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"BBN" is a common misspelling or typo for: BBB.

Specialty Definition: BBN

Domain Definition
Computing BBN Bolt, Beranek and Newman Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Technology 1: Broad. (references)
  2: Bulk Billing Number. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: BBN

Expressions Definition
BBN Butterfly computers The BBN Butterfly was a massively parallel computer from the 1980s based on an earlier Pluribus design. It was named for the "butterfly" multi-stage switching network around which it was built. Each machine had up to 512 CPUs, each with local memory, which could be connected to allow every CPU access to every other CPU's memory, although with a substantially greater latency (roughly 15:1) than for its own. The CPUs were commodity microprocessors. The earlier, GP-1000 models used Motorola 68020's and scaled to 256 CPUs. The later, TC-2000 models used Motorola 88100's, and scaled to 512 CPUs. (references)
BBN Report 1822 This was Report #1822 published by Bolt, Beranek and Newman, and it specified the method for connecting a host computer to an ARPANET router, called an Interface Message Processor, or IMP. This connection and protocol was generally referred to as 1822, the report number. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BBN

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
BBN English Biotechnology Business News N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: BBN

BBN

BBN might refer to:

  • Business Branding Network, an international network of marketing and communications agencies
  • BBN Technologies, formerly Bolt, Beranek and Newman, a technology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known for its work on packet switching technology and its construction of the Interface Message Processor - the first router
  • Bible Broadcasting Network, a global Christian radio network headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina
  • BBN-international.com, an international branding network headquartered in Manchester, UK
  • Big Bang nucleosynthesis
  • Big Brother Nigeria, a reality show which took place in Nigeria
  • Bayesian belief network, also known as Bayesian network
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School (BB&N), a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 9-Borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane (9-BBN), a reagent used in organic chemistry

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BBN"



Topics by Level of Interest: BBN

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
BBN Technologies 8     BBN 4
BBN Report 1822 6     BBN Butterfly computers 4
BBN 4     BBN LISP 3
BBN Butterfly computers 4     BBN Report 1822 6
BBN LISP 3     BBN Technologies 8

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).



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