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Wiz (other)
Wiz may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Wizard (MUD), or wiz, a developer or administrator of Multi-User Dungeon game *"Wiz" Zumwalt, the hero of a series of novels by Rick Cook * Wiz (''KonoSuba''), a character in the light novel series ''KonoSuba'' *Wiz, a character in the '' Wiz 'n' Liz'' video game *Wiz, a character in the '' Eternally Confused and Eager for Love'' Netflix series *Wiz, a character in the ''D.N.Angel'' manga series People * W.I.Z., Andrew Whiston (born 1964), an English director of films and music videos * Marko Wiz, a 17th century politician in Slovenia *Wiz, stage name of Darren Brown (musician) (1962–2006) *Wiz, American rapper, member of Bravehearts *Wiz Khalifa, Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born 1987), American rapper *Jarkko Oikarinen, creator of IRC, known online as WiZ Technology * WiZ, a compression program for Windows *GP2X Wiz, an open-source handheld video game console Companies and organizations *Wiz (company), an Israeli cybersecurity com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wizard (MUD)
This is a glossary of terms common in multi-user dungeon (MUD) multiplayer virtual worlds. A–Z See also * Glossary of video game terms References Bibliography * * * {{Glossaries of computers MUD terminology, Computing terminology Video game terminology Video game lists Glossaries of computers Wikipedia glossaries using description lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GP2X Wiz
The GP2X Wiz is a handheld game console and portable media player developed by South Korean company GamePark Holdings running a Linux kernel-based embedded operating system. GP2X Wiz was released in May 2009, and was the first console from both Game Park and Game Park Holdings to also be released outside South Korea. It was announced by GamePark Holdings in August 2008, and succeeded the GP2X, featuring a slimmer profile and enhanced capabilities including a 533 MHz CPU (overclockable to 900 MHz), 1 GB NAND flash memory, 64 MB RAM, and a 2.8-inch AMOLED touchscreen. Distinguished from its predecessor by a more consistent release of games and a focus on both commercial and homebrew development, the Wiz targeted the open-source community. It supports various multimedia formats and comes with pre-installed games and applications, with an online application store launched in August 2009. Official accessories and the introduction of Flash Player 8 enhanced its appeal. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJZ (other) , a radio station (95.5 FM) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WJ ...
WJZ may currently refer to: *WJZ (AM), a radio station (1300 AM) licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States *WJZ-TV, a television station (virtual channel 13, digital channel 11) licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States *WJZ-FM, a radio station (105.7 FM) licensed to Catonsville, Maryland, United States WJZ previously referred to: *WABC (AM), a radio station (770 AM) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WJZ from 1921 to 1953 *WABC-TV, a television station (channel 7 analog/digital) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WJZ-TV from 1948 to 1953 *WPLJ WPLJ (95.5 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, licensed to New York, New York. Owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), based in Franklin, Tennessee, it broadcasts EMF's Christian adult contemporary formatted p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wizz (other)
WIZZ (1520 AM) is a radio station licensed to Greenfield, Massachusetts. It is owned by Saga Communications and operates as part of its Western Mass Radio Group. It broadcasts an oldies radio format, switching to Christmas music in the weeks leading up to Christmas. By day, WIZZ transmits with 1,000 watts. As 1520 AM is a clear channel frequency, WIZZ reduces power at night to 160 watts to protect other stations from interference. Programming is also heard on FM translator W263DE at 100.5 MHz in Greenfield. History The station signed on the air on August 26, 1980. The original call sign was WPOE, standing for Poet's Seat Broadcasting. It had a middle of the road (MOR) format. In its early years, the station was a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. In 1987, the call letters changed to WGAM, with a format of big band music and adult standards. The station was assigned the WIZZ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 1, 2003. WIZZ pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wizard (other)
Wizard, the wizard, or wizards may refer to: * Wizard (fantasy), a fictional practitioner of magic * Wizard (supernatural), a practitioner of magic Art, entertainment and media Fictional characters * Wizard (Archie Comics), a comic book superhero * Wizard (character class), magic-wielding character types in many role-playing games * Wizard (DC Comics), a comic book villain * Wizard (''Dungeons & Dragons''), the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' character class * Wizard (Marvel Comics), a comic book villain * Wizard (Middle-earth), powerful beings in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien *"The Wizard", the villain of the serial '' Batman and Robin'' * Wizard of Oz (character), in L. Frank Baum's novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its movie adaptations * Wizards (''Discworld''), major characters in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series Film * ''The Wizard'' (1927 film), a 1927 American silent horror film * ''The Wizard'' (1989 film), a 1989 American film about a skilled video gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wiz (other)
