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Abstraction (computer science)

Technique for arranging complexity of computer systems

Ada (programming language)

High-level programming language first released in 1980

Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

Computer software for connecting SCSI devices

Family of programming languages

Connection between computers or programs

Application checkpointing

A technique for inserting fault tolerance into computing systems

Artificial general intelligence

Type of AI with wide-ranging abilities

American character encoding standard

Assembly language

Low-level programming language

Backus–Naur form

One of the two main notation techniques for context-free grammars in computer science

Form of instruction set designed to be run by a software interpreter

C (programming language)

General-purpose programming language

C Sharp (programming language)

Multi-paradigm (object-oriented) programming language

General-purpose programming language

Calling convention

Low-level scheme specifying how functions receive parameters and return values in a programming language implementation

Application programming interface (API)

Character encoding

Using numbers to represent text characters

Programming language with English-like syntax

MacOS framework

Assembly of written information into a standard order

Computer program which translates code from one programming language to another

Computer hardware and software capable of playing chess

Field of artificial intelligence dedicated to creating a computer program that plays Go

Computer programming

Process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs

Execution order of computer commands

Process of finding and resolving defects or problems within a computer program

Declarative programming

Programming paradigm based on modeling the logic of a computation

Characters that specify the boundary between regions in a data stream

Scientific application

API used in Microsoft DirectX for 3D rendering

Collection of multimedia related APIs on Microsoft platforms

Error correction code

Scheme for controlling errors in data over noisy communication channels

Exception handling

Process of responding to anomalous or exceptional conditions requiring special processing in computer programming

Causes a computer to follow indicated instructions

Existential risk from artificial intelligence

Hypothesized risk to human existence

Diagram that represents a workflow or process

Formal specification

Aspect of computer science

Formal verification

Proving or disproving the correctness of certain intended algorithms

General-purpose programming language

Friendly artificial intelligence

AI to benefit humanity

Function (computer programming)

Sequence of instructions that can be called from other points in a computer program

Functional programming

Programming paradigm

3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive

Functional programming language

High-level programming language

Programming language with strong abstraction from details of hardware

Imperative programming

Type of programming paradigm in computer science

Interpreter (computing)

Program that executes source code without a separate compilation step

Repetition of a process

Java (programming language)

Object-oriented programming language

High-level programming language

Kotlin (programming language)

General-purpose programming language

Language binding

Software library that allows using another library coded in another programming language

Library (computing)

Collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often for software development.

Lisp (programming language)

Programming language family

Logic programming

Programming paradigm based on formal logic

Logo (programming language)

Computer programming language

Low-level programming language

Programming languages similar to instruction sets

Lightweight programming language

Lowest level instructions executed by a computer

Machine learning

Study of algorithms that improve automatically through experience

Machine translation

Use of software for language translation

Macro (computer science)

In computer science, a concise representation of a pattern

Allowable structure and composition of phrases and sentences of a metalanguage

Modular programming

Structured programming technique where a program is divided into modules with specific functions

Garbled text as a result of incorrect character encoding

Natural language processing

Field of computer science and linguistics

Neural network (machine learning)

Computational model used in machine learning, based on connected, hierarchical functions

Sequence of statements or instructions in a computer language

General-purpose, object-oriented programming language

Object-oriented programming

Programming paradigm based on the concept of objects

Open Database Connectivity

ODBC, standard interface for accessing database systems

Cross-platform graphics API

Operator overloading

Feature of some programming languages

Parameter (computer programming)

An input provided to a function/subroutine

Pascal (programming language)

Programming language

Interpreted programming language first released in 1987

Philosophy of artificial intelligence

Overview of the philosophy of artificial intelligence

Scripting language created in 1994

Pointer (computer programming)

Object which stores memory addresses in a computer program

Programming language

Language for communicating instructions to a machine

Programming paradigm

A programming paradigm defines the methodology of designing and implementing programs using key features and building blocks of a programming language .

Programming language that uses first order logic

Python (programming language)

General-purpose programming language

R (programming language)

Programming language for statistics

Recursion (computer science)

Use of functions that call themselves

Regular expression

Sequence of characters that forms a search pattern

Use of existing assets in some form within the software product development process

Ruby (programming language)

Interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language

Scala (programming language)

General-purpose programming language

Shading language

Graphics programming language adapted to programming shader effects

Script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system

Error, flaw, failure, or fault in a computer program or system

Software design

Process by which an agent creates a specification of a software artifact

Software development

Creation and maintenance of software

Software documentation

Explains the functionality of software

Software maintenance

Modification of a software product after delivery

Software portability

Usability of the same software in different environments

Software prototyping

Activity of creating prototypes of software applications

Software testing

Examination of how efficient and reliable software is at performing its intended function

Speech recognition

Automatic conversion of spoken language into text

Relational database programming language

Structured programming

Programming paradigm aimed at improving clarity, quality, and development time by using control structures

Swift (programming language)

Apple's general-purpose, open source, compiled programming language.

Syntax (programming languages)

Set of rules defining correctly structured programs

Technological singularity

Hypothetical point in time when technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible

Transparency (human–computer interaction)

Term in human–computer interaction

Test of a machine's ability to imitate human intelligence

Type conversion

Changing an expression from one data type to another

Character encoding standard

Universal Product Code

Barcode symbology used for tracking trade items in stores

ASCII-compatible variable-width encoding of Unicode, using one to four bytes

Variable (computer science)

Storage location paired with an associated symbolic name (an identifier), which contains some known or unknown quantity of information referred to as a value

Version control

Managing versions of source code or data

Visual Basic (.NET)

Object-oriented computer programming language

Cross-platform 3D graphics and computing programming interface

Weak artificial intelligence

Form of artificial intelligence

Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces on Windows

Markup language by the W3C for encoding of data