PIM
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Computing

  • Parallel inference machine, an intended fifth generation computer
    Fifth generation computer
    The Fifth Generation Computer Systems project was an initiative by Japan'sMinistry of International Trade and Industry, begun in 1982, to create a "fifth generation computer" which was supposed to perform much calculation using massive parallel processing...

  • Personal information management
    Personal information management
    Personal information management refers to the practice and the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items such as documents , web pages and email messages for everyday use to complete tasks and fulfill a person’s various...

    , the study and practice of information management by individuals
  • Personal information manager
    Personal information manager
    A personal information manager is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. The acronym PIM is now, more commonly, used in reference to Personal information management as a field of study...

    , a portable appliance
  • PIM (software), freeware archiving tool
  • Platform-independent model
    Platform-independent model
    A Platform-Independent Model in software engineering is a model of a software system or business system, that is independent of the specific technological platform used to implement it...

    , a software engineering model
  • Protocol Independent Multicast
    Protocol Independent Multicast
    Protocol-Independent Multicast is a family of multicast routing protocols for Internet Protocol networks that provide one-to-many and many-to-many distribution of data over a LAN, WAN or the Internet...

    , a network routing protocol
  • Processor-in-memory
    Processor-in-memory
    A Processor-in-memory refers to a computer processor tightly coupled to memory, generally on the same silicon chip.The chief goal of merging the processing and memory components in this way is to reduce memory latency and increase bandwidth. Alternatively reducing the distance that data needs to...

    , a CPU and memory on the same integrated circuit
  • Product information management
    Product Information Management
    Product information management or PIM refers to processes and technologies focused on centrally managing information about products, with a focus on the data required to market and sell the products through one or more distribution channels...


Science

  • Passive Intermodulation, a radio-interference generating process
  • Phosphatidylmyo-inositol mannosides
    Phosphatidylmyo-inositol mannosides
    Phosphatidylmyo-inositol Mannosides are a family of glycolipids found in the cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PIMs influence the interaction of the immune system with M. tuberculosis, and mice that develop antibodies for this family of glycolipids are better at sustaining or defeating a...

    , a glycolipid component of the cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Principal indecomposable module
    Principal indecomposable module
    In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as module theory, a principal indecomposable module has many important relations to the study of a ring's modules, especially its simple modules, projective modules, and indecomposable modules....

    , a special kind of module in representation theory

First name

  • Pim Balkestein
    Pim Balkestein
    Pim Balkestein is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Brentford. He plays as a central-defender and can also play at left-back. He is the son of ex-footballer Luuk Balkestein.-Heerenveen:...

     (born 1987), Dutch football player
  • Pim Doesburg (born 1943), Dutch football player
  • Pim Fortuyn
    Pim Fortuyn
    Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List ....

     (1948-2002), Dutch politician
  • Pim Haselager
    Pim Haselager
    Willem F.G. "Pim" Haselager is a Dutch philosopher-researcher in the philosophy of cognitive science. In the Netherlands he is part of a growing minority of scientists and philosophers advocating an embodied embedded perspective on cognition and intelligent behavior. Pim lives in Groesbeek and...

     (born 1970), Dutch scientist
  • Pim Jacobs
    Pim Jacobs
    Willem Bernard Jacobs was a Dutch jazz pianist and television presenter. He worked with Louis van Dijk and Rogier van Otterloo. He was married with Jazz-singer Rita Reys from 1960.Jacobs became famous with the Pim Jacobs Trio, which included Wim Overgaauw, Ruud Jacobs and Peter Ypma...

     (1934-1996), Dutch jazz pianist
  • Pim-Pim Johansson
    Joachim Johansson
    Joachim Johansson is a former professional male tennis player from Sweden.-Background:Johansson was born in Lund and currently lives in Södertälje, Sweden. His father, Leif Johansson, was also a tennis player and represented Sweden in the Davis Cup in the 1970s. He goes by the nickname "Pim Pim",...

     (born 1982), Swedish tennis player
  • Pim Koopman
    Pim Koopman
    Wilhelmus Frederikus Koopman was the drummer and percussionist of the Dutch Progressive rock band, Kayak.-Biography:...

     (1953-2009), Dutch musician
  • Pim Ligthart
    Pim Ligthart
    Pim Ligthart is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .-Palmares:20092010...

     (born 1988), Dutch cyclist
  • Pim Mulier
    Pim Mulier
    Willem Johan Herman Mulier was one of the leading figures in sporting history of the Netherlands.-Biography:...

