchers were the modes of play, which includes parts of speech such as verb s or adjective s. Teachers had the options to select the vowel sounds and how difficult the word sets would be, such as whether or not to include words that break pronunciation rules. To access administration teachers options in most MECC titles, use Ctrl A on the menu screen. The current Word Munchers World Champion is a man named Thomas Hayes from upstate New York. Category Children s educational video games Category Mac OS games edu videogame stub ... more details
Network computing is a generic term in computing which refers to computers or Node networking nodes working together over a computer network network . It may also mean Cloud computing Distributed computing Virtual Network Computing disambig Category Computer networking Computing Category Virtual Network Computing simple Network computing zh ... more details
In linguistics , a word sense is one of the meaning linguistics meaning s of a word . For example a dictionary may have over 50 different meanings of the word http wordnet.princeton.edu perl webwn?s play play , each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word usage in a sentence linguistics sentence . For example quote We went to see the play Romeo and Juliet at the theater. quote The children went out to play in the park. In each sentence we associate a different meaning of the word play based on hints the rest of the sentence gives us. Computer s or people that read words one at a time must use a process called word sense disambiguation ref N. Ide and J. V ronis http www.up.univ mrs.fr veronis pdf 1998wsd.pdf Word Sense Disambiguation The State of the Art , Computational Linguistics, 24, 1998, pp. 1 40. ref ref R. Navigli. http www.dsi.uniroma1.it navigli pubs ACM Survey 2009 Navigli.pdf Word Sense Disambiguation A Survey , ACM Computing Surveys, 41 2 , 2009, pp. 1 69. ref to find the correct meaning of a word. Related terms Polysemy is the property of having multiple senses. It differs from homonym y, where two different words lexeme s happen to have the same spelling and pronunciation . See also Portal Linguistics semantics study of meaning lexical semantics the study of what the words of a language denote and how it is that they do this word sense induction the task of automatically acquiring the senses of a target wordword sense disambiguation the task of automatically associating a sense with a word in context lexical substitution the task of replacing a word in context with a lexical substitute sememe unit of meaning linguistics the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. sense and reference References Reflist External links http citeseer.ist.psu.edu kilgarriff97dont.html I don t believe in word senses Adam Kilgarriff ... logic Category Word sense disambiguation Category Lexical semantics Ling stub ca Accepci ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 In computing , a sink or event sink is a Class computer science class or function computing function designed to receive incoming events from another object computer science object or function. This is commonly implemented in C as Callback computer science callbacks . Object oriented languages, such as Java programming language Java and C Sharp programming language C , have built in support for sinks by allowing events to be fired to delegate functions. It can also be considered the end point or output point. For example, a buffer stream would often have a source where you put the data into and a sink where the data gets written out to . Another way of thinking about it could be like a black hole the source is where everything gets sucked in and the sink is where it all gets spit out at the other end. You will often see this in C and hardware related programming. The word sink has been used for both input and output in the industry. DEFAULTSORT Sink Computing Category Object oriented programming Comp stub ... more details
The R word is a euphemism used when referring to the word mental retardation retard to avoid causing potential offense. See Also Anarchism The A word B word disambiguation The B word The c word The C word Penis The D word Extremism The E word The F word disambiguation The F word Gook The G word H word The H word Lesbian The L word Marxism The M word The n word The N word S word The S word The T word The T word Vagina The V word W word The W word X word The X word External links http www.r word.org R Word.org Spread the word to end the word http therword.org the r word campaign, when you say retard, somebody hurts Category Euphemisms ... more details
Mergeto Flag computing date December 2009 Unreferenced date December 2009 A flag word is a generic term for a Word data type word value used to indicate conditions within a Binary numeral system binary computer. In particular, the byte can be used to show up to 8 discrete conditions. Essentially, each bit represents one flag computing flag , capable of showing two states. A flag word can be seen as a bit array with a short, constant length. Examples Processor status register Taking the example of a MOS Technology 6502 6502 processor s status register , the following information was held within 8 bits Bit 7. Negative flag Bit 6. Overflow flag Bit 5. Unused Bit 4. Break flag Bit 3. Decimal flag Bit 2. Interrupt disable flag Bit 1. Carry flag Bit 0. Zero flag As you can see, a lot of information about the state of the processor can be packed into 8 bits. Unix process exit code A more general example would be the use of a Unix exit status as a flag word. In this case, the exit code is by the programmer to pass status information to another process. An imaginary program which returns the status of 8 burglar alarm switches connected to the