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Acronym: ADSL

Description: ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line which is a form of internet service that provides greater bandwidth for downloads, but provides slower upload speeds. ADSL is the most common form of DSL used in home networking.

Name: Adams, Richard

Acronym: ADSL

Description: ADSL is a form of internet service that provides greater bandwidth for downloads, but provides slower upload speeds. ADSL is the most common form of DSL used in home networking.

Name: Adams, Richard

Acronym: AGP

Description: AGP stands for accelerated graphics port. An accelerated graphics port is a high-speed channel for attaching a graphics card (primarily 3-D graphics or videos)to the motherboard. It provides a direct connection for attaching the card to the memory. In simpler words, it allows 3-D pictures (videos) to display more quickly on ordinary personal computers.

Name: Bertovich, Kimberly

Acronym: AI

Description: AI stands for Artificial Intelligence Definition: The ability of a computer or other machine to perform those activities that are normally thought to require intelligence. Among these actions are logical deduction and inference, creativity, the ability to make decisions based on past experience or insufficient or conflicting information, and the ability to understand spoken language.

Name: DeBord, Andrew

Acronym: AI

Description: AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is the ability of a computer or other machine to perform those activities that are normally thought to require intelligence. Among these actions are logical deduction and inference, creativity, the ability to make decisions based on past experience or insufficient or conflicting information, and the ability to understand spoken language.

Name: DeBord, Andrew

Acronym: API

Description: API stands for Application Programming Interface, and is a set of routines, data structures, object classes, or protocols provided by operations system services in order to aid in building of applications. An API specifies an interface and controls the behavior of the objects in that interface. Examples of API's are the iphone, Youtube, and Windows.

Name: DeSapri, Matthew

Acronym: ASP

Description: Application Service Provider (ASP) is a third-party entity that manages and distributes software-based services and solutions to customers across a wide area network from a central data center. In general terms, ASP is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. ASPs offer a way for companies to outsource some or almost all aspects of their information technology needs. They may be commercial ventures that cater to customers, not-for-profit or government organizations, providing service and support to end users. ASP provides remote access to an application program across a network protocol, typically HTTP. A common example is a website that other websites use for accepting payment by credit card as part of their online ordering systems.

Name: Guliants, Elena

Acronym: ATM

Description: Asynchronous Transfer Mode - A means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds; suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data; "ATM is used for both LAN and WAN". First developed in the mid 1980S, the goal was to design a single networking strategy that could transport real-time video Conference and audio as well as image files, text and email.

Name: Harris, Sarah

Acronym: BASIC

Description: Beginner’s all Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code is a family of easy-to-use programming languages. At the time of BASIC’s inception, all computers required the writing of custom codes. BASIC provided computer access to people who were unable to write their own code and became the programming code for microcomputers in the 1970s. BASIC has existed in many forms and remains popular in a handful of new languages.

Name: Hill, Courtney

Acronym: BNC

Description: A Bayonet Nut Coupling or Bayonet Neill-Concelman connector is a very common type of RF (radio frequency) connector used for terminating coaxial cable named after its inventors. A BNC is a commonly used plug and socket for audio, video, and networking applications that provides a tight connection. It has a bayonet-type shell with two small knobs on the female connector which lock into spiral slots in the male connector when it is twisted on.

Name: Imming, J.T.

Acronym: BPR

Description: Business process reengineering (BPR) is the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises.The key to BPR is for organizations to look at their business processes from a "clean slate" perspective and determine how they can best construct these processes to improve how they conduct business. BPR is a technique to help organizations fundamentally rethink how they do their work in order to dramatically improve customer service, cut operational costs, and become world-class competitors.A key stimulus for reengineering has been the continuing development and deployment of sophisticated information systems and networks. Reengineering starts with a high-level assessment of the organization's mission, strategic goals, and customer needs.

Name: Lim, Ena

Acronym: CDMA

Description: Code Division Multiple Access A channel access method that allow a large number of transmitters to send information simultaneously over a single channel. In this method the transmitter encodes the signal using a pseudorandom sequence and multiple receivers are allowed to be in over the same channel and decode the received signal.

