From C:\Jgh\tam\A2013\acro.csv
- .class
- File extension : Java object file
- .ear
- File extension : JAR file containing a J2EE application
- .jar
- File extension : Java archive
- .java
- File extension : Java source file
- .war
- File extension : JAR file containing a Web module
- AAE
- According to age and experience
- AC
- Alternating current. Electricity
- ACARS
- Aircraft communications adddressing and reporting system
- ACGI
- Associate of the City and Guilds College
- Ack
- Acknowledgement message
- ACM
- Association of Computing Machinery
- ACPI
- Advanced configuration and power interface. Of PCs
- ADSL
- Asymmetric digital subscriber line
- ADT
- Abstract data type
- AGC
- Automatic gain control
- AGM
- Annual general meeting
- AIUI
- As I understand it
- Ajax
- Asynchronous Javascript and XML
- ALU
- Arithmetic and logic unit. In a computer's processor
- AM
- Amplitude modulation
- AMIEE
- Associate Member of the IEE. Obsolete; is now MIEE
- API
- Application programming interface.
Class interface in Java; OS or DB access interface elsewhere
- APM
- Advanced power management. Of PCs
- ASIC
- Application-specific integrated circuit
- ASM
- Abstract state machine
- ASP
- Active Server Pages. Microsoft web page technology
- ATE
- Automated test equipment
- ATM
- Automatic teller machine. 'Hole in the wall' cash machine
- AWT
- Abstract window toolkit. Java package
- B2B
- Business to business
- B2C
- Business to consumer
- BCS
- British Computer Society
- BER
- Bit error rate
- BOM
- Byte order mark. A Unicode character used to sense the 'endian-ness' of a stream of 16 bit characters
- BPR
- Business process re-engineering
- BPSK
- Binary phase-shift keying
- BRS
- British Road Services. Old UK company
- BT
- British Telecommunications. UK company
- C&G
- City and Guilds of London Institute
- CAD
- Computer aided design
- CAFS
- Content addressable file store. ICL computer subsystem
- CAiSE
- Conference on advanced information systems engineering
- CAL
- Computer aided learning
- CASE
- Computer aided/assisted/automated software/systems engineering
- CCD
- Charge coupled device
- CCITT
- Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique. Old name for ITU
- CCS
- Calculus of communicating systems. By Robin Milner
- CDMA
- Code-division multiple access. A broadband radio technology
- CEPT
- Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications
- CGI
- 1 Common gateway interface. In a web server
- CGI
- 2 Computer generated image
- CHDL
- Computer hardware description language
- CICS
- Customer Information Control System. IBM computer communications subsystem
- CISC
- Complex instruction set computer
- CMOS
- Complementary metal oxide semiconductor
- CMS
- Content Management System. In web sites
- CoDec
- Coder-decoder
- CORBA
- Common object request broker architecture
- CPD
- Continuing professional development
- CRIS
- Conference on comparative review of information systems
- CRM
- Customer relations management
- CRTP
- Curiously recurring template pattern. A C++ technique
- CSLI
- Centre for the Study of Language and Information. Stanford, CA, USA
- CSMA
- Civil Service Motoring Association
- CSMA/CD
- Carrier-sense multiple-access with collision detection. 'Ethernet'
- CSP
- Communicating sequential processes. By Tony Hoare
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets
- CTS
- Compatibility test suite. To verify J2EE implementation
- CV
- Curriculum vitae
- CW
- Continuous wave
- DAC
- Digital to analogue converter
- DAP
- Directory access protocol
- DAT
- Digital audio tape
- DB
- Database
- dB
- Decibel. Unit of power ratio : 10 * log10(ratio)
- DBMS
- Database management system
- DC
- Direct current. Electricity
- DCE
- Data circuit-terminating equipment. Modem
- DCS
- Distributed control systems
- DFD
- Data flow diagram
- DHCP
- Dynamic host configuration protocol. Implemented by an internet router
- DIY
- Do it yourself
- DMC
- Dynamic matrix control. In control systems
- DNS
- Domain Name System. Translates URLs to IP addresses
- DOB
- Date of birth
- DOJ
- Date of joining
- DOM
- Document object model. Of program access to a document's component parts
- DOS
- Disc operating system. Of computers
- DoS
- Denial of service. Of internet sites
- DPOF
- Digital print order format
- DQPSK
- Differential quadrature phase-shift keying
- DSP
- Digital signal processing
- DTD