     (1865-1954), Dutch sportsperson
  • Pim Nieuwenhuis
    Pim Nieuwenhuis
    Pim Nieuwenhuis is a Dutch sailor.Nieuwenhuis started in the optimist dinghy where he picked up the first racing skills. Soon he moved on to Olympic classes and he started in the Tornado class in 1994. He was recruited by coach Roy Heiner as a talent for his big boat campaigns...

     (born 1976), Dutch sailor
  • Pim van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout
    Pim van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout
    Carel Godfried Willem Hendrik , baron van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout was a Dutch diplomat and politician.Van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout's father was mayor of Leusden...

     (1892-1986), Dutch diplomat and politician
  • Pim van de Meent
    Pim van de Meent
    Pim van de Meent is a former football defender from the Netherlands, who played for Holland Sport, DOS and NEC Nijmegen. He is more famous for being a football coach, who worked for clubs like PEC Zwolle, NEC Nijmegen and De Graafschap...

     (born 1937), Dutch football player
  • Pim Verbeek (born 1956), Dutch football coach
  • Pim Walsma
    Pim Walsma
    Pim Walsma is a Dutch baseball player who currently plays for the Amsterdam Pirates and the Dutch national team.He attended Lower Columbia College in the United States...

     (born 1987), Dutch baseball player
  • "Pim", nickname given to Otto Frank
    Otto Frank
    Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank...

     by Anne Frank

Surname

  • Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim
    Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim
    Admiral Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim, RN, MP, FRGS was a Royal Navy officer, Arctic explorer, barrister, and author...

    , (1826-1886), Royal Navy officer
  • Jonathan Pim (1806–1885)
    Jonathan Pim (1806–1885)
    Jonathan Pim was an Irish Liberal Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Dublin City at the 1865 general election, and held the seat until the 1874 general election.- External links :...

    , Irish politician
  • Jonathan Pim (1858–1949), Irish lawyer and politician
  • Joshua Pim
    Joshua Pim
    Dr. Joshua Pim F.R.C.S.I was a medical doctor and a renowned Irish amateur tennis player. He won the Wimbledon men's singles title two years in a row, in 1893 and 1894.-Family life:...

     (1869-1942), Irish doctor and tennis player

Places

  • Pimhill
    Pimhill
    Pimhill is a geographically large civil parish in Shropshire, England, to the north of Shrewsbury. It is named after a hill, which rises to 163m, sometimes spelt Pim Hill...

    , England
  • Pim Island
    Pim Island
    right|thumb|200px|Plaque on Pim Island to the memory of dead men from the expedition of [[Adolphus Greely]]. Photograped in 2005Pim Island is located off the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island, part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut...

    , Canada
  • Pim River
    Pim River
    Pim is a river in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Ob, and is 390 km long, with a drainage basin of 12 700 km². The average discharge 166 km from its mouth is 68 m³/s. The river is frozen over from the end of November until May.The...

    , Russia
  • Pondok Indah Mall
    Pondok Indah Mall
    Pondok Indah Mall is a large shopping complex located in wealthy Pondok Indah suburb of South Jakarta, Indonesia. The Pondok Indah Mall, or referred to by Jakartans by its acronym: "PIM" complex: is actually two large malls, the older 3-storey PIM1 and the newer 5-storey PIM2, interconnected via a...

    , Indonesia

Other uses

  • Penalties in minutes
    Penalty (ice hockey)
    A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...

    , originally Penalty Infraction Minutes, in ice hockey
  • Pim Fortuyn List, Dutch political party
  • Pim weight
    Pim weight
    Pim weight, a polished stone about 15 mm diameter, equal to about two-thirds of a Hebrew shekel. Many specimens have been found since their initial discovery early in the 20th century, and each one weighs about 7.6 grams compared to 11.5 grams of a shekel...

    , early Israelite weight equal to about two-thirds of a shekel
  • Prague International Marathon
    Prague International Marathon
    The Prague Marathon is held in the city of Prague Czech Republic each May. It was founded in 1995 and has grown to became a significant marathon event, being awarded IAAF Gold Label status...

  • Presbyterian Inland Mission
    Presbyterian Inland Mission
    The Presbyterian Inland Mission is the successor in the Presbyterian Church of Australia to the work of the Australian Inland Mission, founded by Rev. John Flynn. The equivalent in the Uniting Church is called Frontier Services....

  • Providence Industrial Mission
    Providence Industrial Mission
    Providence Industrial Mission was founded by John Chilembwe after his return to Malawi in 1900 from the United States. P.I.M continues today to operate in conjunction with the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.. Chilembwe's original church was rebuilt and assorted...

  • Public Illumination Magazine
    Public Illumination Magazine
    Public Illumination Magazine is an artists’ periodical published since 1979, notable for its tiny size . Each issue features a given topic. The general flavor of the contents ranges from parody to the absurd, with brevity a constant....

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