University of Dayton
School of Business Administration
Fall, 2005

MIS 301
Information Systems in Organizations

Alphabet Soup Sorted by Acronym

This page was last modified on Monday November 28, 2005


Acronym: ACM

Description: Stands for: Access Control Model Internet Definition: Defines mechanisms to determine weather access to a managed object should be allowed Nicole's Definition: Basically, it means that it is a security measure taken by people to prevent the wrong people from being able to access vital information

Name: Arce, Nicole


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Description: Input definition here.

Name: Last Name Here, First Name Here


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Description: Input definition here.

Name: Tomasone, Michael


Acronym: ADA

Description: Automatic Data Aquisition is data from the online monitoring stations are transferred and controlled through a stable communication network.My definition:Communication between instruments are usually done by the use of telephones being the stable communication network. (Other Acronym is Wide Area Netwok-WAN).

Name: Barkley, Michelle


Acronym: ADA

Description: Automatic Data Acquisition is data from the online monitoring stations are transferred and controlled through a stable communication network.My definition: It is communication between intruments are usually done by use of telephones. (other acronym stands for Wide Area Network-WAN))

Name: Michelle , Barkley


Acronym: ADO

Description: Activex Data Objects-Microsoft's library for accessing data sources through OLE DB. Typically it is used to query or modify data stored in a relational database.

Name: Barney, Stacy


Acronym: ADP

Description: The acronym, ADP, stands for automatic data processing, which is an interatcting assembly of procedures, processes, methods, personnel and equipment to perform data processing operations on data automatically. ADP executes user-written or designated programs for the manipulation of arithmetic and logic operations, as well as, character-string symbol manipulation. ADP may be performed by a single, stand-alone unit or by several units, which are all connected.

Name: Bondick, Amber


Acronym: ADSL

Description: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line is the technology used by many phone/network companies today. ADSL was developed in the 1990s to provide high-speed internet through copper phone wires to users faster than a conventional modem can provide. ADSL is a form of DSL and is asymmetric in the fact that data can flow faster in one direction than the other. In turn, the same amount of bandwith provided from the server is not required from the user.

Name: Carabin, Ashton


Acronym: ADT

Description: ADT stands for Application Development Tool. Applications are programs designed for end users,the individuals who utilize the product. An Application Development Tool provides programmers with the tools necessary for the building of programs such as appication softwares like databases, word processor and spreadsheets.

Name: Cordero, Sandralis


Acronym: AES

Description: AES stands for the Advanced Encryption Standard and is based of the Rijndael algorithm, named after is creators. This block cipher which can both encipher and decipher information was adpoted by The United States government to secure important information and ensure that secret documents could not be viewed by unauthorized users. The AES block cipher contains a fixed block size of 128 bits and a key size of 128, 192, or 256. The larger key sizes make it difficult for hackers to view protected information. AES is easy to implement, requires little memory, and is fast for both hardware and software. AES will serve as a replacement to DES,Data Encryption Standard, which only has key sizes of 56 bits.

Name: Crider, Jordan


Acronym: AFS

Description: The AFS is otherwise known as the Andrew File System. Developed by the ITC (Information Technology Center) at Carnegie Mellon University, the AFS has many versions. One version is called the DFS (Distributed File System). The AFS and DFS work together to provide a way for unlike server and client machines to enter a global information system. The AFS provides easily shared and accessible file services in large distributed environments. This is done by breaking file systems and client servers into cells. These cells are managed by a specified authority, but they can share information with users both inside and outside of the cell (depending on access rights). In other words, in a globally shared information system, it makes the all the information similar and easily understood for all users. Each network operating system within the global system can communicate and share information because the AFS breaks down barriers between each information system.

Name: Durrett, Kyle


Acronym: AGP

Description: Accelerated Graphics Port: Also can be called advanced graphics port, this is a high speed point-to-point channel used to attach a device, such as a graphics card, to a computers motherboard. These are used to help speed up your computers 3D graphics and come on all computers now, but are slowly being phased out due to new and better technology.

Name: Farnsworth, Chris


Acronym: AI

Description: AI stands for artificial intelligence. It is a subfield of computer science concerned with symobolic reasoning and problem solving.

Name: Gregosky, Andrew


Acronym: AIMS

Description: An Automated Information Management System (AIMS) is a web-based data warehouse tool that is able to be used within various markets such as transportation, asset management, and state, regional, and local government departments to support the automation of business functions. These systems include capabilities such as custom reporting, standard and custom queries, and quickbrowse of an entire database.

Name: Gross, Brandon


Acronym: AIS

Description: Automated Information System. Hardware and software that automatically acquires, stores, processes, displays, or transmits some kind of data.

Name: Hanning, Benjamin


Acronym: AITP

Description: What does AITP stand for? Association of Information Technology Professionals is an organization who offers opportunities for Information Technology (IT) leadership and education through partnerships with industry, government and academics. AITP provides quality IT related education, information on relevant IT issues and forums for networking with experienced peers and other IT professionals. Overall this is an organization who is pro advancement of Information Technology though the government and education.

Name: Hughes, Ryan


Acronym: AIX

Description: Advanced Interactive eXecutive is a version of UNIX developed by IBM in 1986. It originally stood for “Advanced IBM UNIX” but was changed due to legal issues. This multi-user computer operating system consists of processors, memory, and file storage to aid user and file administration.

Name: Hunt, Jennifer


Acronym: AMIDS

Description: Application Mobile Integration Data Server. Takes information from a "legacy" (outdated) database and converts it to XML needed by a mobile device. If the mobile device makes any changes to the data, AMIDS updates the databased.

Name: Huth, Andrew


Acronym: ANSI

Description: American National Standards Institute- An independent non-profit organization that creates and publishes U.S. national standards taking input from all sectors of the technical community and the public at large. It is the place that sets standards for data communications systems such as the internet.

Name: Kelling, Julie


Acronym: API

Description: Set of definitions of the ways one piece of computer software communicates with another. In other words API is the program to allow for two different types of software to communicate between each other.

Name: Kozar, Cynthia


Acronym: API

Description: Application Program(ming) Interface - set of definitions of the ways one piece of computer software communicates with another. In other words, API is the program that allows different types of software to communicate with each other.

Name: Kozar, Cynthia


Acronym: ARPANET

Description: Advanced Research Project Agency Network was the predecessor to the internet. It was created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency as a way for networking, linking univeristies and research centers.

Name: Kreager, Brittany


Acronym: ASCII

Description: American Standard Code for Information is a code used by computers that represents letters, numbers, and different characters. For example is assigns a number to each key to the keyboard.

Name: Kroger, Megan


Acronym: ASP

Description: Application Service Provider is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. The most limited sense of this business is that of providing access to a particular application program, such as medical billing, using a standard protocol such as HTTP. The importance of this marketplace is reflected by its size. Clients for ASP services include businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and membership organizations.

Name: LaSelle, Maggie


Acronym: ASP

Description: ASP stands for Active Server Page. An active server page is an HTML page that contains one or more scripts that are processed on a Microsoft web server before the page is sent to the user. In general terms, ASP allows you to write code on the desired HTML page in an easy scripting language. Once the language is written on the HTML page, it is saved and complete. ASP allows for easy updates and maintenance because of the ease of the language.

Name: Mackey, Kevin


Acronym: ATM

Description: Asynchronous Transfer Mode refers to connection switching technology that organizes digital data into 53-byte packets and transmits the packets over a physical medium using digital signal technology. An example medium would be e-mail. The information sent over the email is transmitted through packets of digital information and reconstructed on the other end as a received email.

Name: Martau, Kathryn


Acronym: AWT

Description: AWT- Abstract Window Toolkit- allows prepares to create graphical user interfaces. These are what most people are used to with modern computer. These give us the choice to choose from a variety of different options rather than choosing an individual application. These options can be presented in a number of different ways. A drop-down box, a scroll bar, a desktop, and a window are very common methods. In contrast, computers were based on command prompt often used in MS-DOS. Here you would tell the computer which program you wanted to use, enter the command prompt, and execute the order.

Name: McCormick, Kyle


Acronym: B2B

Description: Business-to-Business: Business to Business is relationships that exist between different business entities. In MIS it involves Sell-Side Marketplaces, Buy-Side Marketplaces, and E-procurement.

Name: McCune, Zach


Acronym: B2C

Description: Business to Consumer-The transactions that takes place where the sellers are organizations and the buyers are individuals.

Name: Metzger, Kara


Acronym: BASIC

Description: BASIC stands for Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.It was designed in 1964 to allow students in non-science fields to be able to use the computer. At the time all computer use required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do. It became widespread on home microcomputers in the 1980s, and remains popular to this day in a handful of heavily evolved dialects.

Name: Meyer, Jason


Acronym: BBS

Description: Bulletin Board System- A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest - bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board.

