To banish someone from an IRC channel, usually in response to bad behavior on the channel such as flooding. Only a channel op can kick a user.

A file for some Usenet reading programs which automatically discards certain articles according to criteria set up by the reader, such as subject or author. Items (such as people or subjects) added to the kill file will not be shown for reading.

(KIS). A directory retrieval service for Internet addresses, that uses intelligent agents to process requests. Also called netaddress.

Knowbot Information Service. A directory retrieval service for Internet addresses, that uses intelligent agents to process requests. Also called netaddress.

Thousands of instructions per second; a unit used to measure the speed at which a processor executes instructions. See also MIPS.

A personal digital assistant that has a keyboard; some of these can accept PC cards to expand memory or communications.

A port that connects a keyboard to the computer.

An online service in Mountain View, California, which provides access to over 400 databases.

A database of knowledge about a subject; used in artificial intelligence. The knowledge base for an expert system (a computer system that solves problems) comes partly from human experience and partly from the computer's experience in solving problems. The knowledge base must be expressed in a formal knowledge representation language for the computer to use it.

Top-level newsgroup category for an elementary and secondary education newsgroup.