Name: Mandurah, Banan

Acronym: CGI

Description: Common Gateway Interface -- A standard protocol, or rule determining the format and transmission of data, that interfaces an external application such as a web browser to an information server. The information server will take query requests in real-time and output the proper response. An example is searching for items on Amazon.

Name: Mitchell, Austin

Acronym: CICS

Description: Customer Information Control System-is a transaction server that runs primarily on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS and z/VSE. Explanation- It is a server that control transactions and runs either z/OS or z/VSE IBM operating systems.

Name: Perez, Adrian

Acronym: CISC

Description: Complex Instruction Set Computer is a computer instruction set architecture in which each instruction can execute several low-level operations, such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store, all in a single instruction. CISC are computers that were made with a full set of computer instructions, which were intended to provide needed capabilities in the most efficient way. CISC’s are also referred to as full-set instruction computers.

Name: Printz, William

Acronym: CMOS

Description: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor. This is the most common type of semi concuctor in integrated digital circuits. They are less noisy use less power. These are used mostly used in small batteries that are responsible for keeping time. They are the component that keeps from haveing to reset your system clock everytime you turn your computer on.

Name: Strehle, Joseph

Acronym: CNA

Description: Certified Network Administrator - (CNA)Certified Network Administrator is someone who has the skills needed to manage and troubleshoot network environments running on computer operating systems.

Name: Szytec, Michael

Acronym: CNE

Description: Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) is a certification which is designed to show that an individual possesses in-depth knowledge and skills related to administration and troubleshooting of the Novell NetWare operating system.

Name: Wagner, Christopher

Acronym: COBOL

Description: Common Business-Oriented Language COBOL is a high level programming language that is primarily used within business, administration, and finance. It is written in a manner so as to look like normal sentences, being easier to write and read.

Name: Walsh, Sophia

Acronym: COM

Description: Component Object Model- is an interface standard for software componentry introduced by Microsoft in 1993. It is used to enable interprocess communication and dynamic object creation in a large range of programming languages. The term COM is often used in the software development industry as an umbrella term that encompasses the OLE, OLE Automation, ActiveX, COM+ and DCOM technologies. COM is a language neutral method of introducing objects that can be utilized in environments which are different from the one they were created in, even across machine boundaries. Basically, COM is a model that allows applications and systems to be built from components supplied by different software vendors. If different components are written in different languages COM can still allow applications and systems to be be built because it is neutral in reading different computing languages from various different software vendors. COM also forms the foundation for higher level software systems such as OLE.

Name: Weaver, Alexander

Acronym: COM

Description: Component Object Model- is an interface standard for software componentry introduced by Microsoft in 1993. It is used to enable interprocess communication and dynamic object creation in a large range of programming languages. The acronym COM is an umbrella term that also encompasses OLE, OLE Automation, ActiveX, COM+ and DCOM technologies. COM allows the components made by different software vendors to be combined into a variety of applications and defines a standard for component interoperability. COM also is not dependent on any particular programming language, is available on multiple platforms, and is extensible. One of the benefits of COM is that it is a language neutral means of applying objects that can be used in environments different from the one they were created in, even across machine boundaries. Overall, COM's major utility is that it provides a standard way for programmers to create and share objects seamlesly even if the programmers are using software components that are from multiple different vendors.

Name: Weaver, Alexander

Acronym: CRM

Description: Customer Relationship Management describes software and internet capabilities which companies use to manage and improve all aspects of customer relationships. It entails the capture, storage, and analysis of customer data from sources across an entire enterprise such as marketing, sales, and service. This information can be accessed by all functions of a company, including the customer, to better meet customer needs, provide new product offerings, track order history, etc. The goal is to turn customer satisfaction into customer loyalty.