printer port could set each of the bits in the exit code in turn, depending on whether the switches are closed or open. Extracting bits from flag words To read a status byte, assuming your programming language does not offer this facility by default, is quite easy. You simply need to Logical conjunction AND the status byte with a Mask computing mask byte . The mask byte should have only the bit corresponding to the flag you want to read set, as in the example below. Suppose that status byte 103 decimal is returned, and that we want to check flag ... position return val 1 bit position See also Bit field Bit array Flag computing Status register FLAGS register computing Program status word Control register Category Programming idioms Category Operating ..., the result would have been 0. In modern computing, the logical shift shift operator < < can be used ... more details
Word completion is a common feature in web browsers and similar text entry contexts. When a user begins the entry of a frequently used word, the computer automatically completes it, or proposes a list of choices. Successful example of word completion in browsers For an example of a relatively successful application of word completion, consider entering www.microsoft.com in the address box of a browser ... history of other users of the computer. Examples of word completion in general text editing POV section date December 2008 Word completion can be ineffective for use in predictive text systems. Word completion works well only if there are a small number of possible items to search through. As discussed ..., word completion can be an impediment. A word completion system requires that the user, after each keystroke, calculates whether it is better to keep on typing to decrease the size of the word completion list, or examine the best choices presented to try to find their word. This mental effort is often ... Computing Publisher Springer London. Issue Volume 4, Numbers 2 3 June, 2000 Pages 134 143 ref The efficiency of word completion is based on the average length of the words typed. Citation needed ... geared towards programmer such as Vim text editor Vim . Consider for example entry of the word soccer with a word completion system, coupled to a reasonably large dictionary of English. This gives the following ... at soc and then looking though a list of possible completions would find the word soccer more ... languages, word lengths can differ dramatically. Picking up on the above example, a soccer player ... as agglutinative language s, words can be combined, creating even longer words. Examples of word completion OpenOffice.org Writer has a working word completion program that proposes words previously typed ... a working word completion program that proposes words previously typed in upper cells Specialised Software http www.phraseexpress.com Phrase Express freeware http www.typebooster.com Type Booster word ... more details
first Doug date June 1983 title Word juggler. evaluation journal CREATIVE COMPUTING volume 9 issue 6 page 43 url http www.atarimagazines.com creative v9n6 43 Word juggler.php ref The Apple III version ...Infobox software name Word Juggler logo screenshot caption author Tim Gill developer Quark, Inc. released latest release version latest release date latest preview version latest preview date operating system Apple SOS , ProDOS platform Apple IIc, IIe, III genre Word processor license Proprietary website Word Juggler was a word processor application by Quark, Inc. for the Apple IIe, IIc, and III computers. ref name whole earth1 cite book title Whole Earth Software Catalog url http wholeearth.com issue electronic edition.php?iss 1230 year 1984 pages 50 51,55 ref Until the release of AppleWorks , Word Juggler was the leading word processor on the IIe and IIc, beating out Apple Writer . ref name whole earth1 The software was copy protected with a hardware dongle. ref name whole earth1 It was one of the first software titles to use ProDOS . ref name whole earth1 The software was well received and was considered easy to learn and master. ref name Ford ref name whole earth1 ref name Markoff cite journal last Markoff first John date Jul 5, 1982 title Word Juggler 2.2, a text editor for the Apple III journal InfoWorld volume 4 issue 26 pages 68 70 url http books.google.com books?id MjAEAAAAMBAJ ref The software also came with a dictionary spell checker called Lexicheck which was also well received. ref name whole earth1 Versions Apple III The software was the first commercially available word processor for the Apple III and featured formatting commands such as margin settings, centering, justification, bold, underlined, subscript, superscripts, doublestrike, titles, footnotes, and page numbers. ref name wjiw1 cite journal date Dec 28, 1981 title Word Juggler The Apple III Processor ... References Reflist Category Apple II word processors Category Apple III software Category Word processors ... more details
