| Alexis Carrel |death_place = Alexis_Carrel
|
| Ada (programming language) Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language based on Pascal. It was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense during 1977–1983 to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the US Department of Defense (DoD). Ada_(programming_language)
|
| Atanasoff–Berry Computer The Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) was the first electronic digital computing device. Conceived in 1937, the machine was not programmable, being designed only to solve systems of linear equations. Atanasoff–Berry_Computer
|
| Asbestos Asbestos is a group of minerals with long, thin fibrous crystals. The word "asbestos" (῾ἀσβεστος) is derived from a Greek adjective meaning inextinguishable. Asbestos
|
| Aircraft hijacking Hijacking (also known as skyjacking and aircraft piracy) is the take over of an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. In most cases the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers. Aircraft_hijacking
|
| Anselm of Canterbury |predecessor = Lanfranc Anselm_of_Canterbury
|
| Amdahl's law Amdahl's law, also known as Amdahl's argument,Rodgers 85, p.226 is named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved. Amdahl's_law
|
| American Quarter Horse The American Quarter Horse is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances. Its name came from its ability to outdistance other breeds of horse in races of a quarter mile or less, where some individuals have been clocked at speeds up to 55 mph. American_Quarter_Horse
|
| Aromatherapy Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine that uses volatile liquid plant materials, known as essential oils (EOs), and other aromatic compounds from plants for the purpose of affecting a person's mood or health. Scientific evidence is weak and preliminary but mildly encouraging for a limited number of claims. Aromatherapy
|
| Aung San Suu Kyi |birth_place=Rangoon, Burma Aung_San_Suu_Kyi
|
| Albinism Albinism
|
| Albinism Talk:Albinism
|
| Bass guitar Talk:Bass_guitar
|
| Burroughs Corporation The Burroughs Corporation began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company in St. Louis, Missouri selling an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs. Burroughs_Corporation
|
| Bachelor A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been married (see single). A man who was formerly married is not a bachelor but rather is a divorcé or a widower (except in cases where the marriage was legally annulled, in which case there was legally no marriage—especially if it was never consummated). Bachelor
|
| Bachelor Talk:Bachelor
|
| Calculus Calculus (Latin, calculus, a small stone used for counting) is a branch of mathematics that includes the study of limits, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series, and constitutes a major part of modern university education. Historically, it has been referred to as "the calculus of infinitesimals", or "infinitesimal calculus". Calculus
|
| Creationism/Archive 1 Talk:Creationism/Archive_1
|
| Charles Babbage | birth_place = London, England Charles_Babbage
|
| Chicano Chicano (feminine Chicana) is a politically-loaded word for a Mexican American (in the sense of native-born Americans of Mexican ancestry, as opposed to Mexican natives living in the United States). The terms Chicano and Chicana (also spelled xicano) are used specifically by and regarding some US citizens of Mexican descent. Chicano
|
| Complex analysis Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematics investigating functions of complex numbers. It is useful in many branches of mathematics, including number theory and applied mathematics, and in physics. Complex_analysis
|
| Catalysis Catalysis is the process in which the rate of a chemical reaction is increased by means of a chemical substance known as a catalyst. Unlike other reagents that participate in the chemical reaction, a catalyst is not consumed. Catalysis
|
| Traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine (also known as TCM, ) includes a range of traditional medical practices originating in China. Traditional_Chinese_medicine
|
| Curl (mathematics) In vector calculus, curl (also named: rotor) is a vector operator that shows a vector field's "rotation"; that is, the direction of the axis of rotation and the magnitude of the rotation. It can also be described as the circulation density. Curl_(mathematics)
|
| Canadian Shield The Canadian Shield — also called the Laurentian Plateau, or Bouclier Canadien (French) — is a large geological shield covered by a thin layer of soil that forms the nucleus of the North American or Laurentia craton. It has a deep, common, joined bedrock region in eastern and central Canada and stretches North from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean, covering over half the country. Canadian_Shield
|
| Choctaw |regions = Choctaw
|
