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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
M—5 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
Plaques

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