7.3 Acronyms and Abbreviations
| ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery |
| ANSI | Advanced Network and Services, Inc. |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| CAES | Center for Advanced Education Services (Formerly the Center for Advanced Engineering Studies) |
| CECI | Center for Educational Computing Initiatives |
| CLI | Compression Labs Inc. |
| CMU | Carnegie Mellon University |
| CNN | Cable News Network |
| CTPID | Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DMS | Dartmouth Medical School |
| DNS | Domain Name Server |
| DUET | Dual Use Education and Training (DUET) Server and Local Access Project |
| DVF | Digital Video Facility |
| EMT | Emergency Medical Technician |
| GB | Gigabyte |
| HHS | Health and Human Services |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
| IBM | International Business Machines, Inc. |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IML | Interactive Media Laboratory |
| INI | Information Networking Institute |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| K-12 | Kindergarten through 12th grade |
| KMP | Kaleida Media Player |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| MBONE | Multicast Backbone |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| NII | National Information Infrastructure |
| NMIS | Networked Multimedia Information Services |
| NREN | National Research and Education Network |
| NSFNET | National Science Foundation Network |
| NSOC | Network Services Operations Center |
| ODPHP | Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion |
| PMCT | Preventitive Medicine in the Combat Theater |
| RPCP | Research Program on Communications Policy |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
| SGML | Standardized General Markup Language |
| SMPTE | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
| SONET | Synchronous Optical Network |
| SVML | Smart Video Markup Language |
| TCP/IP | Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TESI | Turner Educational Services, Inc., A Division of Turner Broadcasting |
| USPHS | U.S. Public Health Service |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
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