Name: Wolking, Daniel

Acronym: CSCW

Description: The term computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) is a generic term, which not only refers to real computer-based systems, but also focuses on the study of tools and techniques of groupware as well as their psychological, social, and organizational effects. CSCW is a design-oriented academic field bringing together social psychologists, sociologists, and computer scientists among others. Despite the variety of disciplines, CSCW is an identifiable research field that focuses on understanding characteristics of interdependent group work with the objective of designing adequate computer-based technology to support such cooperative work.

Name: Yao, Lu

Acronym: CSMA/CD

Description: CSMA/CD - Carriers Sense Multiple Access/ Collision Detection. CSMA/CD is the protocl used in Ethernet networks to ensure that only one network node is is transmitting on the network at one time. This system prevents having to nodes trying to fire at once. If two nodes on the same network are transmitting at one they will collide. If too many collide at once problems will arise. CSMA/CD will redude collisions and allow the system to run better.

Name: Zeller, Andrew

Acronym: CSS

Description: CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets which is a style sheet language used to describe the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language. CSS is used to create a separation of document content from document attributes such as colors, fonts, and layout. This is done to improve accessibility.

Name: Adams, Richard

Acronym: DBA

Description: DBA is database administrator. According to our textbook, the database administrator is the person within the IS department who manages the data and the database. This person makes sure that those who need access to the data have proper access and the data is accurate.

Name: Bertovich, Kimberly

Acronym: DDL

Description: DDL stands for Data Definition Language. Data definition langauge is defined as (1) A language enabling the structure and instances of a database to be defined in a human-readable, and machine-readable form, and as (2) A specification language for databases, based on the entity-relationship model.

Name: DeBord, Andrew

Acronym: DML

Description: Data Manipulation Language, or DML, is a family of computer languages used by computer programs database users to retrieve, insert, delete and update data in a database. In principle, their functional capabilities organized by the initial word in a statement. Data Manipulation Languages manipulate data in a database by applications and/or directly by end-users. They were initially developed to be used by computer programs, but with the advent of SQL, the most popular DML that retrieves and manipulates data in a Relational database, have come to be used by people, as well.

Name: Guliants, Elena

Acronym: DML

Description: DML stands for Data Manipulation Language, and is a family of computer languages used by computer programs data base users to retrieve, insert, delete, and update data in a database. The most popular form manipulates data in a relational database, such as Microsoft Excel or Access, and typically are organized by the initial word in a statement. These words are usually verbs and can be select, insert, update, and delete.

Name: DeSapri, Matthew

Acronym: DNS

Description: The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource participating in the Internet. It translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical (binary) identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices world-wide. An often used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the "phone book" for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. For example, www.example.com translates to 208.77.188.166.

Name: Harris, Sarah

Acronym: DSP

Description: A Digital Signal Processor is a type of fast and powerful microprocessor. A DSP is unique because it processes data in real time. This technology is utilized in applications where people will not tolerate delays. Communication through a cellular phone is one such example. DSP takes a digital signal and processes it for improvement. This produces sharper images and must faster data. DSP has made internet music and in-home broadband delivery possible.

Name: Hill, Courtney

Acronym: DSS

Description: A Digital Signature Standard is a National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. It is an encrypted digest of the file (message, document, driver, program, etc.) being signed which is based on an algorithm using discrete logarithms that is used to authenticate both a message and the user. A DSS is used to prove that a file was not tampered with. It does this by having the recipient use a public key to decrypt the signature back into the original digest, recomputes a new digest from the transmitted file and compares the two to see if they match.

Name: Imming, J.T.

Acronym: EBCDIC

Description: EBCDIC, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, was developed in 1963 by IBM as an extension to the older Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) standard. BCD encodes the 10 digits of the standard counting system using 4 binary counters, or bits, where an individual bit can be either a 1 or a 0.EBCDIC is eight bits, or one byte, wide. Each byte consists of two nibbles, each four bits wide. The first four bits define the class of character, while the second nibble defines the specific character inside that class. For example, setting the first nibble to all-ones, 1111, defines the character as a number, and the second nibble defines which number is encoded. By establishing BCD as a standard, IBM allowed users to move shared data between computers with the use of punch cards.

