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neural network
neural network or neural computing, computer architecture modeled upon the human brain 's interconnected system of neurons. Neural networks imitate the brain's ability to sort out patterns and learn from trial and error, discerning and extracting the relationships that underlie the data with...
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metropolitan area network
metropolitan area network A metropolitan area network, often abbreviated to MAN, is an IEEE-approved network that serves a metropolitan area such as a city or a town, although it is not restricted to such uses. For example, the term has been used to describe a network connecting a number of local u...
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communications satellite
communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to earth. Later satellites carried with ...
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network
network in computing, two or more computers connected for the purpose of routing, managing, and storing rapidly changing data. A local area network (LAN), which is restricted by distances of up to one mile, and a metropolitan area network (MAN), which is restricted to distances of up to 60 miles,...
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local area network
local area network (LAN), a computer network dedicated to sharing data among several single-user workstations or personal computers , each of which is called a node. A LAN can have from two to several hundred such nodes, each separated by distances of several feet to as much as a mile, and shoul...
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Kirchhoff's laws
Kirchhoff's laws [for Gustav R. Kirchhoff ], pair of laws stating general restrictions on the current and voltage in an electric circuit . The first of these states that at any given instant the sum of the voltages around any closed path, or loop, in the network is zero. The second states that at...
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Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon 1916-2001, American applied mathematician, b. Gaylord, Michigan. A student of Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was the first to propose the application of symbolic logic to the design of relay circuitry with his paper "A Symbolic Analysi...
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canal
canal an artificial waterway constructed for navigation or for the movement of water. The digging of canals for irrigation probably dates back to the beginnings of agriculture, and traces of canals have been found in the regions of ancient civilizations. Canals are also used to provide municipal an...
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memory
memory in psychology, the storing of learned information, and the ability to recall that which has been stored. It has been hypothesized that three processes occur in remembering: perception and registering of a stimulus; temporary maintenance of the perception, or short-term memory; and lasting st...
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data communications
data communications application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers . In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. Telephone circuits are often used to...
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