Glossary: E
- EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code)
- A standard character code using 8 bits per character devised for IBM mainframes in the 1960s but less frequently used today than ASCII.
- edutainment
- A term to describe the use of interactive, visual, or multimedia strategies of video games to present educational materials on a computer.
- electronic cut and paste (block move)
- A standard word processing feature that allows selecting a letter, word, or section of text; deleting it from its current location; and moving it somewhere else in the current or another document.
- electronic mail
- Application that enables users to electronically send and receive messages to colleagues using data communications technology with computers.
- electrostatic plotter
- A plotter that uses electricity to transfer bit-mapped images to paper by printing raster pixels line by line, much as they are produced on a bit-mapped printer.
- ELIZA
- An early experimental computer program in AI that carried on a dialogue with a person. The computer appeared to understand what was being said but in fact was just filling blanks in formulaic conversation.
- emulation
- The imitation of one computer system by another, so that software created for the computer being imitated will run on the other without changing it.
- encryption software
- A category of computer programs to encode a document so that it cannot be read if it is intercepted by unauthorized users in a network transaction.
- ergonomics
- The study of how to adapt machines and working conditions to people to minimize health risks.
- even parity
- Indicates that the total number of 1s in the unit of transmitted information must be even.
- executive (monitor) program
- Other terms for an operating system.
- expert system
- A category of computer software in artificial intelligence designed to model the behavior of human experts in some field and frequently coded in a logic programming language.
- Extended Graphics Adapter (EGA)
- An IBM-compatible circuit video board that provides 640 by 350 pixel resolution and a 16-color palette on a computer screen, suitable for creating multiple type fonts and sizes in graphics mode.