Name: Lim, Ena

Acronym: EDI

Description: Electronic Data Interchange The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. It is used to exchanges electronic business documents such as orders, confirmations and invoices between organizations.

Name: Mandurah, Banan

Acronym: EEPROM

Description: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory -- A non-volatile memory, or type of memory that retains stored information even when not powered, that is commonly used to save small amounts of data in computers such as configurations or settings. Flashdrives are built on this principle but use newer, faster technology.

Name: Mitchell, Austin

Acronym: EISA

Description: Enterprise information security architecture- is a part of enterprise architecture focusing on information security throughout the enterprise. Explanation- The goal of the Information Security Architecture is to align security strategies between three functional areas of an organization which are the business architecture,information architecture, and technology architecture.

Name: Perez, Adrian

Acronym: EJB

Description: Enterprise Java Beans is a server-side component architecture for modular construction of enterprise applications. EJB’s intend to provide a standard way to implement the back-end 'business' code typically found in enterprise applications. Enterprise Java Beans provide services for such issues as transactions, security, and persistence.

Name: Printz, William

Acronym: ERD

Description: ERD - Entity Relationship Diagram A diagram showing the relationship between different entities within an information system. An Entity can be a person, place, or object. The diagram is a simple way to show how these person, places, or objects interact with each other.

Name: Strehle, Joseph

Acronym: ERP

Description: Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. This may include manufacturing, distribution, personnel, project management, payroll, and financials.

Name: Szytec, Michael

Acronym: FDDI

Description: Fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) provides a standard for data transmission in a local area network that can extend in range up to 200 kilometers (124 miles). Although FDDI protocol is a token ring network, it does not use the IEEE 802.5 token ring protocol as its basis; instead, its protocol is derived from the IEEE 802.4 token bus timed token protocol. In addition to covering large geographical areas, FDDI local area networks can support thousands of users. As a standard underlying medium it uses optical fiber (though it can use copper cable, in which case one can refer to CDDI). FDDI uses a dual-attached, counter-rotating token ring topology.

Name: Wagner, Christopher

Acronym: FORTRAN

Description: Formula Translation FORTRAN is a high level programming language that is mostly used for mathematical and scientific calculations. It is one of the earliest computer languages still in use.

Name: Walsh, Sophia

Acronym: GDSS

Description: Group Decision Support System- An interactive computer based system that facilitates users finding (partial) solutions to semistructured problems. A GDSS uses a set of decision makers working together as a group. GDSS is characterised by being adapted for a group of people who collaborate to support integrated systems thinking for complex decision making. Participants use a common computer or network to enable collaboration. What this means is that workers within a company, whether they are in the same building or in different states, can collaborate their knowledge through the use of technology. An example of a GDSS would be a company wide intranet put into place with the purpose of allowing employees at any given location to share knowledge and ideas that would allow them to work as a single working unit to solve complex problems.

Name: Weaver, Alexander

Acronym: GIF

Description: Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was developed in 1987 by CompuServe to provide a color image format for their file downloading areas, previously only available in black and white. As a result, it was one of the first two image formats commonly used on websites and has come into wide spread usage on the World Wide Web. It supports 8 bits per pixel and is most suitable for sharp edged line art with a limited number of colors, such as logos. GIFs can also be used for low-resolution film clips and small animation. However, as its palette is limited to 256 colors, it is not a preferred format for digital photography.

Name: Wolking, Daniel

Acronym: GIS

Description: GIS stands for Geographic Information System (GIS), or Geographical Information System. In the strictest sense, the term describes any information system that integrates stores, edits, analyzes, shares, and displays geographic information. In a more generic sense, GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries, analyze special information, data, maps, and present the results of all these operations. GIS technology can be used for scientific investigations, resource management, assets management, archaeology, environmental impact assessment, urban planning, cartography, criminology, geographic history, marketing, logistics and other purposes. For example, GIS might allow emergency planners to easily calculate emergency response times in the event of a natural disaster; it also can be used by a company to site a new business location to take advantage of a previously under-served market.