- Document type definition
- DTE
- Data terminating equipment. Computer
- DTM
- Deterministic Turing machine
- EAR
- Entity, attribute, relationship. Diagram
- EAROM
- Electrically alterable ROM
- EBITDA
- Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation
- ECMA
- European Computer Manufacturer's Association
- EDI
- Electronic data exchange
- EDM
- Elecro-discharge machining. In tool making
- EGM
- Extraordinary general meeting
- EJB
- Enterprise JavaBeans ™
- EMC
- Electromagnetic compatibility
- EQ
- Equivalence. In logic
- ER
- Entity, relationship. Diagram
- EV
- Exposure value. Photography
- FAQ
- Frequently asked question
- FDMA
- Frequency-division multiple access
- FFT
- Fast Fourier transform
- FIEE
- Fellow of the IEE
- FIET
- Fellow of the IET
- FM
- Frequency modulation
- FMCG
- Fast moving consumer goods
- FOL
- First order language/logic
- FORM
- Formal object role modelling. Variant of NIAM
- FORML
- Formal object role modelling language. Used in FORM
- FPGA
- Field programmable gate array
- FRIACO
- Flat rate internet access call origination
- FSK
- Frequency-shift keying
- FSM
- Finite state machine
- FUD
- Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. A marketing ploy
- GB
- gigabyte. 1,000,000,000 bytes
- GE
- General Electric. US company
- GEC
- General Electric Company. Old UK company
- GIF
- Graphics interchange format. A format for image files
Better for flat-colour drawings
- GMAT
- Graduate management admissions test. USA MBA admission test
- GMDSS
- Global maritime distress and safety short range (radio certificate)
- GPRS
- Global packet radio system
- GPS
- Global positioning system
- GSM
- Global system for mobile communications. Digital encrypted cell phones
- GUI
- Graphical user interface
- GUSEM
- Generic unified systems engineering metamodel
- HCI
- Human-computer interaction/interface
- HDL
- Hardware description language
- HERM
- Higher order entity, relationship modelling. Diagram
- HOL
- Higher order language/logic
- hpw
- Hours per week
- HSBC
- UK bank. From Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
- HTML
- Hypertext mark-up language
- HTTP
- Hypertext transfer protocol. Currently version HTTP/1.1
- HTTPS
- HTTP carried by the secure SSL protocol
- IA
- Internet appliance
- IANA
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- IANAL
- I am not a lawyer
- IBM
- US company. From International Business Machines
- ICL
- International Computers Ltd. Old UK company
- ICSE
- International conference on software engineering
- IDAPI
- Borland database engine (Paradox 5). Was ODAPI
- IDDE
- Integrated development and debugging environment
- IDE
- Integrated development environment
- IDL
- Interface definition language. Used in CORBA
- IEC
- International Electrotechnical Commission
- IEE
- Institution of Electrical Engineers. UK organisation
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. US organisation
- IET
- The Institution of Engineering and Technology. UK organisation (IEE + IIE)
- iff
- If and only if
- IFIP
- International Federation of Information Processing
- IIOP
- Internet inter-ORB protocol. Used in CORBA
- IIS
- Internet Information Server. Microsoft web server
- ILA
- Individual learning account
- IP
- Internet protocol
- IPI
- Intelligent peripheral interface
- IPSE
- Integrated project support environment
- IR
- 1 Inland Revenue. UK
- IR
- 2 Infra red
- IRS
- Inland Revenue Service. USA
- ISA
- Individual savings account
- ISDN
- Integrated services digital network
- ISO
- International Standards Organisation
- ISP
- Internet service provider
- IT
- Information technology
- ITMA
- It's that man again. Old radio show
- ITU
- International Telecommunications Union. Was CCITT
- J2EE
- Java 2, Enterprise Edition
- J2SE
- Java 2, Standard Edition
- JAF
- JavaBeans activation framework
- JAR
- Java Archive. File format
- JDBC
- Java API for accessing a variety of data sources such as DBs
- JDK
- Java development kit. Old name for SDK
- JFC
- Java foundation classes. Java 2 SE's window-oriented classes
- JGH
- John G Harris
- JMS
- Java message service
- JNDI
- Java naming and directory interface
- JPEG
- Joint photographic experts group. A format for image files
Better for photographs and drawings with colour gradients
- JRMP
- Java remote method protocol
- JSON
- Javascript serialization object notation
- JSP
- JavaServer Pages ™
- JTA