Name: Meyrose, Phillip


Acronym: Blackberry

Description: Blackberry - def. - wireless handheld device that provides access to email, corporate data, phone, web, and organizer features. Blackberry has been used in many enterprises and government agencies to keep mobile employees connected to the information needed all while giving them the freedom to communicate when needed. It provides the user with business information and voice communications all in one wireless device.

Name: Miller, Kevin


Acronym: BLUETOOTH

Description: A wireless connection that enables devices to exchange information

Name: Mitchell, Emily


Acronym: BPR

Description: BPR: Business Process Reengineering/Redesign. BPR is a critical analysis and radical redesign of existing business processes to achieve breakthrough improvements in performance measures. This is a management approach that examines aspects of a business and its interaction, and attempts to improve the efficiency of the underlying processes. Simply, this is an analysis and redesign of workflows and processes within and between organizations.

Name: Norton, Stephanie


Acronym: C2C

Description: Consumer-to-consumer (used interchangeably with customer-to-customer) transactions occur when an individual sells products or services to other individuals. Online C2C auction sites have become very popular in recent years.

Name: Puchala, Emily


Acronym: CAD

Description: Computer Aided Design modeling of physical systems on computers, allowing interactive and automatic analysis of design variations and expressing design in a form suitable for manufacturing

Name: Schreiner, Wendy


Acronym: CAM

Description: CAM stands for Customer Account Managing. This seems appropriate for this class because it deals with managing accounts dealing with IT systems. Also, we recently covered this subject in class pertaining to our projects.

Name: Starr, Tazjuan


Acronym: CBK

Description: Common Body of Knowledge. This refers to core MIS subject matter competencies for those people working in the MIS field. The central focus is on management and technology skills because it is of great importance to stay up to date with the rapidly changing technologies in order to deal with problems that arise.

Name: Steinlage, Amy


Acronym: CBT

Description: Computer-Based Training (CBT): A method of educating students in a computer application through the use of a training program that can be integrated into the application. A common form of computer-based training is a computer tutorial.

Name: Zaller, John


Acronym: cc

Description: Carbon Copy(secondary email addressee)…sending the same email to two different people at the same time.

Name: Andryc, Jon


Acronym: CDPD

Description: CDPD refers to an enhanced packet overlay on analog cell phone networks used to transmit and receive data. This technology allows data files to be broken into a number of packets and sent along idle channels of existing cellular voice networks.

Name: Barhorst, Faye


Acronym: CGI

Description: A Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard for interfacing external applications with information servers, such as HTTP or Web servers. A CGI program is executed in real-time, so that it can output dynamic information.

Name: Cabrera, Rex


Acronym: CICS

Description: Customer Information Control System. This group of application servers and connectors provide an industrial strength, online transaction management and connectivity for mission-critical applications. Basically, CICS is used to ensure that transactions performed on the internet can be completed with certain statistics of the transaction recorded into a database. Such statistics include customer data, inventory figures, customer information, etc.

Name: Campbell, Richard


Acronym: CIO

Description: Chief Information Officer: A job title for a manager responsible for information technology within an organization. The CIO may be a member of the "executive board" of the organization. Every CIO has a different job description and does not require any particular job skills. Many CIO’s have degrees in information systems, software engineering, or computer science. The CIO’s often report to the chief executive officer or the chief financial officer.

Name: Colette, Jennifer


Acronym: CISC

Description: CSIS which is pronounced “c-sick” is a term that has been coined by Motorola. It stands for Customer Specific Integrated Circuit. It is a chip that is customarily designed for a specific application rather than a general purpose chip such as a microprocessor chip. The use of CSISs improve performance for general purpose CPUs because they are hardwired to do a specific job and overhead costs can be avoided because it is no longer necessary to fetch and interpret stored instructions. Many feel this is a more accurate description of a already existing acronym (ASIC) which was also coined by Motorola.

Name: Dougan, Brian


Acronym: CMC

Description: Computer-mediated Communication refers to human communication through technology, specifically through computers. This includes many different forms such as e-mail and Internet forums. Other examples of CMC are instant messaging, text messaging, online shopping, and video conferencing.

Name: Eilerman, Pat


Acronym: CMC

Description: Computer-mediated Communication refers to human communication through technology, specifically through computers. This includes many different forms such as e-mail and Internet forums. Other examples of CMC are instant messaging, text messaging, online shopping, and video conferencing.

Name: Eilerman, Pat


Acronym: CMOS

Description: CMOS: Configuration Memory Operating System- Configuration program, which allows you to configure hardware settings including system settings such as computer passwords, time, and date.

Name: Farrell, Andrew


Acronym: CNA

Description: Certified Novell Administrator. Provides companies direct support for software users in various work environments including professional offices and small businesses, work groups or departments, and corporate information systems. I think that CNA means that an individual or group works directly with small businesses, corporations, and companies with software and network related issues that have a daily impact on way those business, companies, and/or corporations conduct business. The information technology is crucial to those companies survival and competition within their fields.

Name: Getty, Robert


Acronym: CNA

Description: Certified Novell Administrator. Provides companies direct support for software users in various work environments including professional offices and small businesses, work groups or departments, and corporate information systems. I think that CNA means that an individual or group works directly with a small businesses, companies, and corporations dealing with software and/or network related issues that affect the daily operations of those small businesses, companies, and corporations. The information technology/systems are crucial to these small businesses, companies, and corporations that affect the survial and competition in their fields.

Name: Getty, Robert


Acronym: CNE

Description: Certified NetWare Engineer- this is a person who installs, maintains, supports Novell LAN's and WAN's. This means they can help people who are having troubles with their Local area network and wide area networks.

Name: Grozenski, Chelsea


Acronym: cobol

Description: COBOL: this acronym stands for common business-oriented language. definition is-Report to Conference on Data Systems Languages Including Initial Specifications for a Common Business Oriented Language (Cobol) for Programming Electronic Digital Computers.

Name: jarun, omar


Acronym: COM

Description: Component Object Model (COM) is a Microsoft platform for software components that is used to enable cross-application communication and dynamic object creation in any programming language that supports the technology. COM is often used in the software development world as an umbrella term that encompasses many other technologies.

Name: Keller, Kevin


Acronym: Computer Aided Assessment

Description: A term that covers all forms of assessment, whether they are tests that will contribute to formal qualifications or tests that promote learning but are not part of the course's marking, delivered with the help of computers. These tests can be delivered on computer, either online or on a local network.

Name: Schneider, Lauren


Acronym: CORBA

Description: CORBA stands for “Common Object Request Broker Architecture.” CORBA is a vendor- independent architecture and infrastructure that computer applications use to work together over networks. It allows a heterogeneous, distributed collection of objects to interoperate through almost any computer, network, or operating system. CORBA easily integrates machines from a wide range of vendors with sizes ranging from small to large enterprises. The most frequent use of CORBA is in servers that handle a large number of clients, at high hit rates, and with a high reliability.

Name: Knierim, Laura


Acronym: COTS

Description: Commercial off the Shelf(COTS) is a software program that specifically provides a tool can identify codes. Anything that is commercial meaning for public use that is not tangible or cannot be sold in stores. An example of a COTS system is a web browser like Netscape Navigator.

Name: Knorring, Maureen


Acronym: CPU

Description: CPU is an abbreviation for Central Processing Unit. Also referred to as processor or central processor. The CPU is the brains of the computer where all the calculations take place. When talking about computer power the main element is the CPU. The CPU for personal computers or small workstations is held in single chip.

Name: Krieger, Joey


Acronym: CRC

Description: Cyclic Redundancy Check- is bit of mathematics used to ensure that your data is OK when being transfered. It's a checking procedure that quickly identifies when data has been damaged. If you get this message, it means that the file being read by your PC or software is corrupted. However, it does not mean all the data is lost forever. When data is transfered, it is usually in small blocks and each block is given a CRC value. If something goes wrong with the data between the time it leaves the source and arrives at its destination, the CRC sent at the source will no longer match the one that is calculated when the data arrives - this is when the cyclic redundancy check error will appear.

Name: Martie, Christopher


Acronym: CRM

Description: Customer Relationship Management is a term for methodologies, software tools, databases, and usually Internet capabilities that help companies manage their relationships with their customers in an organized and systematic way.

Name: Salisbury, Dave


Acronym: CRM

Description: CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. This strategy aims to gather more information regarding a customer’s tendencies and preferences. The information gathered is used to strengthen the company’s relationship with that customer. CRM aids in understanding the needs of customers and determining how a company can satisfy them.

Name: Miller, Stacy


Acronym: CSCW

Description: Computer Supported Collaborative/Cooperative Work- refers to the field of study which examines the design, adoption, and use of groupware. Not only examines work but also competition,socialization, and play.