February 2011 During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the default Word document format DOC computing ...Infobox software name Microsoft Office Word logo File Microsoft Word 2010 Icon.svg 64px screenshot File Word 2010.png 210px caption Microsoft Office Word 2010 on Windows 7 . developer Microsoft Corporation ... number operating system Microsoft Windows genre Word processor license Proprietary software Proprietary EULA website http office.microsoft.com en us word Microsoft Word Infobox software name Microsoft Word for Mac logo File Microsoft Word 2011 Icon.png 64px screenshot File Microsoft Word for Mac 2011.png 200px caption Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 developer Microsoft Corporation frequently updated yes ... latest preview date operating system Mac OS X genre Word processor license Proprietary software Proprietary EULA website http www.microsoft.com mac word Microsoft Word for Mac Microsoft Office Word is a Proprietary software non free word processor designed by Microsoft . It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi Tool Word for Xenix systems. ref name PCHistory Cite book first Roy last ... Office Word 2010 for Windows and Microsoft Office Word 2011 for Mac. History Main History of Microsoft Word Origins and growth 1981 to 1995 In 1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi , the primary developer of Bravo software Bravo , the first GUI word processor, which was developed at PARC company ... word turns 25.html title Microsoft Word Turns 25 last Edwards first Benj work PC World date October 22, 2008 accessdate November 7, 2010 ref Simonyi started work on a word processor called Multi Tool Word and soon hired Richard Brodie programmer Richard Brodie , a former Xerox intern, who became ... Word 5.0 for DOS.png thumb right 200px Microsoft Word 5.0 for DOS. Versions 1.0 to 4.0 had a similar user interface. Microsoft announced Multi Tool Word for Xenix ref name pcworld word25 and MS DOS in 1983. ref name infoworld multi tool word cite news url http books.google.com books?id 4S8EAAAAMBAJ ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 In computer science , interactive computing refers to software which accepts input from humans for example, data or commands. Interactive software includes most popular programs, such as word processor s or spreadsheet application software applications . By comparison, noninteractive programs operate without human contact examples of these include compiler s and batch processing applications. If the response is complex enough it is said that the system is conducting social interaction and some systems try to achieve this through the implementation of social interfaces. The nature of interactive computing as well as its impact on humans are studied extensively in the field of Human computer interaction . See also Interactivity Interactive computation J. C. R. Licklider Douglas Engelbart Comp sci stub Category Human computer interaction ca Computaci interactiva de Dialogcomputer kk ... more details
computing is an application of Lotfi A. Zadeh Zadeh s theory of Computing with words and perceptions computing with words on the field of assisting people to make subjective judgments. Perceptual computer The perceptual computer Per C an instantiation of perceptual computing has the architecture ... of the encoder activate a Computing With Words ref Lotfi Zadeh 7 , the father of fuzzy logic, coined the phrase computing with words, and stated CWW is a methodology in which the objects of computation ... which the latter would be converted back into a word. Zadeh s definition of CWW is very general and does not refer to a specific field in which CWW would be used. Perceptual computing focuses on CWW ... may be in the form of a word, group of similar words, rank or class. Although there are lots ... computing is Focus on an application A . Establish a vocabulary or vocabularies for A . Collect interval ... for all of the words in the vocabulary. Map the collected word data into word FOUs by using the Interval ... perceptual computing and function approximation applications of FSs and systems. ref so that its ... at the output of the decoder. If the recommendation is a word, rank or class, then use ... publication judgment advisor uses reviewers and an associate editor, the word reviewer could be replaced ... computer an architecture for computing with words, Proc. of Modeling With Words Workshop in the Proc ... judgments using computing with words, Int. J. Appl. Math. Comput. Sci., vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 325 335, 2002 4 J. M. Mendel, Computing with words and its relationships with fuzzistics, Information Sciences, vol. 177, pp. 998 1006, 2007. 5 J. M. Mendel and D. Wu, Perceptual Computing Aiding ... Systems, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1145 1161, 2007. 7 L. A. Zadeh, Fuzzy logic computing with words ... of Per C are available at http sipi.usc.edu mendel software. See also Computing with words ... Granular computing Rough set Soft computing Type 2 fuzzy sets and systems Vagueness Category Artificial ... more details
Heterogeneous computing systems refer to electronic systems that use a variety of different types of computational ... programmable gate array FPGA . In general, a heterogeneous computing platform consists of processors ... in computing systems is partially due to the need for high performance, highly reactive ..., the primary method of gaining extra performance out of computing systems is to introduce additional specialized resources, thus making a computing system heterogeneous. ref name cellMult cite web ..., Olaf O. Storaasli title State of the Art in Heterogeneous Computing journal Scientific Programming ... of extra, independent computing resources necessarily allows most heterogeneous systems to be considered parallel computing , or multi core computing systems. Another term sometimes seen for this type of computing is hybrid computing . ref name hybpap cite web title Visions for Application Development on Hybrid Computing Systems author url http rssi.ncsa.uiuc.edu proceedings posters rssi07 12 poster.pdf p accessdate 2009 02 09 ref Hybrid core computing is a form of heterogeneous computing ... in modern computing systems gradually rises as increases in chip area and further scaling of fabrication ... features Heterogeneous computing systems present new challenges not found in typical homogeneous ... Accelerators in High Performance Computing SAAHPC 09 ref ISA or instruction set architecture ... may have different cache computing cache structures, cache coherency protocols, and memory access ... to read arbitrary data lengths as some processors units can only perform byte , word , or burst accesses ..., FIFO computing FIFOs , and Scratchpad RAM scratchpad memories , etc. Heterogeneous platforms ... time scenarios. Heterogeneous computing platforms Texas Instruments OMAP Analog Devices Blackfin ... Heterogeneous Computing Architectures Programming heterogeneous machines can be difficult since ... Computing journal Journal of High Performance Computing volume 4 issue 1 pages 13 23 doix url http ... more details
