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Founded in 1946, the IEEE Computer Society is a professional organization for computing professionals. Based in Washington, DC, it's the largest of IEEE’s 38 societies organized under the IEEE Technical Activities Board. The IEEE Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and ...
The amount of work that can be performed by a computer system or component in a given period of time; for example, number of jobs per day.
Industry:Computer; Software
The application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to structures, machines, products, systems, or processes.
Industry:Computer; Software
The application of technical and administrative resources to plan, organize, and control engineering functions.
Industry:Computer; Software
The assignment of computer resources to current and waiting jobs; for example, the assignment of main memory, inputloutput devices, and auxiliary storage to jobs executing concurrently in a computer system.
Industry:Computer; Software
The assistant leader of a chief programmer team; responsibilities include contributing significant portions of the software being developed by the team, aiding the chief programmer in reviewing the work of other team members, substituting for the chief programmer when necessary, and having an overall technical understanding of the software being developed.
Industry:Computer; Software
The combination of a hardware device and computer instructions and data that reside as read-only software on that device. Notes: (1) This term is sometimes used to refer only to the hardware device or only to the computer instructions or data, but these meanings are deprecated.~(2) The confusion surrounding this term has led some to suggest that it be avoided altogether.
Industry:Computer; Software
The complete set of instructions recognized by a given computer or provided by a given programming language.
Industry:Computer; Software
The complete set of instructions recognized by a given computer or provided by a given programming language.
Industry:Computer; Software
The computer equipment, programs, documentation, services, facilities, supplies, and personnel available for a given purpose.
Industry:Computer; Software
The computer instruction that results from performing any required indexing, indirect addressing, or other modification on the addresses in a specified computer instruction. Note: If the specified instruction requires no modification, it is also the effective instruction.
Industry:Computer; Software
