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4TH GENERATION [4 records]

Record 1 2024-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applications of Automation
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

By the middle of the 21st century, fourth-generation robots may exist with humanlike mental power able to abstract and generalize. Researchers hope that such machines will result from melding powerful reasoning programs to third-generation machines. Properly educated, fourth-generation robots are likely to become intellectually formidable.

Key term(s)
  • fourth generation robot
  • generation four robot
  • 4th generation robot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Automatisation et applications
  • Intelligence artificielle
Key term(s)
  • robot de 4e génération
  • robot de 4ème génération
  • robot de 4ième génération

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Automatización y aplicaciones
  • Inteligencia artificial
CONT

Los robots de cuarta generación se caracterizan por utilizar sensores mucho más desarrollados, lo cual [...] les permite controlar procesos y captar información sobre su entorno en tiempo real, contando con mejores habilidades y procesos de conducta [...]

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Record 2 2013-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

In telecommunications, 4G is the fourth generation of cellular wireless standards. It is a successor to the 3G [third generation] and 2G [second generation] families of standards.

Key term(s)
  • 4th generation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

En télécommunications, 4G est la 4e génération de standards pour la téléphonie mobile. Elle est le successeur de la 3G [troisième génération] et de la 2G [deuxième génération].

Key term(s)
  • 4e génération

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Conduct of Military Operations
CONT

Fourth generation warfare (4GW) is a concept in American military doctrine ... used to describe warfare's return to a decentralized form. In terms of generational modern warfare, the fourth generation signifies the nation states' loss of their monopoly on combat forces, returning in a sense to the uncontrolled combat of pre-modern times. The simplest definition includes any war in which one of the major participants is not a state but rather a violent ideological network. Fourth generation wars are characterized by a blurring of the lines between war and politics, soldier and civilian, peace and conflict, battlefield and safety. ... Fourth generation warfare is defined as conflicts which involve the following elements: high technology, terrorism, a non-national or transnational base, a direct attack on the enemy's culture, highly sophisticated psychological warfare, especially through manipulation of the media.

CONT

Fourth generation warfare involves operations against non-state combatants or remnants of armies in a battle space where there are no definable battlefields or front lines, where deadly threats emerge suddenly and disappear just as quickly and where combatants mingle freely with non-combatants. The division between combatant, criminal opportunist and civilian is often blurred.

Key term(s)
  • 4th generation warfare
  • fourth-generation warfare
  • fourth-generation war
  • 4th generation war

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conduite générale des opérations militaires
CONT

La guerre de quatrième génération se caractérise par des opérations contre des combattants non étatiques ou des restes d'armées, et ce, dans un espace de combat où les champs de bataille et les lignes de front sont impossibles à définir, où les menaces meurtrières apparaissent soudainement, et disparaissent tout aussi rapidement, et où les combattants se mêlent librement aux non-combattants. La distinction entre combattants, criminels opportunistes et civils est souvent imprécise.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
DEF

A high-level language that allows a user, not necessarily a programmer, to write statements in near-natural language, that has a ratio of machine instructions to simple statements much higher than that of a third-generation language, and that elevates the level of abstraction at which the user may work beyond that of previous generations of programming languages.

DEF

A very high level nonprocedural language that gives the end user the opportunity to access and process information more easily.

CONT

dBASE is a fourth-generation language.

OBS

fourth-generation language (4GL): Term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation
DEF

Langage de haut niveau qui permet à un utilisateur, non nécessairement programmeur, d'écrire des instructions dans un langage presque naturel, disposant d'un coefficient d'instructions machines pour chacune de ses instructions simples bien supérieur à celui d'un langage de troisième génération et qui élève le niveau d'abstraction auquel l'utilisateur peut travailler, bien au-delà des générations précédentes de langages de programmation.

DEF

Langage non procédural de très haut niveau fait pour s'approcher le plus possible du langage de l'utilisateur.

CONT

dBASE est un langage de quatrième génération.

OBS

langage de quatrième génération : Terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lenguaje de programación
DEF

Lenguaje fácil de comprender que no es de procedimientos.

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