Name: Yao, Lu

Acronym: GPS

Description: GPS - Global Positioning System GPS is a satelite based navigation system from 24 satelites put in orbit by the US Department of Defense. The satelites circle the earth twice every single day and transmit the information to earth. A reciever takes this information and calculates specific locations using triangulation.

Name: Zeller, Andrew

Acronym: GUI

Description: GUI stands for Graphical User Interface which is a program interface that takes advantage of the computer's graphics capabilities to make the program easier to use. They are designed to make a computer usable without knowledge of command languages. Parts of a graphical interface include the mouse pointer, icons, windows, and menus on a computer.

Name: Adams, Richard

Acronym: HTTP

Description: HTTP stands for hypertext transfer protocol. This transfers requests and information between servers and browsers. It is an application level protocol for hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the request and response standard of a client and a server. The client is the end user and the server is the website. HTTP is familiar because it is in front of most web addresses. The web user is the client and by using HTTP, the server understands the information requested.

Name: Bertovich, Kimberly

Acronym: ICANN

Description: ICANN stands for "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers." ICANN is the non-profit corporation that was formed in 1998 to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) and other entities.

Name: DeBord, Andrew

Acronym: ISDN

Description: ISDN stands for Integrated Services Digital Network, and is a telephone system network. ISDN integrates speech and data on the same lines adding features that were not available in the classic telephone system.

Name: DeSapri, Matthew

Acronym: ISDN

Description: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a telephone network that offers a capability to integrate voice, data, text, and video services within the context of existing telephone networks and accepted as an international standard for sending voice and data over normal or digital telephone lines. It features certain engineering design specifications that will permit anyone to attach any innovative device to it as long as it abides by the network's protocols. ISDN is a circuit-switched system, that also provides access to packet switched networks, designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires, resulting in better voice quality than an analog phone. As such, it offers both circuit-switched connections (for either voice or data), and packet-switched connections (for data), in increments of 64 kbit/s. Another major market application is Internet access, where ISDN typically provides a maximum of 128 kbit/s in both upstream and downstream directions. In a videoconference, ISDN provides simultaneous voice, video, and text transmission between individual desktop videoconferencing systems and group (room) videoconferencing systems.

Name: Guliants, Elena

Acronym: JDBC

Description: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) -- is an application programming interface for the Java programming language that defines how a client may access a database. It provides methods for querying and updating data in a database. JDBC is oriented towards relational databases.

Name: Harris, Sarah

Acronym: JPG

Description: Is an image coding standard informally referred to as JPEG. JPEG refers to the committee who created the standard, the Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPG is a commonly used method of compression for photographic images. This type of compression creates a very small file without much loss of photographic quality. This is the type of compression that takes place within digital cameras and is the most common way to store and transfer images across the internet.

Name: Hill, Courtney

Acronym: JSP

Description: A Java Server Page is an extension to the Java servlet technology from Sun that allows HTML to be combined with Java on the same page. The Java provides the processing, and the HTML provides the layout on the Web page. JSP assists developers in creating HTML or XML pages that combine static (fixed) page templates with dynamic content. Java Server Pages technology provides a simplified, fast way to create dynamic web content. JSP technology enables rapid development of web-based applications that are server-and platform-independent.

Name: Imming, J.T.

Acronym: JVM

Description: Acronym for Java Virtual Machine. An abstract computing machine, or virtual machine, JVM is a platform of independent execution environment that converts Java bytecode into machine language and executes it. Most programming languages compile source code directly into machine code that is designed to run on a specific microprocessor architecture or operating system, such as Windows or UNIX. A JVM (a machine within a machine) mimics a real Java processor, enabling Java bytecode to be executed as actions or operating system calls on any processor regardless of the operating system. For example, establishing a socket connection from a workstation to a remote machine involves an operating system call. Since different operating systems handle sockets in different ways, the JVM translates the programming code so that the two machines that may be on different platforms are able to connect.

Name: Lim, Ena

Acronym: KMS

Description: Knowledge Management System A system for managing knowledge in organizations, supporting creation, capture, storage and dissemination of information.

