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Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) Wikipedia
James Watt Created the standard of horsepower (HP). The watt was named in his honor.
jamming The act of intentionally interfering with the signal of a wireless network. Often part of a DoS attack.
Java Object-oriented programming language. Released May 23, 1995. Wikipedia
Java Development Kit (JDK) Wikipedia
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Website Wikipedia
Java SE 8 Update 161 Released January 16, 2018. Website Wikipedia
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Wikipedia
Java Web Toolkit (JWT) Web app framework for Java developed by Emweb. First released December 2005. Website Wikipedia
JavaScript Dynamic programming language used to run client-side scripts. Wikipedia
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Open-standard text format that is meant to be human-readable. It is the most common data format used for asynchronous browser/server communication (AJAJ), largely replacing XML which is used by AJAX. Website Wikipedia
Jay Wright Forrester Developed what would become Random Access Memory Born July 14, 1918. Wikipedia
Jeffrey Snover Inventor of PowerShell.
Jetico Encryption Software & Wiping Software Website
jitter Network quality issue where there is an uneven arrival of packets.
Job held for resources Printer error message. Xerox Blogs
John Chambers Executive Chairman of Cisco Systems. Wikipedia
John Gruber Writer for Daring Fireball and developer of Markdown. Wikipedia Website
John Backus Directed the team that invented Fortran. Invented Backus-Naur form (BNF). December 3, 1924 - March 17, 2007 Wikipedia
John Pierpont Morgan (J. P. Morgan) April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913 Wikipedia
John Sculley Third CEO of Apple from 1983-1993. Born April 6, 1939. Wikipedia Cult of Mac
John Walson Recognized as the founder of the cable television industry. Invented cable TV in the spring of 1948. Wikipedia
Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) Wikipedia
jp (.jp) Top level domain for Japan.
jQuery A lightweight JavaScript library. First released August 26, 2006. Website Wikipedia
JSON Web Encryption (JWE) Encryption using JSON-based data structures. Published May 2015. RFC 7516
JSON Web Signature (JWS) Wikipedia
JSON Web Token (JWT) Wikipedia
jumper Can close or open a circuit. Wikipedia
Juniper Networking company in Sunnyvale, California. Founded February 6, 1996 Wikipedia Website
Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD) Collection of disks without redundancy or fault tolerance like a RAID configuration. Wikipedia TechTarget