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and neurons

positronic

Brooks, Rodney, and bottom-up artificial intelligence

“Brothers” (TNG)

Bynars

capture of
Enterprise

and reliance on computers

Cardassians

“Cause and Effect” (TNG)

Central processing unit (CPU)

Cestus

“Changeling, The” (TOS)

“Chase, The” (TNG)

Chemical signature

“Child, The” (TNG)

“Civil Defense” (DS9)

Clock cycle time

“Clues” (TNG)

COBOL programming language

Cochrane

Cogley, Samuel T.

Collective and the Borg

Communicator badges

and security

Compatibility, computer

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
(Patterson and Hennessy)

Computers

based on DNA

design of

first generation (1945-1956) (vacuum tubes)

fourth generation (1971-now) (microprocessor)

of the future

second generation (1956-1963) (transistors)

third generation (1964-1971) (silicon chips)

“Conscience of the King, The” (TOS)

“Conspiracy” (TNG)

Controller

Core elements (of main processing core)

figure

Core memory

figure

“Cost of Living” (TNG)

“Court Martial” (TOS)

Crime

Crusher, Beverly, Dr.

and the Borg

and Data

Crusher, Wesley

Cryptology, and the future

Cybernetic implants

Cybernetics

Cyberwar

See also
War

D'Arsay code

Data, Lieutenant Commander(n)

and bottom-up thinking

and comparison to holodeck characters

and creation of android Lal

and Dr. Moriarty

and electrical current

and encryption

and exocamp servomechanisms

and faults of linear logic

feasibility of

and human emotions

and
if-then
artificial intelligence

and interfacing

and Juliana Tainer

and music and the arts

and positronic brain

and Spot

and top-down thinking

and vision

Data Encryption Standard (DES)

“Data's Day” (TNG)

Dax, Science Officer Jadzia

“Deadly Years, The” (TOS)

Death Star

Decision tree

figure

Dedicated Optical Link

Deep Blue

Deep Space Nine

and blockade by Dominion

and changes from the original series

Deep Space Nine,
computer system

architecture of

Chief O'Brien's overriding of computer of

as heart of

and personal privacy

Defiant

Dermal regenerator

Dertouzos, Michael

“Descent, Part 2” (TNG)

“Devil's Due” (TNG)

“Disaster” (TNG)

Diseases, exotic

Distributed Processing Network (DPN)

figure

and Optical Data Network, figure

DNA, computers based on

“Doctor BashirPresume?” (DS9)

Dominion

and desire to rule other worlds

and encrypted messages

and war activities

“Drumhead, The” (TNG)

Edmonds, Dean

Electrical current

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Privacy Papers, The

“Elementary, Dear Data” (TNG)

Emergency Holographic Medical Doctor

Encryption

biometric

Star Trek codes of

“Enemy Within, The” (TOS)

ENIAC computer

Enterprise

computers on original versus later generations

description of computers of

and holodecks and holosuites

and importance of its computer

monitoring of conversations on

networking design of

and security

Enterprise-D

and bottom-up artificial intelligence

and D'Arsay computer code

numbers of crew of

“Ethics” (TNG)

Eugenics

“Evolution” (TNG)

“Eye of the Needle” (VGR)

Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

Facial recognition technology

Faster-than-light (FTL) speed

and Data

and Distributed Processing Network (DPN)

and linked computers

and main processing unit

and nanoprocessor

“Favor the Bold” (DS9)

Feasibility

of androids (Data)

of holodeck

of tricorders

of Universal Translator

Fingerprint recognition

First Contact

and the Borg

and cloned implants

and Data's emotions

and holodecks

and size of Federation

“Fistful of Datas, A” (TNG)

Flexinol “Muscle Wire,”

Fontaine, Johnny

Food replicators

Forbidden Planet

FORTRAN programming language

FTL.
See
Faster-than-light (FTL) speed

Future

accurate depiction of

and body networks

and computers

as good television

and science fiction

“Future Imperfect” (TNG)

Gallium arsenide

Gammma Hydra IV research colony

Garak

Garth, Captain

Generations

Genetic codes

Genetic engineering

Genghis

Genomes and artificial life

Geordi. See LaForge, Geordi

Gigaquad

Gorm

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Graves, Ira

Hackers, computer

Heartbeats and security

Herbert the robot

“Heroes and Demons” (VGR)

Hesselink, Lambertus

Hill, Dixon

“Hollow Pursuits” (TNG)

Holodeck

and characters with artificial intelligence

feasibitity of

and interactions between characters and people

and magnetic bubble matter

and replicated objects

and system malfunction

Holograms, living

Holographic floppy disk, figure

Holographic Medical Doctor

Holographic structures, as holders of data

Holosuites
See also
Holodeck

“Homefront” (DS9)

“Hope and Fear” (VGR)

