Hardware
The process by which the processor slows down to conserve power.
Throttling
The Federal organization that regulates AI-generated content usage in political advertising.
There is not one. No Federal entity is regulating this.
The server responsible for resolving an IP address from a domain name.
Domain Name Server, or DNS
Taleo, Workday, Workable, and Greenhouse are all examples of this.
Applicant Tracking System
The most common video cable type you’d expect to use when hooking a SOHO projector up to a classroom in 2026.
HDMI
This cable type and USB-C share the same oval shaped connector.
Thunderbolt 3
Microsoft recently rolled out support for this AI powered assistant into every M365 enterprise plan, allowing it to be used while assuring everyone that their corporate data totally won’t be harvested.
Copilot
This 1992 movie was based off an original screenplay about virtual reality technology and the early Internet as well as a Stephen King short story about yard maintenance.
The Lawnmower Man
When you should report job offers, promotions, raises, and other milestones to Tech Foundry.
Immediately.
This device connects AV over IP devices together and distributes the video across the network.
Network Switch (as opposed to an AV switch, or a KVM switch)
The two hardware components that need to support virtual technology if a user wants to use virtualization.
CPU and BIOS. (Don’t be mad at me, this is straight from CompTIA)
Name shared by both the short story collection by Isaac Asimov and a 2004 film starring Will Smith.
“I, Robot”
How Will Smith’s character, Will, who was west Philadelphia born and raised, spent most of his days on the playground in this 1990 sitcom.
“Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin all cool”
This is where you can find and edit your URL on LinkedIn so that your resume doesn’t have a link that reads FirstName-Lastname32876598127354876125476
The profile page. It’s right there in the upper right. Honestly. Why do all of you have numbers still.
The company responsible for the popular TSW 70 series, among other unified solutions controlling lighting, audio, security, displays and more.
Crestron
The year when Mobile Suit Gundam first aired in Japan, premiering on the Nagoya Broadcasting Network.
1979
The broad field of AI that focuses on developing algorithms that allow computers to learn from and make predictions based on data.
Machine Learning
A Layer 2 process that allows you to subdivide a network to reduce broadcast traffic.
Virtual Local Area Network, or VLAN
Google Images was created thanks to the this person’s iconic dress at the 42nd Grammy Awards in 2000.
Jennifer Lopez
The title for James Blunt’s 2005 smash hit, allegedly about the casting assistant for the Harry Potter films.
You’re Beautiful
The socket type for the sweet new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz 8-core processor you found.
AM5
The specialization for convolutional neural networks (CNN).
Image and video analysis.
The subnet mask best represented by the CIDR notation /26
255.255.255.192
Give your elevator pitch.
Good Job, presumably!
The primary concern of an AV Designer regarding the design of a building’s HVAC system.
Noise, or reducing noise.