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KBS-Media Lab
Lund University
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A
- ADT
- Abstract data type
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute
- ATM
- Asynchronous transfer mode
- AVS
- Audio/video server
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B
- BFR
- Swedish Council for Building Research
- BGP
- Byzantine Generals Problem (BGP)
- Boverket
- National Board of Housing Building and Planning
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C
- CORBA
- Common Object Request Broker Architecture. See OMG
- COM
- Microsoft's alternative to CORBA
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D
- DCE
- Distributed Computing Environemnt
- DKN
- Dynamic Knowledge Net (KBS-Media Lab 1992)
- DNS
- Domain Name System.
- DVD
- (Digital Video Disc), (Digital Versatile Disc).
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E
- EFL
- The foundation for Information on Economic Research in Lund
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F
- FDDI
- Fiber distributed data interface
- FRN
- Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research
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G
- GDD
- Global data dictionary (from AT&T 1995)
- GSM
- Global System for Mobile Communication
- GUI
- Graphical user interface
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H
- H.221
- Industry standard protocol for multiplexing conferencing audio, video, and data (equivalent to Px64
- H.230
- Suite of industry standard protocols that includes H.221 and data conferencing
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I
- IDEON
- Science Park in Lund. The first in Sweden opened 1983
- ISDN
- Integrated services digital network
- ISKO
- The International Society for Knowledge Organization
- IP
- Internet transport layer Protocol
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J
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K
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L
- LAN
- Local area network
LU
Lund University
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M
- MCU
- Multipoint control unit for switching 64 kb/s ISDN lines (AT&T 1995)
- MPEG-1
- Motion picture Experts Group, video compression standard.
- MPP
- Massively parallel processor
- MRI
- Magnetic resonance imaging
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N
- NBS-DATA
- Nordic Building Research Cooperation Group (NBS), Working Group for Information Technology (DATA)
- NIC
- Network Information Center (Guide to Network Resource Tools. EARN Association).
- NOS
- Network Operating System
- NUTEK
- Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development
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O
- OCR
- optical character recognition
- ODE
- Object database environment (AT&T 1995)
- OID
- Object identifier (AT&T 1995)
- OMG
- Object Managgement Group. 1990 first time published 'Object Management Architecture Guide'.
- ORB
- Object Request Broker. (see also RPC)
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P
- Petabyte
- 10Δ15 bytes
- PUS
- Section for Staff Development at Lund University
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Q
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- Q.931
- digital subscriber signaling system No. 1 for ISDN users. (AT&T 1995)
R
- RAID
- Redundant arrys of inexpensive disks
- RDBMS
- Relational database management system
- RPC
- Remote procedure call. With a RPC, you call a specific function (the data is separate). In contrast, with an ORB, you're calling a method within a specific object.
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S
- SCSI
- Small computer systems interface
- SBUF
- The Development Fund of the Swedish Construction Industry
- SICS
- Swedish Institute for Computer Science
- SERFIN
- Skade- och erfarenhetsuppföljning på Internet. (Building Maintenenace on the Internet)
- SLIP
- Serial Line IP.
- SPA
- The Swedish Association of Practicing Architects
- SQL3
- Proposed definition of 'structured query language' with object support
- SVR
- Swedish Society of Civil and Structural Engineers.
- Swipnet
- Swedish IP Network.
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T
- TCP/IP
- transmission control protocol/Internet protocol
- TELIA
- Swedish Telecom
- tuples
- rows, or records of a relational databse
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U
- UB2
- Lund University Library Building 2. Lund Institute of Technology, Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Faculty of Medicine
- URC
- Uniform Resource Characteristic
- URN
- Uniform Resource Name.
- UUID
- Univerersally unique IDs
- UUCP
- Unix-to-Unix Copy
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V
- VCR
- video cassette recorder
- VDC
- Civil Engineering Computimng Center at Lund Institute of Technology
- V-LTH
- Civil Engineering School at Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University
- VRML
- Virtual Reality Modeling Language.
http://www.vrml.org,
http://dxsting.cern.ch/sting/VRML.html,
http://vrml.wired.com/
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W
- WAN
- Wide area network
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X
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Y
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Z
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