ufo

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

UFO
    n 1: an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown;
         especially those considered to have extraterrestrial
         origins [syn: {unidentified flying object}, {UFO}, {flying
         saucer}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

UFO

   <language> (United Functions and Objects) A hybrid
   {functional} and {object-oriented} language designed by John
   Seargant at {Manchester University} for general-purpose
   parallel computation.

   To a first approximation, UFO is a strict, higher-order
   functional language with an object-oriented type system, and
   strong support for numeric computation in the form of
   SISAL-style arrays and loops.  Parallelism is implicit, and
   applies at various different levels of granularity, thereby
   facilitating implementations on a wide range of parallel
   architectures.

   It is planned to run it on a 64 processor {KSR} machine.

   (1996-08-22)