- Java transaction API
- JTS
- Java transaction service
- kB
- kilobyte. 1,000 bytes
- kbit
- kilobit. 1,000 bits
- KDF9
- A 1960's computer. Supposedly from Kidsgrove, Digital, Fast
- LAN
- Local area network
- LAPD
- Link access protocol digital. In cell phones
- LDAP
- Lightweight directory access protocol
- LLU
- Local loop unbundling. Of phone lines
- LPF
- Logic of partial functions. C B Jones
- LVDT
- Leaving date
- MAPI
- Mail application programming interface. By Microsoft
- MB
- megabyte. 1,000,000 bytes
- MBA
- Master of business administration
- MIEE
- Member of the IEE
- MIET
- Member of the IET
- MIME
- Multipurpose internet mail extensions. Mechanisms for specifying and describing the format of Internet message bodies
- MIS
- Management information system/services
- MIT
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MLM
- Multi level marketing. Pyramid selling
- MPEG
- Motion pictures expert group
- MSIC
- Mobile subscriber identification number. Of a cell phone
- MSK
- Minimum-shift keying
- MT
- 1 Magnetic tape
- MT
- 2 Empty. Of a gas cylinder
- MTS
- Mobile telephone service
- MVC
- Model, view, control. Model of HCI subsystems
- NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. USA organisation
- NAND
- Not and. In logic
- NAT
- Network address translation. Implemented by an internet router
- NBG
- No bloody good
- NCC
- National Computer Centre
- NDT
- Non-destructive testing
- NFNF
- Non-first normal form. Of a database
- NHS
- National Health Service
- NI
- National insurance
- NIAM
- 1 Nijssen's Information Analysis Methodology (originally) Fact oriented conceptual data modelling
- NIAM
- 2 Natural-language Information Analysis Method (more recently)
- NIMBY
- Not in my back yard
- NPL
- National Physical Laboratory
- OCP
- Order code processor. In computers
- ODA
- Open Document Architecture. ISO standard
- ODAPI
- Object database API. Is now IDAPI
- ODBC
- Open database connectivity. In Microsoft OSs
- OLAP
- Online analytical processing
- OLO
- Other licensed telecommunications operator(s)
- OMG
- Object management group. Who defined CORBA
- OMT
- Object modelling technique. By GE
- ONF
- Optimal normal form. A NIAM term
- OO
- Object-Oriented. Of programming language, database
- OOA
- Object-Oriented analysis
- OOD
- Object-Oriented design
- OODB
- Object-Oriented database
- OOPL
- Object-Oriented programming language
- OOPSLA
- Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. Annual ACM OO conference
- ORB
- Object request broker. Used in CORBA
- ORM
- Object, role modelling. A generalisation of NIAM
- OS
- Operating system
- OSI
- Open systems interconnection
- OTE
- On-target earnings. Of a salesman
- OTS
- Object transaction service. Used in CORBA
- P2P
- Peer to peer computing
- PAC
- (unknown). Model of HCI subsystem
- PAD
- Packet assembler/disassembler
- PC
- Personal computer
- PCM
- Pulse code modulation
- PCS
- Personal communication system. USA cell phones
- PDGS
- Product design graphics system. CAD system by Ford Motor Company.
- PEI
- Professional engineering institutions
- PHP
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. An HTML-embedded scripting language
- PILON
- Payment in lieu of notice
- PIN
- Personal identification number
- PLC
- Programmable logic controller
- PLMN
- Public land mobile network
- PM
- Phase modulation
- PMC
- Process measurement & control
- PN
- Professional network. IEE division
- POA
- Portable object adapter. Used in CORBA
- POP
- Point of presence. Giving Internet access
- PoP
- Personal openworld portal. BT service
- PPP
- 1 Point-to-point protocol
- PPP
- 2 Private Patients Plan. Health insurance company
- PRG
- Programming Research Group. At Oxford University
- PRP
- Profit/performance-related pay
- PSK
- Phase-shift keying
- PSM
- Predicator, set model. Of conceptual data models
- PSTN
- Public switched telephone network
- QI
- Quality improvement
- QMC
- Queen Mary College, London
- QPSK
- Quadrature phase-shift keying
- RAD
- Rapid application development
- Radius
- Remote authentication dial in user service. ISP login subsystem
- RDB
- Relational database
- RDBMS
- Relational database management system
- RDS
- Radio data system. In-band channel information
- RF
- Radio frequency
- RGB
- Red, green, blue
- RISC
- Reduced instruction set computer
- RMI
- Remote method invocation. Java name for RPC
- RMI-IIOP
