Computing revolutionized most aspects of 21st century life, including language, with new and repurposed terms becoming the lexicon of a generation.

A Graphical User Interface is a computer interface that allows users to interact with a device through graphical elements such as pictures and animations, as opposed to text-based commands. GUIs are ...

Editor’s note: This post first appeared on Carl Cheo’s website. We’ve republished it here with his permission. To make learning more fun and interesting, here’s a list of important computer science ...

"Scheduling" is a computer term that determines how computer systems handle requests or communications. All requests or communications with a computer system require some amount of CPU, which is ...

A computer the size of a USB drive that plugs into the HDMI port of a TV for display. Also called a "screenless PC," "any screen computer," or "PC on a stick," it either uses an ARM or Atom CPU and ...

The first CD-ROM subscription service that aggregated articles and abstracts from major computer periodicals. Starting out in the early 1990s, it wound up with more than 175,000 article abstracts and ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- As Scott Franzke often says to Larry Andersen, "It's all about accuracy." But when you hear a web address in a commercial you'll often hear the term backslash, even though it's ...