visionary n.
1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an
Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of
getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras. (There
isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a
computer. The problem is, how can the computer be programmed to
make use of the camera information? See SMOP,
AI-complete.) 2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature.
At IBM, apparently, such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.
1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an
Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of
getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras. (There
isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a
computer. The problem is, how can the computer be programmed to
make use of the camera information? See SMOP,
AI-complete.) 2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature.
At IBM, apparently, such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.
Related:
- visionary n.
1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an
Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of
getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
(There isn't any problem in sending information... - real user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real*
money for his computer usage.
2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an... - AI-complete /A-I k*m-pleet'/ adj.
[MIT, Stanford:
by analogy with `NP-complete' (see NP-)] Used to... - real user n.
1. A commercial user. One who is paying
real money for his computer usage.
2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an... - AI-complete: /A-I k*m-pleet'/ [MIT, Stanford: by analogy with
`NP-complete' (see {NP-})] adj.
Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI,... - smart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing
capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end
processing from the computer it talks to.
The development of workstations and personal computers... - sysape: /sys'ayp/ n. A rather derogatory term for a computer
operator;
a play on {sysop} common at sites that use the banana... - weenie: n. 1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of luser resembling a
less amusing version of {BIFF} that infests many {BBS}
systems.
The typical weenie is a teenage boy with poor social... - smart terminal n.
1. A terminal that has enough computing
capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end
processing from the computer it talks to.
The development of workstations and personal computers...
From the same category:
- cruftsmanship /kruhfts'm*n-ship / n.
[from cruft] The antithesis of craftsmanship... - well-behaved adj.
1. [primarily MS-DOS] Said of
software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards.
Well-behaved software uses the operating system to... - toolsmith n.
The software equivalent of a tool-and-die
specialist;
one who specializes in making the tools with which... - bubble sort n.
Techspeak for a particular sorting
technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be
sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order;
thus, list... - exercise, left as an adj.
[from technical books] Used to
complete a proof when one doesn't mind a handwave,
or to avoid one entirely. The complete phrase is...
