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ABI Research

ABI Research is a global technology intelligence firm providing market research, forecasting, and advisory on emerging technologies like robotics, AI, and 5G, conducting 2,000 to 3,000 analyst interviews yearly.

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Abilene Network

The Abilene Network was the high-performance backbone of the Internet2 project, operated by UCAID and connecting over 230 United States universities and research institutions from 1998 until 2007.

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Abnormal event detection

Abnormal event detection is a computer vision task that localizes unusual activities in video, such as accidents, fights, thefts, and arson, by scoring each frame.

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Abridge AI Inc.

Abridge AI Inc. is an American healthcare AI company founded in 2018 by cardiologist Shiv Rao that records doctor–patient conversations and drafts clinical notes for health systems.

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Absolute Zero (machine learning)

Absolute Zero is a self-play training paradigm in which a single language model proposes and solves its own tasks with no external data, introduced in a 2025 paper.

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Abstract argumentation framework

An abstract argumentation framework is a directed graph of arguments and attacks, introduced by Phan Minh Dung in 1995, where acceptability depends only on attack patterns.

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Abstract data type

An abstract data type (ADT) is a mathematical model of a data type defined by the values it holds and its operations, independent of any particular implementation.

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Abstract factory pattern

The abstract factory pattern, also called abstract factory, is a creational design pattern that creates families of related objects without specifying their concrete classes, ensuring compatibility.

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Abstract interpretation

Abstract interpretation is a theory of static analysis, founded by Patrick and Radhia Cousot in 1977, that proves program properties for all executions without running the program.

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Abstract Meaning Representation

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a semantic representation language that encodes a sentence's meaning as a rooted, directed graph, capturing who is doing what to whom.

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Abstract state machines

An abstract state machine is a formal method in computer science that models systems as transition rules over arbitrary mathematical states, used to design and verify algorithms.

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Abstraction (computer science)

Abstraction in computer science hides how a system component works behind a simpler description of what it does, letting modules be used and replaced without regard to internals.

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Absurd Ventures

Absurd Ventures is an American storytelling-driven entertainment company founded by former Rockstar Games writer Dan Houser, known for the universes A Better Paradise, American Caper, and the Absurdaverse.

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Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company (شركة أبوظبي التنموية القابضة ش.م.ع)

Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company (Arabic: شركة أبوظبي التنموية القابضة), known as ADQ, is a sovereign investment company of the Government of Abu Dhabi founded in 2018.

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AC adapter

An AC adapter, also called a power brick or wall wart, is an external power supply that converts household AC into low-voltage DC for consumer devices.

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AC0

AC0 is a circuit complexity class of constant-depth, polynomial-size Boolean circuits with unbounded fan-in AND, OR, and NOT gates, best known for the landmark lower bound that parity cannot be computed by such circuits.

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Academia.edu

Academia.edu is a commercial platform where researchers create profiles, upload papers, and follow each other's work, founded by Richard Price in San Francisco in 2008.

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Accela

Accela, Inc. is an American software company based in San Ramon, California, that provides cloud-based software for permitting, licensing, and inspections to state, county, and city governments.

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Acceldata

Acceldata (Acceldata Inc), founded 2018 in Campbell, California by Rohit Choudhary and three Hortonworks colleagues, is a private data observability and agentic data management vendor; its ADOC and xLake platform raised about $105.6 million.

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Accelerated gradient method

The accelerated gradient method, also called Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent, is a first-order optimization algorithm adding momentum to gradient descent, improving the convex convergence rate from O(1/n) to O(1/n²).

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Accelerated Graphics Port

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) is a bus interface developed by Intel in 1996 that connects a graphics card directly to the PC chipset, later replaced by PCI Express.

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Accelerated Mobile Pages

Accelerated Mobile Pages, known as Google AMP, is a web component framework that uses a restricted subset of HTML to make pages load quickly on mobile.

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Accept-Encoding

Accept-Encoding is an HTTP header field, defined in RFC 9110, that a client uses to list the compression codings, such as gzip and Brotli, it can accept.

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Acceptable use policy

An acceptable use policy, also called a fair use policy, is a document setting out permitted behavior and responsibilities for users of an organization's IT resources.

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Acceptance testing

Acceptance testing, also called acceptance tests or factory acceptance testing, is formal testing by users or customers to decide whether a system satisfies acceptance criteria and can be accepted.

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Access control

Access control is the selection of who or what may use a resource and what they may do with it, enforced through personnel, physical, and logical mechanisms in information security.

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Access control list

An access control list (ACL) is an ordered set of rules that filters packets on routers, switches, firewalls, and cloud platforms, where the first matching rule decides the packet's fate.

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Access token

An access token is a credential issued by an authorization server that a client presents to a protected API to gain access on behalf of a resource owner.

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Accessibility testing

Accessibility testing is software testing that evaluates whether websites and applications are usable by people with disabilities, checking them against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines criteria.

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Accounting information system

An accounting information system (AIS) is a system that collects, stores, and processes financial and accounting data, producing reports for management decisions and external evaluation by lenders and investors.