What is "zog"

Zog or ZOG may refer to:

• Zog I of Albania (1895–1961), king of Albania from 1928 to 1939
• ZOG (hypertext), an early hypertext system developed at Carnegie Mellon University during the 1970s
• Zionist Occupation Government, an antisemitic conspiracy theory about Jews dominating governments
• Z Owners Group, comprising riders of the Kawasaki Z series
• A planet in the Murderous Maths series
• The planet where Zig and Zag (puppets) come from
• A Triceraton soldier in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe
• An enemy character in the video game Breath of Fire
• A character in a sub-plot in the Kurt Vonnegut novel Breakfast of Champions

ZOG was an early hypertext system developed at Carnegie Mellon University during the 1970s by Donald McCracken and Robert Akscyn. ZOG was first developed by Allen Newell and George G. Robertson to serve as the front end for AI and Cognitive Science programs brought together at CMU for a summer workshop. The ZOG project was as an outgrowth of long-term artificial intelligence research led by Allen Newell and funded by the Office of Naval Research. It was installed as the key interface between users and logistics on the Nimitz class carrier USS Carl Vinson in 1984