Name: Mitschele, Kristina


Acronym: CSMA/CD

Description: Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection. CSMA/CD is a network control protocol in which a carrier sensing scheme is used and a transmitting data station that detects another signal while transmitting a frame, stops transmitting that frame, transmits a jam signal, and then waits for a random time interval ("backoff delay") before trying to send that frame again. CD is used to improve CSMA performance by terminating transmission as soon as a collision is detected, and reducing the probability of a second collision on retry.

Name: Moeder, Andrew


Acronym: CSS

Description: CSS stands for CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Styles define how to display HTML elements. Styles are normally stored in style sheets and they were added to HTML 4.0 in order to solve a problem. External style sheets are stored in CSS files and can save you a great amount of work. Multiple style definitions will cascade into one. When using this, your HTML documents can basically be displayed using many different output styles.

Name: Murphy, Tom


Acronym: CSU

Description: CSU = Channel Service Unit It is a digital DCE used to terminate digital circuits (such as a T1 line) at the customer site. It conditions the line, ensures network compliance with FCC rules, and responds to loopback commands from the central office; it also ensures proper ones density in transmitted bit streams and corrects bipolar violations.

Name: Pecoraro, Vince


Acronym: CVS

Description: It stands for concurrent versions system. It is a version control system that can record the history of your source files. For example, bugs sometime creep into software when it is modified, and you might not detect the bug until a long time after you make the modification. With CVS, you can easily retrieve old versions to see what change caused the bug. Also, CVS stores all versions of a file in a single file to limit space.

Name: Quinn, Brian


Acronym: CVS

Description: Stands for Concurrent Versions System. It is a version control system that allows you to record the history of your source files. For example, bugs can sometimes creep in when you modify software, and you might not detect the bug til a long time after you made the modification. With CVS, you can easily retrieve old versions to see exactly what change caused the bug. Also, to limit the space that it takes up on your computer, CVS stores all the versions of a file in a single file.

Name: Quinn, Brian


Acronym: DBA

Description: Database Administration. Management, selection, and analysis of the raw materials for database design, including data relationships, data models, data warehousing, and data backup. Also, DBA is the selection of the hardware and software used for this process.

Name: Rombach, Betsy


Acronym: DCE

Description: DCE stands for "distributed computing enviorment" and it means a suite of technology services for creating distributed applications that run on different platforms. DCE services include: Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), Security Service, Directory Service, Time Service, Threads Service, and Distributed File Service. In novice terms this means that DCE is a group of services that big organizations use to manage computing and data in a system that are geographically distributed. An example of this is Lotus Notes/Domino, what we use here at UD.

Name: Roth, Courtney


Acronym: DCHP

Description: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol: this is a protocol that enables network with multiple internet connections to assign IP addresses from a central base. Very much like logining into the network at UD, a unique IP address is assigned to each computer from a central database, rather than the users having to manually input the IP address.

Name: Walter , Artie


Acronym: DCMA

Description: Code Division Multiple Access. Code division multiple access is a multiple access scheme where a special coding is used to separate different signals on the same transmission medium. Code Division Multiple Acces is used in spread spectrum systems to enable multiple-access. It is a transmission technique in which the frequency spectrum of a data-signal is spread using a code uncorrelated with that signal and unique to every addressee. Using a unique code to distinguish each different call, CDMA wireless system enables many more people to share the airwaves at the same time.

Name: Arst, Antti


Acronym: DDE

Description: Short for Protocol Data Unit, PDU is information delivered through a network layer. For the network to understand which layer is being discussed, a single-letter prefix is added to the PDU. This is information grouped together and sent through a network. The first letter of the data unit, for example l, n, or, t labels exactly what layer of the network the data is passing though. For example a LPDU indicates that the data is passing though the link layer, while a n, denotes the network and a t, denotes the transport layer.

Name: Thorne, Matt


Acronym: DDE

Description: Short for Dynamic Data Exchange, DDE is a two-way connection between two or more programs that allows the programs to actively exchange data while both programs are running. DDE allows two or more programs to operate simultaneously while still allowing for data exchange.

Name: Thorne, Matt


Acronym: DDL

Description: DDL means Data Definition Language. In other words DDL is used to specify database schemes as a set of definitions. These DDL statements are compiled into a set of tables often called a data dictionary or data directory. This dictionary contains metadata (data about data). This is what DDL means and how it is related to I.T.

Name: Tomasone, Michael


Acronym: DES

Description: Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a widely-used method of data encryption using a private (secret) key that was judged so difficult to break by the U.S. government that it was restricted for exportation to other countries. There are 72,000,000,000,000,000 (72 quadrillion) or more possible encryption keys that can be used. For each given message, the key is chosen at random from among an enormous number of keys. Like other private key cryptographic methods, both the sender and the receiver must know and use the same private key.

Name: Vasu, Christopher


Acronym: DES

Description: Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a widely used method of data encryption using a private (secret) key that was judged so difficult to break by the U.S. government that it was restricted for exportation to other countries. There are 72,000,000,000,000,000 (72 quadrillion) or more possible encryption keys that can be used. For each given message, the key is chosen at random from among an enormous number of keys. Like other private key cryptographic methods, both the sender and the receiver must know and use the same private key.

Name: Vasu, Christopher


Acronym: DFD

Description: A Data Flow Diagram represents the flow of data through an information system. A data flow diagram shows the interaction between the system and all the outside entities. Simply put a data flow diagram visually shows an information system’s inputs and outputs.

Name: Villanueva, Ashley


Acronym: DHCP

Description: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol: this is a protocol that enables a network with multiple internet connections to assign IP addresses from a central base. Very much like loging into the network at UD, a unique IP address is assigned to each computer from a central database, rather than the users having to manually input the IP address. .

Name: Walter , Artie


Acronym: DHTML

Description: DHTML stands for Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language. It's a way of enriching the visuals of regular HTML for users, but also decreases the workload of networks and servers. DHTML is a way to easily update the code and also give more options for visual enhancements.

Name: Wdowiak, Sarah


Acronym: DLL

Description: Dynamic Link Library- A collection of small programs, any of which can be called on when needed by a larger program that is running in the computer. The small program that lets the larger program communicate with a specific device, such as a printer or scanner, is often packaged as a DLL program. The advantage of DLL files is that they don't get loaded into random access memory together with the main program, so space is saved in memory. When and if a DLL file is needed, then it is loaded and run. For example, when a user of Microsoft Word is editing a document, the printer DLL file does not need to be loaded into memory. If the user decides to print the document, the Word application causes the printer DLL file to be loaded and run.

Name: Weber, Andrew


Acronym: DMA

Description: Direct memory access is system that can control the memory system without using the central processing unit. Computers that have DMA channels can transfer data to and from devices much more quickly than computers without a DMA channel can.

Name: Whelan, Suzanne


Acronym: DMCA

Description: Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act(DMCA) is a federal law that states that it is illegal to surpass copyright protection that has been placed on computer hardware or software. Also, it requires that all video recorders have copy prevention built in. The DMCA is the law that is frequently used to persecute those that surpass copyright protection in games, applications, and music files using computers.

Name: Wolf VII, Henry


Acronym: DMI

Description: Desktop Management Interface is an industry framework for managing and keeping track of hardware and software components in a system of personal computers from a central location.

Name: Wolfe, William


Acronym: DML

Description: Data Manipulation Language is a set of statements used to store, retrieve, modify, and erase data from a database. There are two types of DML: procedural, in which the user specifies what data is needed and how to get it; and nonprocedural, in which the user specifies only what data is needed.

Name: Zach, Andrew


Acronym: DNS

Description: Domain Name Server/System (DNS) is an internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic

Name: Zimmerman, Brandon


Acronym: DNS

Description: Domain Name System.A database system that translates an IP address into a domain name.For example, a numeric address like 232.452.120.54 can become something like abc.com.

Name: Zimmerman, Patrick


Acronym: DNS

Description: Domain Name Server/Service is an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they're easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.

Name: Zimmerman, Brandon


Acronym: DOM

Description: DOM stands for Document Object Model. DOM is a form of representation of structured documents as an object-oriented model. It is the official standard for representing structured documents on the Web.

Name: Bayer, Jen


Acronym: DOS

Description: Denial of Service (DOS) is a cyber attack in which an attacker sends a flood of data packets to the target computer, with the aim of overloading its resources

Name: Bernhold, Alex


Acronym: DOS

Description: DOS stands for disk operating system which is a software that organizes how a computer reads, writes and reacts with its disks and talks to its various input and output devices like keyboards, screens, printers and modems. It was originally developed by Microsoft for IBM compatible computers known as MS-DOS.

Name: Buzinski, Mike


Acronym: DPMA

Description: The Data Processing Management Association is a membership organization founded in 1951 devoted to providing professional development to individuals in the information systems field. It was renamed AITP in 1996.