Name: Mandurah, Banan

Acronym: LDAP

Description: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol -- An internet protocol, or “language,” that enables client programs and servers to communicate so that information can be filtered, accessed or modified from a database hosted on a server. The process of looking up email addresses in a company directory is a common example where LDAP is used.

Name: Mitchell, Austin

Acronym: MCA

Description: Micro Channel Architecture-was a proprietary 16- or 32-bit parallel computer bus created by IBM in the 1980s for use on their new PS/2 computers. Explanation- It is an interface between a computer (or multiple computers) and its expansion cards and their associated devices.

Name: Perez, Adrian

Acronym: MCSE

Description: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is the best known certification level, geared for the technical specialist involved with advanced Microsoft products. The current certifications are: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD), Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) and the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA).

Name: Printz, William

Acronym: MIPS

Description: Million Instructions Per Minute. This is a common measure the output of a large computer. It is also a measure of cost for computing on a network or mainframe. The higher the MIPS, the lower the cost of computing for a company.

Name: Strehle, Joseph

Acronym: MPEG

Description: Short for Moving Picture Experts Group, and pronounced m-peg, is a working group of the ISO. The term also refers to the family of digital video compression standards and file formats developed by the group. MPEG generally produces better-quality video than competing formats, such as Video for Windows, Indeo and QuickTime. MPEG files previously on PCs needed hardware decoders (codecs) for MPEG processing. Today, however, PCs can use software-only codecs including products from RealNetworks, QuickTime or Windows Media Player.

Name: Szytec, Michael

Acronym: MTBF

Description: Mean time between failures (MTBF) is the arithmetic mean (average) time between failures of a system. The MTBF is typically part of a model that assumes the failed system is immediately repaired (zero elapsed time), as a part of a renewal process. This is in contrast to the mean time to failure (MTTF), which measures average time between failure with the modeling assumption that the failed system is not repaired.

Name: Wagner, Christopher

Acronym: NIC

Description: Network Interface Card NIC is installed inside computers and joins them through a local network (ethernet). It acts as an intermediary for the computer to send and receive data.

Name: Walsh, Sophia

Acronym: OCR

Description: Optical Character recognition- The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software. Through the use of OCR Software that translates a scanned image of printed or typewritten text into a plain text file that can be read by a word processor. OCR does this by taking the light reflected by a printed text and for example, is recorded as patterns of light and dark areas by an array of photoelectric cells in a optical scanner. A computer program analyzes the patterns and identifies the characters they represent, with some tolerance for less than perfect and uniform text.

Name: Weaver, Alexander

Acronym: ODBC

Description: Open Database Connectivity is an industry standard interface that allows reporting tools such as Access, Excel, Cognos, Impromtu, Crystal Reports, and others to connect to various database management systems. It facilitates data transfer between a database and these related programs. The ODBC protocol is specified by Microsoft’s Windows Open Services Architecture; however it is not a Microsoft standard.

Name: Wolking, Daniel

Acronym: OLAP

Description: OLAP - Online Analytical Processing OLAP is a way to answer multidemensional analytical queries. When used it is often part of a system called a OLAP cube. The cube contains measures that are numerial facts that are classified by dimensions. The measures come from data in a fact table while the dimensions come from the dimension tables. In a relationsional database the OLAP will make connections between the measures and dimensions.

Name: Zeller, Andrew

Acronym: OLE

Description: OLE stands for Object Linking & Embedding which is a method of inserting information from one computer application into another for programs developed by Microsoft. If the object is embedded, a copy is made of the original information. If the object is linked, the object will show any changes made to the original object. This is used in drag and drop and clipboard operations.

Name: Adams, Richard

Acronym: OLTP

Description: OLTP stands for On-line Transaction Processing. This is the processing of transactions using computers in real time. It is the class of systems that facilitate transaction applications. An ATM machine is an example. OLTP has made many businesses more efficient by offering online banking, electronic time clocks, and online trading.

