Interface between a user and a computer system that involves the use of a mouse-controlled screen cursor to select options from menus, make choices with buttons, start programs by clicking icons, etc.

Study of how people design, implement, and use interactive computer systems and how computers affect individuals, organizations, and society. This encompasses not only ease of use but also new interaction techniques for supporting user tasks, providing better access to information, and creating more powerful forms of communication.

Literally: "Data about data" In data processing, meta-data is definitional data that provides information about or documentation of other data managed within an application or environment. For example, meta-data would document data about data elements or attributes, (name, size, data type, etc) and data about records or data structures (length, fields, columns, etc) and data about data (where it is located, how it is associated, ownership, etc.). Meta-data may include descriptive information about the context, quality and condition, or characteristics of the data.

The Turing Test’s imitation game is traditionally played by three parties: a human person (A), a computer (B), and a human interrogator (C). A and B are in a room apart. By communicating through a teletype connection, it is the interrogator’s goal to determine, which of his two partners in the room apart is human and which is the computer. Hence the question is: Can (B) be made to play satisfactorily the part of (A), such that (C) mistakes the one for the other?

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

Abbrv. for World Wide Web
A vast network of linked hypertext files, stored on computers throughout the world, that can provide a computer user with information on a huge variety of subjects.

Abbrev. for ‘What You See Is What You Get’
Referring to what is displayed on the screen being the same as what will be printed out.