Name: Crandall, Scott


Acronym: DRAM

Description: Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is the most common kind of random access memory (RAM) for personal computers and workstations. DRAM is dynamic in that, unlike static RAM (SRAM), it needs to have its storage cells refreshed or given a new electronic charge every few milliseconds.

Name: Curtin, Joe


Acronym: DSL

Description: Digital Subscriber Line. DSL is a modern technology that uses existing twisted-pair telephone lines to transport high-bandwidth data, such as multimedia and video, to Internet service subscribers. DSL is an alternative to the regular modem, local-area network, and cable modem. Advantages of DSL include: 1) Subscribers are able to leave their Internet connection open and still use the phone line for voice calls; 2) Speed; 3) Because DSL does not require new wiring, subscribers do not have to add an extra phone line; and 4) The company that offers the DSL service actually provides the modem during installation so that customers do not need to buy a new modem.

Name: Dorr, Jill


Acronym: DSP

Description: Digital Signal Processing is the processing of signals by digital means. DSP is the basis of many areas of technology from mobile phones to moderms and multimedia PCs

Name: Evwaraye, Efe


Acronym: DSS

Description: Decsion support systems are a class of computerized information systems that support decison making activities. It is a specific Software application that helps to analyze data contained with a customer database. This system is most useful when deciding on target markets as well as customer habits. DSS can be classified into scientific organizational software that not only contributes, but also performs decision making steps in order to help and ease the pressure of its users and business's. In short, DSS is an organizational decision making software.

Name: Fletcher, Bryan


Acronym: DSU

Description: Digital Service Unit- A replacement for the modem in synchronous connections to the Internet, and which formats data for transmission.

Name: Freeman, Terrence


Acronym: DTD

Description: Document Type Definition: this specifies the syntax of a web page in the Standard Generalized Markup Language. There are different types of HTML (hypertext markup language) and each is described by a unique document type definition. The DTD describes in computer language the allowed syntax and grammar of the HTML markup.

Name: Goines, Melanie


Acronym: DUX

Description: Stands for Designer for User eXperience. DUX seeks to identify how the needs and goals of both users and businesses are met through design.

Name: Haning, Zachary


Acronym: DVD

Description: DVD("Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc")is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. DVDs resemble compact discs as their physical dimensions are the same (12cm in diameter) but they are encoded in a different format and at a much higher density, using the Universal Disk Format (UDF) file system.

Name: Harman, Matt


Acronym: EA

Description: Early Access Early Access provides software companies with technical support, business development resources, tools, and access to other technologies in order to enable them to develop more advanced software products that fully itilize the power of intel.

Name: Hibbard, Michelle


Acronym: EBCDIC

Description: EBCDIC- Stands for, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. It is an 8-bit binary code for alphabetic and numeric characters that IBM developed for its larger operating systems. Baiscally, it is the way that they use the 1s and 0s to srite their programs for their computers.

Name: Hill, Ryan


Acronym: EDI

Description: Electronic data interchange (EDI). EDI was developed in the 1980's and was the first IT system developed. It involves computer-to-computer direct communication of standard business documents (orders, and order confirmations) between business partners. These EDI systems were later developed into the basis for many electronic markets.

Name: Hoying, Christopher


Acronym: EDR

Description: Effective Data Rate - A measure of the throughput of data storage systems. The EDR is the total of data retrieved divided by the total time it takes to retrieve it, expressed as megabytes per second.

Name: Kaiser, Greg


Acronym: EEPROM

Description: This stands for electrically erasable programable read-only memory. This is a special type of PROM (programable read-only memory) that can be erased by exposing it to an electrical charge. It is also similar to flash memory.

Name: Kastner, Chris


Acronym: EFOIA

Description: EFOIA is the Electronic Freedom of Information Act. Within our governmental system we have an administrative agency termed the “Defense Logistics Agency”. This agency provides policies and procedures for implementing the Freedom of Information Act. Under the Freedom of Information Act any person has the right to access agency records provided those records have not been exempted from public disclosure. It would seem that will all of the information access on the internet and various other networks the government had to start making policies regarding the use and access of information made available to the public. Therefore, we have what is know as the EFOIA.

Name: Kienow, Sean


Acronym: EFT

Description: EFT or Electric Funds Transfer provides for electric payments and collections. EFT is safe, secure, efficient, and less expensive than paper check payments and collections.

Name: Kierna, Mark


Acronym: EISA

Description: Extended Industry Standard Architecture: A computer interconnection that extends to a 32-bit interface. It has ISA capability, 32-bus width, data transfer speed of up to 33 megabytes per second and automatic configuration of adapter cards. It is mostly regulated to a specialty role that is generally found in network fileservers because it is rarely found on desktop systems.

Name: Krane, Emily


Acronym: EJB

Description:  Enterprise Java Bean(s) -The Enterprise JavaBeans specification is one of the several Java APIs in the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. The specification details how an application server provides server-side objects known as Enterprise JavaBeans, or EJBs, with:* remote communication using CORBA* persistence* transactions* concurrency control* events using JMS (Java messaging service)* naming and directory services* security* deployment of components in an application server en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Java_Bean

Name: Krieger, Stephen


Acronym: ERD

Description: Entity Relationship Diagram. The entity relationship diagram illustrates the logical structure of databases. It depicts a map of how information flows throughout the database.

Name: LeFrois , John


Acronym: ERP

Description: Enterprise Resource Planning: Systems that handle the manufacturing logistics, distribution, inventory, shipping, invoicing for a company. Aids in the control of business activities such as: sales, delivery, billing and inventory management.

Name: Loiselle, Garrett


Acronym: Ethernet

Description: Ethernet is a local area network (LAN), or a computer network that spans a relatively small area. It uses a bus topology, where all devices are connected through a central cable, or star topology, where all devices are connected through a central hub. Ethernet allows data transfer rates of 10 Mbps and easily handles simultaneous demands.

Name: Loomisk, Kally


Acronym: EXE

Description: EXE is an acronym for Executable file, which is located at the end of a file name (.EXE). Executable files have a program that is run by a computer to perform various tasks. Executable files cannot be read by people through Microsoft Windows because they have already been compiled into a language only readable by computers. Files with names ending in .EXE can be opened on Windows by double clicking the file.

Name: Torpey, Brian


Acronym: FAQ

Description: The acronym "FAQ" stands for Frequently Asked Question or First Article Qualification. The First Article Qualification Test, or FAQ Test, is an enitial test on an operation or system to deternmine its effectiveness. Once this test is passed the process may be started. Frequently asked questions means questions that are frequentlyasked.

Name: Marino, Dan


Acronym: FDDI

Description: Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is a set of ANSI and ISO standards for transferring data over a duel ring local area network. A benefit to the second ring is that it can be used for back up if the primary ring fails. When the secondary ring is not needed for back up it can be used to extend the networks capacity to carry as much as twice the information.

Name: Martinec, Debbie


Acronym: FORTRAN

Description: FORTRAN:A high level programming language A compilation of statistical computer programming language that is used for scientific computing and numerical computation. The name FORTTRAN stands for Formula Translation.

Name: McCarty, Sean


Acronym: FSP

Description: File Service Protocol: File Service Protocol is a User Datagram Protocol, which is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite that allows networked computers to send short messages to one another. FSP is a replacement for the File Transfer Protocol, is used for transferring files, and is designed for anonymous access with lower hardware and network requirements than FTP. FSP avoids the problems that many FTP servers have had with requiring a separate process for each client and it can more easily handle resuming a transfer after a network failure. Basically, FSP is a reliable and bandwidth friendly way to access publicly available data.

Name: Meo, Beth


Acronym: FTP

Description: FTP stands for file transfer protocol. FTP works by using the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet. It also works in the same way as HTTP for transferring Web pages from a server to a user's browser. It basically means that information can be shared from computer to computer by using the http. FTP is the simplest way to exchange information from computers over the internet.

Name: Miller, Justin


Acronym: FTP

Description: File Transfer Protocol (FTP), a standard Internet protocol, is the simplest way to exchange files between computers on the Internet. FTP is an application protocol that uses the Internet's TCP/IT protocols. FTP is commonly used to transfer Web page files from their creator to the computer that acts as their server for everyone on the Internet. It's also commonly used to download programs and other files to your computer from other servers.

Name: Nichols, Elizabeth


Acronym: FWTK

Description: FireWall Toolkit- It is a collection of application proxies that you can mix and match with other binaries to customize your own firewall; basically a toolkit for designing your own firewall protection

Name: Patriarca, Daniel


Acronym: GB

Description: It stands for gigabyte. This is the biggest measurment of bytes in a computer. One gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes.

Name: Riggins, Stephen


Acronym: GDSS

Description: A Group Decision Support System (GDSS)is an interactive, computer-based system that facilitates solution of unstructured problems by a set of decision-makers working together as a group. It aids groups, especially groups of managers, in analyzing problem situations and in performing group decision making tasks.

