Kernel - Computer Science

Computer Science

  • Kernel (computing), the central component of most operating systems
    • The Linux kernel, used on many Linux-based operating systems
    • The Windows 9x kernel, used in Windows 95, 98 and ME
    • The Windows NT kernel, used in all Windows NT systems including Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7
    • XNU, from the Mac OS X operating systems
  • Kernel (programming language), a Scheme-like language
  • Kernel trick, in machine learning and statistics
  • Kernel, a function that executes on OpenCL devices
  • Kernel in GPGPU
  • Kernel (image processing), a square matrix used for image convolution

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