Name: Bertovich, Kimberly

Acronym: PBX

Description: PBX stands for "Private Branch Exchange." PBX is a telephone exchange that serves a particular organization or business, as opposed to one that a common carrier or telephone company operates for many businesses or for the general public.

Name: DeBord, Andrew

Acronym: POP

Description: The Post Office Protocol (POP) is a protocol designed to allow the email client software on single-user computers to retrieve electronic mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. The three most common email protocols governing the interactions between email servers and clients are POP (older design), IMAP (newer protocol), and MAPI (proprietary email protocol of Microsoft, that can be used by Outlook, the Microsoft's email client software, to communicate with Microsoft Exchange). The basic POP procedure is to retrieve all inbound messages for storage on the client, delete them on server, and then disconnect. The email server functions like a mailbox at a post office - a temporary holding area until mail gets to its final destination, the user’s computer. Both POP and IMAP protocols handle only the incoming mail, the outgoing mail for both POP and IMAP clients uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).

Name: Guliants, Elena

Acronym: POP

Description: POP stands for Post Office Protocol, which is an application- layer internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP or IP connection. POP will allow users to retrieve e-mail when connected, and view and edit messages without staying connected.

Name: DeSapri, Matthew

Acronym: POS

Description: Point of sale or point of service (POS or PoS) can mean a retail shop, a checkout counter in a shop, or the location where a transaction occurs. By synecdoche point of sale often refers to a POS terminal or more generally to the hardware and software used for checkouts – the equivalent of an electronic cash register. Point of sale systems are used in supermarkets, restaurants, hotels, stadiums, and casinos, as well as almost any type of retail establishment.

Name: Harris, Sarah

Acronym: POS

Description: Point of sale or point of service (POS or PoS) can mean a retail shop, a checkout counter in a shop, or the location where a transaction occurs. By synecdoche point of sale often refers to a POS terminal or more generally to the hardware and software used for checkouts – the equivalent of an electronic cash register. Point of sale systems are used in supermarkets, restaurants, hotels, stadiums, and casinos, as well as almost any type of retail establishment.

Name: Harris, Sarah

Acronym: QBE

Description: Query By Example is a database query language for relational databases. It is a method for describing a database query originally developed by IBM for mainframes. It is the first graphical query language, using visual tables where the user would enter commands, example elements, and conditions. A replica of an empty record is displayed and the search conditions are typed in under their respective columns (fields). This visual approach has been adopted by nearly every modern query program. The program turns the visual query into the command language, such as SQL, necessary to interrogate the database.

Name: Imming, J.T.

Acronym: RAID

Description: RAID- Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers but aren't generally necessary for personal computers. RAID allows you to store the same data redundantly (in multiple paces) in a balanced ay to improve overall performance.

Name: Lim, Ena

Acronym: RISC

Description: Reduced Instruction Set Computer A computer architecture that is designed to perform a smaller set of computer instructions so that it can operate at a higher speed with lower cost.

Name: Mandurah, Banan

Acronym: RJ45

Description: Registered Jack 45 -- More appropriately referred to as the “8P8C,” the RJ45 refers to the construction of plugs and sockets that are most often used in Ethernet connections. Both the male plug and the female socket have eight equally spaced conductors.

Name: Mitchell, Austin

Acronym: SAP

Description: Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing-is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Explanation- used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business from shared data stores.

Name: Perez, Adrian

Acronym: SCIS

Description: Small Computer System Interface. This is a set of standards used by hard drives to network and pass data back and forth. Like in accounting, you have GAAP standards so that accountants can speak the same language, this is the same for computers.

Name: Strehle, Joseph

Acronym: SCM

Description: Software Configuration Management is tracking and controlling changes in software. It involves how to reproduce an action after this action originally happens. Determining an appropriate action comes after analyzing and comparing different results.

Name: Printz, William

Acronym: SLIP

Description: Serial Line Internet Protocol- SLIP modifies a standard Internet datagram by appending a special SLIP END character to it, which allows datagrams to be distinguished as separate. SLIP requires a port configuration of 8 data bits, no parity, and EIA or hardware flow control. SLIP does not provide error detection, being reliant on other high-layer protocols for this. Over a particularly error-prone dial-up link therefore, SLIP on its own would not be satisfactory.

