The discipline devoted to the design, development, and use of computer software.
Note: Software engineering must address various aspects of data processing, including compatibility with the computer system which is to execute the software, and tradeoffs among maintainability, flexibility, efficiency, processing time, and costs. [From Weik '89]

A package that consists of (a) one or more computer programs and possibly related material such as utility programs or tutorial programs, recorded on a medium suitable for delivery to the user, and from which the user can transfer the program(s) to a data-processing device, and (b) instructional materials such as handbooks and manuals, update information, and possibly support services… (Read More →)

The unauthorized use, copying, or distribution of software products. [2382-pt.8]

Software, such as a computer program, routine, subroutine, program block, or program module, that can be used to develop, test, analyze, or maintain a computer program or its documentation.
Note: Examples of software tools are automated software verification routines, compilers, program maintenance routines, bootstraps, program analyzers, and software monitors. [From Weik '89]

Abbreviation for start-of-heading character.

Small Office/Home Office

Service Oriented Infrastructure

In facsimile, scanning in which all or a part of the scanning process is performed by electronic commutation of an array of solid-state photosensitive elements.

An optical pulse having a shape, spectral content, and power level designed to take advantage of nonlinear effects in an optical fiber waveguide, for the purpose of essentially negating dispersion over long distances.

Service Oriented Networks