Appendix Glossary of Terms

This appendix contains a list of acronyms, abbreviations, and initials used throughout this book.

The first column in this table indicates whether the second column is an acronym (A), abbreviation (Ab), or initialism (I).
I 3NF Third Normal Form
I 5G Fifth Generation (of Cellular Networking)
I AGI Artificial General Intelligence
I AI Artificial Intelligence
I AKA Also Known As
I AML Anti-Money Laundering
I AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
I API Application Programming Interface
I APU Accelerated Processing Unit
I BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
I BI Business Intelligence
A BLOB Binary Large Object
I BME Biomedical Engineer
I BPU Brain Processing Unit
I CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
I CFO Chief Financial Officer
I CI/CD Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
A CLOB Character Large Object
I CNN Convolutional Neural Network
A COP Conditions of Participation
I CPA Certified Public Accountant
I CPU Central Processing Unit
A DAG Directed Acyclic Graph
I Db2 Database 2
I DBA Database Administrator
I DBMS Database Management System
I DDL Data Definition Language
I DDW Departmental Data Warehouse
I DIKW Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom
I DMZ Demilitarized Zone
I DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
I DPU Deep Learning Processing Unit
Ab Dr. Doctor
A DRIP Data Rich, Information Poor
I DVD Digital Versatile Disc
A EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal ...

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