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Centralized training with decentralized execution

Centralized training with decentralized execution (CTDE) is the dominant paradigm in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning: agents share information while training, then each executes using only its own observations.

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Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium

The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), created by royal decree in 2014, is Belgium's national cybersecurity authority and national CSIRT, headquartered in Brussels and led by Director General Miguel De Bruycker.

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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an autonomous Indian scientific society under MeitY, founded in 1988 to build supercomputers after the United States denied India imports.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is a University of Cambridge research center studying risks that could cause human extinction or civilizational collapse.

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Centrino

Centrino, also known as Intel Centrino, was an Intel platform brand launched in 2003 that certified notebooks combining a Pentium M processor, Intel chipset, and built-in Wi-Fi.

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Ceph (software)

Ceph, also known as the Ceph distributed file system, is an open-source storage platform providing object, block, and file storage in a single cluster with no central gateway.

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Cepheus

Cepheus is a computer poker agent from the University of Alberta that essentially solved heads-up limit Texas hold'em in 2015, the first imperfect-information game played by humans to be solved.

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Cepstrum

The cepstrum is a signal-processing representation, the inverse Fourier transform of the log of a Fourier transform, introduced by Bogert, Healy, and Tukey in 1963 for echo detection.

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Cerebras

Cerebras Systems is an American AI-compute company founded by Andrew Feldman that builds wafer-scale processors, the Wafer Scale Engine line, and rack-scale systems, going public in a 2026 IPO.

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Cerebras Inference

Cerebras Inference is a hosted large language model inference service from Cerebras Systems, launched in August 2024, which runs third-party open-weight models on wafer-scale CS-3 hardware and sells speed as its differentiator.

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Cerebras IPO

The Cerebras IPO was the 2026 initial public offering of AI-chip maker Cerebras Systems, which listed on Nasdaq under ticker CBRS, raising about $5.5 billion.

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Cerebras IPO attempt

The Cerebras IPO attempt was AI-chip maker Cerebras Systems' repeatedly delayed Nasdaq listing, filed in September 2024, stalled by a US security review of customer G42, and withdrawn in October 2025.

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Cerebras Series H

The Cerebras Series H was a $1 billion funding round announced in February 2026 that valued AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems at about $23 billion, led by Tiger Global.

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Cerebras WSE

The Cerebras WSE (Wafer-Scale Engine) is a family of AI accelerators by Cerebras Systems in which an entire wafer functions as one processor, first shipped in 2019.

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Certara

Certara is an American biosimulation and model-informed drug development company headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, founded in 2008 and best known for its Simcyp simulator and Phoenix software platform.

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Certbot

Certbot is a free, open-source command-line tool maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that obtains TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt and installs and renews them on web servers automatically.

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Certificate authority

A certificate authority (CA) is an organization that issues, revokes, and manages digital certificates, most commonly X.509 certificates that TLS uses to bind public keys to domain names.

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Certificate chain of trust

A certificate chain of trust is an ordered sequence of X.509 certificates in which each is signed by the next, linking an end-entity certificate to a trusted root CA.

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Certificate lifecycle management

Certificate lifecycle management (CLM) is the practice, and class of software, of discovering, issuing, installing, renewing, and revoking digital certificates, driven by automation as certificate lifetimes shrink.

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Certificate revocation

Certificate revocation is the process by which a certificate authority declares an issued digital certificate untrusted before expiry, usually because its private key was compromised.

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Certificate revocation list

A certificate revocation list (CRL) is a digitally signed list of public key certificates that a certification authority has revoked before their scheduled expiration dates.

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Certificate signing request

A certificate signing request (CSR), also called a certification request, is a PKCS #10 signed message applying to a certification authority for an X.509 certificate.

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Certified Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator

Certified Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) is a vendor-neutral digital forensics certification issued by EC-Council, recognized by the U.S. Department of Defense since 2019 and ANSI accredited.

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Certified Data Management Professional

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), DAMA International's flagship certification based on the DMBOK. Three levels (Associate, Practitioner, Master), open-book 100-question exams, USD$300 each, three-year validity with annual renewal.

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Certified Ethical Hacker

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) is a professional offensive cybersecurity certification issued by EC-Council since 2003, recognized under US Department of Defense Directive 8570 and held by more than 237,000 people.

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Certified Information Security Manager

The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) is an information security management certification issued by ISACA since 2002, covering governance, risk management, security programs, and incident management for security managers.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) is a professional credential in information systems audit, control, and security administered by ISACA since 1978, requiring five years of relevant work experience.

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Certified information systems security professional

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is a vendor-neutral cybersecurity certification administered by ISC2 since 1994, held by more than 165,000 practitioners and requiring five years of experience across eight security domains.

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Certified robustness

Certified robustness is a machine learning property where a mathematical proof guarantees a model's prediction stays the same under any adversarial perturbation within a bounded neighborhood of an input.

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Certinia

Certinia is an American software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, founded in 2009 as FinancialForce.com, offering professional services automation and financial management built on Salesforce.