Name: Szytec, Michael

Acronym: SMTP

Description: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks. SMTP was first defined in RFC 821 (STD 10), and last updated by RFC 5321 (2008) which describes extended SMTP (ESMTP), the protocol in widespread use today.

Name: Wagner, Christopher

Acronym: SNA

Description: Systems Network Architecture SNA is a software implementation established by IBM to move date between computers and their resources. It uses common conventions so that different products can still communicate.

Name: Walsh, Sophia

Acronym: SQL

Description: Structured Query Language- Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. SQL is particularly suitable for searching relational databases. It has a formal, powerful syntax and is able to accommodate logical operators. Its sentence-like structure resembles natural language except that its syntax is limited and fixed. SQL is not in itself a database, but a language for interacting with, creating and modifying, a database, as well as manipulating the data therein. It is basically the language that the given database recognizes and responds to. Anyone searching within a relational database would have to enter their search in the proper SQL language to get the results they want.

Name: Weaver, Alexander

Acronym: SSL

Description: SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer----a protocol developed by Netscape Communications Corporation for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers.

Name: Yao, Lu

Acronym: TCP/IP

Description: TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol TCP/IP is is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. TCP/IP is a two layer system. The first layer, Transmission Control Protocol, assembles a message into smaller packets that are transfered over the internet. The pieces are recieved by a reciever that puts the pieces back into the origninal message. The second layer, IP, makes sure that the pieces arrive at the proper destination. It handles entering the address of the destination. This system is considered stateless which means each client request is a new request and has nothing to do with previous requests. This frees network paths so that they can be used continously.

Name: Zeller, Andrew

Acronym: UML

Description: Unified Modeling Language is the single, common language widely used to simplify the process of software design. It enables the specification, visualization, and documentation of the components of the system making a model for construction with a number of different views. UML is largely a system of symbols used to create sequence diagrams. It is not an industry standard at this point, but industry leaders are in the process of developing a rigorous, standard language using the facets of UML.

Name: Wolking, Daniel

Acronym: URL

Description: A Uniform Resource Locator is a pointer to a resource on the internet; also known as a web address. A URL not only specifies where a resource (file, directory, search engine, etc.) is available, but also how to retrieve the information. The first part of the address is called a protocol identifier and indicates which protocol to use. The second part of the URL is the resource name and specifies the domain name where the resource is located.

Name: Hill, Courtney

Acronym: VOIP

Description: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a general term for a family of transmission technologies to delivery voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks. Voice over IP has been implemented in various ways by using both proprietary and open protocols and standards. (Example of available VoIP implementations: Skype.) VoIP can reduce communication and infrastructure costs: Routing phone calls over existing data networks to avoid the need for separate voice and data networks; VoIP can also facilitate tasks and provide services that may be more difficult to implement by using another application. Its ability to transmit more than one telephone call over the same broadband connection can make VoIP a simple way to add an extra telephone line to a home or office.

Name: Yao, Lu

Acronym: WAP

Description: Wireless Application Protocol is an open standard for wireless network communications. It's used to facilitate access to the Internet from a mobile phone or PDA. A browser in WAP provides pretty much everything a computer-based browser does, but simplifies it to work under constraints found on mobile devices (e.g. small screen). Sites using WAP are presented in a wireless markup language for access using a WAP browser. Basically it helps enable access to online content and services via a mobile device.

Name: Salisbury, Dave

Acronym: XML

Description: eXtensible Markup Language is a general-purpose set of rules for creating custom markup languages - i.e. that which allows users to define their own mark-up elements. It's primarily intended to aid information systems in sharing structured data, especially via the Internet. XML, helps make it possible to separate the definition of a document's content from its formatting, which makes it easier to reuse content. It also serves as a sort of middleware that lets different computers, applications, organizations, etc. share data without requiring singificant efforts to convert from one standard to another.

Name: Salisbury, Dave