ACC

Accumulator

ADC

Analog-to-Digital Converter

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AGP

Accelerated Graphics Port

AI

Artificial Intelligence

ALU

Arithmetic Logic Unit

AOP

Aspect-Oriented Programming

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASP

Active Server Pages

ATM

Automated Teller Machine

ATX

Advanced Technology Extended

BIOS

Basic Input Output System

BIPS

Billion Instructions Per Second

BMP

BitMaP

bps

bits per second

CA

Certification Authority

CAD

Computer Aided Design

CAM

Computer Aided Manufacturing

CASE

Computer Aided Software Engineering

CBIS

Computer-Based Information System

CCITT

International Consultative Committee for Telephone and Telegraph

CD-R

Compact Disk-Recordable

CD-ROM

Compact Disk-Read Only Memory

CD-RW

Compact Disk-ReWritable

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CIO

Chief Information Officer

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computer

CLI

Command Line Interface

CMOS

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CODASYL

Conference on Data Systems Languages

COM

Computer Output on Microfilm

cps

Characters per second or cycles per second

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CRT

Cathode Ray Tube

CU

Control Unit

DAC

Digital-to-Analog Conversion

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DBA

DataBase Administrator

DBMS

DataBase Management System

DBTG

DataBase Task Group

DDL

Data Definition Language

DES

Data Encryption Standard

DHTML

Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language

DIMM

Dual In-line Memory Module

DML

Data Manipulation Language

DNS

Domain Name System

DOM

Document Object Model

DoS

Denial of Service

dpi

dots per inch

DR

Data Register

DRAM

Dynamic Random Access Memory

DSA

Digital Signature Algorithm

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSS

Decision Support System

DVD-R

Digital Video Disk-Recordable

DVD-ROM

Digital Video Disk-Read Only Memory

EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

E-commerce

Electronic commerce

EDVAC

Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

EEPROM

Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EIS

Executive Information System

EISA

Extended Industry Standard Architecture

E-mail

Electronic-mail

ENIAC

Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator

EPROM

Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

E-R Model

Entity-Relationship Model

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

ES

Expert System

FAT

File Allocation Table

FCFS

First Come First Served

FDD

Floppy Disk Drive

FDDI

Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDM

Frequency Division Multiplexing

FLOPS

FLoating point Operations Per Second

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GB

GigaByte

GHz

GigaHertz

GIF

Graphical Interchange Format

GNOME

GNU Object Model Environment

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HDD

Hard Disk Drive

HMD

Head-Mounted Display

HSL

Hue, Saturation and Lightness

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

Hz

Hertz

I/O

Input/Output

IAB

Internet Architecture Board

IANA

Internet Assigned Number Authority

IC

Integrated Circuit

IESG

Internet Engineering Steering Group

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol

InterNIC

Internet Network Information Center

IPsec

IP Security

IR

Instruction Register

IRC

Internet Relay Chat

IRG

Inter-Record Gap

IRTF

Internet Research Task Force

IS

Information System

ISA

Industry Standard Architecture

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO

International Standards Organization

ISOC

Internet Society

ISP

Internet Service Provider

IT

Information Technology

JDBC

Java Data Base Connectivity

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

JSP

Java Server Pages

KB

KiloByte

KDE

K Desktop Environment

LAN

Local Area Network

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display

LED

Light Emitting Diode

LSI

Large Scale Integration

MAC

Media ACcess address

MAN

Metropolitan Area Network

MAR

Memory Address Register

MB

MegaByte

MBR

Memory Buffer Register

MHz

MegaHertz

MICR

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIPS

Million Instructions Per Second

MIS

Management Information System

MPEG

Motion Picture Experts Group

MSB

Most Significant Bit

MS-DOS

Microsoft Disk Operating System

NAP

Network Access Point

NAT

Network Address Translation

NIC

Network Interface Card

NLP

Natural Language Processing

NSF

National Science Foundation

NTFS

New Technology File System

OAS

Office Automation System

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

ODBC

Open Data Base Connectivity

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

OMR

Optical Mark Recognition

OOP

Object-Oriented Programming

OS

Operating System

OSI

Open System Interconnection

PC

Personal Computer or Program Counter

PCB

Printed Circuit Board

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant

PERL

Practical Extraction and Reporting Language

PHP

Hypertext Preprocessor

PKC

Public Key Cryptography

POP3

Post Office Protocol 3

POST

Power on Self Test

PROM

Programmable Read Only Memory

PS

PostScript

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

RAM

Random Access Memory

RF

Radio Frequency

RGB

Red, Green and Blue

RIFF

Resource Interleave File Format

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

ROM

Read Only Memory

RR

Round Robin

RSA

Rivest, Shamir, Adleman

SAP

Systems, Applications and Products

SATA

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithm

SIMM

Single In-line Memory Module

SJF

Shortest Job First

SKC

Secret Key Cryptography

SLSI

Super Large Scale Integrated

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SO DIMM

Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module

SPOOL

Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line

SQL

Structured Query Language

SRAM

Static Random Access Memory

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

STP

Shielded Twisted Pair

TB

TeraByte

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

Telnet

Terminal Network

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

TPS

Transaction Processing System

UNIVAC

UNIVersal Automatic Computer

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

USB

Universal Serial Bus

UTF

Unicode Transformation Format

UTP

Unshielded Twisted Pair

VDT

Visual Display Terminal

VLSI

Very Large Scale Integration

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

WAN

Wide Area Network

WDM

Wavelength Division Multiplexing

WORM

Write Once-Read Many

WWW

World Wide Web

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

ZD

Zip Disk