''The Wiz'' is a Broadway musical based on ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''. The Wiz may also refer to: * ''The Wiz'' (film), the 1978 film adaptation of the Broadway musical ** ''The Wiz'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film * The Wiz Live! An NBC 2015 live TV production of a new adaptation of the Broadway musical *The Wiz (store), former chain of American electronics stores *The Wiz, nickname of Jeff Farmer (footballer) (born 1977), Australian rules footballer *The Wiz, nickname of Davey Whitney (1930–2015), American college basketball head coach *The Wiz, a system by Da Vinci Systems da Vinci Systems was an American digital cinema company founded in 1984 in Coral Springs, Florida as a spinoff of Video Tape Associates. It was known for its hardware-based color correction products, GPU-based color grading, digital mastering ..., a digital cinema company See also * * Wiz (other) * WHIZ (other) (for WHIZ, Whiz and Whizz) * WIZF, a Cincinnati radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamagotchi
is a brand of handheld digital pets that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996 in Japan and in the United States on May 1, 1997, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and the early 2000s. , over units have been sold worldwide. Most Tamagotchi are housed in a small egg-shaped handheld video game with an interface consisting of three buttons, with the Tamagotchi Pix adding a shutter on the top to activate the camera. According to Bandai, the name is a portmanteau combining the two Japanese words , which means "egg", and "watch". After the original English spelling of ''watch'', the name is sometimes Romanization of Japanese, romanized as ''Tamagotch'' without the "i" in Japan. Most Tamagotchi characters' names end in ''tchi'' or in Japanese, with few exceptions. History Tamagotchi was invented by Aki Maita and Akihiro Yokoi in 1996. They both won the tongue-in-cheek 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Wizards
The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home games at Capital One Arena, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. an arena they share with the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Georgetown University men's basketball team. The team is owned by Ted Leonsis through Monumental Sports & Entertainment. The franchise was established in 1961 as the Chicago Packers in Chicago, Illinois; they were renamed the Chicago Zephyrs in the following season. In 1963, they moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and became the Baltimore Bullets, taking the name from a previous team of the same name. In 1973, the team moved to the Washington metropolitan area and changed its name first to the Capital Bullets, then the following season to Washington Bullets. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiz (company)
Wiz, Inc. is an Israeli-American cloud security company, headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in January 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik, and Ami Luttwak, all of whom previously founded Adallom. The company's platform analyzes computing infrastructure hosted in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Kubernetes for combinations of risk factors that could allow malicious actors to gain control of cloud resources and/or exfiltrate valuable data. , Wiz employed about 1,995 people, with most sales and marketing personnel scattered across North America and Europe while most engineering personnel are based in Tel Aviv, Israel. In August 2022, Wiz claimed to be the fastest startup ever to scale from $1 million to $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), from February 2021 to approximately July 2022. In February 2024, the company claimed to have reached $350M in ARR, with a 45% market s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarkko Oikarinen
Jarkko Oikarinen (born 16 August 1967) is a Finnish IT professional and the inventor of the first Internet chat network, called Internet Relay Chat (IRC), where he is known as WiZ. Biography and career Oikarinen was born in Kuusamo. While working at the University of Oulu in August 1988, he wrote the first IRC server and client programs, which he produced to replace the MUT (MultiUser Talk) program on the Finnish BBS OuluBox. Using the Bitnet Relay chat system as inspiration, Oikarinen continued to develop IRC over the next four years, receiving assistance from Darren Reed in co-authoring the IRC Protocol. In 1997, his development of IRC earned Oikarinen a Dvorak Award for Personal Achievement—Outstanding Global Interactive Personal Communications System; in 2005, the Millennium Technology Prize Foundation, a Finnish public-private partnership, honored him with one of three Special Recognition Awards. He started working for medical image processing in 1990 in Oulu Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Cook (writer)
James Richard Cook (1944 – January 13, 2022) was an American author of novels and stories. Personal life and death James Richard Cook was born in 1944. In 1988, Cook was living in Phoenix, Arizona. That June, he was a contestant on ''Jeopardy!''; over the course of two days, he won a boxed ''Jeopardy!'' game, a Caribbean resort vacation on Saint Martin via Eastern Air Lines, and . In the Society for Creative Anachronism, where he co-founded the Kingdom of Atenveldt, he was known as Sir Richard Ironsteed. Cook died on January 13, 2022. Published works Articles , ''Locus'' listed five articles published by Cook: * * * * * With Stories , ''Locus'' listed 13 stories published by Cook: * * * * * * * * * * With (Nominated for the 1995 Theodore Sturgeon Award The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