| Alternative biochemistry Alternative biochemistry is the speculative biochemistry of alien life forms that differ radically from those on Earth. It includes biochemistries that use elements other than carbon to construct primary cellular structures and/or use solvents besides water. Alternative_biochemistry
|
| Caldera A caldera is a cauldron-like volcanic feature formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption. They are sometimes confused with volcanic craters. Caldera
|
| Derivative In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the derivative is a measurement of how a function changes when the values of its inputs change. Loosely speaking, a derivative can be thought of as how much a quantity is changing at some given point. Derivative
|
| Digital Equipment Corporation | industry = Computer manufacturing Digital_Equipment_Corporation
|
| Donald Knuth | birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. Donald_Knuth
|
| Divergence In vector calculus, the divergence is an operator that measures the magnitude of a vector field’s source or sink at a given point; the divergence of a vector field is a (signed) scalar. For example, for a vector field that denotes the velocity of air expanding as it is heated, the divergence of the velocity field would have a positive value because the air expands. Divergence
|
| DDT | Section2 = DDT
|
| Engineering Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying technical and scientific knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria. The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD, the predecessor of ABETABET History) has defined engineering as follows: Engineering
|
| Edsger W. Dijkstra | birth_place = Rotterdam, Netherlands Edsger_W._Dijkstra
|
| Eugene Wigner | birth_place = Budapest, Hungary (Austria-Hungary) Eugene_Wigner
|
| Expert witness An expert witness is a witness, who by virtue of education, training, skill, or experience, is believed to have knowledge in a particular subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially (and legally) rely upon the witness's specialized (scientific, technical or other) opinion about an evidence or fact issue within the scope of their expertise, referred to as the expert opinion, as an assistance to the fact-finder.See, e. Expert_witness
|
| Frame problem In artificial intelligence, the frame problem was initially formulated as the problem of expressing a dynamical domain in logic without explicitly specifying which conditions are not affected by an action. John McCarthy and Patrick J. Frame_problem
|
| Flat Earth Talk:Flat_Earth
|
| Friedrich Hayek Talk:Friedrich_Hayek
|
| Generation X/Archive02 Talk:Generation_X/Archive02
|
| General relativity General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the state-of-the art description of gravity in modern physics. General_relativity
|
| Genocide Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. Genocide
|
| Homeschooling Homeschooling (also called home education), home learning or homeschool – is the education of children at home, typically by parents or professional tutors, rather than in a public or private school. Homeschooling
|
| History of science and technology The history of science and technology (HST) is a field of history which examines how humanity's understanding of the natural world (science) and ability to manipulate it (technology) have changed over the millennia. This field of history also studies the cultural, economic, and political impacts of scientific innovation. History_of_science_and_technology
|
| Internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. Internet
|
| Insect Insects (Class Insecta) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species—more than half of all known living organismsThreats to Global Biodiversity (Accessed December 2007—with estimates of undescribed species as high as 30 million, thus potentially representing over 90% of the differing life forms on the planet. Insects may be found in nearly all environments on the planet, although only a small number of species occur in the oceans, a habitat dominated by another arthropod group, the crustaceans. Insect
|
| Iterative method In computational mathematics, an iterative method attempts to solve a problem (for example an equation or system of equations) by finding successive approximations to the solution starting from an initial guess. This approach is in contrast to direct methods, which attempt to solve the problem by a finite sequence of operations, and, in the absence of rounding errors, would deliver an exact solution (like solving a linear system of equations Ax = b by Gaussian elimination). Iterative_method
|
| International Prize Court The capturing of prizes (enemy equipment, vehicles, and especially ships) during wartime is a tradition that goes back as far as organized warfare itself. International_Prize_Court
|
| Integral Integration is a core concept of advanced mathematics, specifically in the fields of calculus and mathematical analysis. Given a function f(x) of a real variable x and an interval [a,b] of the real line, the integral Integral
|