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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