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that returns to the caller immediately before the completion of its processing and without blocking the calling thread. When an application calls an asynchronous method, it can simultaneously execute along with the execution of the asynchronous method that performs its task. An asynchronous method runs in a thread separate from the main application thread. The processing results are fetched through another call on another thread.

 

Asynchronous methods help optimize the execution of resources resulting in scalable application. These are used to execute time-consuming tasks such as opening large files, connecting to remote computers, querying a database, calling Web services and ASP.NET Web forms.  Asynchronous method call may also be referred to as asynchronous method invocation (AMI).

 

Stack Environment Control Dump Machine

A Stack Environment Control Dump machine (SECD machine) is an abstract machine made for the implementation of functional programming. A SECD machine contains registers "stack control and dump" and what experts refer to as an associative array in terms of environment, to help with the compiling of functional programming languages.

 

P-Code Machine

 

A P-code machine is a type of computer that executes P-code or the assembly language of a CPU. IT professionals may refer to P-code as portable code or pseudocode.  P-code machines have utility in various hardware setups.

 

Sociotechnical

 

The term "sociotechnical" is a broad way to combine people-oriented and technology-oriented practices and projects. The use of the word "technical," here, is also similarly broad, and does not refer just to material technologies, but to a technical tendency in general.

 

Superconverged Cloud Infrastructure

A superconverged cloud infrastructure, or superconvergence, is an approach to IT resources that integrates network, storage, compute, virtualization and management in a single platform. Driven by the need for increased operational efficiency, superconvergence reduces performance, resource and usage limitations identified in previous IT infrastructure management approaches. It represents a significant step in the evolution of data center technology.

 

Cryptographic Key

A cryptographic key is a string of bits used by a cryptographic algorithm to transform plain text into cipher text or vice versa. This key remains private and ensures secure communication. A cryptographic key is the core part of cryptographic operations. Many cryptographic systems include pairs of operations, such as encryption and decryption. A key is a part of the variable data that is provided as input to a cryptographic algorithm to execute this sort of operation.  In a properly designed cryptographic scheme, the security of the scheme is dependent on the security of the keys used.

 

Web of Things (WoT)

The Web of Things (WoT) is a computing concept that describes a future where everyday objects are fully integrated with the Web. The prerequisite for WoT is for the "things" to have embedded computer systems that enable communication with the Web. Such smart devices would then be able to communicate with each other using existing Web standards.

 

Future Proof

Future proof is a buzzword that describes a product, service or technological system that will not need to be significantly updated as technology advances. In reality, very few things are truly future proof. In any field that depends heavily on technology, a regular cycle of replacing and updating appears to be the norm.

 

Cardinality

 

The term “cardinality” in database design has to do with counting tables and values. With that said, cardinality has three main definitions. It can relate to counting the number of elements in a set, identifying the relationships between tables, or describing how database tables contain a number of values, and what those tables look like in general.  Cardinality between tables can be one-to-one, many-to-one or many-to-many.

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Biometric Engine

A biometric engine is the core program that controlls the different hardware and components of a biometric system. The biometric engine controls the enrollment, capture, extraction, comparison and matching of biometric data from a user. It is based on a set of algorithms that facilitate the steps in the recognition process, as well as the intermediary processes like image enhancement, determining quality and the extraction of distinguishing features.

 

Minification

Minification is a computer science term for changing code to remove unnecessary characters and elements. By taking out comments and extraneous characters, as well as phrases and elements of a codebase, minification makes files smaller. It is a general best practice in many kinds of coding and codebase handling. Minification is also known as minimization.

 

Database Column

In the context of relational databases, a column is a set of data values, all of a single type, in a table. Columns define the data in a table, while rows populate data into the table. Most databases also allow columns to contain complex data like images, whole documents, or even video clips. So, a column allowing data values of a single type does not necessarily mean it only has simple text values like. Some databases go even further and allow the data to be stored as a file on the Operating System, while the column data only contains a pointer or link to the actual file. This is done for the purposes of keeping the overall database size manageable -- a smaller database size means less time taken for backups and less time to search for data within the database

 

 Zerg Rush

Zerg rush is a term used in several real-time strategy games (RTS) to describe an overpowering attack by a player against his opponent, usually early in the game. This term was popularized by "StarCraft". The Zerg, the most well-known playable race in the game, has the ability to rapidly produce small and cheap offensive units called zerglings in a short period of time, allowing the player to overwhelm his opponents forces very early in the game.