- Version of RMI for using the CORBA IIOP protocol
- rms
- Root mean square
- ROM
- Read only memory
- ROMP
- Regionally organised modem pool. A Demon Internet access point
- RPC
- Remote procedure call
- RTL
- 1 Run-time library
- RTL
- 2 Register transfer level. In an HDL
- SAP
- Service access point
- SAT
- Scholastic aptitude test. USA university entry test
- SAX
- Simple API for accessing XML document content
- SCADA
- Supervisory control and data acquisition
- SCL
- System control language. In ICL computers
- SCSI
- Small computer system interface
- SDK
- Software development kit. Was JDK
- SDL
- System description/design language
- SDMA
- Space-division multiple access
- SEI
- Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
- SEO
- Search engine optimisation. In web sites
- SERC
- Science and Engineering Research Council. Old name
- SFINAE
- Substitution failure is not an error. C++ function lookup rule
- SGM
- Special general meeting
- SGML
- Standard generalized markup language. ISO standard
- SI
- Système International d'Unités. The 'metric' system
- SIM
- Subscriber identity module. Smart card in cell phone
- SINPO
- Signal strength, Interference, Noise, Propagation disturbance, Overall merit. Of a radio signal
- SML
- Structured modeling language. By Geoffrion
- SMS
- Short message service. For mobile phones
- SNAFU
- Situation normal, all fouled up
- SOAP
- Simple object access protocol
- SQL
- Structured query language
- SQL/J
- Set of standards for embedding SQL statements in Java code
- SSL
- Secure socket layer. Implements a secure communications protocol
- SUV
- Sports-utility vehicle. Off-road vehicle for general use
- TAP
- Training access point
- TBA
- To be advised. Not decided yet
- TCO
- Total cost of ownership. Including purchase, maintenance, support, etc
- TCP
- Transmission control protocol
- TCP/IP
- TCP carried by IP
- TDMA
- Time-division multiple access
- Tetra
- Terrestrial trunked radio
- TIFF
- Tagged image file format. A format for image files
- TIFH
- Take it from here. Old radio show
- TINA
- There is no alternative. (Margaret Thatcher)
- TLA
- Three letter acronym
- TLC
- Tender loving care. Social science
- TLV
- Type, length, value. A record format
- TMSI
- Temporary mobile subscriber identity. Of a cell phone
- TOC
- Table of contents
- TP
- Transaction processing
- TTFN
- Ta ta for now. 'Goodbye'
- TWAIN
- Toolkit without an interesting name (Not official). API for capturing images
- U/S
- Unserviceable. Broken
- UB
- Unemployment benefit
- UCE
- Unsolicited commercial e-mail
- UCLA
- University College of Los Angeles
- UMIST
- University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Old name; now part of Manchester University
- UML
- Unified modelling language
- URI
- Uniform resource identifier. Internet address.
- URL
- Uniform resource locator. Internet address.
- US
- 1 United States (of America)
- US
- 2 U/S
- USA
- United States of America
- UTF
- Unicode transformation format
- UTF-16
- Unicode coding that uses one 16-bit field for each Unicode character (with some rare exceptions)
- UTF-8
- Unicode coding that uses 1 to 4 bytes for each character. ASCII characters are 1 byte each, unchanged
- VAT
- Value added tax. UK sales tax
- VCO
- Voltage-controlled oscillator
- VDM
- Vienna development method. A formal specification notation
- VHDL
- VHSIC hardware description language
- VHSIC
- Very high speed integrated circuit
- VLSI
- Very large scale integration. Of semiconductors
- VME
- Virtual machine environment. An ICL operating system
- VNB
- Von Neumann Bernays set theory
- VPN
- Virtual private network
- WAN
- Wide area network
- WAP
- Wireless application protocol
- wef
- With effect from
- Wfe
- Well formed expression
- Wff
- Well formed formula
- WG
- 1 West Gorton
- WG
- 2 Working group
- WIA
- Windows Image Acquisition. API and driver interface for capturing images
- wpm
- Words per minute. Typing speed
- wrt
- With respect to
- WWW
- World wide web
- WYSIWYG
- What you see is what you get
- XHTML
- Extensible hypertext mark-up language. HTML defined in XML
- XML
- Extensible mark-up language. Variant of SGML
- XOR
- Exclusive or. In logic
- XP
- 1 Extreme Programming
- XP
- 2 XML Protocol
- XP
- 3 A version of Microsoft Windows
- XSL
- Extensible stylesheet language
- YMMV
- Your milage may vary
- Z
- A formal specification notation
- ZF
- Zermelo Fraenkel set theory