Graphical User Interface. A user interface based on graphical displays. With a mouse, the user points to icons that represent files, folders, and disks. Documents are displayed in windows. The user selects commands from menus.
100
EDI
Electronic Data Interchange - A set of specifications for conducting basic business transactions over private networks.
100
Public Domain
Non-restricted area of Internet which is accessible to anyone.
100
License
A legal document giving official permission to do something
100
Template
A "master" version of a document, which is used as a base to create documents. Document blueprint that can be set up with specific formatting and content.
200
Push Technology
Technology in which information is delivered automatically to a client computer.
200
Pull Technology
Technology in which browsers on client computers pull information from server machines.
200
Logic Bomb
A program designed to attack in response to a particular logical event or sequence of events. A type of software sabotage.
200
Query
The execution of a search on a search engine.
200
Integrated Software
Software packages that include several applications designed to work together.
300
RTF
Rich Test Format; an export file format supported by many word processors and desktop publishing programs
300
List Serv
An automated mailing list distribution system
300
Wizard
A software help agent that walks the user through a complex process
300
Intranet
An intranet is basically a private, internal internet specific to an organization or group.
300
Macro
a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language
400
Verification
A check to ensure that data entered exactly matches the original source.
400
Heuristics
A problem-solving technique in which the most appropriate solution is selected using rules.
400
Validation
A computer check to ensure that data entered is sensible and reasonable. Accuracy is not checked.
400
Wizard
A software help agent that walks the user through a complex process
400
Domain
The content of a particular field of knowledge
500
Mail Merge
A feature of a word processor or other program that enables it to merge names and addresses from a database mailing list into personalized from letters and mailings
500
Absolute Reference
Absolute reference is a formulated cell reference that will not adjust when used to calculate the sum of specific cells.
500
Object Oriented
The storage and collection of objects in programming, graphing and databases.
500
Inference Engine
Commonly found in Expert systems and Knowledge based systems. A program that infers new facts from known facts using inference rules
500
Relative Reference
When writing a formula, a reference to a cell is normally a relative reference. When the formula is copied to another location, the formula within that cell is the same, relative to its position on the spreadsheet.