W3
W3 is a group of networking professionals,
academia, scientists and corporations
who have been charged with maintaining
and developing the emerging internet
technologies which apply to the
web. W3 is also in charge of any
new standards for HTML.
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium
W3C
World Wide Web Consotrium is an
international standards organization
whose aim is to define and develop
technical specifications for the
development of the Web.
WABI
A software package to
emulate Windows Windows under
X
WAE
Wireless Application Environment
is part of the WAP stack of protocols.
It consists framework containing
all the elements allowing for
the development of wireless applications.
This includes WML, WMLScript,
the WAE User Agent and supported
media types.
WAIS
See Wide Area Index System
(WAIS) /.
WAIS
Wide Area Information
Servers: a distributed document
retrieval system supported by
Apple, Thinking Machines and Dow
Jones. Servers answer questions
from personal workstations following
a standard protocol - . /WAIS
WAN
See Wide Area Network
(WAN) /.
WAN
WIDE AREA NETWORK
WAN
Wide Area Network.
WAN
Wide Area Network: This is a network
which spans a large geographic
area relative to office and campus
environment of LAN (Local Area
Network). WAN is characterized
by having much greater transfer
delays due to laws of physics.
WAO Forum
Standard committee first founded
by Unwired Planet (now Phone.com)
whose role is development of specification
for the WAP standard.
WAP Push Access Protocol
or PAP
PAP is a protocol used for the
transmission of information that
should be pushed to a client.
This protocol controls the transmission
of push information between the
Push Initialor (Server) and the
Push Proxy/Gateway. The ‘transmission
between the Push Proxy/Gateway
and the network client is controlled
by the WAP Push OTA Protocol.
WAP
Wireless Application Protocol,
open global standard for wireless
solutions. This technology permits
the design of interactive, real
time wireless devices.
Warehouse
See Data Warehouse data-warehouse.
WARIA
Workflow workflow And Reengineering
International Association - .
/WARIA.txt
WASI
Wireless Application Protocol
Service Indication is a content
the that allows content providers
to send notification to users
in an asynchronous manner. In
its most basic form a SI will
be a short message with an attached
URL.
Wasserman
A.I.(Tony) Wasserman: president
of IDE IDE.
Waterfall
A software life-cycle life-cyclemodel
showing the phases of the cycle
and their interrelations on a
characteristic diagram.
Wave Division Multiplexing
(WDM)
A means of multiplexing
different wavelengths of light
onto the same physical fiber-optic
communications line pair, allowing
up to a 40x increase in bandwidth.
A single wavelength of light limits
a T1 line to 1.4 Mb/s (+/- allowing
for clocking); using different
wavelengths of light allow the
same fiber pair to carry 60Mb/s
of data.
WBMP
Wireless Bitmap, is a graphic
format optimized for the transmission
of bitmaps over wireless networks.
WBXML
WAP Binary XML content is a binary
representation of XML. The binary
nature of the representation means
a reduction in the resources to
reansmit XML documents to ireless
devices.
W-CDMA
Wideband CDMA.
WCMP
Wireless Control Message Protocol
is a part of the WAP stack and
provides an error reporting mechanism
for the WDP(Wireless Datagram
Protocol). These errors can be
captured and managed.
WCP
See Wellfleet Compression Protocol
(WCP) /.
WDM
See Wave Division Multiplexing
/.
WDP
Wireless Datagram Protocol.
WE
A hypertext hypertext authoring
system developed at the University
of North Carolina.
WEB BROWSER
A web browser is a software package
that allows your computer, once
connected to the Web, to fetch
documents from Web Servers around
the World, translate the HTML
code in the documents and display
the information to your screen.
examples: Netscape Navigator,
Mosaic, MS Internet Explorer.
Web Clipping
Palm proprietary format for the
delivery of web based information
to Palm devices via synchronization
or wireless communication (Palm
VII)
WEB
See Literate Programming Literate-Programming
and also World-Wide Web WWW
Web
See WWW WWW.
WEB SERVER
A Web Server is a computer on
the World Wide Web (connected
to the Internet Backbone) that
stores HTML documents that can
be retrieved via a Web Browser.
