| Acronym | Meaning |
| IASP | International Atmospheric Surveillance Program |
| MASNET | Mainframe And Server Network |
| AIX | Advanced Interactive Executive |
| LBA/TRMM | Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment In Amazonia/Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
| RA# | Raleigh Number |
| AWC | Association Of Women In Computing |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| EDP | Electronic Data Processing |
| M | Milli |
| AMP | Asynchronous Multiprocessing |