Name: Rivera, Fernando


Acronym: GIF

Description: Graphic Interchange Format-allows graphics to be recreated in computer programs. It is the common format for filing and storing images on a computer.

Name: Shirley, Stephanie


Acronym: GIS

Description: A geographical information system (GIS) is a computer-based system that integrates GSP data onto digitized map displays. Basically a GIS is a computer system that combines database management system functionality with information about location. In this way it is able to capture, manage, integrate, manipulate, analyze, and display data that is spatially referenced to the earth's surface. Its most distinguishing characteristic is that every record or digital object has an identified geographical location. By integrating maps with spatially oriented databases and other databases (geocoding), users can generate information for planning, problem solving, and decision making. The four major functions of the GIS consist of design and planning, decision modeling, database management, and spatial imaging.

Name: Smith, Julia


Acronym: GPS

Description: Global Positioning System - This is a system is possible through satellites that orbit the earth. These satellites allow us to track, trace, and target an object with pin point accuracy.

Name: Valenta, Joseph


Acronym: GUI

Description: Graphical User Interface: An interface for issuing commands to a computer utilizing a pointing device, such as a mouse, that manipulates and activates graphical images on a monitor. GUI uses pictures rather than just words to represent the input and output of a program.

Name: Wu, Wing


Acronym: HIPPA

Description: Stands for : Health Insurance Protability and Accountability Act Internet Definition: Portability , Fraud/Abuse, and Administrative Mandate to protect a persons health information Nicole's Definition: Basically, allows patient their privacy concerning health information. A person must be notified of when, by whom, and for what purpose their medical records were looked at. Also, allows for safe guard of information. Health Insurance comanies may use information to place customer in certian gouping for insurance policy reasons.

Name: Arce, Nicole


Acronym: HSM

Description: Hardware Security Module-a hardware-based security device that generates, stores and protects cryptographic keys.

Name: Barney, Stacy


Acronym: HTTP

Description: The acronym, HTTP, stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and is used for browsing websites on the internet. In fact, people use this at the start of a weblink and probably do not think twice about its function or meaning. For example, Dayton students use a http link to check their email. (http:notes.udayton.edu)

Name: Bondick, Amber


Acronym: IA

Description: Information Assurance is protecting information and information systems by ensuring their integrity, authentication, and confidentiality from exploitation and manipulation. Information must be secured from terrorist attacks, vandalism, criminal activity, and most recently natural disasters. Computer networks have played a part in defending their own information. An example of a way to protect information is by making encryption codes to securely pass information between systems.

Name: Carabin, Ashton


Acronym: ICANN

Description: ICANN stands for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This corportion is an internationally organized, non-profit organization. It is resposible for Internet Protocol(IP) address space allocation and protocol identifier assignment, among other responsibilities. The ICANN preserved the operational stability of the internet through the Domain Name System(DNS). Every computer connected to the internet has an IP address. Since this IP address, a set of numbers, is hard to remember as well as type, the DNS assigns as string of letters to make it easier for the user.

Name: Cordero, Sandralis


Acronym: IDE

Description: IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics, which is also known as Integrated Development Environment. IDE is an electronic interface which is used between the data paths of a computer motherboard and the computers storage device. Basically, this electronic interface includes the operating system commands, display formats, and other devices which allow a user to comunicate with the computer and run a computer program.

Name: Crider, Jordan


Acronym: IEEE

Description: The IEEE stands for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It is a non-profit, technical and professional organization. It currently has more than 365,000 members, located in more than 150 countries. The IEEE's mission is to "promote the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession." It is relevant to MIS because it constantly works towards technological innovation.

Name: Durrett, Kyle


Acronym: IM

Description: Instant Message: This is the act of communicating instantly between one or more people over a network such as the internet. This happens when people use AOL instant messanger to communicate instantly with others on the internet, and now can also be done on cell phones by text messaging.

Name: Farnsworth, Chris


Acronym: IMAP

Description: IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server.

Name: Gregosky, Andrew


Acronym: IOS

Description: An interorganizational information system (IOS) is an information system that supports information flow between two or more organizations. Such systems are common among business partners and also play a major role in e-commerce.

Name: Gross, Brandon


Acronym: IPX/SPX

Description: What does IPX/SPX stand for? Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange The IPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange) is a networking tool that interconnects other networks to be compatible with Novell and its NetWare Clients. SPX (Sequenced Packet Exchange) controls the transportation of messages across a network. It insures that the entire message arrives in tact it also provides client/server and peer-to-peer interaction between the network. So basically it is a communication tool that moves messages across a network.

Name: Hughes, Ryan


Acronym: IRC

Description: Internet Relay Chat. This term describes computer conferencing on the Internet that takes place internationally, in real-time. Users exchange messages about diverse topics through hundreds of channels hosted by a network of Internet servers.

Name: Hunt, Jennifer


Acronym: IRM

Description: Information Rights Management. Allows a company or user to set policies regarding file or email confidentiality/access. For example, this gives you control over who can access, modify, or forward certain documents on your system.

Name: Huth, Andrew


Acronym: IRQ

Description: Interrupt Request- An interrupt request value is an assigned location where the computer can expect a particular device to interrupt it when the device sends the computer signals about its operation. In PCs, an IRQ is a signal from a piece of hardware (such as a keyboard) indicating that it needs the CPU to do something.

Name: Kelling, Julie


Acronym: ISAM

Description: Indexed Sequential Access Method - File management system developed by IBM that allows for records to be assessed either sequentially or with an index. In other words, ISAM is the system that allows records to be evaluated either in the order in which they were entered, or randomly.

Name: Kozar, Cynthia


Acronym: ISDN

Description: Integrated Services Digital Network is an international standard for sending pictures, videos, and audio clips over telephone wires or digital telephone lines.

Name: Kreager, Brittany


Acronym: ISO

Description: International Standards Organization is an organization that provides a means of verification of certian technological standards (i.e JPEG) that apply to technology in a global sense. They worked with the United Nations to develop these standards.

Name: Kroger, Megan


Acronym: ISP

Description: Internet Service Provider or sometimes called Internet Access Provider is a business or organization that offers access to the internet and related services, many but not all ISP's are telephone companies. They provide services such as internet transit, domain name registration and hosting, dial-up access, leased line access and colocation.

Name: LaSelle, Maggie


Acronym: IT

Description: IT means Information Technology or the use of electronic computers and software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit and retrieve information for the benefit of an individual user or a group of users. Information Technology is what allows a system to be maintained and used for decision making, data collection and information processing.

Name: Mackey, Kevin


Acronym: IVR

Description: Interactive Voice Response refers to software that accepts voice input and touch tone keypad input over the telephone. It then provides responses that can be in the form of e-mail, voice, fax, or similar forms. Common applications are surveys and polls, bank balances and transfers. The best example of IVR is moviephone, input one's selections through touch tone phone, then receieve voice feedback.

Name: Martau, Kathryn


Acronym: IW

Description: IW-Information Warfare- “Information warfare is the offensive and defensive use of information and information systems to deny, exploit, corrupt, or destroy, an adversary's information, information-based processes, information systems, and computer-based networks while protecting one's own. Such actions are designed to achieve advantages over military, political or business adversaries.” --Dr. Ivan Goldberg, director of IASIW.

Name: McCormick, Kyle


Acronym: JDBC

Description: Java Database Connectivity: This is a general programming framework that allows people who write programs in JAVA code to access information stored in databases, spreadsheets, and flat files.

Name: McCune, Zach


Acronym: JPG

Description: Joint Photographic Experts Group. It specifies how an image is transformed into a stream of bytes. It is the most common format used to store and send photographs

Name: Metzger, Kara


Acronym: JSP

Description: JSP stands for Java Server Pages.JSP allows developers to dynamically generate HTML, XML or some other type of web page. The technology allows Java code and certain pre-defined actions to be embedded into static content.The JSP syntax adds additional XML tags, called JSP actions, to be used to invoke built-in functionality. Additionally, the technology allows for the creation of JSP tag libraries that act as extensions to the standard HTML or XML tags. Tag libraries provide a platform independent way of extending the capabilities of a web server.

Name: Meyer, Jason


Acronym: JVM

Description: Java Virtual Machine- is the software that allows Java applications to be run on your machine. JVM translates javacode into something your computer can understand.

Name: Meyrose, Phillip


Acronym: KB

Description: KB (Knowledge Base) - def. - A collection of facts, rules, and procedures, related to a specific problem, organized in one place. These facts, rules, and procedures are all human life learned experiences. That knowledge is organized and analyzed and then placed into computers. The collection of this knowledge, related to a specific problem to be used in an intelligent system and stored into a knowledge base.

