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A-Z of Technologies
Links to resources on more than a hundred technologies
A
ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop)
Agents
Artificial Life
ATM
Authentication
Automated Language Translation (/Machine Translation)
B
Biometrics
Bluetooth (Short distance wireless communication)
C
CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)
CMC (Computer Mediated Communication)
CNRP (Common Names Resolution Protocol)
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)
CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media)
D
DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting)
DCOM (Digital Compression)
Digital Light Processing
Digital Rights Management
Digital signatures
Digital TV
DVD (Digital Versatile Disk)
DVLE (Distributed Learning Environments)
DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing)
E
Electronic Payment Technologies
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
Extranets
F
FCS (Fibre Channel Standard)
G
GA (Genetic Algorithm)
GPRS (General Packet Radio Services)
Grid Computing
Groupware
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications)
H
HiperLAN/2 (5GHz-band wireless LAN technology)
I
ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol)
IEEE 802.11b (Wireless LAN authentication and encryption standard)
IMS
(Instructional Management Systems)
IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunications Standard)
Intelligent Agents
Internet2
Internet security
Intranets
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6)
J
Java
Jini
K
L
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
Linux
M
MAC (Message Authentication Code)
MEMs (Microelectromechanical Systems)
Mesh Networks
MLE
(Managed Learning Environment)
Moore's Law
MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group)
N
Natural Language Processing Searching
O
OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes)
OMG (Object Management Group)
Ontology
Optical Networking Technologies
P
PDP
(Plasma Display Panels)
P2P (Peer to Peer)
P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) Project
Personal firewalls
PIA (Personal Information Assistant)
PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
Plagiarism detection
PLT (Powerline Telecommunications Technology)
Python Language
Q
QBIC (Query By Image Content)
Quantum computing
R
RDF (Resource Description Framework)
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
RMI (Remote Method Invocation)
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
S
SALT (Speech Application Language Tags)
SAN (Storage Area Networks)
Satellite Internet
SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model)
Semantic Web
Smart Cards
Smart Spaces
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
SPARQL
Speech Recognition
STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Data)
T
Tcl/Tk
Ten GBit Ethernet
TMN (Telecommunications Management Network)
Trusted Computing Platforms
U
Ubiquitous Computing
UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration standard)
UML (Unified Modelling Language)
UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications system)
UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
URI
UWB (Ultra WideBand) communications
V
VDSL (Very high rate Digital Subscriber Line)
Video on Demand
Video Streaming
Virtual Learning Environments
VoiceXML
VPNs (Virtual Private Networks)
W
WDDX (Web Distributed Data Exchange
WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing)
Wearable Computers
Web Services
Wireless Communications
Wireless Information Devices
Wireless Local Loop Technologies
Wireless USB
WSDL (Web Services Description Language)
WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portals)
WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organisation)
WS-Security
WWW (World Wide Web)
X
XML (Extensible Markup Language)
Y
Z
ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4 Standard for Wireless Networking)
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