Technology
- Parry People Movers, a British company manufacturing lightweight railbuses
- Parts per million, a way of quantifying small concentrations, usually mass
- Peak programme meter, a type of audio level meter
- Perl package manager, a packaging system for distributing precompiled modules for use with the Activestate binary distribution of the Perl programming language
- Permutation parity machine, a form of neural network used in neural cryptography
- Portable pixmap, a graphics file format. See Netpbm format
- Portable People Meter, created by Arbitron to measure radio broadcast audiences
- Project Portfolio Management, methods for analyzing and collectively managing projects
- PPM Star Catalogue An astrometric catalogue of 378,910 stars
- Prediction by Partial Matching, an adaptive statistical data compression algorithm based on context modeling and prediction used in computer science
- Proton precession magnetometer, which measures the strength and/or direction of a magnetic field by measuring the resonance frequency of protons (hydrogen nuclei) in the magnetic field
- Pulse-position modulation, a modulation scheme
- pixel per meter, analog of dots per inch
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)