Glossary part 15
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:-)OMNI theater:
RT: projection TV
RT: virtual reality
open house:
RT: Sterling Men's Weekend
opera:
RT: Broadway RT: Gilbert and Sullivan
RT: Beethoven Symphony No. 9
orange and white:
RT: Fifth Element RT: orange and yellow
orange and yellow:
RT: yellow, gray and black RT: ZOOM
RT: orange and white
OTTers:
RT: xkcd RT: Jonathan Coulton
Oxford University:
RT: Cambridge University RT: England
RT: Harvard University
RT: Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary:
RT: etymology RT: Oxford University
PADD:
WT: Star Trek WT: Dators
Panspermia:
RT: Cosmos
pantomime:
RT: acting skill
parallel processing:
RT: APL RT: distributed parallel systems NT: SIMD
RT: many-core microcomputers
NT: physical parallel computing
RT: supercomputers
RT: split-merge
parallel programming:
RT: SIMD RT: many-core microcomputers
RT: hypercube
Pascal's wager:
RT: Roko's Basilisk RT: Newcomb's paradox
WT: two-player binary decision games
PDAs:
NT: Apple Newton WT: Dators
NT: Pilot
Philip Glass:
RT: Einstein on the Beach
RT: John Cage
RT: minimalism
philosophy:
RT: anthropics RT: theology
Phi Tau:
RT: Dartmouth College RT: Alpha Theta
WT: Dartmouth Fraternities
RT: sink night
phonetics:
RT: language evolution
physical parallel computing:
NT: DNA computing NT: card computer WT: parallel processing
physical reality:
RT: black (color) WT: 5 levels of reality
piano:
RT: Beethoven RT: harpsichord
RT: Mozart
Pilot:
WT: PDAs
pipelined ALU:
RT: supercomputers RT: PowerPC
Pixar:
RT: Luxo Junior RT: Steve Jobs
places I've performed:
NT: Symphony Hall Boston RT: my performances
NT: Jordan Hall Boston
NT: MIT
planetarium:
RT: Boston Museum of Science
playing cards:
RT: tarot RT: contract bridge RT: index cards
RT: gambling
the
Planiverse:
RT: Flatland RT: A. K. Dewdney
WT: books I am mentioned in
RT: two-dimensional technology
RT: cults
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