- AAAAA
- American Association Against Acronym Abuse
- ACK
- Acknowledge
- AFAIK
- As Far As I Know
- AJAX
- Asynchronous Javascript and XML
- API
- Application Programming Interface
- ASAP
- As Soon As Possible
- AWGTHTGTATA
- Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This Again
- B11
- Bauhausstraße 11
- B15
- Bauhausstraße 15
- BCI
- Brain-Computer Interface
- BFA
- Bachelor of Fine Arts – undergraduate students will graduate with this degree
- BFI
- 1. Bauhaus Film Institute 2. British Film Institute
- Bib
- (fam.) Bibliothek – Library
- Bibo
- (fam.) Bibliothek – Library
- Bison
- Beratungs- und Informations-System online →VLV
- BPM
- Beats per minute
- BUW
- Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- CD
- 1. Corporate Design 2. Compact Disc
- CI
- Corporate Identity (Erscheinungsbild)
- CMS
- Content Management System
- CMYK
- Cyan Magenta Yellow Key Colorspace
- CMYKGO
- Cyan Magenta Yellow Key Green Orange Colorspace (Hexachrome)
- CPU
- Central Processing Unit, an →IC, generally refered to as the processor in a computer
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets
- CTP
- Computer to plate
- CUDA
- Compute Unified Device Architecture
- CV
- 1. Computer Vision, 2. wikipedia:Curriculum vitae
- DAU
- Dümmster anzunehmender User – abwertender Begriff für einen NooB in Anlehnung an den GAU (Größter anzunehmender Unfall)
- DAW
- Digital audio workstation – combination of hardware and software to create music and sound digitally
- DBIS
- Datenbankinformationssystem
- DIP
- Dual Inline Package. An IC which comes in DIP package has 2 rows of contacts. Wikipedia:Dual in-line package
- DM
- Direct Message (Direktnachricht, auch → PM)
- DMX
- Digital MultipleX is a lighting control protocol standard using XLR cables
- DNS
- Domain Name System
- dpi
- dots per inch
- DSP
- Digital Signal Processing – Digitale Signalverarbeitung
- DTP
- Desktop Publishing
- DVI
- Digital Visual Interface
- ECTS
- European Credit Transfer System
- eduroam
- eduroam is an acronym for roaming in the education and research area. It provides an infrastructure that offers internet connectivity to the users of the participating institutions.
- Exif
- Exchangeable image file format – Meta-information of an (image) file about its contents - such as aperture, shutter speed, focal lengt, ISO speed …
- EXPTV
- Experimentelle Television
- EZB
- 1. Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek 2. Europäische Zentralbank
- FK
- Freie Kunst – a program at the faculty Gestaltung
- FLOSS
- Free/Libre Open Source Software
- FPS
- Frames per second
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- Gem
- Graphics Environment for Multimedia an OpenGL extension for →Pd
- GMU
- Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen
- GPS
- Global Positioning System
- GPU
- Graphics Processing Unit, the main →IC on a graphics adapter (Grafikkarte)
- GS
- Hauptgebäude Geschwister-Scholl-Straße
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface
- HCI
- Human-computer interaction
- HfM
- Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt – Liszt School of Music
- HIG
- Human Interface Guidelines
- HKS
- Color system by Hostmann-Steinberg Druckfarben, Kast + Ehinger Druckfarben und H. Schmincke & Co.
