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Wiktionary
n. 1 One who maps. 2 A designer of levels for video games.
WordNet
n. a clerk who marks data on a chart [syn: plotter]
Wikipedia
MAPPER (MAintain, Prepare, and Produce Executive Reports), also referred to by diehard Mapper programmers as (Most Amazing Programming Product Ever Released), is a database management and processing system. It is a software tool that enables end-users to share computer power in a corporation. Users are able to develop their own applications and process them interactively. The product has a number of unique characteristics that may appear technically impossible to persons unfamiliar with its method of operation.
MAPPER had its origins outside the technical mainstream of computer programming. Initially created in Sperry Univac's computer factory in Roseville, Minnesota, MAPPER is a proprietary product of Unisys Corporation. The principal architect was Louis S. Schlueter, who worked with other early "gurus" like Michael Stroeing of Sperry, Steve Anderson of Santa Fe Railway, and later with Kansas City government. MAPPER became a very popular solution in the Government sector. Large user group communities formed like the New England MAPPER Users Group headed by Judith Hartman, Howard Roundy and Michael Scolastico.
There are similarities between the development history of MAPPER and that of UNIX. Both were responses to what appeared to be unreasonable restrictions in the way computer systems were developed. While UNIX (and later LINUX) is a core software "operating" system, MAPPER is a cross-platform application tool. Thus it will run, like a program, on a variety of operating systems.
Mapper(2) is a database of transcription factor binding sites in multiple genomes.
Usage examples of "mapper".
He turned on his mapper and a true-color topo map of the area materialized in front of the Over Master.
Mappers, but there were several subtypes within the Talent, and they were clearly concentrated in specific bloodlines.
Mapper at The Chestnuts, she went once more to Bank Street and met her friend Dr.
Mapper that he had called at The Chestnuts, but nothing was seen of him.
When the Taladorans had first arrived on the Moon, they found two lunar mappers in orbit—one American, one Russian.