Name: Miller, Kevin


Acronym: KMS

Description: Knowledge Management System. This is a system for managing knowledge in organisations

Name: Mitchell, Emily


Acronym: LAN

Description: LAN: Local Area Network Definition: A system that links together electronic office equipment, such as computers and word processors, and forms a network within an office or building. Layman's terms: A Local Area Network is simply a group of computers or associated devices that are networked together (wirelessly or wired) in a small geographic area. A LAN can have as few as two computers or as many as thousands. The number of computers doesn’t really matter. What does matters is that the geographic area that the LAN is in has to be small, no bigger than a building.

Name: David, Newman


Acronym: LATA

Description: LATA: Local Access & Transport Area: LATA is the geographic region assigned to one or more telephone companies for providing communication services. Provisions for the maps of these areas are guided by the Telecommunication Act of 1996.

Name: Norton, Stephanie


Acronym: LDAP

Description: In computer networking, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is a standardized networking protocol designed for querying and modifying directory services. As a protocol, LDAP does not define how programs work on either the client or server side. It defines the "language" used for client programs to talk to servers (and servers to servers, too).

Name: Puchala, Emily


Acronym: Local Printer Terminal

Description: The original standard parallel printing port, which is used to connect a printer to a computer, on IBM and compatible machines.

Name: Schneider, Lauren


Acronym: MB

Description: Megabyte a unit of measurement equal to 1 million bytes or 1,024 kilobytes

Name: Schreiner, Wendy


Acronym: MCA

Description: This stands for Mobile Communication Area. This is relevant because it deals with the wireless, mobile communication topic that was covered in class. It can also cover the broad topic of GPA systems.

Name: Starr, Tazjuan


Acronym: MCSE

Description: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. This is a techinical certification in the information technology field which verifies that one possesses the skills to manage networks and computer systems that run on Microsoft software, such as Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP.

Name: Steinlage, Amy


Acronym: MIME

Description: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME): an Internet standard for the format of e-mail that defines mechanisms for sending certain types of information in messages such as text in languages other than English, images, sounds, movies, and computer programs. Transferring messages into and out of MIME format is typically done automatically when sending or receiving internet mail.

Name: Zaller, John


Acronym: mips

Description: Million instructions per second….the unit that used to give the rate at which a processor executes instruction.

Name: Andryc, Jon


Acronym: MOM

Description: Management Object Model. Guides how companies deliver their service and how the company is managed. Structured, measured set of activities designed to produce a specified output for a particular customer or market. It implies a strong emphasis upon how work is done within an enterprise. A process is thus a specific ordering of work activities across time and place, with a beginning, an end, and clearly identified inputs and outputs- a structure for the whole company’s management.

Name: Arst, Antti


Acronym: MPEG

Description: The Moving Picture Experts Group is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their combination.

Name: Barhorst, Faye


Acronym: MTS

Description: The Microsoft Transaction Server is a program that runs on an Internet or other network server with a Windows NT system and manages application and database transaction requests on behalf of a client computer user. The Transaction Server screens the user and client computer from having to formulate requests for unfamiliar databases and, if necessary, forwards the requests to database servers. It also manages security, connection to other servers, and transaction integrity.

Name: Cabrera, Rex


Acronym: MVS

Description: Multiple Virtual Storage. MVS is an operating system for IBM. Many important programs such as: payroll, accounts receivable, transaction processing, etc. use MVS. They even say that MVS is what keeps the business world going.

Name: Campbell, Richard


Acronym: NAP

Description: Network Access Point: The original term for the data communications facilities built in the early days of the Internet to provide on-ramp access to higher-speed Internet links, also known as Internet Exchange Points. The facilities are an essential component of the global telecommunications and internet infrastructure. The first four NAPs were created in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and San Francisco. They were created to help the transition from government financed internet to commercially operated internet.

Name: Colette, Jennifer


Acronym: NCSA

Description: NCSA which stands for The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is a leader in defining the future's high-performance computing infrastructure for both highly technical computer applications and general society. NCSA creates the hardware, software, and tools that will make up the grid. This grid will assemble the country's most advanced technologies into a single system that will advance science beyond what is possible today. The NCSA was founded in January 1986 as one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program. Past milestones are the birth of the NSF supercomputing centers, the growth of the Internet, and the transformation of the World Wide Web into the force that drives e-business.

Name: Dougan, Brian


Acronym: NIC

Description: NIC stands for Network Interface Card. This is an expansion board (circuit board) that you insert into your computer to increase its capabilities. The main purpose of a network interface card is to connect your computer to a network. Most NICs are developed for a specific type of network, protocol, and media. Some can be used to serve multiple networks.

Name: Eilerman, Pat


Acronym: NIC

Description: NIC stands for Network Interface Card. This is an expansion board (circuit board) that you insert into your computer to increase its capabilities. The main purpose of a network interface card is to connect your computer to a network. Most NICs are developed for a specific type of network, protocol, and media. Some can be used to serve multiple networks.

Name: Eilerman, Pat


Acronym: NIPC

Description: NIPC: National Infrastructure Protection Center- "Serves as a national critical infrastructure threat assessment, warning, vulnerability, and law enforcement investigation and response entity. The NIPC provides timely warnings of international threats, comprehensive analysis and law enforcement investigation and response" (nipc.gov).

Name: Farrell, Andrew


Acronym: NIST

Description: National Institute for Standards and Technology. Founded in 1901, NIST is a non regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration. Federal Technology agency that develops and promotes measurement, standards and technology. Deals with automated teller machines, atomic clocks to mammograms and semiconductors. I think that NIST means that it is an agency that deals with all the technical and informational systems that goes into developing products that require this type of information technology. NIST deals with a lot of the products that affect our daily lives. Most of the products that we use, we are unaware that NIST may have their hand in that development.

Name: Getty, Robert


Acronym: NNTP

Description: Network News Transfer Protocol- the protocol used to post, distribute, and retrieve USENET messages. This means that this is a set of rules that control what is put onto USENET, which is a a worldwide bulletin board system that people can get to through the Internet or many online services.

Name: Grozenski, Chelsea


Acronym: NOC

Description: NOC stands for Network Operations Center. The definition is- A central facility for network management. It is a control center for network monitoring, analysis and accounting.

Name: Jarun, Omar


Acronym: OBI

Description: OBI (Open Buying on the Internet) is an Internet-commerce specification based on open technologies. It is aimed at enabling companies of all sizes to conduct high-volume, low-cost transactions on the Web. The OBI transaction model is composed of four key parts: a requisitioner, a buying organization's server, a selling organization's server, and a payment authority.

Name: Keller, Kevin


Acronym: OCR

Description: OCR stands for "Optical Character Recognition." This refers to the branch of computer science that translates typewritten text into machine- editable text. OCR allows you to feed text(from a book or magazine) into an electronic file. It is then translated into a form the computer can manipulate and you can edit the file using a word processor.

Name: Knierim, Laura


Acronym: ODBC

Description: Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a programming tool that allows users to manipulate data from 3rd parties. It was developed by Microsoft as a quick search through databases in order to find data you need. Corporations use it so that all their data is ODBC compliant, and they are able to access all the data in their company.

Name: Knorring, Maureen


Acronym: ODBC

Description: Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a programming tool that allows users to manipulate data from 3rd parties. It was developed by Microsoft as a quick search through databases in order to find data you need. Corporations use it so that all their data is ODBC compliant, and they are able to access all the data in their company.

Name: Knorring, Maureen Knorring


Acronym: ODBMS

Description: ODBMS is the abbreviation for Object Databse Management Systems. ODBMS are established to compliment relational databases for efficient resolution of script mismatches such as Java or .NET. ODBMS are being used more and more because java scripts and .NET scripts are so mainstream in information technology. These systems can be used for clients, in packaged software and to power websites.

Name: Krieger, Joey


Acronym: OLAP

Description: Online analytical processing- It is the processing and analyzing of data to reflect business needs as transactions occur.

Name: Martie, Christopher


Acronym: OLE

Description: OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding. This process allows a user to create files with one application while being able to embed them in a different application. An example of this would be using Microsoft Excel to make a sales spreadsheet. When writing up a report in Microsoft Word, you can simply place a link in the sales section of the report that refers to said data.

Name: Miller, Stacy


Acronym: OLTP

Description: On-line Transaction Processing- Is a type of computer processing when the computer immediately responds to user requests. Each request is a transaction and since it is on the internet it is called on-line.

Name: Mitschele, Kristina


Acronym: ORB

Description: Object Request Broker. ORB is a piece of middleware software that allows programmers to make program calls from one computer to another, via a network. ORBs handle the transformation of in-process data structures to the byte sequence which is transmitted over the network (“marshalling” or “serialization”). ORBs often expose many more features, such as distributed transactions, directory services or realtime scheduling. ORBs enable heterogeneous applications written in various languages running on various platforms to interoperate.

Name: Moeder, Andrew


Acronym: OSI

Description: OSI stands for OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVE. These are source codes that must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable production cost preferably, downloading via the internet without charge. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed. This basically allows information and things such as access filed to be shared via the internet in a reasonable fashion.

