Abbreviations in Computer Science

            In this post, I listed out some important abbreviations and their full forms which we use in our Computer Science.
           

A

ACID: Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
ACK: Acknowledgement 
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery 

ANSI: American National Standards Institute
API: Application Programming Interface 
APN: Access Point Name

B

BASH: Bourne Again SHell

BFS: Breadth First Search

C

CAD: Computer Aided Design
CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
CFG: Context Free Grammar
CSG: Context Sensitive Grammar

CSMA/CA: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

CUDA: Compute Unified Device Architecture

CPU: Central Processing Unit

D

DARPA: Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency

DFA: Deterministic Finite Automata

DFS: Depth First Search
DIVX: Digital Internet Video Access
DLNA: Digital Living Network Alliance
DTP: Desk Top Publishing
DVD: Digital Video Disk

E

ECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
EDGE: Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution

exFAT: Extended File Allocation Table

ESN: Electronic Serial Number

F

FAT: File Allocation Table

FDMA: Frequency Division Multiple Access
FIFO: First In First Out

G

GNU: GNU Compiler Collection
GPS: Global Positioning System 

GPU: Graphics Processing Unit

GPRS: General Packet Radio Service

GSM: Global System for Mobile Communications

H

HDFS: Hadoop Distributed File System
HDMI: High Definition Multimedia Interface

HS: Hot Spot
HSDPA: High Speed Down-link Packet Access
HSPA: High Speed Packet Access
HSUPA: High Speed Up-link Packet Access

I

IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

IEEE: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity

J

J2EE: Java 2 Enterprise Edition
J2ME: Java 2 Micro Edition

JDBC: Java Database Connectivity

JSP: Java Server Pages

K

KB: Kilo Bytes

L

LAN: Local Area Network

LBA: Linear Bounded Automata

LCD: Liquid Crystal Display

LISP: List Processing

M

MANET: Mobile Ad-hoc Network

MB: Mega Bytes
MPEG: Moving Pictures Experts Group
MPI: Message Passing Interface

N

NaN: Not a Number

NFC: Near Field Communication

NTFS: New Technology File System

O

OpenCL: Open Computing Language

OpenMP: Open Multi-Processing
OS: Operating System
OTG: On The Go

P

PDA: Push Down Automata
PDF: Portable Document Format
PPI: Pixels Per Inch

Q

QVGA: Quarter Video Graphics Array

R

RAM: Random Access Memory
ROM: Read Only Memory
RSS: Really Simple Syndication

S

SIM: Subscriber Identity Module
SLCD: Super Liquid Crystal Display

T

TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
TFT: Thin Film Transistor

TLB: Translation Lookaside Buffer
TM: Turing Machine

U

UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply
USB: Universal Serial Bus

V

VDU: Video Display Unit
VGA: Video Graphics Array
VIRUS: Vital Information Resources Under Siege
VPN: Virtual Private Network

W

WCDMA: Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access
Wi-Fi: Wireless Fidelity
WINDOW: Wide Interactive Network Development for Office Work Solution
WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network
WVGA: Wide Video Graphics Array
WWW: World Wide Web
WXGA: Widescreen Extended Graphics Array

X

Y

YACC: Yet Another Compiler Compiler

Z 

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