- HSB
- Hue Saturation Brightness Colorspace
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language
- HTTP
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
- IC
- Integrated Circuit, also called “chip”
- IDE
- wikipedia:Integrated development environment
- IFD
- Interface-Design
- IIRC
- If I Remember Correctly
- IKKM
- International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy
- IM
- 1. Instant Messaging 2. Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter (der Stasi)
- IMAP
- Internet Message Access Protocol – for accessing your email See also →SMTP →POP
- Int
- Integer is a data type in many programming languages
- IP
- 1. Internet Protocol 2. Intellectual property
- IRC
- Internet Relay Chat
- JSON
- JavaScript Object Notation Format
- KVC
- Key-Value-Coding
- KVO
- Key-Value-Observing
- LAN
- Local Area Network
- LASER
- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
- LDAP
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, wikipedia:LDAP
- LED
- Light-emitting diode
- LP
- 1. Leistungspunkte, also see European Credit Transfer System 2. Long Player (Langspielplatte)
- M18
- Marienstraße 18, this is where the StuKo and the students Café is
- M5
- Marienstraße 5
- M7b
- Marienstraße 7b
- MAC
- Media Access Control
- MFA
- Master of Fine Arts – graduate students will receive this degree
- MG
- Mediengestaltung →MKG
- MIDI
- Musical Instruments Digital Interface see also →OSC
- MK
- Medienkultur
- MKG
- Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung
- MM
- Medienmanagement
- MoCap
- Motion Capture
- Moodle
- Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
- MVC
- Model/View/Controller-Design Pattern
- OCR
- Optical Character Recognition (Convert scanned images to text documents)
- OOP
- Object-Oriented Programming
- OPAC
- Online Public Access Catalogue
- OS
- Operating System – for instance Apple's OS X stands for the tenth version of the OS
- OSC
- Open Sound Control
- OSS
- Open Source Software
- OSM
- Open Street Map a free and open map source
- Pantone
- A company and their proprietary color system
- Pd
- Pure Data a dataflow programming environment
- PD
- 1. Public Domain 2. in the context of the university PD sometimes stands for Product Design 3. Police Department
- PHP
- PHP Hypertext Processor
- PN
- Persönliche Nachricht (Direktnachricht) → DM
- POP
- Post Office Protocol – for accessing your email. See also →IMAP →SMTP
- Q3
- Coudraystraße. A Street named after Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray. In fact this is not an acronym, it's a phonetic joke in reference to M18, B11 and so forth. Be aware that the number 3 is part of it and not the address. The University's building in that street is number 13.
- QR
- Quick Response Code - zweidimensionaler (Bar-)Code (Software in vielen mobilen Endgeräten mit Kamera enthalten)
- QR-Code
- Quick Response Code - zweidimensionaler (Bar-)Code (Software in vielen mobilen Endgeräten mit Kamera enthalten)
- RAL
- Color system Reichs-Ausschuss für Lieferbedingungen
- Regex
- Regular Expressions
- REWE
- Acronym for “Revisionsverband der Westkauf-Genossenschaften” – a german supermarket chain
- RFID
- Radio-Frequency Identification
- RGB
- Red Green Blue Colorspace
- RSS
- Rich Site Summary – a web feed format
- RTFM
- Read the Fu**ing Manual
- SCC
- Servicezentrum für Computersysteme und -kommunikation (some other Universities call this Rechenzentrum)
- SDK
- Software Development Kit
- SeaM
- Studio für elektroakustische Musik – Studio for electroacoustic Music
- SMTP
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol – for sending email. See also →IMAP →POP
- SoSe
- Sommersemester – summer semester
- SS
- Sommersemester – summer semester. Usually this is followed by the year. If not it could be something else.
- SSID
- Service Set Identifier – the name of a →WLAN
- StuKo
- Studierenden Konvent (some other Universities call this Sudentenrat)
- SVG
- Scaleable Vector Graphics
- SWS
- Semesterwochenstunden
- TCP/IP
- TCP/IP UDP Internet protocol suite
- Thoska
- Thüringer Hochschul- und Studentenwerkskarte that's the student service and identification card
- TOC
- Table of contents – Inhaltsverzeichnis
- UI
- User Interface
- UK
- 1. Universitätskommunikation – a service of the university taking care of public relations 2. United Kingdom
- URL
- uniform resource locator – a human readable web address which is looked up by the →DNS and translated into an →IP Address
- VDV
- Van-de-Velde Bau – a building on the campus named after and built by wikipedia:Henry van de Velde
- VGA
- Video Graphics Array
- VK
- Visuelle Kommunikation – a graphic design program at the faculty Gestaltung
- VLV
- Vorlesungsverzeichnis
- VPN
- Virtual Private Network you need to know how to set this up if you want →(W)LAN access at the university
- Wiki
- Haiwaiian for fast (not an acronym). It is the name for a hypertext system for websites where the user may not only read the content but is also able to change it instantaneously through the browser.
- WiSe
- Wintersemester - winter semester
- WLAN
- Wireless →LAN
- WS
- Wintersemester - winter semester
- WYSIWYG
- What You See Is What You Get - Codeless Visual Editor
- XAMP
- A combination of different software for web server
- XHTML
- Extensible Hypertext Markup Language →HTML