connect
Unix socket library routine to connect a socket that has been created on the local hosts to one at a specified socket address on the remote host.
Unix manual pages: connect(2), accept(2).Last updated: 1995-03-21
connected graph
A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes).
Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.Last updated: 1996-09-22
connected subgraph
A connected graph consisting of a subset of the nodes and edges of some other graph.
Last updated: 1996-09-22
Connection Definition Language
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(condela) A procedural, parallel language for defining neural networks.
ftp://tut.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/condela.Last updated: 1994-11-30
connectionless protocol
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The data communication method in which communication occurs between hosts with no previous setup. Packets sent between two hosts may take different routes.
UDP is a connectionless protocol. Also called packet switching. Contrast circuit switching, connection-oriented.Last updated: 2014-05-04
Connection Machine LISP
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Lisp with a parallel data structure, the 'xapping', an array of values assigned to an array of sites.
[G.L. Steele et al, "Connection Machine LISP: Fine-Grained Parallel Symbolic Processing", in Proc 1986 ACM Conf on LISP and Functional Prog, Aug 1986, pp.279-297]. ["Connection Machine LISP Reference Manual", Thinking Machines Corp, Feb 1987].Last updated: 1995-02-28
connection-oriented
(Or connection-based, stream-oriented). A type of transport layer data communication service that allows a host to send data in a continuous stream to another host. The transport service will guarantee that all data will be delivered to the other end in the same order as sent and without duplication. Communication proceeds through three well-defined phases: connection establishment, data transfer, connection release. The most common example is Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), another is ATM.
The network nodes at either end needs to inform all intermediate nodes about their service requirements and traffic parameters in order to establish communication. Opposite of connectionless, datagram. See also circuit switching, packet switching, virtual circuit.Last updated: 2014-11-27
connection-oriented network service
(CONS) Because of the relatively long transit delays and inferior bit error rate of WANs, a more sophisticated connection-oriented protocol is normally used.
Last updated: 1997-11-08
connective
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An operator used in first order logic to combine two logical formulas.
Last updated: 2014-05-04
connector conspiracy
The tendency of manufacturers (or, by extension, other designers) to come up with products that don't fit with the old stuff, thereby making you buy either all new stuff or expensive interface devices.
The term probably came into prominence with the appearance of the DEC KL-10, none of whose connectors matched anything else. The KL-10 Massbus connector was actually *patented* by DEC, who reputedly refused to licence the design, thus effectively locking out competition for the lucrative Massbus peripherals market. This policy was a source of frustration for the owners of dying, obsolescent disk and tape drives. A related phenomenon is the invention of new screw heads so that only Designated Persons, possessing the magic screwdrivers, can remove covers and make repairs or install options. Older Apple Macintoshes took this one step further, requiring not only a hex wrench but a specialised case-cracking tool to open the box. With the advent of more open-systems computing this term has fallen somewhat into disuse. Compare backward combatability. [Jargon File]Last updated: 2010-02-04
CONNIVER
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An artificial intelligence programming language for automatic theorem proving from MIT. CONNIVER grew out of PLANNER and was based on coroutines rather than backtracking. It allowed multiple database contexts with hypothetical assertions.
["The CONNIVER Reference Manual", D. McDermott & G.J. Sussman <[email protected]>, AI Memo 259, MIT AI Lab, 1973].Last updated: 1995-01-10
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