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Automatic1111

Automatic1111, formally the Stable Diffusion web UI, is an open-source Python browser interface for generating and editing Stable Diffusion images, released on GitHub in 2022 and now in maintenance mode.

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Automatic1111 WebUI

Automatic1111 WebUI, commonly A1111, is a free open-source web interface for running Stable Diffusion image generation locally, built on Gradio; its last release came in July 2024.

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Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere is a San Jose, California software company founded in 2003 by Mihir Shukla, offering an enterprise platform combining robotic process automation, generative AI, and agentic automation.

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Automattic

Automattic is an American software company founded in 2005 by Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress, and headquartered in San Francisco. It owns WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr.

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Autonegotiation

Autonegotiation, also known as NWay, is an Ethernet procedure defined in IEEE 802.3 clause 28 in which two devices exchange capabilities and select the highest common speed and duplex mode.

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Autonomous quantum error correction with cat qubits

Autonomous quantum error correction with cat qubits is an approach in which engineered dissipation continuously stabilizes a logical qubit in cat states, correcting errors without active measurement.

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Autonomous system (Internet)

An autonomous system (AS) is a group of IP networks under a single routing policy, identified by an ASN and exchanging routes with other ASes using BGP.

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Autonomy Corporation

Autonomy Corporation, also known as HP Autonomy, was a British enterprise software company founded in Cambridge, England, in 1996, best known for its IDOL search platform.

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Autoregressive image generation

Autoregressive image generation treats images as sequences of discrete tokens predicted one after another by a Transformer, revived in 2024 by faster next-scale models like VAR.

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Autoregressive neural network

An autoregressive neural network is a neural network that predicts the next value of a sequence from its own previous values, spanning forecasting and generative models like WaveNet.

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AUTOSAR

AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a global partnership of automotive and software companies that develops an open, standardized software framework and E/E architecture for vehicles since 2003.

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Autoscaling

Autoscaling is a cloud computing technique that automatically adjusts the compute resources allocated to an application, either by adding or removing whole instances or by changing the CPU and memory of existing ones.

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Auxiliary learning

Auxiliary learning is a machine learning approach in which a model trains on auxiliary tasks alongside the primary task, using the parallel objectives to improve feature learning and generalization.

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AV1

AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) is an open, royalty-free video compression format developed by the Alliance for Open Media and published in 2018, offering about 30% better compression than VP9.

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AV2

AV2 (AOMedia Video 2) is a royalty-free video coding specification published by the Alliance for Open Media, finalized in May 2026 to match AV1's quality at roughly 30% lower bitrate.

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Availity

Availity is an American health information network company based in Jacksonville, Florida. Founded in 2001 as a joint venture between Florida Blue and Humana, it connects two million providers and health plans.

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Avalanche breakdown

Avalanche breakdown is the rapid rise of reverse current in a semiconductor junction when impact ionization multiplies carriers in a chain reaction, exploited in avalanche photodiodes and TVS diodes.

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Avanade

Avanade is a global technology services and consulting company focused on the Microsoft platform, founded in 2000 as a joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft.

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Avast

Avast, formerly ALWIL Software and AVAST Software, is a Czech cybersecurity company founded in Prague in 1988. It pioneered freemium antivirus in 2001 and became a Gen Digital brand in 2022.

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Avatar (computing)

In computing, an avatar, also called a buddy icon, is a graphical object that represents a user in a digital environment such as a game or social platform.

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AvePoint

AvePoint is an American software company headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, offering data protection, governance, and migration software for Microsoft 365, Google, and Salesforce, serving over 28,000 customers.

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Average-case complexity

Average-case complexity is the branch of complexity theory that measures an algorithm's resource needs on typical inputs drawn from a probability distribution, introduced by Leonid Levin in 1984.

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AVEVA

AVEVA is a British industrial software company headquartered in Cambridge, UK, founded in 1967 as CADCentre and valued at over £10 billion when Schneider Electric acquired it in 2023.

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AVG AntiVirus

AVG AntiVirus, whose free edition is known as AVG Free, is a family of antivirus and internet security software for Windows, macOS, and Android, owned by Avast since 2016.

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Avid Media Composer

Avid Media Composer is a digital nonlinear editing system released by Avid Technology in 1989, invented by Bill Warner, and the standard editing platform for Hollywood feature films and television.

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Avidemux

Avidemux is a free, open-source video editor for simple cutting, filtering, and encoding tasks, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS; it is deliberately task-oriented, with no timeline or multitrack editing.

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AVIF

AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is an open, royalty-free image format that stores AV1 video bitstreams in a HEIF container, with far smaller files than JPEG and broad browser support.

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Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet

Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) is a deterministic, fault-tolerant switched Ethernet standard, defined in ARINC 664 Part 7, carrying command and control traffic in commercial aircraft.

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Avira

Avira is a German antivirus and cybersecurity software brand founded in 1986 by Tjark Auerbach, known for its free security suite and now owned by Gen Digital.

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AVL tree

The AVL tree, or Adelson-Velskii Landis tree, is a self-balancing binary search tree, invented in 1962, in which search, insertion, and deletion take O(log n) time.