Computer Conferencing

In telecommunication, the term computer conferencing has the following meanings:
  1. Teleconferencing supported by one or more computers.
  2. An arrangement in which access, by multiple users, to a common database is mediated by a controlling computer.
  3. The interconnection of two or more computers working in a distributed manner on a common application process. Instant messenger and chat systems are multicasting approaches for computer conferencing.

See also

Source

*from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

 

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