Marc Porat
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9 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 28 Oct 2023
American businessman
Bill Atkinson
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32 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 19 Oct 2020
Dynabook
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30 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
reality distortion field
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70 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 5 Oct 2023
a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981 to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' ability to persuade himself and others to believe almost anything
Douglas Engelbart
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109 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 5 Mar 2017
American engineer and inventor
proprietary trading
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193 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
added 6 Aug 2022
practice of trading financial instruments using a firm's own money
market clearing
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108 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
an economic term for the situation where supply equals demand, typically resulting in an equilibrium price.
the map is not the territory
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39 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
added 17 Jan 2017
a phrase emphasizing that models or representations of reality are not the same as the reality they represent
commodity trading advisor
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30 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
individual or organization who is retained by a fund or individual client to provide advice and services related to trading in futures contracts, commodity options and/or swaps
Ralph Nelson Elliott
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11 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
added 17 Jan 2017
American accountant (1871-1948)
Sharpe ratio
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92 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
measure of an investment's risk premium
uptick rule
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23 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
added 21 Apr 2022
trading restriction that states that short selling a stock is only allowed on an uptick
Occupy movement
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216 books
first published
2 Jan 1994
international branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protests against social and economic inequality around the world
precariat
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99 books
first published
2 Jan 1994
social class formed by people suffering from precarity
corporate personhood
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40 books
first published
2 Jan 1994
notion that corporations can have some legal rights, responsibilities and accountability
contact tracing
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64 books
first published
1994
added 14 Aug 2023
process of finding and identifying people in close contact with someone who is infected with a transmissible pathogen
Loebner Prize
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32 books
first published
1994
annual competition in artificial intelligence
operation paperclip
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32 books
first published
1994
a secret United States intelligence program that recruited and employed German scientists, including former Nazis, after World War II
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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23 books
first published
1994
added 19 Feb 2017
principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition
Asian financial crisis
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212 books
first published
1994
a financial crisis that started in 1997, affecting various Asian economies by causing currency devaluations and financial collapse.
leapfrogging
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122 books
first published
1994
added 8 Oct 2023
generative AI
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80 books
first published
10 Nov 1993
added 12 Jul 2024
packet switching
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126 books
first published
10 Nov 1993
method for transmitting data over a computer network
cellular automata
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61 books
first published
10 Nov 1993
discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling
knapsack problem
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9 books
first published
10 Nov 1993
problem in combinatorial optimization
OSI model
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30 books
first published
10 Nov 1993
added 23 Nov 2021
model with 7 layers to describe communication systems
P = NP
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37 books
first published
10 Nov 1993
an unsolved problem in computer science regarding the relationship between polynomial-time problems and non-deterministic polynomial-time problems
Peter Calthorpe
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20 books
first published
31 May 1993
added 27 Apr 2018
American architect
car-free
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205 books
first published
31 May 1993
day promoting car-free travel
debt overhang
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60 books
first published
1 Feb 1993
added 6 Jan 2025
Frank Gehry
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176 books
first published
2 Jan 1993
Canadian-American architect
Nash equilibrium
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62 books
first published
2 Jan 1993
solution concept of a non-cooperative game involving two or more players in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no player has anything to gain by changing only their own strategy
revision control
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44 books
first published
1993
activity of managing the versions of one or more files
Blade Runner
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226 books
first published
1993
added 20 Aug 2024
Mondo 2000
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15 books
first published
1993
added 30 Oct 2020
American magazine
fossil word
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3 books
first published
23 Oct 1992
added 6 Jan 2025
word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom
software patent
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48 books
first published
31 Aug 1992
time-limited state-granted monopoly on software in return for public disclosure
Richard Bolles
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5 books
first published
31 Aug 1992
an American author best known for his book 'What Color Is Your Parachute?', a popular job-hunting guide.
retail therapy
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107 books
first published
31 Aug 1992
added 28 Apr 2022
disintermediation
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173 books
first published
31 Aug 1992
removal of intermediaries from a supply chain
launch on warning
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18 books
first published
5 May 1992
added 4 Dec 2022
nuclear strategy in which a retaliatory strike is launched upon warning of incoming nuclear missiles
Stanislav Petrov
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34 books
first published
5 May 1992
a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who prevented a possible nuclear war in 1983 by correctly identifying a missile warning as a false alarm
Able Archer 83
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14 books
first published
5 May 1992
added 16 Nov 2021
1983 NATO military exercise almost leading to nuclear war
John Gilmore
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46 books
first published
15 Mar 1992
added 22 Aug 2022
Steve Wozniak
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210 books
first published
15 Mar 1992
an American electronics engineer and computer programmer, co-founder of Apple Inc.
Jaron Lanier
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145 books
first published
15 Mar 1992
American computer scientist, musician, and author
Apple II
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95 books
first published
15 Mar 1992
an early personal computer released by Apple in 1977, which became one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers.