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| address bar | Contains the URL or address of the active Web page; also where you type the location for the Web page you want to visit |
| address book | Where you keep a list of your e-mail contacts |
| artificial intelligence | A computer science field that tries to improve computers by endowing them with some of the characteristics associated with human intelligences, such as the capability to understand natural language and to reason under conditions of uncertainty. |
| biometric security measures | Using the examination of a fingerprint, a voice pattern, or the iris or retina of the eye |
| bookmark | Site or location that you have specially marked so you can locate it again. |
| Boolean logic | Another way that you can search databases. This works on a similar principle as search engine math, but has a little more power. Boolean logic consists of three Boolean operators: AND, NOT, and OR. |
| browser | A software program that you use to retrieve documents from the World Wide Web. |
| computer-based learning | Using a computer as a tutor |
| computer crimes | A criminal act that is committed through the use of a computer, like getting into someone else’s system and changing information or creating a computer virus and causing it to damage information on others’ computers |
| computer fraud | Conduct that involves the manipulation of a computer or computer data in order to dishonestly obtain money, property or value, or to cause loss |