WEB SITE
The Web Site is a location on
the Internet, specifically it
refers to the POP location in
which it resides. All Web Sites
are referenced using a special
addressing scheme called a URL.
A Web Site can mean a single HTML
file put up by an individual (called
a personal page or vanity page)
or hundreds of files placed on
the net by a commercial venture.
Wellfleet Compression
Protocol (WCP)
The proprietary protocol that
allows Wellfleet routers to make
more efficient use of network
bandwidth for inter-router communications.
Westmount
A Netherlands software engineering
vendor of RTEE RTEE and other
products.
WFMS
WorkFlow Management System. Software
to manage workflow workflow in
an organisation.
Whetstone
A benchmark Benchmarkprogram.
Wide Area Index System
(WAIS)
A means for indexing and searching
WWW documents.
Wide Area Network (WAN)
A network /n of machines in a
wide area, such as one or more
metropolitan areas. Can consist
of multiple Local Area Networks
(LAN) /l.
Wide Area Network (WAN)
A network that extends across
multiple locations. Each location
typically has a local area network
(LAN) and the LANs are connected
together in a WAN. Typically used
for enterprise networking.
Widget
In the X Window System X-Window-System,
a window with its associated input
and output functions. Widgets,
provided by a library package,
are used as building blocks to
construct a wide variety of application
environments - . /Widget
wildcard
A special character that acts
like a joker when it is used in
filenames or pathnames. Unix shells
have two: * and ?
Willow
A Motif Motif-based user interface
program for bibliographic information
retrieval systems, from Washington
University - .
WIM
Wireless Identity Module is part
of WTLS that stores information
necessary for te protocol to execute
its security and authentication
functions. SIM cards and Smartcards
are implementation of WIM.
wimp
Windows, icons, and mouse pointing.
See GUI
WIMP
Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers
(or maybe Windows, Icons, Mouse,
Pull-down menus). The style of
user interface made popular by
the Apple Macintosh and now available
in other GUI GUIs, such as OSF
OSF/Motif Motif and NeWS NeWS.
window
A rectangular area of the screen
in which a program displays something.
If you use a GUI, you can have
several windows onscreen at a
time, each displaying a different
program.
Window manager
In a window system window-system,
a program which manages windows
on a screen. It is responsible
for moving and resizing windows,
and other practical functions.
window manager
The program (like OPEN LOOK or
Motif) that gives the screen the
overall look of a GUI.
Window system
Software which supports windowing
windowing. Examples are the X
Window System X-Window-System,
and proprietary systems on the
Macintosh, NeXT and Sun.
Windowing
The ability to interact at will
with several processes in a computer
through reserved areas, or windows,
on a VDU screen.
Windows 4GL
INGRES/Windows 4GL is a graphical
tool running on top of workstation
native windowing systems, to help
developers to build user interfaces
to INGRES INGRES applications.
Windows
A window system window-system
and user interface software from
Microsoft for MS-DOS MS-DOS.
Windows Internet Name
Service (WINS)
A network service for Microsoft
networks that provides Windows
computers with Internet numbers
for specified NetBIOS names, facilitating
browsing and intercommunication
over TCP/IP networks.
Windows Internet Naming
Service (WINS)
A system that determines the IP
address associated with a particular
network computer. This is called
name resolution. WINS supports
network client and server computers
running Windows and can provide
name resolution for other computers
with special arrangements. Determining
the IP address for a computer
is a complex process when DHCP
/d servers assign IP addresses
dynamically. For example, it is
possible for DHCP to assign a
different IP address to a client
each time the machine logs on
to the network. See also Domain
Name Service (DNS) /d.
Windows NT File System
(NTFS)
One of the file system /f for
the Windows NT operating system
(Windows NT also supports the
FAT /f file system). NTFS has
features to improve reliability,
such as transaction logs to help
recover from disk failures. To
control access to files, you can
set permissions for directories,
individual files, or both. NTFS
files are not accessible from
other operating systems such as
DOS /d.
WINS
See Windows Internet Naming Service
(WINS) /.
WISE
Web-Integrated Software metrics
Environment. A WWW based software
management and metrics system
from NASA
WISE
World Wide Information System
for Support of R&D Efforts.
