WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Information and communications technology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and...

    ICT is an umbrella term that includes any communication device, encompassing radio, television, cell phones, computer and network hardware, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and appliances with them such as video conferencing and distance learning. ICT also includes analog technology, such as paper communication, and ...

  3. Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

    Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956. [6] The field went through multiple cycles of optimism, [7] [8] followed by periods of disappointment and loss of funding, known as AI winter. [9] [10] Funding and interest vastly increased after 2012 when deep learning surpassed all previous AI techniques, [11] and after ...

  4. Technology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology

    Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge for achieving practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. [1] The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, [2] [3] including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software.

  5. Information technology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology

    Information science. Information technology ( IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage. [1] IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). [2] An information technology system ( IT system) is generally an information ...

  6. History of technology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_technology

    The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques by humans. Technology includes methods ranging from as simple as stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s. The term technology comes from the Greek word techne, meaning art and craft, and the word ...

  7. Computer science - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science

    Computer science. Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. [1] [2] [3] Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to applied disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software ).

  8. Internet of things - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things

    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Pages for logged out editors learn more

  9. Optical character recognition - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

    Optical character recognition or optical character reader ( OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text ...