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| ABET |
Accreditation Board for Engineering
and Technology |
New York, NY |
| AP State Scholar |
Each year, only two students (one male and one female),
earn the designation of Pennsylvania AP State Scholar, in recognition of
college-level achievement on Advanced Placement Examinations. |
| audition |
2. n. the
act of hearing. |
| aural |
adj. of or having to do with the ear, or sense of
hearing. |
| BAT |
Backloop Audition for Teleoperation or
Backloop Audition for Telerobotics |
| BNR |
Bell Northern Research |
Ottawa, Ontario |
| Capaciflector |
A method, developed by NASA, of detecting proximity
by amplifying variations in capacitance. |
| cursor |
A movable symbol on a display screen which is the contact
point between the user and the data. On graphics systems it can take
any shape (such as an arrow, square, or pen), and usually changes as it
performs different functions. |
| CMU |
Carnegie
Mellon University |
Pittsburgh, PA |
| College Board |
College Entrance Examination Board,
Educational Testing Service |
Princeton,
New Jersey |
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Communications Research Council, which is located in the
Communcations Research Center complex at Shirley's Bay. |
Ottawa, Ontario |
| Digital Data Network |
This BNR
project, which pioneered sending data in packets, at very high rates, was
later called Dataroute. |
| emissary |
n. a person (or autonomous
agent) sent on a mission or errand, especially one sent secretly. |
| Fantasy |
The Registered trademark of the patented Performer-Supported
Keyboard |
| haptic |
adj. 1. relating to or based on the sense
of touch. 2. a sense of touch at the skin level (including
vibration, pressure, and heat), and force feedback information from muscles
and joints. |
| Hermes |
The name of the satellite launched as Project Green
Maple, a joint Canada-U.S. project. |
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International Electrical, Electronics Conference
and Exposition |
September 26,27&28,
1977
Toronto, Canada |
October 2, 3, & 4,
1979
Toronto, Canada |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| microfiche |
n. a single sheet of microfilm, usually the
same size as a file card, carrying microcopies of numerous pages
of printed matter. |
| MIDI |
Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| MIMIC |
Mutable Integrated Memory, Interface, & Controller |
MIMIC has its
own page. |
| monitor |
An obsolete reference to a process
which is both BIOS, and the essentials of an operating system |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
U.S.A. |
| NRC |
National Research Council |
Ottawa, Ontario Canada |
| OCR |
Optical Character Recognition, a process whereby images
of printed or handwritten documents are converted to machine-readable text. |
| Order of the Engineer, Inc. |
The corporation which governs the Order of the Engineer,
and the U.S. Iron Ring ceremonies. |
Baltimore, MD |
| Peltier Device |
A method of moving heat using the physics of bimetal junctions.
Much like reversing a thermocouple. |
| Robix RCS-6 |
A robot
construction set.
Robix® is a product of Advanced Design |
1101 East Rudasill Rd.,
Tucson, AZ 85718 |
| six degrees of freedom |
The three common axes (X, Y, and Z) plus roll, pitch, and
yaw. |
| Sigma Xi |
A national honor society for those engaging in scientific
research. |
| SURG |
Small Undergraduate Research Grant |
| UNREAL |
A virtual input device which included projected images
of operator controls, active floor panels, and bodypart position sensors. |
| µPROCESS |
A tiny operating system for a pioneer personal computer. |
| URAP |
Undergraduate Research Apprentice
Program. See, also, SURG |
| VRML |
Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
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