major test point

— accuracy point

— actuation point

— aiming point

— airborne command point

— aircraft dispersal point

— airdrome reference point

— air-launching point

— alighting point

— all-burnt point

— ammunition storage point

— antipodal point

— antisolar point

— aphelion point

— approach aiming point

— assembly point

— auto-approach breakoff point

— auto-navigation homing point

— autopilot breakoff point

— autumnal equinox point

— axisymmetric stagnation point

— bomb release point

— branch point

— break point

— breakdown point

— breakeven point

— breaking point

— breakout point

— bubble point

— built-in test point

— burble point

— burnout point

— canopy breaker point

— cant point

— capture point

— cardinal points

— center reference point

— charging point

— check point

— cockpit dew point

— collinear points

— collision point

— compass points

— compulsory landing point

— compulsory reporting point

— concentrated reaction point

— contact point

— control point

— convergence point

— crossing point

— cutoff point

— data point

— datum point

— dead-reckoning point

— debarkation point

— decision point

— departure point

— design point

— detachment point

— dew point

— discharge point

— disconnect point

— discontinuity point

— dive entry point

— docking point

— down lock point

— drop point

— early warning point

— elastic point

— enroute point

— entry point

— equigravitational point

— equinoctial point

— exit point

— fatigue point

— feeder point

— filling point

— fin attachment point

— fire point

— firing point

— flame-break point

— flammability point

— flareout point

— flash point

— focal point

— force application point

— freezing point

— frost point

— fusion point

— GCA handover point

— ground-charging point

— guidance initial point

— half-deflection point

— hard point

— high-key point

— high-speed buffet point

— holding point

— homing point

— hovering point

— hump point

— ice point

— identification point

— ignition point

— ILS reference point

— impact point

— impingement point

— inflection point

— inflexion point

— initial point

— initial route point

— initiation point

— intercept ion point

— intermediate point

— intersection point

— jacking point

— junction point

— key point

— landing point

— lashing point

— launching point

— lead point

— letdown point

— lift application point

— liftoff point

— loading point

— low-key point

— lunar landing point

— maintenance point

— major test point

— mandatory landing point

— mandatory reporting point

— maneuver point

— mass point

— maximum refusal point

— measurement point

— measuring point

— melting point

— mid-chord point

— missed approach point

— missile-impact point

— missile-target encounter point

— monitoring point

— mount point

— neutral point

— nodal point

— observation point

— off-design point

— off-loading point

— offset point

— oil filling point

— on-request reporting point

— operating point

— over-wing filling point

— oxygen filling point

— oxygen point

— parachute sling point

— perigee point

— picketing point

— pickle point

— pickup point

— pitot point

— point Bravo

— point of arrival

— point of cavitation

— point of chamber

— point of climb

— point of destination

— point of flare

— point of initiation

— point of injection

— point of no-return

— point of origin

— point of separation

— polar curve point

— pour point

— power-unit failure point

— prebriefed point

— predicted collision point

— predicted point

— pressure-refueling point

— pressure-sensing point

— prestall buffet point

— QFE reference point

— quadrantal points

— quarter-chord point

— radar point

— rally point

— rear-fuselage detachment point

— reentry point

— reference point

— refill point

— refueling point

— release point

— rendezvous point

— reporting point

— retro-fire point

— return route point

— roll-in point

— route changing point

— route point

— route turning point

— seat fixing point

— self-ignition point

— separation point

— service draining point

— shock-wave intersection point

— sighting point

— singular point

— skia point

— slinging point

— solidification point

— solstitial point

— sonic point

— splash point

— splashdown point

— staging point

— stagnation point

— stalling point

— starting point

— static point

— steam point

— stick-fixed maneuver point

— stopover point

— stopping point

— store mounting point

— strong point

— subastral point

— sublimation point

— sublunar point

— subsatellite point

— subsolar point

— substellar point

— summing point

— suspension point

— tailplane attachment point

— tailplane pivot point

— takeoff point

— tangency point

— tanking point

— tapping point

— target approach point

— target point

— taxi holding point

— temperature-sensing point

— terminal point

— terminal route point

— test pickoff point

— test point

— threshold point

— tie-down point

— time reference point

— toilet servicing point

— touchdown point

— towing point

— transfer point

— transition point

— trip point

— triple point

— turning point

— turnoff point

— undercarriage mounting point

— underwing hard point

— underwing refueling point

— unstick point

— vernal equinox point

— wake point

— water drain point

— water touchdown point

— wing center point

— yield point

pass [pɑ:s]

col ⇒ 1 (a) laissez-passer ⇒ 1 (b) moyenne ⇒ 1 (c) passe ⇒ 1 (e)-(g) passer devant ⇒ 2 (a) dépasser ⇒ 2 (a) passer ⇒ 2 (b)-(e), 2 (j), 3 (a), 3 (b), 3 (d), 3 (e), 3 (g), 3 (h) être reçu à ⇒ 2 (f) voter ⇒ 2 (g) se passer ⇒ 3 (d), 3 (f) être voté ⇒ 3 (i)

