Black box (disambiguation)
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A black box is any system in which only the input and output characteristics are of interest — without regard to its internal mechanism or structure.
An airplane's flight data recorder is often referred to as a black box.
Black box may mean:
In music:
- Black Box (band), a music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their hits included "Ride on Time" and "I Don't Know Anybody Else".
- Black Box Recorder (band), a music group popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- Black Box, a collection of the albums made by the original members of Black Sabbath.
- Black Box, a box set album compiling songs released on Wax Trax! Records between 1980 and 1993.
- Black Box Audio Interface, a device for emulating and modeling amplifiers, effects, and drum beats and recording for guitarists developed by M-Audio. See their website: M-Audio.com
In literature:
- Black Box (book), a book by Israeli writer Amos Oz
- Black Box (novel), a 1999 novel by German author Mario Giordano
In science:
- Black box testing, testing a system without knowledge of its internals
- Black box spreadsheet
- Black box theory, a philosophical theory
Other:
- Black box (phreaking), a device built by phone phreaks during the 1960s and 1970s to defeat toll charges
- Black box theater, a simple, somewhat unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor
- Black Box (transportation), an informal name for the flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder used in aircraft, the event recorder in railway equipment or the Event Data Recorder in automobiles.
- Blackbox, a window manager that works on X Window System platforms
- Black box warning, a U.S. warning on a prescription drug that means it carries a significant risk of fatal side effects.
- Black Box Corporation, a Pennsylvania-based supplier of computer network hardware and services and publisher of the "Black Box Catalog"; originally, it specialized in the manufacture of communications adapters that it described as "black boxes".
- Black Box (game), a board and computer game
- NeXT computers
- Black Box Games, a video game studio bought by Electronic Arts (currently a part of EA Canada)
- Blackbox Game Console, a game console developed by Blackbox International
- Project Blackbox, a datacenter in a shipping container made by Sun Microsystems
- Black Box (comics) a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe.
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