- buzzword by Karina Ruiz
... of the most famous, earlier buzzwords in the industry were MIS in the 1970s, distributed computing in the 1980s and client/server in the 1990s. The last half of the 1990s brought us all the Internet buzzwords, including Java, intranet and e-commerce. Although the frenzy has died down, "nano" was very hot for a while after the turn of the century, with the term ...
- BWQ by Dictionary of Computing
Buzz Word Quotient. The percentage of buzzwords in a speech or documents. Usually roughly proportional to bogosity. See TLA.
- Geekonics by Emma Andrews
... GEEK ph ONICS) Computer English. The acronyms and buzzwords spoken by computer people (a whole lotta Geekonics in this Encyclopedia!). The term comes from "Ebonics" (English and Black slang). Same as "geekspeak" and "nerdspeak."
- supply chain system by David Wheeler
... can signal a reorder to its wholesaler and to its wholesaler's supplier at the same time. In the business world, supply chain management and supply chain systems became the buzzwords of the late 1990s. A whole raft of software came to market, offering enhanced analysis and scheduling algorithms that refined the process. See supply chain management.
- cloud computing by Angela Stevenson
... is currently one of its major buzzwords. See SaaS, rich client, Azure, thin client, cloud and Web application. (2) Performing enormous numbers of scientific calculations in hundreds or thousands of idle machines within an enterprise or in the Internet. See grid computing. See also utility computing.