1 noun

(a) (in mountains) col m, défilé m;

∎ the Brenner Pass le col du Brenner

(b) (authorization → for worker, visitor) laissez-passer m inv; Theatre invitation f, billet m de faveur; Military (→ for leave of absence) permission f; (→ for safe conduct) sauf-conduit m;

∎ rail/bus pass carte f d'abonnement (de train)/de bus

(c) School & University (in exam) moyenne f, mention f passable;

∎ to get a pass être reçu;

∎ I got three passes j'ai été reçu dans trois matières

(d) (state of affairs)

∎ things have come to a pretty pass on est dans une bien mauvaise passe, la situation s'est bien dégradée;

∎ things came to such a pass that… les choses en vinrent à ce point ou à tel point que…

(e) Sport (with ball, puck) passe f; (in fencing) botte f; (in bullfighting) passe f;

∎ to make a pass at (in fencing) porter une botte à

(f) (by magician) passe f

(g) Computing passe f

(h) Aviation (overflight) survol m; (attack) attaque f

(i) familiar

∎ to make a pass at sb (sexual advances) faire du plat à qn

2 transitive verb

(a) (move past, go by → building, window) passer devant; (→ person) croiser; (overtake) dépasser, doubler;

∎ if you pass a chemist's, get some aspirin si tu passes devant une pharmacie, achète de l'aspirine;

∎ he passed my table without seeing me il est passé devant ma table sans me voir;

∎ I passed her on the stairs je l'ai croisée dans l'escalier;

∎ the ships passed each other in the fog les navires se sont croisés dans le brouillard

(b) (go beyond → finishing line, frontier) passer;

∎ we've passed the right exit nous avons dépassé la sortie que nous aurions dû prendre;

∎ contributions have passed the $100,000 mark les dons ont franchi la barre des 100 000 dollars;

∎ we've passed a major turning point nous avons franchi un cap important;

∎ not a word about it had passed her lips elle n'en avait pas dit un mot;

∎ to pass understanding dépasser l'entendement

(c) (move, run) passer;

∎ to pass one's hand between the bars passer ou glisser sa main à travers les barreaux;

∎ to pass a rope round sth passer une corde autour de qch;

∎ to pass a sponge over sth passer l'éponge sur qch;

∎ she passed her hand over her hair elle s'est passé la main dans les cheveux

(d) (hand) passer; (transmit → message) transmettre;

∎ to pass sth from hand to hand passer qch de main en main;

∎ pass me the sugar, please passez-moi le sucre, s'il vous plaît;

∎ pass the list around the office faites passer ou circuler la liste dans le bureau;

∎ can you pass her the message? pourriez-vous lui transmettre ou faire passer le message?

(e) (spend → life, time, visit) passer;

∎ it passes the time cela fait passer le temps

(f) (succeed in → exam, driving test) être reçu à, réussir;

∎ he didn't pass his history exam il a échoué ou il a été recalé à son examen d'histoire;

∎ to pass a test (vehicle, product) passer une épreuve avec succès

(g) (approve → bill, law) voter; (→ motion, resolution) adopter; School & University (→ student) recevoir, admettre;

∎ the drug has not been passed by the Health Ministry le médicament n'a pas reçu l'autorisation de mise sur le marché du ministère de la Santé;

∎ the censor has passed the film le film a obtenu son visa de censure;

∎ Typography to pass for press donner le bon à tirer pour;

∎ Military etc to be passed fit être reconnu apte

(h) (pronounce → verdict, sentence) prononcer, rendre; (→ remark, compliment) faire;

∎ he declined to pass comment il s'est refusé à tout commentaire;

∎ Law to pass sentence prononcer le jugement;

∎ to pass judgement on sb porter un jugement sur qn, juger qn

(i) (counterfeit money, stolen goods) écouler

(j) Sport (ball, puck) passer

(k) (in games)

∎ to pass one's turn passer ou sauter son tour

(l) Physiology

∎ to pass blood avoir du sang dans les urines;

∎ to pass water uriner

(m) Military

∎ to pass troops in review passer des troupes en revue

(n) Finance

∎ to pass a dividend conclure un exercice sans payer de dividende

3 intransitive verb

(a) (move in specified direction) passer;

