Glossary

abstract.: A brief, self-contained summary of the contents of a paper that appears by itself at the beginning of the paper. Also a brief (written) summary of the contents of a talk.
ACM.: The Association for Computing Machinery.
acknowledgements.: A section preceding the references (or a footnote, or a final paragraph) in which the author thanks people or organizations for help, advice or financial support for the work described.
AMS.: The American Mathematical Society.
-TEX.: A macro package for TEX that makes it easier to typeset mathematical papers with TEX. It gives new structures for displaying mathematical equations and comes with a special font of mathematical symbols.
-LATEX.: A package for LATEX that incorporates the features of -TEX.
anonymous ftp.: A form of ftp in which the user logs on as user anonymous and need not type a password (though, by convention, the user's electronic mail address is typed as the password).
archive.: In Unix, a single file that contains a set of other files (e.g., as manipulated with the tar command). Or a collection of software that is located at a particular Internet address and can be accessed by anonymous ftp.
ASCII.: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A coding system in which letters, digits, punctuation symbols and control characters are represented in seven bits by a number from 0 to 127. An eighth bit is often added to allow extra characters.