Glossary - T

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• 'Tute — The Institute (i.e. MIT)
• TA — Teaching Assistant
• Table Catalog — Data Warehouse term: A list of tables displayed in BrioQuery which you are authorized to use to build queries.
• Table Name — Data Warehouse term: This is the name of a table stored in the Data Warehouse. These table names are the same as those seen in the "Table Catalog" in BrioQuery.
• Tables — Data Warehouse term: Logical groupings of data items.
• TAG — Town and Gown (team)
• TALARIS — Terrestrial Artificial Lunar And Reduced Gravity Simulator (Aero-Astro project, a collaboration between the MIT Space Systems Laboratory and Draper Laboratory)
• TAP — Technology Architecture and Planning - Sub team in ITAG
• TAP (program) — Technology Adaptation Program
• TBI — Transaction-Based Index
• TBP — Tau Beta Pi (national engineering honor society)
• TC — Theta Chi (also known as TX)
• TCA — Technology Community Association
• TCC — Technology Children's Center, Inc.
• TCC (Tech Catholic Community) — A community of Roman Catholics at MIT who minister to the community.
• TCF — Technology and Culture Forum
• TCGA — The Cancer Genome Atlas
• TCP IP (Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol) — These two protocols were developed by the U.S. military to allow computers to talk to each other over long distance networks.
• TCW — Technology Community Women
• TDA — Tax-Deferred Annuity (plan)
• T-Day — Technology Day
• TDC — Theta Delta Chi
• TDP — Technology and Development Program
• TEAL — Technology Enabled Active Learning
• TechLink — Joint venture between the MIT Sloan Senate and the Graduate Student Council to provide links among graduate and professional students at MIT
• TEK — Time Equals Knowledge
• TELAMS — Technology Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Structures
• TEP — Teacher Education Program
• TEP (Tau Epsilon Phi) — A fraternity of MIT
• TESS — Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
• TFO — Temporary Faculty Office
• THA — Technology Hackers Association
• THSTI — Translational Health Science and Technology Institute of India
• TIPS — Training and Intervention Procedures program, which teaches how to serve alcohol responsibly
• TLL — Teaching and Learning Laboratory
• TLO — Technology Licensing Office
• TMRC — Tech Model Railroad Club
• TNQ — Technique, MIT's yearbook
• TNS — Telecommunications and Network Services (in Information Systems; outdated as of 2004)
• TNSTAAFL — "There's no such thing as a free lunch" - name used for IS lunch seminars prior to 2003
• TOEFL — Test of English as a Foreign Language
• Torrent — usually refers to a file downloadable via the BitTorrent client or other peer-to-peer file sharing clients implementing BitTorrent's peer-to-peer protocol.
• TOT — Toys of Tomorrow (old)
• Touchstone — A web authentication system.
• TPP — Technology and Policy (Ph.D.) program
• TR — Technology Review
• Transceiver — A piece of networking hardware usually used to moderate interfaces.
• TRB — Technology Review Board - sub team of ITAG (thru 2007)
• Trend — refers to IT activity or incidents MIT is monitoring because they may be related. Trends may turn into identified problems, but may also just continue to be watched as trends.
• TREX — Traveling Research Environmental Experiences
• Trojan — A program that appears desirable to encourage downloading and/or running the program, but actually contains something undesirable, often in addition to the desirable program.
• TSCA — Toxic Substances Control Act
• TTT — Things That Think
• TWAS — Third World Academy of Sciences
• TWO — Technology Wives Organization (old)
• Type — Data Warehouse term: Refers to how tables are used in constructing queries.