∎ a cloud passed across the moon un nuage est passé devant la lune;

∎ the wires pass under the floorboards les fils passent sous le plancher;

∎ alcohol passes rapidly into the bloodstream l'alcool passe rapidement dans le sang;

∎ his life passed before his eyes il a vu sa vie défiler devant ses yeux;

∎ to pass into history/legend entrer dans l'histoire/la légende;

∎ the expression has passed into the language l'expression est passée dans la langue

(b) (move past, go by) passer;

∎ let me pass laissez-moi passer;

∎ the road was too narrow for two cars to pass la route était trop étroite pour que deux voitures se croisent;

∎ the procession passed slowly le cortège passa ou défila lentement;

∎ everyone smiles as he passes tout le monde sourit à son passage;

∎ I happened to be passing, so I thought I'd call in il s'est trouvé que je passais, alors j'ai eu l'idée de venir vous voir

(c) (overtake) dépasser, doubler;

∎ no passing défense de doubler

(d) (elapse → months, years) (se) passer, s'écouler; (→ holiday) se passer;

∎ the weekend passed uneventfully le week-end s'est passé sans surprises;

∎ time passed rapidly le temps a passé très rapidement;

∎ when five minutes had passed au bout de cinq minutes;

∎ it seemed like no time at all had passed since I had last seen her on aurait dit que pas une minute ne s'était écoulée depuis la dernière fois que je l'avais vue

(e) (be transformed) passer, se transformer;

∎ it then passes into a larval stage il se transforme par la suite en larve;

∎ the oxygen then passes to a liquid state ensuite l'oxygène passe à l'état liquide;

∎ to pass from joy to despair passer de la joie au désespoir

(f) (take place) se passer, avoir lieu;

∎ harsh words passed between them ils ont eu des mots;

∎ I don't know what passed between them je ne sais pas ce qui s'est passé entre eux;

∎ the party, if it ever comes to pass, should be quite something la fête, si elle a jamais lieu, sera vraiment un grand moment;

∎ Bible and it came to pass that… et il advint que…

(g) (end, disappear → pain, crisis, fever) passer; (→ anger, desire) disparaître, tomber; (→ dream, hope) disparaître;

∎ the moment of tension passed le moment de tension est passé;

∎ I was about to say something witty, but the moment passed j'allais dire quelque chose de spirituel, mais j'ai laissé passer l'occasion;

∎ to let the opportunity pass laisser passer l'occasion

(h) (be transferred → power, responsibility) passer; (→ inheritance) passer, être transmis;

∎ authority passes to the Vice-President when the President is abroad c'est au vice-président que revient la charge du pouvoir lorsque le président se trouve à l'étranger;

∎ the turn passes to the player on the left c'est ensuite au tour du joueur placé à gauche

(i) (get through, be approved → proposal) être approuvé; (→ bill, law) être voté; (→ motion) être adopté; School & University (→ student) être reçu ou admis

(j) (go unchallenged) passer;

∎ the insult passed unnoticed personne ne releva l'insulte;

∎ he let the remark/mistake pass il a laissé passer la remarque/l'erreur sans la relever;

∎ I don't like it, but I'll let it pass je n'aime pas ça, mais je préfère ne rien dire ou me taire;

∎ let it pass! passe pour cela!

(k) (be adequate, acceptable → behaviour) convenir, être acceptable; (→ repair job) passer;

∎ in a grey suit you might just pass avec ton costume gris, ça peut aller

(l) (substitute)

∎ don't try to pass as an expert n'essaie pas de te faire passer pour un expert;

∎ you could easily pass for your sister on pourrait très bien te prendre pour ta sœur;

∎ he could pass for thirty on lui donnerait trente ans;

∎ she could pass for a Scandinavian on pourrait la prendre pour une Scandinave

(m) Sport faire une passe

(n) Cards passer; (at dominoes) bouder;

∎ (I) pass! (in cards, quiz) je passe!; figurative aucune idée!;

∎ figurative I'll pass on that (declining offer) non merci; (declining to answer question) je préfère ne pas répondre à cette question

►► Banking pass book livret m de banque;

pass laws = lois qui anciennement restreignaient la liberté de mouvement de la population noire en Afrique du Sud;

British School pass mark moyenne f

➲ pass around separable transitive verb

(cake, cigarettes) (faire) passer; (petition) (faire) circuler; (supplies) distribuer;

∎ he passed around the tray of champagne il a fait passer le plateau avec les coupes de champagne;

∎ figurative to pass around the hat faire une quête

➲ pass away

1 separable transitive verb

(while away) passer;

∎ she passed away the morning painting elle a passé la matinée à peindre;