for the album by Fischer Z Word Salad album Word salad is a mixture of random words that, while arranged in phrases that appear to give them meaning, actually carry no significance. The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but the meaning is hopelessly confused. A famous example is Noam Chomsky s phrase, Colorless green ideas sleep furiously . The term is used to describe poetry and other literary works as in Chomsky s example , but is also often used to describe a symptom of mental disorders or textual randomization in computer programs. It s frequently used as a pejorative, to describe unintelligible speech or poorly written literature. In mental health diagnoses Word salad may describe a symptom of mental conditions in which a person attempts to communicate an idea, but random words come out instead. Often, the person is unaware that he or she did not make sense. It appears in people with dementia and schizophrenia , ref cite book author Shives, Louise Rebraca title Basic concepts of psychiatric mental health nursing publisher Wolters Kluwer Lippincott Williams & Wilkins location Philadelphia year 2008 page 112 isbn 0 7817 9707 1 oclc ref as well as after anoxic brain damage anoxic brain injury . It may be present as Wernicke s aphasia Schizophasia , a mental condition characterized by incoherent babbling compulsive or intentional, but nonsensical Logorrhea psychology Logorrhea , a mental condition characterized by excessive talking incoherent and compulsive Clanging , a speech pattern that follows rhyming and other sound associations rather than meaning. In computingWord salad can be generated by a computer program for entertainment purposes for example, a game ... similar to word salad, in which an assortment of random text is generated through character encoding ... that are essentially identical to word salad. See also Lorem ipsum Bayesian poisoning References wiktionary word salad reflist Category Medical signs Category Random text generation ja pt Word ... more details
&minus 1 sup 2 sup is the upper bound for the length of the shortest synchronizing word .... Modifying the Upper Bound on the Length of Minimal Synchronizing Word. Lect. Notes in Comp. Sci, 6914 ... Eppstein finds a synchronizing word of length at most 11 n sup 3 sup 48 Big O notation ... does not always find the shortest possible synchronizing word for a given automaton as Eppstein also shows, the problem of finding the shortest synchronizing word is NP complete . However, for a special ... word, proves that these automata always have a synchronizing word of length at most n &minus ... form whose shortest synchronizing word has length exactly n &minus 1 sup 2 sup ... on Computing volume 19 issue 3 pages 500 510 year 1990 doi 10.1137 0219033 postscript . ref The road ... more details
distinguish Trusted computing Refimprove date February 2012 The term Trustworthy Computing TwC has been applied to computing systems that are inherently computer security secure , available, and reliable ... the term Trustworthy Computing as the title of a company initiative to improve public trust in its ... industry . Trusted vs. Trustworthy The terms Trustworthy Computing and Trusted Computing ... that will not fail . Trusted Computing has been defined and outlined with a set of specifications and guidelines by the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance TCPA , including secure input and output, memory curtaining, sealed storage, and remote attestation. As stated above, Trustworthy Computing aims ... and accepted. History Trustworthy computing is not a new concept. The 1960s saw an increasing dependence on computing systems by the military , the space program , financial institutions and public safety organizations. The computing industry began to identify deficiencies in existing systems and focus ... Babcock Computing identified four areas of trustworthiness that foreshadow Microsoft s. Their time ... for providing trustworthy computing concentrated on four areas An ironclad operating system ... to a trustworthy system. Microsoft launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative in 2002. This program ... activities to include a by design view of security. Microsoft and Trustworthy Computing news release ..., defining the framework of the company s Trustworthy Computing program. Four areas were identified ... Microsoft s first pillar of Trustworthy Computing is security. Security has always been a part of computing, but now it must become a priority. citation needed date January 2012 According to Microsoft ... to create a secure and trustworthy computing environment. Responsible Leadership Microsoft highlights ... necessary to create and enforce secure computing. Customer Guidance and Engagement It is important ... computing. Privacy For computing to become ubiquitous in connecting people and transmitting ... more details
Combined word may refer to Portmanteau word , a word which fuses two or more function words Compound linguistics , a lexeme less precisely, a word that consists of more than one stem disambig ... more details
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