| Acronym | Meaning |
| SIMD | Single Instruction Multiple Data |
| CA | Certificate Authority |
| MPC | Multimedia Personal Computer |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| AN | Active Network |
| YAHOO | Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle |
| VSA | Virtual Storage Architecture |
| RIP | Raster Image Processor |
| FLOPS | Floating-point Operations Per Second |
| BPEL | Business Process Execution Language |