∎ we read to pass the time away nous avons lu pour tuer ou passer le temps

2 intransitive verb

(a) euphemism (die) s'éteindre

(b) (elapse → time) passer, s'écouler

➲ pass back separable transitive verb

(a) (give back) rendre;

∎ pass the book back when you've finished rendez-moi/-lui/ etc le livre quand vous aurez fini

(b) Radio & Television

∎ I'll now pass you back to the studio je vais rendre l'antenne au studio

(c) Sport (return to team mate) repasser; (backwards) passer en arrière

➲ pass by

1 separable transitive verb

(disregard) ignorer, négliger;

∎ life is passing me by je n'ai pas l'impression de vivre;

∎ life has passed her by elle n'a pas vraiment vécu;

∎ whenever a chance comes, don't let it pass you by quand une occasion se présente, ne la laissez pas échapper

2 inseparable transitive verb

(go past → house etc) passer devant

3 intransitive verb

(a) (go past) passer; (carry on without stopping) continuer son chemin;

∎ luckily a taxi was passing by heureusement un taxi passait par là;

∎ he passed by without a word! il est passé à côté de moi sans dire un mot!

(b) (visit) passer;

∎ she passed by to say hello elle est passée dire bonjour

(c) (of time) passer

➲ pass down separable transitive verb

(a) (reach down) passer;

∎ he passed me down my suitcase il m'a tendu ou passé ma valise

(b) (transmit → inheritance, disease, tradition) transmettre, passer;

∎ the songs were passed down from generation to generation les chansons ont été transmises de génération en génération

➲ pass off

1 separable transitive verb

(represent falsely) faire passer;

∎ she passed him off as a duke elle l'a fait passer pour un duc;

∎ to pass oneself off as an artist se faire passer pour (un) artiste;

∎ to pass sth off as a joke (accept as a joke) prendre qch en riant ou comme une plaisanterie; (claim to be a joke) dire qu'on a fait/dit qch pour rire

2 intransitive verb

(a) (take place → conference, attack) se passer, se dérouler;

∎ the meeting passed off without incident la réunion s'est déroulée sans incident;

∎ everything passed off well tout s'est bien passé

(b) (end → fever, fit) passer;

∎ the effects of the drug had passed off les effets du médicament s'étaient dissipés

➲ pass on

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (hand on → box, letter) (faire) passer;

∎ read this and pass it on lisez ceci et faites circuler

(b) (transmit → disease, message, tradition) transmettre;

∎ they pass the costs on to their customers ils répercutent les coûts sur leurs clients;

∎ these cost reductions have been passed on to the consumer le consommateur a bénéficié de ces réductions des coûts;

∎ we meet at eight o'clock, pass it on nous avons rendez-vous à huit heures, fais passer (la consigne)

2 intransitive verb

(a) euphemism (die) trépasser, s'éteindre

(b) (proceed → on journey) continuer son chemin ou sa route;

∎ to pass on to another subject passer à un autre sujet;

∎ passing on to the question of cost,… si nous passons maintenant à la question du coût,…

➲ pass out

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (hand out) distribuer

(b) Irish Cars (overtake) dépasser

2 intransitive verb

(a) (faint) s'évanouir, perdre connaissance; (from drunkenness) tomber ivre mort; (go to sleep) s'endormir

(b) Military (cadet) ≃ finir ses classes

➲ pass over

1 separable transitive verb

(overlook → person) ne pas prendre en considération;

∎ he was passed over for promotion on ne lui a pas accordé la promotion qu'il attendait

2 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (ignore) passer sous silence; (difficulty etc) passer sur, glisser sur;

∎ they passed over the subject in silence ils ont passé la question sous silence

(b) (cross → river etc) traverser, franchir; (→ obstacle) franchir, passer sur

3 intransitive verb

(a) (end → storm) se dissiper, finir

(b) (defect)

∎ to pass over to the enemy passer à l'ennemi

➲ pass round = pass around

➲ pass through

1 inseparable transitive verb

(country, area, difficult period) traverser; (barrier) franchir;

∎ the bullet passed through his shoulder la balle lui a traversé l'épaule;

∎ you pass through a small village vous traversez un petit village;

∎ he passed through the checkpoint without any trouble il a passé le poste de contrôle sans encombre

2 intransitive verb

passer;

∎ I'm not staying in Boston, I'm just passing through je ne reste pas à Boston, je suis juste de passage

➲ pass up separable transitive verb

(a) (hand up) passer;

∎ pass me up the light bulb passe-moi l'ampoule

(b) (not take → opportunity) laisser passer; (→ job) refuser;

