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SMART

See S.M.A.R.T..

smart
(of systems) operating as if by human intelligence by using automatic computer control
Smart
Christopher. 1722--71, British poet, author of A Song to David (1763) and Jubilate Agno (written 1758--63, published 1939). He was confined (1756--63) for religious mania and died in a debtors' prison
1.SMART - For MS-DOS?
2.(programming)smart - Said of a program that does the Right Thing in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent programs (yet - see AI-complete).

Compare robust (smart programs can be brittle).
3.(hardware)smart - Incorporating some kind of digital electronics.


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