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Acronyms
AAAS
ABS
AMD
AOL
ACM
ANSI
CIO
CMU
CPU
DARPA
DCI
DNA
FAO
FCC
FDA
FFRDC
GHz
GIS
GMU
GPS
GSM
HP
IEEE
IEM
IMF
IP
ISDN
ISO
ISP
IT
K-12
LEO
mA
MEMS
MIPS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
automated braking system
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
America Online
Association for Computing Machinery
American National Standards Institute
chief information officer
Carnegie Mellon University
central processing unit
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Director of Central Intelligence
deoxyribonucleic acid
Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations)
Federal Communications Commission
Food & Drug Administration
Federally Financed Research and Development Center
gigahertz
geographic information system
George Mason University
global positioning system
Global System for Mobile Communications
(previously Groupe Spécial Mobile)
Hewlett-Packard Company
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
international electronic marketplace
International Monetary Fund
Internet protocol; intellectual property
integrated services digital network
International Standards Organization
Internet service provider
information technology
kindergarten through 12th grade
low earth orbit (satellites)
milliamps
microelectromechanical systems
millions of instructions per second
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MT
NAFTA
NDRI
NGO
NIC
NIO
NSF
PC
PEPC
PDA
QUT
RAM
RIM
SEC
SOHO
UCF
UCSB
UNDP
UNICEF
VLSI
WAP
WIPO
WTO
xDSL
machine translation
North American Free Trade Agreement
RAND’s National Defense Research Institute, an FFRDC
non-governmental organization
National Intelligence Council
National Intelligence Officer
National Science Foundation
personal computer
privacy enhanced personal computer
personal digital assistant
Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
random-access memory
Research in Motion, Ltd.
Securities and Exchange Commission
small office / home office
University of Central Florida
University of California at Santa Barbara
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
very large scale integration
wireless application protocol
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Trade Organization
x digital subscriber line (x=A [asynchronous], ...)