Abbreviation

Full Form

ACM

Association for Computing Machinery

ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AGP

Accelerated Graphics Port

AI

Artificial Intelligence

ALU

Arithmetic Logic Unit

AMI

American Megatrends Incorporated

AMR

Adaptive Multi-Rate

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application Programming Interface

APIPA

Automatic Private IP Addressing

APM

Advanced Power Management

APT

Advanced Persistent Threat

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASP

Active Server Pages

ASR

Automated System Recovery

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

BASH

Bourne Again SHell

Bcc

Blind Carbon Copy

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System

BPS

Bits Per Second

BRD

Blu-ray Disc

BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution

BYOD

Bring Your Own Device

CAD

Computer-Aided Design

CAN

Controller Area Network

CAPTCHA

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

CD

Compact Disc

CDN

Content Delivery Network

CD-ROM

Compact Disc Read-Only Memory

CFR

Code of Federal Regulations

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CLI

Command-Line Interface

CMOS

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CNAME

Canonical Name

COM

Component Object Model

COO

Chief Operating Officer

CORS

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

CPE

Customer Premises Equipment

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CRT

Cathode Ray Tube

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

CSV

Comma-Separated Values

DAC

Digital-to-Analog Converter

DBMS

Database Management System

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIMM

Dual Inline Memory Module

DLL

Dynamic Link Library

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DML

Data Manipulation Language

DNS

Domain Name System

DOM

Document Object Model

DoS

Denial of Service

DPI

Dots Per Inch

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSS

Decision Support System

DTP

Desktop Publishing

DVI

Digital Visual Interface

EFS

Encrypting File System

EIDE

Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

EIS

Executive Information System

EISA

Extended Industry Standard Architecture

ELS

Enterprise-Level Security

EMI

Electromagnetic Interference

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

ESC

Escape (as in Escape key)

EVDO

Evolution Data Optimized

FAT

File Allocation Table

FDD

Frequency Division Duplex

FDM

Frequency Division Multiplexing

FET

Field Effect Transistor

FLOPS

Floating-Point Operations Per Second

FPU

Floating-Point Unit

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GDDR

Graphics Double Data Rate

GHz

Gigahertz

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

GPG

GNU Privacy Guard

GPGPU

General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit

GPS

Global Positioning System

GPU

Graphics Processing Unit

GRE

Generic Routing Encapsulation

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HBA

Host Bus Adapter

HCI

Human-Computer Interaction

HDD

Hard Disk Drive

HDMI

High-Definition Multimedia Interface

HDTV

High-Definition Television

HFS

Hierarchical File System

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure

I/O

Input/Output

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service

ICC

International Color Consortium

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol

IP

Internet Protocol

IPC

Inter-Process Communication

IPS

Intrusion Prevention System

IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6

IRQ

Interrupt Request

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

ISP

Internet Service Provider

IT

Information Technology

IVR

Interactive Voice Response

JDBC

Java Database Connectivity

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation

JSP

JavaServer Pages

JVM

Java Virtual Machine

KVM

Keyboard, Video, Mouse

LAN

Local Area Network

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LED

Light-Emitting Diode

LIFO

Last-In, First-Out

MAC

Media Access Control

Mbps

Megabits per second

MBR

Master Boot Record

MIPS

Millions of Instructions Per Second

MIS

Management Information System

ML

Machine Learning

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group

MPP

Massively Parallel Processing

MRAM

Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory

NAT

Network Address Translation

NFS

Network File System

NIC

Network Interface Card

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

ODBC

Open Database Connectivity

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

OS

Operating System

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection

OTP

One-Time Password

PaaS

Platform as a Service

PAL

Phase Alternating Line

PAN

Personal Area Network

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCIe

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

PDF

Portable Document Format

PHP

Hypertext Preprocessor

PnP

Plug and Play

PoE

Power over Ethernet

PoS

Proof of Stake

PoW

Proof of Work

QR

Quick Response

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM

Random Access Memory

RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol

REST

Representational State Transfer

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

ROM

Read-Only Memory

RPM

Revolutions Per Minute

SaaS

Software as a Service

SATA

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

SDRAM

Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SFTP

Secure File Transfer Protocol

SIM

Subscriber Identity Module

SMB

Server Message Block

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SQL

Structured Query Language

SRAM

Static Random Access Memory

SSD

Solid-State Drive

SSH

Secure Shell

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

STP

Shielded Twisted Pair

SVGA

Super Video Graphics Array

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TDP

Thermal Design Power

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

TTL

Time to Live

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UPS

Uninterruptible Power Supply

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

USB

Universal Serial Bus

UUID

Universally Unique Identifier

VGA

Video Graphics Array

VLAN

Virtual Local Area Network

VM

Virtual Machine

VNC

Virtual Network Computing

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol

VPN

Virtual Private Network

VR

Virtual Reality

WAN

Wide Area Network

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol

Wi-Fi

Wireless Fidelity

WORM

Write Once Read Many

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get

XML

Extensible Markup Language

XSS

Cross-Site Scripting

ZIF

Zero Insertion Force

ZIP

Zone Improvement Plan