A project funded by the Commission
of the European Communities to
encourage "Transborder Telework
and Research Co-operation"
WIT
WWW Interactive Talk
wizard
A person who knows more about
Unix than is really healthy. Encourage
wizards to get outside once in
a while. (A typical wizard figures
that turning up the brightness
on the screen is equivalent to
going out in the sunshine.)
WizDOM
Software for distributed UNIX
system management from TIVOLI
Systems of Austin, Texas
WKS record
See DNS record types, WKS record
/d.
WML
Wireless Markup Language is a
subset of XML and has been developed
especially for WAP. It provides
4 major functionalities: allows
for text display on a device,
card and deck organization, navigation
and linking, and stage management.
WMLScript Libraries
are sets of libraries that allow
programmers to access and take
full advantages of WMLScript’s
core functionality.
WMLScript:
s a scripting language specifically
designed to be used for programming
mobile devices. It is based on
the ECMAScript specification but
has been optimized for low bandwidth
communication and thin clients.
Word
A document processing program
from Microsoft.
word processor
A program that lets you create
documents--files that contain
text, pictures, and formatting
codes. Unix word processors include
Wordperfect and Microsoft Word.
Workflow
The way in which work units (information
or actions) are routed through
an organisation. It can be formalised
in terms of rules incorporating
dependencies, staff roles etc.
and hence automated - . /WoW
working directory
The directory you are working
in. The pwd command tells you
your working directory.
workstation
A computer with a big screen,
a keyboard, and a mouse. If it
runs Unix, it's called a workstation;
if it runs DOS, it's called a
PC. And, if it runs Macintosh
Finder (or whatever that system
is called), it's called a Mac.
(If a train stops at a train station,
what happens at a workstation?)
Workstation
A general-purpose computer designed
to be used by one person at a
time and which offers higher performance
than normally found in a PC, especially
with respect to graphics, processing
power and the ability to carry
out several tasks at the same
time.
World Wide Web (WWW)
A hypertext /h-based client/server
model for finding and accessing
resources on the Internet.
World Wide Web (WWW)
A term used for the collection
of computers on the Internet running
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol
servers. The WWW allows for text
and graphics to have hyperlinks,
which connect users to other servers.
Using a Web browser such as Netscape
or Mosaic, a user can cross-link
from one server to another at
the click of a button.
Worm
A virus-like program designed
to damage your data and/or negatively
affect your productivity. See
virus /v.
WOSC
World Organisation of Systemics
and Cybernetics.
WSL
Wide Spectrum Language developed
for program transformation - .
/Transformation
WSP
Wireless Section Protocol is the
layer of the WAP Protocol stack
that controls the transmission
between a remote client and a
server (or proxy). At its core,
WSA is the wireless version of
HTTP and therefore manages all
aspects of a session (from the
time that the connection to the
network is established to the
time the user ends that connection).
WSP should provide both push and
pull data transfer capabilities.
WSRD
Worldwide Software Resources Discovery.
An ASSET ASSET service.
WTA
Wireless telephony Application
is an extension of the WAE(Wireless
Application Environment) by providing
a set of interfaces to the telephony
functionality of a mobile device.
WTAI
Wireless Telephony Application
Interface is a set of Interface
that extend the WAE (Wireless
Application Environment) to include
telephony applications.
WTLS
Wireless Transport Layer security
is that part of the WAP Stack
and defines and controls the security
features of a wireless transaction.
WTP
Wireless Transaction protocol
is that part of the WAP protocol
stack that controls and manages
sessions. It effectively controls
the intersection between a user
agent and a content server.
WWW (World Wide Web)
To put it simply, the World Wide
Web is a point-and-click user-friendly
Internet interface. It could also
be considered the graphical extension
of the Internet. It can have two
connotations:- First: the whole
constellation of resources that
can be accessed using Gopher,
FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS
and some other tools. Second:
the universe of hypertext servers
(HTTP servers) which are the servers
that allow text, graphics, sound
files, etc. to be mixed together.
WWW
See World Wide Web (WWW) /.
WWW
World-Wide Web: a project originated
at CERN /, aimed at providing
hypertext hypertext-style access
to information from a wide range
of sources
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get:
a feature of document preparation
systems allowing the user to work
on a document displayed on a screen
in exactly the same form as it
will appear when printed.
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