ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.

* Rush ( computer and video games ), an RTS strategy influenced by the blitzkrieg method

Chu Bong-Foo invented a common input method in 1976 with his Cangjie input method, which assigns different " roots " to each key on a standard computer keyboard.

The term theoretical chemistry may be defined as a mathematical description of chemistry, whereas computational chemistry is usually used when a mathematical method is sufficiently well developed that it can be automated for implementation on a computer.

Unicode solves this problem by assigning every known character its own code ; if this code is known, most modern computer systems provide a method to input it.

Internetworking ( a combination of the words inter (" between ") and networking ; it is not internet-working or international-network ) is the practice of connecting a computer network with other networks through the use of gateways that provide a common method of routing information packets between the networks.

When they are both large, for instance more than 2000 bits long, randomly chosen, and about the same size ( but not too close, e. g. to avoid efficient factorization by Fermat's factorization method ), even the fastest prime factorization algorithms on the fastest computers can take enough time to make the search impractical ; that is, as the number of digits of the primes being factored increases, the number of operations required to perform the factorization on any computer increases drastically.

In computer jargon, a killer poke is a method of inducing physical hardware damage on a machine and / or its peripherals by the insertion of invalid values, via e. g. BASIC's POKE command, into a memory-mapped control register.

In computer science, linear search or sequential search is a method for finding a particular value in a list, that consists of checking every one of its elements, one at a time and in sequence, until the desired one is found.

A legacy system is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program.

* Mode ( computer interface ), distinct method of operation within a computer system, in which the same user input can produce different results depending of the state of the system

The method can be extended to prove statements about more general well-founded structures, such as trees ; this generalization, known as structural induction, is used in mathematical logic and computer science.

Microcode was originally developed as a simpler method of developing the control logic for a computer.

Numerical approximations of roots of polynomial equations in one unknown is easily done on a computer by the Jenkins-Traub method, Laguerre's method, Durand – Kerner method or by some other root-finding algorithm.

By 2001, few lower-end printer models came with support for PostScript, largely due to growing competition from much cheaper non-PostScript ink jet printers, and new software-based methods to render PostScript images on the computer, making them suitable for any printer ; PDF, a descendant of PostScript, provides one such method, and has largely replaced PostScript as de facto standard for electronic document distribution.

Using Rogers ' characterization of acceptable programming systems, Rice's Theorem may essentially be generalized from Turing machines to most computer programming languages: there exists no automatic method that decides with generality non-trivial questions on the black-box behavior of computer programs.

The radiosity method in the current computer graphics context derives from ( and is fundamentally the same as ) the radiosity method in heat transfer.

Optical ray tracing describes a method for producing visual images constructed in 3D computer graphics environments, with more photorealism than either ray casting or scanline rendering techniques.

* Gun Direction Platform, a computer that continuously calculates trigonometric firing solutions for use against a moving target

Information is broken into chunks, and an algorithm ( usually computer software ) organises the user's reading and calculates the ideal time for the reader to review each chunk.

The computer then calculates the targeted position based on the monitor's horizontal refresh rate ( the fixed amount of time it takes the beam to get from the left to right side of the screen ).

Therefore, even if the computer components responsible for simulating a brain were not significantly smaller than a biological brain, and even if the temperature of these components was not significantly lower, Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence calculates a theoretical upper bound for the speed of a future artificial neural network.

In these diagrams, a computer calculates the panorama from a given point.

Each vehicle is fitted with a Global Positioning System ( GPS ) receiver, which transmits speed and location data to a central location where a computer running proprietary software calculates the projected arrival times for all stops in the system using this data along with configuration information and historic travel times.

The official times are those recorded by a computer chip worn on the shoe, which calculates when a runner crosses the start and when she crosses the finish, known as " net ", as opposed to " gun ", time.

The patient walks down the catwalk or the treadmill and the computer calculates the trajectory of each marker in three dimensions.

md5sum is a computer program that calculates and verifies 128-bit MD5 hashes, as described in RFC 1321.

A chess engine is a computer program that calculates chess position and chess moves.

A computer then keeps track of these readings, calculates trends, and will warn the captain with visual and audio messages if the aircraft is in certain defined flying configurations (" modes ").

* The recipient's computer calculates the 160 bit SHA-1 hash of the entire string " 1: 20: 060408: adam @ cypherspace. org :: 1QTjaYd7niiQA / sc: ePa ".

* Aggregate function, in computer science ( especially SQL ), a function that calculates a single result ( scalar ) from a collection of input values

The 3-D camera data is fed to a computer system that identifies the targets on the ceiling and calculates that camera's position and orientation, 50 times a second.

It is usually connected to a computer that records applied braking torque and calculates engine power output based on information from a " load cell " or " strain gauge " and a speed sensor.

An ' inertia ' dynamometer provides a fixed inertial mass load, calculates the power required to accelerate that fixed and known mass, and uses a computer to record RPM and acceleration rate to calculate torque.

Then, given the direction of the target, the computer calculates the direction of the required angle-bisector, and sends control signals to motors, often stepper motors, so they turn the mirror to the correct alignment.

* Wannier90 computer code that calculates maximally localized Wannier functions

The computer then calculates the desired ballistic path, and when that path will be produced by the current aircraft attitude and airspeed, the computer releases the bomb.

This system senses the ambient temperature, engine temperature, intake manifold underpressure and throttle valve position and calculates with an analog computer how many milliseconds the fuel injectors should stay open per revolution.

Photoelectric cells in a spectrophotometer device worn on the forehead measure the amount of each wavelength of light reflected by cerebral blood flow in the activated cortical tissue and send the data to a computer, which then calculates the ratio of red to infrared light and translates it into a visual signal of corresponding to oxygenation level on a graphical interface the patient can see.

A computer program running on a CPU or a specialized DSP ( or less often running on a hardware implementation of the algorithm ) calculates an output number stream.

When the computer determines that the vehicle is at risk of rollover, it calculates the direction of roll and activates the active suspension system.