...DOTS

DOTS is an acronym for Domain-Oriented Tool Support.

...task.

The Sisyphus experiment is an attempt by the knowledge-acquisition community to provide a set of standard problems that researchers can use to compare their approaches to knowledge acquisition and problem solving. The Sisyphus VT task is based on the VT system for elevator configuration [11].

...machines

DNA sequencing machines are pieces of laboratory equipment that analyze DNA molecules to determine the latter's base-pair sequences.

Henrik Eriksson, Stanford University <eriksson@camis.stanford.edu>