∎ I'll have to pass up their invitation je vais devoir décliner leur invitation

1. авария; повреждение; неисправность; отказ в работе

2. неудачная скважина

3. разрушение; обрушение; обвал; оседание; сползание

— bending failure

— brittle failure

— compression failure

— endurance failure

— engine failure

— fatigue failure

— impact compressive failure

— last-thread failure

— operating failures

— repeated stress failure

— rock failure

— shear failure

— tensile failure

— thread failure

— torque failure

— torsion failure

1. отказ ( в работе) ; выход из строя; повреждение; поломка; неисправность, несрабатывание; сбой

2. разрушение; авария

— abnormal test failure

— abnormally early failure

— active failure

— actual failure

— additional failure

— adolescent failure

— aging failure

— allowable failure

— anomalous failure

— anticipated failure

— apparent failure

— artificial failure

— assignable cause failure

— associated failure

— associative failure

— assumed failure

— avoidable failure

— basic failure

— bench-test failure

— bending failure

— bond failure

— breakdown failure

— break-in failure

— brittle failure

— burn-in failure

— catastrophic failure

— cause undetermined failure

— chance failure

— combined failure

— commanded failure

— common-cause failure

— compensating failure

— complete failure

— component failure

— component-compensating failure

— component-dependent failure

— component-independent failure

— component-partial failure

— compression failure

— conditional failure

— conditionally detectable failure

— consequential failure

— contributory failure

— corollary failure

— critical failure

— damage failure

— degradation failure

— dependent failure

— depot-repair-type failure

— design-deficiency failure

— design-error failure

— destruction failure

— destructive failure

— deterioration failure

— disabling failure

— disastrous failure

— distortion failure

— dominant failure

— dominating failure

— dormant failure

— double failure

— downhole failure

— drilling-bit failure

— drill-string failure

— dynamic failure

— earliest failure

— early-life failure

— embryonic failure

— emergency failure

— end failure

— endurance failure

— engine failure

— environmental failure

— equipment failure

— essential failure

— eventual failure

— exogenous failure

— explicit failure

— exponential failure

— externally-caused failure

— fabrication failure

— failure before replacement

— failure in tension

— failure in use

— failure of performance

— failure with replacement

— fatal failure

— fatigue failure

— fictitious failure

— field failure

— field-test failure

— foolish failure

— forced failure

— fracture failure

— functional failure

— generic failure

— gradual failure

— gross failure

— handling failure

— hard failure

— hazardous failure

— hidden failure

— human-involved failure

— immature failure

— immediate failure

— imminent failure

— impending failure

— implicit failure

— inadvertent failure

— incipient failure

— independent failure

— induced failure

— infancy failure

— initial failure

— inoperative failure

— in-service failure

— insignificant failure

— inspection failure

— instability failure

— intermittent failure

— internal failure

— intervening failure

— in-the-field failure

— intrinsic failure

— in-warranty failure

— irreversible failure

— late failure

— latent failure

— life failure

— local failure

— low-limit failure

— maintenance failure

— major failure

— malfunction failure

— marginal failure

— mechanical failure

— minor failure

— mishandling failure

— misuse failure

— monotone failure

— most remote failure

— multiunit failure

— near failure

— nonbasic failure

— noncatastrophic failure

— noncritical failure

— nondetectible failure

— nonfatal failure

— nonfunctional failure

— nonrandom failure

— nonreliability failure

— nonrepayable failure

— observed failure

— obsolete parts failure

— oncoming failure

— operating failures

— operational failure

— operative failure

— operator-induced failure

— ordinary failure

— out-of-tolerance failure

— overload failure

— overstress failure

— parallel failures

— parametric failure

— part failure

— partial failure

— partially depreciating failure

— passive failure

— pattern failures

— permanent failure

— persistent failure

— potential failure

— predictable failure

— premature failure

— primary failure

— progressive failure

— projected failure

— qualification failure

— random failure

— real failure

— recoverable failure

— recurrent failures

— redundant failure

— relevant failure

— reliability-type failure

— repairable failure

— repeatable failure

— repeated stress failure

— residual failure

— revealed failure

— reversal failure

— reversible failure

— rogue failure

— running-in failure

— seal failure

— secondary failure

— self-avoiding failure

— self-correcting failure

— self-healing failure

— self-induced failure

— self-repairing failure

— service failure

— shear failure

— single failure

— single-point failure

— solid failure

— specification deficiency failure

— spontaneous failure

— stable failure

— stage-by-stage failure

— stochastic failure

— stress failure

— stuck-closed failure

— subsequent failure

— subsidiary failure

— sudden failure

— superficial failure

— surface failure

— suspected failure

— sustained failure

— systematic failure

— technical failure

— technological failure

— temporary failure

— tensile failure

— test failure

— test-induced failure

— test-produced failure

— thread failure

— threshold failure

— time-limit failure

— top failure

— torque failure

— torsion failure

— total failure

— traceable failure

— transient failure

— triple failure

— true failure

— unannounced failure

— unassigned failure

— unavoidable failure

— undetected failure

— unexpected failure

— unexplained failure

— unpredictable failure

— unrecoverable failure

— unrevealed failure

— unsafe failure

— unstable failure

— verified failure

— volatile failure

— wear-out failure

1. авария, повреждение; отказ ( оборудования), выход из строя

2. обрушение, оседание ( пород); сползание

3. неудачная скважина ( по статистической терминологии)

1) отказ (); выход из строя; повреждение; поломка; неисправность, несрабатывание; сбой

2) разрушение; авария

3) обрушение; обвал ( породы)

4) неудачная скважина

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- failure of casing string

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• дефект

• доводить до разрушения

• несрабатывание

• обвал

• отказ

• разрушение

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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- Ksystem

