Information Technology
- Peak information rate
- Public Interest Registry, a not-for-profit corporation responsible for managing the .org top-level domain.
- Private information retrieval, a protocol that allows a user to retrieve an item from a server in possession of a database without revealing which item she is retrieving
- Parrot intermediate representation, one of the two assembly languages for the Parrot virtual machine
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“But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.”
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