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2,727 concepts
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Occupy movement
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224 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
first published 2 Jan 1994
international branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protests against social and economic inequality around the world
corporate personhood
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41 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
first published 2 Jan 1994
notion that corporations can have some legal rights, responsibilities and accountability
natural language processing
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220 books
first published 1994
first published 1994
field of computer science and linguistics
contact tracing
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66 books
first published 1994 added 14 Aug 2023
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
operation paperclip
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32 books
first published 1994
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
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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223 books
first published 1994
first published 1994
a financial crisis that started in 1997, affecting various Asian economies by causing currency devaluations and financial collapse.
OSI model
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30 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 23 Nov 2021
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 23 Nov 2021
model with 7 layers to describe communication systems
P = NP
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22 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
first published 10 Nov 1993
an unsolved problem in computer science regarding the relationship between polynomial-time problems and non-deterministic polynomial-time problems
packet switching
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128 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
first published 10 Nov 1993
method for transmitting data over a computer network
cellular automata
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62 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
first published 10 Nov 1993
discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling
AI boom
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20 books
first published 8 Sep 1993 added 15 Nov 2025
first published 8 Sep 1993 added 15 Nov 2025
rapid progress in generative AI since mid-2010s
generative artificial intelligence
From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death
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11 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 3 Jan 2017
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 3 Jan 2017
Nash equilibrium
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63 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
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
minimax theorem
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7 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 9 Mar 2025
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 9 Mar 2025
theorem providing conditions that guarantee that the max–min inequality is also an equality
revision control
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44 books
first published 1993
first published 1993
activity of managing the versions of one or more files
fossil word
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3 books
first published 23 Oct 1992 added 6 Jan 2025
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
Colonization of Mars
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110 books
first published 23 Oct 1992
first published 23 Oct 1992
the hypothetical human habitation and terraforming of the planet Mars
disintermediation
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177 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
first published 31 Aug 1992
removal of intermediaries from a supply chain
Richard Bolles
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5 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
first published 31 Aug 1992
an American author best known for his book 'What Color Is Your Parachute?', a popular job-hunting guide.
software patent
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48 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
first published 31 Aug 1992
time-limited state-granted monopoly on software in return for public disclosure
Tenerife airport disaster
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9 books
first published 28 May 1992
first published 28 May 1992
runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27
air traffic controllers' union
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66 books
first published 28 May 1992 added 10 Jan 2022
first published 28 May 1992 added 10 Jan 2022
labour union representing air traffic controllers
launch on warning
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18 books
first published 5 May 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
first published 5 May 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
nuclear strategy in which a retaliatory strike is launched upon warning of incoming nuclear missiles
Able Archer 83
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14 books
first published 5 May 1992 added 16 Nov 2021
first published 5 May 1992 added 16 Nov 2021
1983 NATO military exercise almost leading to nuclear war
Stanislav Petrov
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34 books
first published 5 May 1992
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
Jaron Lanier
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150 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
first published 15 Mar 1992
American computer scientist, musician, and author
John Perry Barlow
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130 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 17 Dec 2021
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 17 Dec 2021
American poet and essayist
Apple II
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98 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
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.
Mitch Kapor
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86 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 14 Feb 2018
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 14 Feb 2018
an American entrepreneur best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and designing Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet application.
person
Steve Wozniak
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217 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
first published 15 Mar 1992
an American electronics engineer and computer programmer, co-founder of Apple Inc.
person
David Graeber
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137 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
first published 2 Jan 1992
American anthropologist and anarchist (1961-2020)
search costs
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61 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 26 Oct 2021
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 26 Oct 2021
the time, effort, and resources expended by consumers or firms to discover and evaluate products, services, or information.
telerobotics
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26 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
first published 2 Jan 1992
area of robotics concerned with the control of semi-autonomous robots from a distance
