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 * **__Application__** || Software that is used for business or entertainment. "Application," "application program" and "software application" refer to virtually any type of program from spreadsheets such as Excel to media players such as iTunes to virtual reality games such as Second Life. However, the term specifically excludes essential control software such as the operating system || __**P2P**__ || STANDS FOR "Peer to Peer." In a P2P network, the "peers" are computer systems which are connected to each other via the Internet. Files can be shared directly between systems on the network without the need of a central server. In other words, each computer on a P2P network becomes a file server  as well as a client || __**Atanasoff berry computer (ABC)**__ || Computer which was capable of solving systems of linear equations || __**Robotics**__ || The field of computer science and engineering concerned with creating robots devices that can move and react to sensory input. It is part of artificial science. ||  ||   ||
 * __**File server**__ || A file server is a computer responsible for the central storage and management of data files so that other computers on the same network can access the files. A file server allows users to share information over a network. || __**Telecommunication**__ || The transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television. Sometimes know as the science and technology of communication. || **__Digital divide__** || Is the difference between the people who do and do not have access to internet or similar technology such as computers and laptops or even mobile phones. || __**Robotic hybrids**__ || A hybrot (short for "hybrid robot") is a cybernetic organism in the form of a robot controlled by a computer consisting of both electronic and biological elements. The biological elements are rat neurons connected to a computer chip. ||  ||   ||
 * __**E-book**__ || An e-book (short for electronic book and also known as a digital book) is “a portable electronic device used to download and read books or magazines that are in digital form.” Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital || __**Integrated circuit**__ || Another name for a chip, an integrated circuit (IC) is a small electronic device made out of a semiconductor material. || __**Silicon Valley**__ || An area south of San Francisco, California that is noted for its huge number of computer companies. Thousands of hardware, software and related firms have headquarters or offices in Silicon Valley, making it the largest confluence of high tech in the U.S. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the number of computer and electronics firms grew exponentially, which is when the area got its nickname. || __**Artificial Life (alife)**__ || The simulation of biological phenomena through the use of computer models, robotics, or biochemistry. ||  ||   ||
 * ||  || __**Silicon Chip**__ || Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit || __**Share ware**__ || Software that is distributed freely and for which users voluntarily pay a fee for its use. All users are ethically obligated to pay for shareware if it is used beyond the implied or implied evaluation period. See freeware software, public domain software, and commercial software. ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

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