- K-carrier system

- keyboard-to-disk system

- keyboard-to-tape system

- knowledge system

- knowledge base system

- knowledge-based system

- knowledge-based decision support system

- knowledge-based management system

- Kolmogorov system

- Lsystem

- L*a*b* system

- laminar navigation anticollision system

- laminar air navigation anticollision system

- land mobile radio system

- laser communication system

- laser-deflection system

- laser inertial navigation system

- laser tracking system

- lasing system

- L-carrier system

- LCH system

- learning control system

- left-handed system

- left-handed coordinate system

- legacy system

- lenticular-screen projection system

- life support system

- lightning protective system

- lightwave system

- Lindenmayer system

- linear system

- linear-classifier system

- linear feedback control system

- line-of-sight system

- line-sequential system

- line-sequential color television system

- lithography system

- local area augmentation system

- local battery system

- logical input/output control system

- log-structured file system

- long base-line system

- longitudinal video recording system

- long-range-accuracy radio system

- long-range search system

- Lorenz instrumental landing system

- Lotka-Volterra system

- lossless system

- lossy system

- loudspeaker system

- low-altitude detection system

- lumped-parameter system

- LVR system

- Macintosh file system

- MADA system

- maglev system

- magnetic-levitation system

- mail abuse prevention system

- major-deflection electromagnetic system

- malfunction detection system

- management information system

- management intellectual system

- man-computer system

- man-machine system

- man-machine control system

- manned control system

- manufacturing execution system

- many-level system

- many-energy-level system

- many-particle system

- marketing information system

- maser communication system

- Massachusetts general hospital utility multiprogramming system

- mass-storage system

- master/slave computer system

- matrix sound system

- mature system

- mechanical display system

- mechanical television system

- medical expert system

- message-composition system

- message handling system

- message-rate system

- message-switched communication system

- meta class system

- meta-information system

- metallization system

- meteor-burst communication system

- meteor-scatter-system

- metric system

- microcomputer system

- microcomputer-development system

- microelectromechanical system

- microelectronic system

- microprocessor-based spatial-locating system

- microprocessor-controlled system

- microprocessor delay system

- microprocessor development system

- Microsoft disk operating system

- microwave-beam power-transfer system

- microwave-hologram recording system

- microwave landing system

- microwave relay system

- middle-side system

- military expert system

- military information system

- MIMO system

- minicomputer system

- MKS system

- MKS rationalized system

- mobile telephone system

- mode-converting system

- model-based expert system

- model reference adaptive system

- modular system

- modular breadboarding system

- monitor system

- monoclinic crystal system

- monopulse tracking system

- M-S stereo system

- multi-address asynchronous communication system

- multiagent computer system

- multichannel microwave distribution system

- multicomputer system

- multienergy-level system

- multiline digital voice-response system

- multimedia authoring systems

- multiple-access discrete-address system

- multiple-input multiple-output system

- multiple-processor system

- multiple user system

- multiplex system

- multiplexed information and computing system

- multiplicative array antenna system

- multipoint video distribution system

- multipole system

- multiprocessing system

- multiprocessor system

- multitarget sputtering system

- multitrack recording system

- multiuser system

- multivariable system

- Munsell system

- mutual broadcasting system

- national information processing system

- naval communications system

- navigation system

- near-eye system

- near instantaneous companding system

- nearest-neighbor classifier system

- negative reinforcement system

- neomorphic system

- NetWare management system

- network administration system

- network basic input/output system

- network computing system

- network control system

- network data base management system

- network file system

- network operating system

- neuro-fuzzy system

- new technology file system

- nodal switching system

- noise-reducing antenna system

- noise-reduction system

- non-attended system

- non-equilibrium system

- nonlinear system

- nonlinear feedback control system

- nonredundant system

- nonrepairable system

- nonstop system

- NT file system

- number system

- numeral system

- numerical control system

- object-oriented data base management system

- office information system

- off-line system

- OLCA system

- OLCD system

- omnidirectional speaker system

- on-demand system

- on-line system

- on-line circuit-analysis system

- on-line circuit-design system

- on-line computer system

- online fault-tolerant system

- on-line processing system

- on-off system

- on-off telegraph system

- open system

- open bus system

- open-loop system

- open-tube system

- operating system

