K (also KB or kilobyte).
A measure of memory or disk size which is 1,024 bytes of information. This number happens to be 2 multiplied by itself 10 times, which is a nice round number for computers.

Kala
A persistent data server: a link library providing an engine for applications needing persistence, transactions, crash recovery and rollback, versioning, distribution, and other facilities for which DBMSs are commonly used - . /Kala

KAPPA
An object-oriented object-oriented workbench for Sun workstations from Intellicorp.

KBS
Knowledge-based system.

KDD
Knowledge Discovery in Databases. A branch of Artificial Intelligence Artificial-Intelligence.

Kerberos
A network authentication service ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1510.txt developed at MIT /m that uses DES /d for open network computing environments.

Kerberos
An authentication system from the Athena Athena project, adopted by OSF OSF as the basis of security for DME DME - . ftp://asisftp.cern.ch:/pub/faq/kerberos-faq

KERMIT
A protocol for file transfer. Mainly used for transfers to and from PC's.

kernel
The base component of a program that is always in memory; the operating system /o.

kernel
The essential part of UNIX UNIXor other operating systems, responsible for resource allocation etc.

key board
The thing you type on to tell your computer what to do. There are many different keyboards, with a wide variety of keys on them.

Khoros
A visualisation system from Khoral Research

KIF
Knowledge Interchange Format. For knowledge sharing and communication among heterogeneous agents Agent -

kill
To stop a process from running.

KISS
An Object-Oriented Object-Oriented analysis and design approach - . /2GOO

KISS
Keep It Simple Stupid. A homespun design philosohpy.

kludge
A program or feature that works but the author is embarrassed about. Rhymes with "huge," not with "fudge." Sometimes misspelled as kluge.

KMS
Knowledge Management System: a distributed hypermedia hypermedia system for managing knowledge in organisations A commercial system from Knowledge Systems Inc running on workstations, based on previous research with ZOG ZOG at Carnegie Mellon University.

Knowledge Engineering
The acquisition of knowledge from a human expert or similar source and its coding in an expert system expert-system.

Knowledge Representation
A subset of AI AI .

Kohonen
T. Kohonen of the University of Helsinki has been studying neural networks for many years with the idea of modelling as closely as possible the behaviour of biological systems, and his name is commonly associated with a particular kind of neural network in which there are only two kinds of neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts McCulloch-Pitts), input and others. All the input neurons are connected to all others, and the others are connected only to their other nearest neighbors. The training algorithm is a relatively simple one based on the geometric layout of the neurons, and makes use of annealing annealing.

korn shell
An enhanced version of the Bourne shell, written by a guy named Korn. For your purposes, it's mostly like the Bourne shell,and prompts you with a $. Its program name is ksh.

KQML
Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language - .

KR
Knowledge Representation

KRSL
Knowledge Representation Specification Language.

KUIP
Kernel User Interface Package: the human interface to PAW PAW.