Computer simulation -- A computer simulation or a computer model is a computer program that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system. The reliability and the trust people put in computer simulations ... > full article

Global climate model -- A global climate model or general circulation model (GCM) aims to describe geophysical flow by integrating a variety of fluid-dynamical, chemical, or even biological equations. The global climate ... > full article

3D computer graphics -- 3D computer graphics are works of graphic art that were created with the aid of digital computers and specialized 3D software. In general, the term may also refer to the process of creating such ... > full article

Computer software -- Computer software (or simply software) is that part of a computer system that consists of encoded information (or computer instructions), as opposed to the physical computer equipment (hardware) ... > full article

Application software -- Application software is a loosely defined subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to ... > full article

Grid computing -- Grid computing is an emerging computing model that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many networked computers to model a virtual computer architecture ... > full article

Bioinformatics -- Bioinformatics or computational biology is the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems. Major research efforts in the ... > full article

Object-oriented programming -- In computer science, object-oriented programming, OOP for short, is a computer programming paradigm. The idea behind object-oriented programming is that a computer program may be seen as composed of ... > full article

Computing -- Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical ... > full article

Computer-generated imagery -- Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics to special effects. CGI is used in movies, television programs and commercials, and in printed ... > full article

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