Human element and war in space

Humanism and computers

Humanoid intelligence, comparison with top-down and bottom-up, table

“I, Borg” (TNG)

“I, Mudd.” (TOS)

If
then artificial intelligence

“Inheritance” (TNG)

“In Purgatory's Shadow” (DS9)

Insurrection

Intel 4004 chip

Intel and 1997 supercomputer

International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA)

Internet, compared to Optical Data Network

Internet service provider, and micron junction link

Inter-Vehicle Embedded Simulation Technology (INVEST)

“In Theory” (TNG)

Iris prints

Isolinear optical chips. See Optical isolinear chips

Jack the Ripper

Janeway, Captain Kathryn

Java programming language

Jayaraman, Sundaresan

Jeffries tubes

Jem'Hadar warriors

Jenkins, Philip

“Journey to Babel” (TOS)

Karidian, Anton

Kasparov, Gary

Kazon

Kes, Medical Assistant

Kiloquads

Kim, Ops/Communications Officer Harry

Kirk, James T., Captain

and balance of rationality and humanism

and “Court Martial,”

and
Nomad

and top-down artificial intelligence

Klingon

Kodos the Executioner

Koiram, Sima

Kraus, Lawrence M.

Kress computer

LaForge, Geordi

and Data

repairs to computers(n)

Lal

Landis, Geoffrey

Landru

and artificial intelligence

Language

Lantree
(starship)

“Last Outpost, The” (TNG)

LCARS.
See
Library computer access and retrieval software

“Legacy” (TNG)

Legos

Ley, Willy

Library computer access and retrieval software (LCARS)

and artificial intelligence

and communication with controller

and Distributed Processing Network

interface of

and memory access

Light and virtual reality programming

Local area networks (LANs)

LOC units

Locutus

Logic

Logic Theorist

Luke Skywalker

Mâ5 incident

Magnetic bubble matter

Main Computer System (figure)

Main processing core

figure

and keyboard and speech commands

“Masks” (TNG)

“Matter of Time, A” (TNG)

McCarthy, John

McCoy, Leonard, Dr.

and antidote for aging disease

as an emotional humanist

and Spock's brain

and subcutaneous transponders

and tricorder

Medicine

Memory

“Meridian” (DS9)

Micron junction links

Microprocessors

Millenium Falcon

Miniature subspace field generators (MSFG)

Minsky, Marvin

Minuet

“Miri” (TOS)

Mistrust of computer technology

Monitoring of conversations

Moore, Gordon

Moore's Law

Moriarty, Dr.

and sentience

“Most Toys, The” (TNG)

Music, and human versus android capabilities

“Naked Now, The” (TNG)

“Naked Now, The” (TOS)

“Naked Time, The” (TOS)

Nanites

and medical science

Nanocommunicators, injected

Nanoprocessor

definition of

Nanotechnology

and the Borg

and encryption

and the Federation

Navigation

Networking design, of
Enterprise
computer

Neurons

and analog behavior

artificial

and the brain

and connection weights

Neuroprocessors

“Neutral Zone, The” (TNG)

Newell, Allen

Next Generation, The

computer of, architecture of

generational difference in

Nomad

NVisage

Object-oriented programming (OOP)

O'Brien, Chief Operations Officer Miles

and bomb explosion

and computer malfunction

and fixing of chips

and overriding of DS9 computer

shrinking to enter computer console

O'Brien, Keiko

ODN. See Optical Data Network (ODN)

Odo, Security Officer

Offenhouse, Ralph

“Offspring, The” (TNG)

Ogihara, Mitsu

Ohm, Georg Simon

Ohm's Law

“Omnilingual” (Piper)

“11001001” (TNG)

“One Little Ship” (DS9)

Operating systems

Operation Desert Storm

Operations per second (OPS)

Optical computers

Optical Data Network (ODN)

compared to Internet

compared to LCARS

and Distributed Processing Network, figure

Optical isolinear chips

physical size of

Optical Translator Clusters

Optitek

Original Series, The
(TOS)

computers as primitive

and differences in later series

and mistrust of computer technology

and use of first and second generation computers

“Outrageous Okona, The” (TNG)

Overall Ship Computer System (figure)

PADDs.
See
Personal Access Display Devices

“Paradise Lost” (DS9)

Paris, Lieutenant Tom

“Patterns of Force” (TOS)

Paxans

“Peak Performance” (TNG)

Pentium chip

Personal Access Display Devices (PADDs)

Personal Computers (PC)

Phaser beams

Phoneme

Photolithography

Physics of Star Trek, The
(Krauss)

Picard, Jean-Luc, Captain

and Data

and Dixon Hill

kidnapping of

and killing of Borgs

and Locutus

and use of Holodeck

“Piece of the Action, A” (TOS)

Piper, H. Beam

Plagues

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