analog: Something that resembles, stands in for, or is similar to another thing.
array: A broad and organized group of objects. Sometimes they are instruments placed in a systematic fashion to collect information in a coordinated way. Other times, an array can refer to things that are laid out or displayed in a way that can make a broad range of related things, such as colors, visible at once. The term can even apply to a range of options or choices.
artificial intelligence: A type of knowledge-based decision-making exhibited by machines or computers. The term also refers to the field of study in which scientists try to create machines or computer software capable of intelligent behavior.
Dark Ages: A roughly 900-year-long period in European history — from the 400s to 1300s — that roughly runs between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. It took its name from the fact that during this time, few advances in emerged science or art. Some scholars even claimed that this period had been characterized by a “death” of culture.
data: Facts and/or statistics collected together for analysis but not necessarily organized in a way that gives them meaning. For digital information (the type stored by computers), those data typically are numbers stored in a binary code, portrayed as strings of zeros and ones.
data center: A facility that holds computing hardware, such as servers, routers, switches and firewalls. It also will house equipment to support that hardware, including air conditioning and backup power supplies. Such a center ranges in size from part of a room to one or more dedicated buildings. These centers can house what it takes to make a “cloud” that makes possible cloud computing.
develop: To emerge or to make come into being, either naturally or through human intervention, such as by manufacturing.
digital: (in computer science and engineering) An adjective indicating that something has been developed…
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