Key Terms
- 3-D printing
- (also: additive manufacturing) process of designing static objects in three dimensions through additive processes in which successive layers of material are laid down under computer control
- 4-D printing
- provides the capability of programming the fundamental materials used in 3-D printing by creating objects that can change their form or function after fabrication
- accessibility
- addresses discriminatory aspects related to equivalent user experience for people with disabilities
- artificial human
- machine with biological parts added
- augmented reality (AR)
- interactive experience that supplements the real world with virtual (computer-generated) objects that appear to coexist in the same space as the real world
- base container image
- foundational layer of a container provided by the cloud provider to build an application
- biomimetic robotics
- focused on the design of robots that leverage principles that are common in nature such as what can be learned from the evolution and development of intelligence in animals and humans
- block storage
- manages data as blocks or physical range of storage in a physical device such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)
- blockchain network
- peer-to-peer network that allows people and organizations who may not know one another to trust and independently verify the records of financial and other transactions
- bring your own cloud (BYOC) solution
- structure in which organizations allow employees or users to freely decide on the cloud vendor that best suits their tasks rather than standardizing a single specific provider
- cognitive robotics
- field of creating robots that can think, perceive, learn, remember, reason, and interact
- compute service
- infrastructure component that enables users to obtain access to a private computing environment
- container management services
- way to encapsulate an application with any operating system’s library that is required for an application to operate
- container registry (CR)
- registry where users can control each container image they deploy into the cloud environment
- cyborg
- biological human with parts replaced with machinery
- deep machine learning
- type of machine learning that has many neuron layers
- extended reality (XR; also: mixed reality [MR])
- reality service technology that involves both real and virtual environments
- file storage
- storage service that manages data as files
- inclusion
- ensures that diverse communities can make use of solutions regardless of their location, culture, and other differentiating traits, habits, or interests
- intelligent autonomous networked supersystems (IANS)
- intelligent chains of autonomous machines that work together as a system to make decisions and take actions
- logging and monitoring management
- common web and mobile cloud component that allows developers to centralize all logging data and provide a comprehensive view of all events happening with an application at any moment
- mashup
- web-based application that combines features from two or more sources to present a new service
- mixed reality (MR; also: extended reality [XR])
- reality service technology that involves both real and virtual environments
- mobile robot
- robot that can navigate from one position to another
- multicloud solution
- mesh of several different computing environments to form a flexible working environment
- nanotechnology
- focuses on matter at the molecular level to create structures and devices that are about 1 to 100 nm in size with fundamentally new organization, properties, and performance
- neuroinformatics
- study of how to build a computer that can mimic basic human brain functions
- neuromorphic computing
- relies on a hardware architecture that models how the human brain uses neurons
- NoSQL database
- database management service in which the relationship between data is not strictly managed, often under key/value pair
- object storage
- (also: blob storage) manages data as blobs, with each blob representing any data format
- quantum computer
- machine that performs calculations based on the laws and principles of quantum mechanics
- relational database service (RDS)
- database management service in which the relationship between data is strictly managed, often under a predefined data schema; most common type of database and includes Oracle DB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
- robot manipulator
- physical tool that operates at a fixed location to catch and move items
- robotics
- science that focuses on the design, development, operation, and use of robots along with the computers that facilitate their control, monitor their sensing abilities, and process related information
- secret and configuration management
- stores and manages sensitive information securely, while allowing the application to be scaled and deployed on different environments on the cloud.
- shallow machine learning
- type of machine learning that has few layers of neurons
- software development kit (SDK)
- used to access storage needed to read, write, and store data
- spot/not urgent compute service
- enables the user to get a task done, but keeps costs low by allowing the cloud provider to run the task without urgency when the time is convenient and cost-effective
- storage access point
- critical component in cloud architecture that ensures latency to enable users to consume data
- storage service
- base infrastructure components that a cloud provider would provide that allow the user and the application to read, write, and access storage
- telecommand
- category of IoT network traffic that sends commands across a network to control devices or sensors
- telemetry
- category of IoT network traffic that aggregates data generated by sensors and devices and sends it to a server
- virtual compute service
- enables the user to request an environment to do tasks and then shut it down to release the resource back to the cloud provider
- virtual functional and serverless compute service
- application that runs in the compute environment, is executed as the function, and is then shut down when the task is completed
- virtual reality (VR)
- simulated experience that immerses a user in a computer-generated, interactive, 3-D environment