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Acronym Explorer
Downloads An acronym (abbreviation) is a word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.
[August 29, 2007, 8:00]
IBM launches new acronym
Blog IBM has announced the release of a new acronym. FOAK, which stands for "first-of-a-kind", was launched on Wednesday. According to a statement from Big Blue, "IBM's FOAK program pairs IBM's scientists with clients to explore how emerging...
[June 18, 2009, 16:36]
Recursive acronym alert
Blog What, I ask, is the point of including an acronym within itself? More recursive acronym fun here. This is not a new question - GNU means "GNU's Not Unix", after all - but now Symbian's at it. PIPS, we are told, means "PIPS Is POSIX on Symbian".
[January 16, 2007, 10:52]
IBM launches new acronym
Blog Comment LOLZ, STFU IBM, RTFA, AFAIK FOAK BTHOM IMO \sarcasm
[June 18, 2009, 17:57]
An acronym by any other name
Talkback More than two decades ago, I happened to see an IBM's manual titled like "Encyclopedia of Abbreviations". Even before the dawn of PC and Internet era, it was already near one inch thick. Then I had a concern whether those acronyms were productive...
[January 29, 2005, 20:37]
Is this just a load of BSS?
Blog Comment Super-acronym was meant to be a homage to the term 'super-group' - as in when Rage Against The Machine combine with Soundgarden and you get Audioslave the 'super-group'. Maybe all this acronym usage will lead us towards a pared down Orwellian...
[October 9, 2008, 14:37]
Chat Acronyms Widget
Downloads Unsure of what a certain acronym means. Use this dashboard widget to look up the meaning of any acronym you don't understand. The Chat Acronyms widget allows you to quickly look up definitions of acronyms and abbreviations used in online chat...
[June 16, 2006, 8:00]
Is this just a load of BSS?
Blog Comment Hmm, what do you call an acronym within an acronym? It''s a recursive acronym like the language PHP meaning PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Anyway super-acronym sounds far better :) Do you ever get the feeling that continually using new acronyms is...
[October 9, 2008, 12:49]
Is this just a load of BSS?
Blog JASA (just another stupid acronym) was apparently first used on Twitter by one Stephen Hay in an exchange focused on POSH (plain old semantic HTML). Hmm, what do you call an acronym within an acronym?
[October 8, 2008, 7:37]
Kewney: Of MMX and Acronyms
News Of course, MMX is not an acronym. The basis of Intel's lawsuit is that "MMX" is not an acronym. Worse: Intel has not yet been granted trademark status for the acronym. At a media briefing today on the forthcoming Pentium II processor, Intel...
[March 18, 1997, 15:48]
Extreme Blue: IBM's student demo review
Reviews A somewhat tortuous acronym, ALPACA stands for Automated Live Presentation Archive for Casting Anywhere. Acronym time again, in the shape of SMART (System Maintenance with Augmented Reality Technology).
[September 13, 2007, 14:18]
Hospital mobile revolution starts with supply chain
News It no longer reflects what the product does, so the original acronym is best left in the elephants' graveyard," said Jones. Although Wander was originally an acronym (beginning "wireless application.it is now a trademark.
[July 30, 2002, 9:09]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Oh, but MMX isn't an acronym. I think I described this somewhere else as the arrival of the spin ambulance, and it really lacked only the blue rotating lights, as the spin doctors emerged, shouting: "It's not an acronym!
[March 22, 1997, 7:00]
Nuts and bolts of Novell's updated CNE cert
News If you're looking for an acronym to pad your resume, many are easier to obtain than this one. Once written off as a relic of days gone by, the new track is worth consideration if you are familiar with NetWare and looking to add an acronym to your...
[October 17, 2003, 12:50]
Acrony
Downloads Compete online against other players to make the funniest phrase to a given acronym. Then read and vote on the other players' phrases to see who wins. Acrony keeps statistics on how well you do and has a full forum, personal message center...
[February 26, 2008, 7:00]
Software Change Management: The Multimedia Movie
Blog Software change and configuration management (SCCM or SCM depending on your preferred acronym) probably needed to offer more advanced web and multimedia visualisation capabilities. It had to happen, logically speaking I mean.
[July 20, 2009, 8:39]
Field MTBF Numbers: What Do They Really Mean?
White Papers MTBF is an acronym for Mean Time Between Failures. In general, a higher MTBF number indicates a more reliable product. Beyond this simple definition, you? ll find a wide variety of special meanings. In the military/aerospace industries, MTBF is...
[January 13, 2009, 23:46]
ISA
Downloads ISA is an acronym for "Infinite State Automata. Lots of researchers believe that FSA (finite state automata) are a parallel for many complex biological systems, including intelligent systems, which I consider to have infinite possibilities, thus...
[August 11, 2006, 8:00]
Enterprise Information Management: Tentative Past, Promising Future - Why EIM Is Finally Becoming a Reality
White Papers At the most rudimentary level, Enterprise Information Management (EIM) is exactly what the words that comprise the acronym mean: managing critical business information at an enterprise level. While this may appear to be little more than a statement...
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