Name: Murphy, Tom


Acronym: PBX

Description: PBX = Private Branch Exchange It is a telephone switch located on the premises of a company. It allows telephone users to set up circuit-switched voice calls among other users in the same company or to set up calls across the public-switched telephone network. People calling into the company dial a single number. The PBX routes the call to the appropriate extension. Internal users have a number of outgoing lines for making calls over the public network. By connecting internal users with other internal users, the PBX avoids the need for an internal call to be set up across the telephone company's switch.

Name: Pecoraro, Vince


Acronym: PCMCIA

Description: Stands for personal computer memory card international association. PCMCIA is a international standards body and trade association with over 100 member companies and was founded in 1989 to establish standard for Integrated Circuit cards and to promote interchangeability among mobile computers where low power and small size were critical. Basically, PCMCIA is an association whose goal is to have all of the computer companies use the same sort of memory cards in their computers to make things easier on the consumer.

Name: Quinn, Brian


Acronym: PDA

Description: Personal Digital Assistant. Electronic personal organizer and day planner that can hold information such as appointments, memos, addresses, to-do lists, etc. Also referred to as palm pilots or handhelds. Some PDAs have internet and gps capabilities.

Name: Rombach, Betsy


Acronym: PDF

Description: PDF stands for "portable document format" and it was made by Adobe and it captures formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications, making it possible to send formatted documents and have them appear on the recipients monitor or printer as they were intended to be viewed. In novice terms, it is a format for a document such as a book or an article from a journal or magazine that you download and you view it just how it looked in the book or magazine. The only difference is that it is on your computer instead of having the whole copy infront of you. This format is used a lot in our school library when you want to get articles from scholarly journals.

Name: Roth, Courtney


Acronym: PDU

Description: Short for Protocol Data Unit, PDU is information delivered through a network layer. For the network to understand which layer is being discussed, a single-letter prefix is added to the PDU. This is information grouped together and sent through a network. The first letter of the data unit, for example l, n, or, t labels exactly what layer of the network the data is passing though. For example a LPDU indicates that the data is passing though the link layer, while a n, denotes the network and a t, denotes the transport layer.

Name: Thorne, Matt


Acronym: PERL

Description: PERL means Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. PERL is a script programming language. It is an interpreted language that can be optionally compiled just before execution into C code. It is easier to learn and faster to code in than other C languages. C language is a structure procedural language that is widely used by I.T. professionals of operating systems and applications.

Name: Tomasone, Michael


Acronym: PERL

Description: PERL means Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. PERL is a script programming language. It is an interpreted language that can be optionally compiled just before execution into C code. It is easier to learn and faster to code in than other C languages. C language is a structure procedural language that is widely used by I.T. professionals of operating systems and applications.

Name: Tomasone, Michael


Acronym: PIF

Description: The goal of the Process Interchange Format (PIF) is to support the exchange of business process models across different formats and schemas. The ability to share and interlink heterogeneous process models is very critical in Business Process Reengineering or Enterprise Integration.

Name: Vasu, Christopher


Acronym: PIN

Description: A packet identification number is an ID number used to identify a packet. It is much like a personal identification number for a credit card. It identifies who is the user. A packet identification number identifies what the packet is and where it is supposed to go.

Name: Villanueva, Ashley


Acronym: PIN

Description: A packet identification number is an ID number used to identify a packet. It is much like a personal identification number for a credit card. It identifies who is the user. A packet identification number identifies what the packet is and where it is supposed to go.

Name: Villanueva, Ashley


Acronym: POP

Description: Post Office Protocol: This is a protocol that allows internet users to retrieve emial from a remote server such as Lotus Notes. Once retrieved, the email can be saved to the users desk top or left on the email server.

Name: Walter , Artie


Acronym: POS

Description: One meaning of the acronym POS is Packet over Sonet. POS is a complex concept that uses more acronyms to describe the acronym you are trying to understand. POS helps carry packets directly within the SONET system by using a small amount of High Data Link Control. So basically, it helps carry information throughout the SONET system.

Name: Wdowiak, Sarah


Acronym: POSIX

Description: Portable Operating System Interface- a set of standard operating system interfaces based on the Unix operating system. The need for standardization arose because enterprises using computers wanted to be able to develop programs that could be moved among different manufacturer's computer systems without having to be recoded. Unix was selected as the basis for a standard system interface partly because it was known as being "manufacturer-neutral." However, several major versions of Unix existed so there was a need to develop a common denominator system.

Name: Weber, Andrew


Acronym: POTS

Description: POTS is short for Plain Old Telephone Service, which refers to the standard telephone service that most homes use.

Name: Whelan, Suzanne


Acronym: PPP

Description: Point to Point Protocol Point to Point Protocol(PPP) is used to make a connection between nodes. PPP is primarily used to connect users of dial-up internet access to their ISP and the internet. It is one of the successors to Serial Line Internet Protocol(SLIP).

Name: Wolf VII, Henry


Acronym: PRM

Description: Partner relationship management is a business strategy for improving communication between companies and their channel partners

Name: Wolfe, William


Acronym: QBE

Description: Query By Example refers to a method of forming queries in which the database program displays a blank record with a space for each field. You can then enter conditions for each field that you want to be included in the query.

Name: Zach, Andrew


Acronym: RAID

Description: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) is is a category of disk drives which utilizes two or more hard drives in order to ensure that data is stored safely. There are several different levels of RAID, each which have their own specific method of protecting the data stored on each hard drive. Some of the most commonly used are: RAID 0: This type features data stripping,RAID 1: This type is used for data mirroring,RAID 4: This type is similar to RAID 0, with the exception that if there is a disk failure, the data from that drive can be recovered by a replacement disk that is created when a fault is found.

Name: Zimmerman, Brandon


Acronym: RFI

Description: Request for Information - A program that will assist Sales in supplying you with the appropriate literature for your company's needs.

Name: Zimmerman, Patrick


Acronym: RFID

Description: RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification Device. A RFID is a technology that uses radio waves to identify individual items. They are used in supply chain management and inventory control.

Name: Bayer, Jen


Acronym: RFP

Description: Request for Proposal (RFP) is a document sent to potential vendors inviting them to submit a proposal describing their products or services.

Name: Bernhold, Alex


Acronym: RIP

Description: RIP stands for raster image processor which is a hardware software combination that convert a vector image which is hardware that uses geometrical formulas to represent images into a bit-mapped image. A bit-mapped image is a representation of row and colums of dots, of graphic images in a computer’s memory. RIP’s are in all postscript printerS and convert commands into bit-mapped pages that can be printed.

Name: Buzinski, Mike


Acronym: RISC

Description: Reduced Instruction Set Computer A type of microprocessor that recognizes a relatively limited number of instructions. RISC chips require fewer transistors making them cheaper to design and produce.

Name: Crandall, Scott


Acronym: RJ12

Description: Normally associated with one line of a key telephone system, they provide a bridged connection to the tip and ring of the telephone line and to key system A and Al leads. The tip and ring conductors in the jack are connected ahead of the key telephone-system line circuit. The RJ-12C is surface- or flush mounted for use with desk telephone sets while the RJ-12W is for wall mounted telephone sets. Typically, these arrangements are used when registered ancillary equipment must respond to central office or PBX ringing.

Name: Curtin, Joe


Acronym: RJ-45

Description: Registered Jack-45. An RJ-45 is an eight-wire connector used commonly to connect computers onto a local-area network (LAN), especially Ethernets. RJ-45 connectors look similar to RJ-11 connectors used for connecting telephone equipment, but are substantially wider. As incoming freshmen, the University provided RJ-45 connectors to all students; these blue Internet cords enable students to access the Internet and UD network.

Name: Dorr, Jill


Acronym: RSS

Description: Real Simple Syndication is designed as a way of sharing web contents and headlines with other websites. This takes care of problems dealing with increase traffic, and gathering and distributing information.

Name: Evwaraye, Efe


Acronym: S/MIME

Description: Secure/Multipurpose Internet mail extension: The standard for public key encryption and signing of e-mail in the MINE (multipurpose internet mail extension). MINE is the internet standard for the format of e-mail across the internet. Virtually all e-mail is transfered via SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol)which is the de facto standard for all email transfered across the internet. S/MIME is the internet engineering tasks force enhancement of the privacy enhanced mail specifications of the mid 1990's.

Name: Fletcher, Bryan


Acronym: SAA

Description: The Standard Application Architecture- provides an environment, a toolkit, and a methodology for rapid development, integration, and deployment of Knowledge-Based Engineering Applications. It standardizes the look and feel of knowledge applications and the way knowledge is represented and displayed enabling "plug and play" knowledge applications.