- operation system

- operational support system

- operator services system

- optical communication system

- optical data-processing system

- optical detection and ranging system

- optical disk recording system

- optical-fiber transmission system

- optical-radar system

- optical recognition system

- optical tracking system

- optical TV communication system

- optimizing control system

- optoelectronic system

- organic system

- organizational decision support system

- orthorhombic crystal system

- p-system

- PA system

- packaged system

- packetized automatic routing integrated system

- packet-switched data transmission system

- pagemaster system

- pager-phone system

- paging system

- parallel-redundant system

- parallel software system

- parametric system

- partitioned-type memory-allocation system

- passive homing system

- passive tracking system

- pattern matching system

- pattern recognition system

- peak-holdings system

- peek-a-boo system

- peripheral-oriented microcomputer system

- personal call system

- personal computer system

- personal computer disk operating system

- personal data system

- personal handy-phone system

- personal locator system

- phased-array warning system

- phase-locked system

- phase-locked loop system

- Philips DNL system

- Philips dynamic noise-limiter system

- phonetic system

- phonocard system

- photoelectric-guidance system

- photographic projection system

- photomasking system

- photovoltaic power system

- picture coding system

- picture quality system

- pilot system

- plane parallel Fabry-Perot system

- plant automation communications system

- plasma-deposition system

- PLL system

- plug-in modular system

- portable life support system

- position control system

- positive reinforcement system

- power system

- predictive system

- predictive expert system

- priority system

- privacy system

- processing system

- production system

- production expert system

- production inventory control system

- program development system

- programmable system

- programmable airline reservation system

- projection cathode-ray tube system

- projection display system

- property management system

- pseudoquadraphony system

- pseudorandom coded system

- public-address system

- public-address reinforcement system

- public expert system

- public-key system

- public-key cryptographic system

- public telephone system

- pulsed Doppler system

- pulsed FM system

- pulse-modulation system

- QS matrix system

- quadraphonic sound system

- quadruple-diversity system

- quasi-linear feedback control system

- queuing system

- quick fax system

- RADA system

- radar augmentation system

- radar braking system

- radar cross-section instrumentation system

- radar guidance system

- radar identification system

- radar imaging system

- radio command system

- radiocommunication system

- radio data system

- radio-guidance system

- radio-inertial-guidance system

- radionavigation system

- radio-relay system

- radiosonde-radio-wind system

- random-access discrete-address system

- range rate tracking system

- range tracking system

- ranging system

- rapid-scan system

- rationalized system of equations

- readout system

- real-time system

- real-time data system

- real-time expert system

- real-time multi-platform UNIX operating system

- real-time operating system

- Rebecca-Eureka system

- receiver lockout system

- recognition system

- reconfigurable system

- recording system

- recursive system

- redundant system

- reel-to-reel tape transport system

- regulating system

- reinforcement system

- relational data base management system

- relay system

- reliability index system

- remote system

- remote concentrating system

- remote file system

- remote semiconcentrating system

- remote sensing system

- reorder point system

- reorder time system

- repairable system

- reproducing system

- rerecording system

- response-controlled reinforcement system

- restorable system

- restricted connected-speech recognition system

- retrieval system

- RF sputtering system

- RGB system

- rhombohedral crystal system

- rho-theta system

- right-handed system

- right-handed coordinate system

- robot system

- robotics system

- rod memory system

- rotating coordinate system

- rule-based expert system

- run-time system

- sampled-data system

- sampling system

- satellite business system

- satellite communications system

- satellite data transmission system

- satellite multiple-access communication system

- satellite radio system

- satellite-switched multiple-access system

- scanning-projection system

- schlieren system

- scientific expert system

- Scophony television system

- searchless identification system

- second generation wireless system

- secrecy system

- secret-key cryptographic system

- self-adaptive system

- self-adjusting system

- self-contained system

- self-guidance system

- self-organizing system

- self-organizing control system

- self-organizing multiple-access discrete-address system

- self-oscillatory system

- self-structuring system

- self-test system

- self-testing system

- selsyn system

- semiactive-homing system

- semiautomatic telephone system

- sequential software system

- serial copy management system

- serial copying management system

- service provisioning system

- servo system

- ship's inertial marine navigational system

