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Acronyms and Abbreviations
AI artificial intelligence
AIDS acquired immune deficiency disorder syndrome
AJ anti-jamming
ARG alternate reality games
AVCAL Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
BOINC Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
BTU British thermal unit
CAGR compound annual growth rate
CAS complex adaptive system
CDMA code division multiple access
CDS credit default swaps
COSMET complex open system research network
CPU central processing unit
CRM customer relationship management
CSCS Center for Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
CTL coal-to-liquids
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DC direct current
DDR&E Director, Defense Research and Engineering
DMFC direct methanol fuel cell
DNA deoxyribonucleic acid
DoD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DSL digital subscriber line
DTN delay-tolerant networking
DWO Defense Warning Office
EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud
EIA Department of Energy's Energy Information Agency
ETL extract, transform, and load
EU European Union
EVCA European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FMC fixed mobile convergence
Gbps gigabits per second
GDP gross domestic product
GHz gigahertz
GPS global positioning system
GUI graphical user interface
HD high-definition
HDD hard-disk drive
HTML hypertext markup language
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
IC intelligence community
IED improvised explosive device
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IFTF Institute for the Future
IPDTFP ideal persistent disruptive technology-forecasting platforms
IT information technology
ITC investment tax credit
ITRI Industrial Technology and Research Institute
KAIST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
KAUST King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
LDPC low-density parity check codes
LED light-emission diode
LPD low probability of detection
LPI low probability of intercept
LTCM Long-Term Capital Management
MA morphological analysis
MCF Meta Content Framework
MEMS microelectromechanical systems
MIMO multiple input multiple output
MIMO-OFDM multiple input multiple output - orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing
MIMO-OFDMA multiple input multiple output - orthogonal frequency division
multiple access
MMORPG massive multi-player online role playing games
MSG massive scenario generation
MW/yr megawatts per year
NaCTeM National Center for Text Mining
NAND "not and"; a type of flash memory
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NBIC nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and
cognitive science
NCR National Cash Register Company
NCS network-centric operations
NGO non-governmental organization
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NORA non-obvious relationship awareness
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OEM original equipment manufacturer
OORD object-oriented relational databases
OoS object-oriented scanning
OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
OS operating system
OSN online social network
OSS open source software
PC personal computer
PCR polymerase chain reaction
PDA personal digital assistant
POSTECH Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea)
PPM parts per million
PV photovoltaic
QDR quadrennial defense review
QKD quantum key distribution
R&D research and development
RAM random access memory
RDB relational databases
RDF resource description framework
RF radio frequency
RNA ribonucleic acid
S3 Simple Storage Service
SaaS software as a service
SAS Statistical Analysis Software
SEO search engine optimization
SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
SIMS School of Information Management and Systems, University of
California at Berkeley
SMT simultaneous multithreading
SNR signal-to-noise ratio
SSD solid-state drive
TIGER Technology Insight – Gauge, Evaluate, and Review
T-REX The RDF Extractor, a text mining tool developed at the
University of Maryland
TRIZ Rus: Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch (“inventor's
problem-solving theory”)
U.A.E. United Arab Emirates
UAV unmanned aerial vehicle
UGV unmanned ground vehicle
U.S. United States
UUV unmanned underwater vehicle
UWB ultra-wide band
VC venture capital
VIX Chicago Board of Trade’s Volatility Index
VoIP voice over internet protocol
VPN virtual private networks
WGA Western Governors’' Association
WiMAX worldwide interoperability for microwave access
WSJ Wall Street Journal
WWII World War Two
XML extensible markup language