Name: Freeman, Terrence


Acronym: SAN

Description: Storage Area Network: this is a high-speed network or sub-network that connects different types of data storage devices with associated data servers in a larger network of users. A Storage Area Network supports disk mirroring, backup and restore, archival and retrieval of archived data, data migration from one storage device to another, and the sharing of data among different servers in a network. The Storage Area Network is basically a way to store data, organize it, and retrieve it.

Name: Goines, Melanie


Acronym: SAP

Description: Stands for Systems, Applications, Products in data processing. SAP is the third largest software company in the world, providing integrated inter-enterprise software solutions as well as collaborative e-business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.

Name: Haning, Zachary


Acronym: SCM

Description: Supply Chain Management. The management of all the activities along the supply chain, from suppliers, to internal logistics within a company, to distribution, to customers. This includes ordering, monitoring, and billing.

Name: Hanning, Benjamin


Acronym: SCM

Description: Supply Chain Management. The management of all the activities along the supply chain, from suppliers, to internal logistics within a company, to distribution, to customers. This includes ordering, monitoring, and billing.

Name: Benjamin, Hanning


Acronym: SCSI

Description: Small Computer System Interface The Small Computer System Interface (often called "scuzzy" is the second most popular hard disk interface used in PC's today. It is much more advanced, as well as preferable to its competitor IDE/ATA. SCSI is especially popular in higher end machines.

Name: Hibbard, Michelle


Acronym: SET

Description: SET Stands for, Secure Electronic Transaction, which is the standard protocol for securing credit card transactions over insecuer networks, specifically the internet. My definition is the technology that protects your credit card information from other people primarily when you purchase things online.

Name: Hill, Ryan


Acronym: SLA

Description: Service Level Agreements (SLA). Service level agreements are formal agreements regarding the division of work between a company and its vendor. The division of work is based on agreed-upon milestones, quality checks, and "what-if" situations. They also describe how checks are to be done, and what to do if disputes exist arise.

Name: Hoying, Christopher


Acronym: SLA

Description: Service Level Agreements (SLA). Service level agreements are formal agreements regarding the division of work between a company and its vendor. The division of work is based on agreed-upon milestones, quality checks, and "what-if" situations. They also describe how checks are to be done, and what to do if disputes exist arise.

Name: Hoying, Christopher


Acronym: SLIP

Description: SLIP is Serial Line Internet Protocol. SLIP is used for communication between two machines that are previously configured for communication with each other. For example, your Internet server provider may provide you with a SLIP connection so that the provider's server can respond to your requests, pass them on to the Internet, and forward your requested Internet responses back to you.

Name: Kaiser, Greg


Acronym: SMTP

Description: This stands for simple mail transfer protocol. This is the basis for sending electronic mail (e-mail). It basically stands for a protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. It can be retrieved using an e-mail client that uses either POP or IMAP.

Name: Kastner, Chris


Acronym: SNA

Description: SNA stands for systems networks architecture. The SNA were IBM’s mainframe network standards introduced in the year 1974. It was originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals. Some of the basic concepts of SNA are nodes and data links, PU’s and LU’s, NCP, SNA layers etc. More or less it was the old way of networking computers. One mainframe computer was accessed from various computer stations around an organization and would access the information that these various other stations were asking for.

Name: Kienow, Sean


Acronym: SNMP

Description: SNMP or simple network management protocol is an application layer protocol that facilitates the exchange of management information between network devices. It is part of the TCP/IP protocol and enables network administrators to manage network performance, find and solve network problems, and plan for network growth.

Name: Kierna, Mark


Acronym: SONET

Description: Synchronous Optical Network Technologies: A high-speed performance network appealing to internet and network technologies that is able to carry large volumes of traffic through fiber optic cabeling over long distances. It originally was designed for public telephone networks and defines clear interoperability standards and includes built-in support for easy management and maintenance.

Name: Krane, Emily


Acronym: SQL

Description: Structured Query Language (database query language) - SQL is the most popular computer language used to create, modify and retrieve data from relational database management systems. The language has evolved beyond its original purpose to support object-relational database management systems. It is an ANSI/ISO standard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_Query_Language

Name: Krieger, Stephen


Acronym: SRAM

Description: Static Random Access Memory. SRAM is a type of semi-conductor memory, that does not need to be refreshed periodically, as long as there is continuous power being supplied to it. The random access part of the definition means that the memory can be written to or read in randomly, or in any order.

Name: LeFrois , John


Acronym: SSL

Description: SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer, which means a protocol for transmitting private documents over the Internet. Data is encrypted so that the private information can only be received by the recipient. SSL is supported by both Internet Explorer and Netscape. The websites that are compatible with this protocol are able to obtain the confidential user information, such as credit card numbers, securely. URL’s that require an SSL connection are differentiated by beginning with https: instead of http:.

Name: Loomis, Kally


Acronym: SSL

Description: Secure Sockets Layer: Protocol for transmitting private documents via the internet. Uses cryptographic system that uses two keys: public key and a private key.

Name: Loiselle, Garrett


Acronym: TCP/IP

Description: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A standard suite of communications protocols used to connect computers to the Internet. TCP/IP uses several protocols, the two main ones being TCP and IP. Since TCP/IP is used by Internet it is pretty much the de facto standard for transmitting data over wide-area networks.

Name: Salisbury, Dave


Acronym: TLA

Description: TLA (the Temporal Logic of Actions) is a logic for specifying and reasoning about concurrent and reactive systems. It is the basis for TLA+, a complete specification language. The language specifies behaviors though a series of states, and is represented by mathematical formulas.

Name: Martinec, Debbie


Acronym: TPS

Description: Transaction Processing System: A Transaction Processing System is an operational information system that automates repetitive and routine tasks that are critical to the organization’s operations. Therefore, the primary purpose of a Transaction Processing System is to perform transactions and collect data in ways that will improve operational efficiency.

Name: Meo, Beth


Acronym: UML

Description: UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. UML helps you specify, visualize, and document models of software systems, including their structure and design, in a way that meets all of these requirements. The Unified Modeling Language was most productive in the mid 90's where it helped keep order in the market place and keep business's stable at the maturity level. UML is essential to modeling systems.

Name: Miller, Justin


Acronym: URI

Description: A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), is an Internet protocol element consisting of a short string of characters that conform to a certain syntax. The string comprises a name or address that can be used to refer to a resource. It is a fundamental component of the World Wide Web.

Name: Nichols, Elizabeth


Acronym: URL

Description: Uniform Resource Locator- also known as "web address", it is a standardized address name layout for resources on the internet.

Name: Patriarca, Daniel


Acronym: USB

Description: This stands for Unified Satellite Band. This is th port on your compuet theat connects to printers, accessories and other computers.

Name: Riggins, Stephen


Acronym: UTP

Description: Unshielded Twisted Pair- is a type of cabling supported by Ethernets.It is the cable that connects a computer to a hub that helps create the Ethernet. It is also very cheap and easy to install, and it looks like the cable used to connect computers to the Internet.

Name: Shirley, Stephanie


Acronym: VAN

Description: A value-added network (VAN) is a private network provider (sometimes called a turnkey communications line) that is hired by a company to facilitate electronic data interchanges (EDI) or provides other network services. Before the World Wide Web, some companies hired value-added networks to move data from their company to other companies. However, now with the Internet, many companies have found it more efficient to move their data instead of using a VAN. Basically, VANs are used with EDI translations, encryption, securing e-mails, management reporting, and other extra services.

Name: Smith, Julia


Acronym: vBNS

Description: very high-speed Backbone Network Service- This is a network that interconnects many supercomputers in the United Stateds. This is reserved for science applications that require massive computing.

Name: Valenta, Joseph


Acronym: VLE

Description: This system is known as a Virtual Learning Environment. A Virtual Learning Environment is a computer-based system created to enhance a student’s learning process. This system runs on a server and creates an interaction between teachers and students outside of the classroom. The important components of a VLE system are a student tracking tool used to monitor the progress of each student, electronic communication devices including email and discussion forums, and curriculum support through online quizzes, exercises, and links to other useful websites.

Name: Wines, Victoria


Acronym: VLSI

Description: Very-Large-Scale Integration: A hardware term describing semiconductor integrated circuits composed of hundreds of thousands of logic elements or memory cells. It can also be the process of placing thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of electronic components on a single chip.

Name: Wu, Wing


Acronym: VO

Description: VO: Virtual Organizations Organizations in which the product, the process, and the delivery agent are all digital; Everything is done by e-commerce (i.e. amazon.com).

Name: McCarty, Sean


Acronym: VoIP

Description: VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. Voice over Internet Protocol is the link of voice conversation between users, over any Internet Protocol based network. Such IP networks include the public internet or a company’s intranet service.

Name: Wines, Victoria


Acronym: VPN

Description: The acronym "VPN" stands for Virtual Private Network. A Virtual Private Network, or "VPN", is a data network that uses the public telecommunications infrastructur