Black box (disambiguation)
A black box is a device, object, or system whose inner workings are unknown; only the "stimuli inputs" and "output reactions" are known characteristics.
Technical term
Science and technology
- Black box (phreaking), device to defeat telephone toll charges
- Black box theory, a systems engineering theory for black boxes
- Black-box testing, a form of software testing that involves adjusting inputs to an application without reference to the source code of the application
- Blackboxing
Finance
- Algorithmic trading, a black box is a term for a data center that performs algorithmic trading
Transportation
- Event data recorder, a device installed in some automobiles to record information related to vehicle crashes or accidents
- Flight recorder, an aircraft-borne device used in disaster investigation, consisting of a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder
- Train event recorder, a device that records data about the operation of train controls and performance
- Voyage data recorder, a device designed to collect data from various sensors on board a ship
Proper name
Business
- Black Box Corporation, Pennsylvania-based supplier of computer network hardware
Film and television
- Black Box (2002 film), Argentine film (Caja Negra)
- Black Box (2013 film)
- Black Box (TV series), a 2014 ABC television series
- Black Box (The Outer Limits), an episode from the 1995 revival of that TV series
- Survival in the Sky, a TV series on the investigations of aviation accidents known as Black Box in the UK
- La Boîte noire ("The Black Box"), a French mystery film
- The Black Box (serial), a 1915 film serial
Games
- Black Box (game), board and computer game
- Black Box Games, video game studio bought by Electronic Arts
- The Black Box, a canceled video game
Literature
- Black Box (novel), by Israeli writer Amos Oz
- Black Box (comics) a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe
- Black Box (short story), a short story by Jennifer Egan
- La boîte noire ("The Black Box"), a Spirou et Fantasio comic album
- The Black Box (novel) by Michael Connelly
- Blackbox (novel) by Nick Walker
Music
- Black Box (band), Italo/electronic dance music group
- "Black Box" (song), debut single of Australian Idol winner Stan Walker
- A Black Box, an album by Peter Hammill
- Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years, a Wax Tax Box set album
- Black Box (Brown Eyed Girls album), album by South Korean group Brown Eyed Girls
- Black Box (Naked City album), compilation album by Naked City
- Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970–1978), a Black Sabbath album
- The Black Box, a box set album by Danish rock band Gasolin'
Science and technology
- Blackbox, a window manager that works on X Window System platforms
- BlackBox Component Builder, software development environment for Component Pascal
- Black Box, the common name for the tree species Eucalyptus largiflorens
- Project Blackbox, prototype name for Sun Modular Datacenter
Other uses
- Black box or black cube art museum, a type of museum design for modern artworks
- Black box theater, simple unadorned performance space
- Black box warning, U.S. warning on a prescription drug
- "Black Box", a nickname for the Nuclear Football, the briefcase that accompanies the President of the United States and contains nuclear missile launch codes
See also
- Box (disambiguation)
- Black Body