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3D Printing
AAA Server
ABEND
acceptable use policy (AUP)
access denial
access level
access point
access provider
access rate
access rights
accounting information system (AIS)
ACID qualities
Acrobat Reader
active attack
ActiveX
activity value analysis
ad server
address
Adobe Acrobat
ADSL
advanced encryption standard (AES)
aggregate data
aliasing
ampere (A)
amplitude modulation (AM)
analog
analog signal
analog to digital (A-D) conversion
AND
anonymizing
anonymous FTP
antivirus (AV) software
any-to-any distributed computing
Apache
app store
applet
application generator
application package
application program
application programming interface (API)
application server
application service provider (ASP)
application sharing
application software
approved data
Archie
argument
artificial intelligence
artificial neural net (ANN)
ASCII
ASCII armored
ASCII text
assembler
assembly language
asymmetric key cryptography (AKC)
asymmetrical data transfer
asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL)
asynchronous communication
asynchronous transmission
asynchronous transmission mode (ATM)
ATAPI
audio video interleave (AVI)
authoring
authoring tool
auto responder
automated data processing
automatic data capture
avatar
back-end application
back-end system
backbone
background operation
backup strategy
backward compatibility
bandwidth
baseband
BASIC
basic input output system (BIOS)
basic multilingual plane (BMP)
batch processing
Baud (Bd)
binary file
binary system
bit
bit density
bit depth
bit error rate (BER)
bit length
bit map
bit rate
bit-mapped font
bit-mapped graphics
bits per inch (BPI)
bits per second (BPS)
Blackberry addiction
bleeding edge technology
bloatware
blocking software
Boolean algebra
Boolean logic
Boolean operator
Boolean search
booting
born digital
bot
bounce
broadband
broadcasting
brouter
browser
browser cache
buffer
bug
bulletin board system (BBS)
bus
bus topology
business architecture
byte
C
C++
cable modem
cablecasting
cache
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
case-sensitive
catenet
cellular automata
central processing unit (CPU)
centronics interface
Certified Data Processor (CDP)
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
challenge-handshake authentication protocol (CHAP)
channel capacity
channel distribution format (CDF)
character set
checksum
chipset
ciphertext
circuit switched
clickable
client-server architecture
client-server environment
clock speed
cluster
clustered storage
CNBC
COBOL
cold site
collaborative business intelligence (CBI)
color management system (CMS)
color matching system (CMS)
commercial off the shelf (COTS) software
commercial parties
common gateway interface (CGI)
common object request broker architecture (CORBA)
communications architecture
compact disc (CD)
compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM)
compact disc-interactive (CD-I)
compact disc-recordable (CD-R)
compact disc-rewritable (CD-RW)
compatibility
compiler
component object model (COM)
compression algorithm
computationally secure
computer
computer aided design (CAD)
computer aided engineering (CAE)
computer aided instruction (CAI)
computer aided manufacturing (CAM)
computer aided software engineering (CASE)
computer assisted retrieval (CAR)
computer based training (CBT)
computer conferencing
computer documentation
computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
computer language
computer output archival and retrieval (COAR)
computer output to laser disc (COLD)
computer platform
computer program
computer resources
computer service provider (CSP)
computer software
computer telephony integration (CTI)
computer virus
computer-aided acquisition and logistic support (CALS)
computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)
configuration control
configuration item
configuration management
consumerization
continuous acquisition and life-cycle support (CALS)
copy protection
corporate data modeling
corruption of data
cost of cracking adjustment (COCA)
cross-platform
cross-platform support
cryptography
data access time
data architecture
data bank
data capture
data center
data cleaning
data collection
data communications
data compression
data consumer
data decompression
data decryption
data depository
data dictionary
data driven attack
data element
data encryption
data encryption standard (DES)
data entity
data entry
data exposure
data field
data item
data line
data logging
data management
data management software
data mart
data mining
data mirroring
data model
data modeling
data owner
data processing system
data protection
data record
data recovery
data reduction
data repository
data restoration
data stream
data structure
data structure standard
data synchronization
data transfer rate (DTR)
data value standard
data vaulting
data warehouse
database
database management system (DBMS)
database shadowing
dataflow
datagram
decision support system (DSS)
demilitarized zone (DMZ)
denial of service (DOS)
