ITCS Acronym Decoder

This page last updated October 2007

See also ITCS Style Guide.

ACD: Automatic Call Distribution
ACL: Access Control List
AFS: Used to stand for Andrew File System, but is now considered a "word" rather than an acronym due to a change in corporate ownership.
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
CAEN: Computer Aided Engineering Network
CIC: Committee on Institutional Cooperation
CSCAR: Center for Statistical Consultation and Research
CPU: Central Processing Unit
DAC: Development/Alumni/Constituent System
FDDI: Fiber-Optic Distributed Data Interface
FTE: Full-Time Equivalent staff person
GQL: Graphical Query Language
GUI: Graphical User Interface
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IFS: Institutional File System
IMAP: Interactive Mail Access Protocol
IT: Information Technology
ITCom: IT Communications (which is short for Information Technology Communications). This is the ITCS unit that provides telephone, data, and video services to U-M.
ITCS: Information Technology Central Services
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO: International Standards Organization
ITSC: Information Technology Security Council
ITSS: Information Technology Security Services
LAN: local area network
LCD: liquid crystal display
MAIS: Michigan Administrative Information Services
MB: megabyte
MIRLYN: Michigan Research Library Network. This now seems to be used more as a word than as an acronym. The Library spells it as Mirlyn.
NOC: Network Operations Center
NOS: network operating system
OPDE: Office of Policy Development and Education
OSF: Open Software Foundation
POP: Post Office Protocol
PPP: point-to-point protocol
RAM: random-access memory
ResComp: Residence Halls Computing Program
RFC: Request for Comments
RFI: Request for Information
RFP: Request for Proposal
RFQ: Request for Quotation
RTF: rich text format
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface
SFTP: Secure File Transfer Protocol
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SQL: Structured Query Language
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
U-M
UMCE: University of Michigan Computing Environment
UMIAC: University of Michigan Infrastructure for Academic Computing
UMTV: University of Michigan Television
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
WYSIWYG: what you see is what you get