backdoor - Method of bypassing security in a system, built in by the system designers., background templates - Finished layout for designing websites, backpropagation - A common method of training a neural net in which the initial system output is compared to the desired output, and the system is adjusted until the difference between the two is minimized., bandwidth - Transmission capacity measure by bit rate, binary code - Groupings of 1's and 0's that make information that a computer can understand., broadband - A high speed connection to the Internet, cloud computing - A system in which all computer programs and data is stored on a central server owned by a company (e.g. Google) and accessed virtually, compiler - A program that translates instructions or code into a language that can be read and understood by a computer, digital signal - A signal that encodes information as a string of 1's and 0's, dial-up connection - A connection that uses a phone line to establish a temporary Internet connection, interpreter - Converts a program written in a higher level language into a lower level language and executes it, beginning execution before converting the entire program., assembler - converts assembly language to machine code, assembly language - a type of low-level programming language that is intended to communicate directly with a computer's hardware, high-level language - A programming language that is designed to be easy for humans to read and write.,

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