 

Ideavirus

An ideavirus is an idea that spreads through various networks like the Internet and grows rapidly within a target population. It usually comes from a single person. The term ideavirus was coined by marketer Seth Godin in his book, "Unleashing the Ideavirus." Like a virus, an ideavirus infects and changes every individual it touches, even in just a very small way. The outcome of this infection may not be noticeable, or it can lead to the creation of new products or companies. With each person influenced, the idea is interpreted, modified and often improved before it is passed on. Viral marketing is based on an ideavirus about a product or service. Technology has made spreading an ideavirus much faster and more powerful than in the past.

 

B3 Security

B3 security is a security rating used to evaluate the security of computer applications and products to be used within government and military organizations and institutes. It is among the classifications/ratings produced by the U.S. National Computer Security Center (NCSC) as part of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TESC), or the orange book.

Quux

Quux is a meta-syntactic variable name invented only as a kind of nickname or placeholder. Like other variable names such as foo, quux may be used in computer programming as a variable name.

 

Don't Be Evil

Don't be evil is an informal slogan for Google. This motto was conceived by two Google employees, Paul Buccheit and Amit Patel, in an attempt to promote a corporate culture that put long-term gains and user satisfaction above short-term profits. The company believes this philosophy benefits both users and shareholders and that Internet companies don't need to exploit users to make money.  Don't be evil is also incorrectly referred to as do no evil.

 

Random Forest

A random forest is a data construct applied to machine learning that develops large numbers of random decision trees analyzing sets of variables. This type of algorithm helps to enhance the ways that technologies analyze complex data.

 

Binhex

BinHex is an encoding system used in converting binary data to text, used by the Macintosh OS to send binary files through email. Conversion of binary data into ASCII characters is done to easily transfer the files from one platform to another, as almost all the computers can handle ASCII text files.  BinHex was originally the idea of Tim Mann. He wrote it for the TRS-80 as a stand-alone version of an encoding system. BinHex is similar to Uuencode (Unix to Unix encode) and is a common format for Macintosh files. BinHex files need more space than the original format files and are less likely to be corrupted while in transit between older protocols.A BinHex file generally has a .hqx extension at the end of its filename. Earlier versions had the extension .hex. This term is also known (referenced) as .hqx.

 

Bitmap

Bitmap (BMP) is an image file format that can be used to create and store computer graphics. A bitmap file displays a small dots in a pattern that, when viewed from afar, creates an overall image. A bitmap image is a grid made of rows and columns where a specific cell is given a value that fills it in or leaves it blank, thus creating an image out of the data.

 

Vector Graphic

A vector graphic is a type of image. Vector images are graphical representations of mathematical objects such as lines, curves, polygons and its like. These graphics are generated by computer and they follow x and y axis as their reference definition.

 

Access Control List

Access control list (ACL) refers to the permissions attached to an object that specify which users are granted access to that object and the operations it is allowed to perform.Each entry in an access control list specifies the subject and an associated operation that is permitted.

 

WannaCry

WannaCry is a type of ransomware attack that developed in the spring of 2017 and brought the idea of ransomware threats further into the mainstream. This global attack disabled many systems, including public-service systems such as those supporting hospitals and law-enforcement offices. Experts classified WannaCry as a cryptoworm. The security community responded with a "kill switch" and patches that largely stopped the infection of computers with WannaCry.

 

Test Set

A test set in machine learning is a secondary (or tertiary) data set that is used to test a machine learning program after it has been trained on an initial training data set. The idea is that predictive models always have some sort of unknown capacity that needs to be tested out, as opposed to analyzed from a programming perspective.  A test set is also known as a test data set or test data.

 

Data Boomerang

A data boomerang is when in-house IT staff are asked to manage a project that was previously deployed on the cloud. The term is used by analogy with the "boomerang generation" of young adults moving back in with their parents. IT administrators are tasked with maintaining data that they thought would be hosted in the cloud permanently.

 

Competitive Network

A competitive network is typically a type of unsupervised machine learning, using the principle of competitive learning to provide results. Through specific mathematical and network modeling, competitive networks achieve various goals in input recognition and processing.
Competitive networks are also known as competitive neural networks.

 

Candidate Key

A candidate key is a column, or set of columns, in a table that can uniquely identify any database record without referring to any other data. Each table may have one or more candidate keys, but one candidate key is unique, and it is called the primary key. This is usually the best among the candidate keys to use for identification. When a key is composed of more than one column, it is known as a composite key.

 

Bitcoin Lightning Network

The Bitcoin Lightning Network is a cryptocurrency protocol that works with blockchain ledger technology. It was created by