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  2. IC3 (certification) - Wikipedia

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    The IC3 Digital Literacy certification (Internet Core Competency Certification) Digital Literacy certification is a global benchmark for basic computer literacy, including operating systems, hardware, software, and networks. [1] The IC3 certifications test concepts and skills that apply to almost any school or career pathway.

  3. Computer performance by orders of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    The Singularity Is Near – book by Raymond Kurzweil dealing with the progression and projections of development of computer capabilities, including beyond human levels of performance; TOP500 – list of the 500 most powerful (non-distributed) computer systems in the world

  4. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    CAI—Computer-aided instruction; CAM—Computer-aided manufacturing; CAP—Consistency availability partition tolerance (theorem) CAPTCHA—Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart; CAT—Computer-aided translation; CAQ—Computer-aided quality assurance; CASE—Computer-aided software engineering; cc—C compiler

  5. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...

  6. List of computer science awards - Wikipedia

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    The top computer science award is the ACM Turing Award, generally regarded as the Nobel Prize equivalent for Computer Science. [1] Other highly regarded top computer science awards include IEEE John von Neumann Medal awarded by the IEEE Board of Directors, and the Japan Kyoto Prize for Information Science.

  7. Benchmark (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A graphical demo running as a benchmark of the OGRE engine. In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it.

  8. Information Technology Professional Examination Council

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    The Information Technology Professional Examination Council (ITPEC), is an organization that conducts information technology examinations throughout Asian countries. It was formed to promote information exchange among examination bodies in Asia, and to facilitate such efforts as the development of common examination questions and the administration of the exam on the same date and time.

  9. Computer experiment - Wikipedia

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    Computer experiments have been employed with many purposes in mind. Some of those include: Uncertainty quantification: Characterize the uncertainty present in a computer simulation arising from unknowns during the computer simulation's construction. Inverse problems: Discover the underlying properties of the system from the physical data.