denial of service (DOS) attack
device
device dependence
device driver
device independence
dial up connection
digital
digital actor
digital audio tape (DAT)
digital certificate (DC)
digital content exchange service (DECS)
digital data

digital data service (DDS)
digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT)
Digital European Cordless Telecommunication
digital library
digital linear tape (DLT)
digital media
digital medium
digital microwave
digital rights management
digital signal
digital signal processing
digital signature
digital subscriber line (DSL)
digital television
digital to analog (D-A) conversion
digital wallet
digitization
direct access
direct connection
directory
directory services
disc
disk drive
disk mirroring
disk operating system (DOS)
distributed application
distributed computing (DC)
distributed data processing (DDP)
distributed database
distributed file system
distributed network architecture (DNA)
distributed printing
distributed storage
distributed systems
document imaging
domain name
domain name server
domain name service (DNS)
domain name system (DNS)
DOS
dot matrix printer
dot pitch
dots per inch (DPI)
dual boot
dumb terminal
electronic banking
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
electronic data capture
electronic data processing (EDP)
electronic document
electronic media
electronic meeting system (EMS)
email money transfer (EMT)
embedded computer
embedded processor
emulation
emulator
encapsulated postscript (EPS)
encryption
encryption algorithm
enterprise application hosting
enterprise application integration
enterprise applications
enterprise architecture
enterprise java beans
enterprise relationship management
enterprise resource planning (ERP)
enterprise risk management (ERM)
erasable, programmable, read only memory (EPROM)
Ethernet
executive information system (EIS)
expandability
expansion bus
expert database system
expert system
extensibility
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
federal telephone excise tax
fiber optic transmission
file allocation table (FAT)
file backup
file compression
file format
file integrity
file recovery
file server
file structure
file transfer
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
firmware
flash memory
flat database
floating point operation (Flop)
floating point operations per second (Flops)
floating point unit (FPU)
form factor
formatting
FORTRAN
fourth generation language (4GL)
frame
Free BSD
garbage-in, garbage-out (GIGO)
gate
gigabit (Gb)
gigabytes (GB)
gigaflop (Gflops)
Global Information Infrastructure (GII)
Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC)
graphic interchange format (GIF)
graphical user interface (GUI)
green tech
groupware
hacker
hash total
high definition television
high level language (HLL)
host computer
Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)
informatics
information
information appliance
information architecture
information engineering (IE)
information integrity
information park
information processing technology
information resources management (IRM)
information richness
information science
information security
information system
information system architecture
information technology (IT)
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
information theory
information utility (IU)
inherent availability
input
input device
integrated demand chain
interface
interoperability
interpreter
iPod
Java
Java virtual machine (JVM)
Javabeans
Javascript
jiffy
knowledge base management system
knowledge based system
last mile
legacy application
legacy costs
legacy data
legacy system
life cycle management
lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP)
linear programming
Linux
log file
logic circuit
logic gate
Ma Bell
machine code
machine instruction
machine language
machine readable
macro
mainframe computer
man machine interface
management support system (MSS)
manufacturing execution system (MES)
manufacturing resource planning (MRP-II)
markup language
mickey
Microsoft
mobile
mobile phone
Moore's law
network architecture
neural network
News Corporation
news feed
object code
object oriented architecture
online media
open framework
open system architecture
operator
pager
passive attack
patent troll
phone number
platform independent
podcast
portability
primary data
product architecture
relational database
reverse engineering
root directory
RSS
rule based system
SAP
scalability
secondary data
settlement rate
Silicon Valley
Skype
smartphone
social media
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
Steve Jobs
system architecture
system deployment
system design
system effectiveness
system engineering
system noise
technical architecture
technological environment
technological obsolescence
telephone
too big to fail
top level domain name
Turing test
uncertainty
unicode
unified modeling language (UML)
upward compatibility
video
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
weightless economy
WiMax
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