- ship's self-contained navigation system

- short-range air navigation system

- short-range Doppler system

- SI system

- signaling system

- simultaneous system

- simultaneous TV system

- single-degree-of-freedom system

- single-input single-output system

- single-sideband system

- single-track magnetic system

- singular equation system

- SISO system

- SOC system

- socio-technical system

- soft system

- soft eject system

- software system

- solar system

- sound-recording system

- sound-reinforcement system

- sound-reproducing system

- space-communication system

- space detection and tracking system

- space-variant pattern-recognition system

- speaker system

- speaker-adaptive system

- speaker-dependent system

- speaker-independent system

- speaker-recognition system

- speaker verification system

- speech-enhancement system

- speech input/output system

- speech processing system

- speech-recognition system

- speech understanding system

- spin system

- spinodal system

- split-screen system

- split-speaker system

- spread-spectrum system

- SQ matrix system

- stand-alone system

- stand-alone expert system

- stand-alone graphics system

- standard electronics assembly system

- standby power system

- standing-wave system

- stand-off target acquisition system

- star system

- start-stop system

- static system

- static ripple imaging system

- stationary-wave system

- step-and-repeat system

- step-by-step system

- stereo microphone system

- stereo sound system

- sticks layout system

- stimulus-controlled reinforcement system

- stochastic system

- storage and retrieval system

- stored-program electronic-switching system

- strapping system

- Strowger system

- structured cabling system

- structured design system

- structured software system

- structured wiring system

- submarine-cable system

- subscriber carrier system

- super anti-modulation tape system

- superconductor energy-storage system

- super video home system

- supervisory control system

- switched access system

- symbol system

- symbolic system

- symbolic interactive design system

- symmetric cryptographic system

- synchro system

- synchronous data link control system

- tactical air navigation system

- tactical communication system

- talking Rebecca-Eureka system

- tape auto-stop system

- tape operating system

- tape-transport system

- TDM system

- telecine system

- telecommunication system

- telemetering system

- telemetry system

- telemetry data processing system

- telemetry information system

- telephone system

- telephone-answering system

- telephone intercommunication system

- telephone video system

- teleprocessing system

- Teleran system

- teletypewriter switching system

- television identification system

- television relay system

- tetragonal crystal system

- text system

- thermal imaging system

- third generation wireless system

- three-phase four-wire system

- three-way speaker system

- time-division multiplex system

- time-frequency collision avoidance system

- time-invariant system

- time reference system

- time-sharing system

- time-varying system

- total access communication system

- touch system

- tracking system

- traffic-alert and collision avoidance system

- traffic control and surveillance system

- traffic control signal system

- trainable system

- trajectory-measuring system

- transaction processing system

- transcontinental communication system

- transform adaptable-processing system

- transmission system

- transmitter-receiver system

- transputer system

- triclinic crystal system

- trigger-starting system

- trigonal crystal system

- triple interlace system

- triplex system

- troposcatter system

- tropospheric radio system

- trunk -system

- tse system

- turntable drive system

- turnkey system

- two-channel sound system

- two-coordinate scanning system

- two-field interlace system

- two-phase five-wire system

- two-phase four-wire system

- two-phase three-wire system

- two-turntable quick-start system

- two-way system

- type system

- UCSD p-system

- unattended system

- underdetermined system

- underwater viewing system

- ungrounded system

- uniplexed information and computing system

- uniprocessor system

- universal battery system

- universal mobile telecommunication system

- universal serial bus system

- unmanned system

- unrestorable system

- USB system

- value system

- variable-structure system

- V-beam system

- vehicle control system

- vehicular disk reproduction system

- very early warning system

- vibrating system

- video cassette recording system

- video editing system

- video-encoding system

- videofile television record storage system

- video home system

- Videotex system

- virtual key cryptographic system

- virtual memory system

- vision system

- visual communication system

- voice/data system

- voice-frequency telegraph system

- voice operating system

- voice recognition system

- voice-response system

- wafer imaging system

- waiting system

- wave-propagating system

- Web network file system

- wide area augmentation system

- wired broadcasting system

- Wollaston-prism digital light-deflector system

- word processing system

- word recognition system

- word-serial system

- writing system

- X-window system

- x-y-z coordinate system

- system Y-

- y-system

- YIQ system

- YUV system

- Δ-system

- above voice data