Glossary - O

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• OBFP — Office of Budget and Financial Planning
• OCE — Ocean Engineer (degree)
• OCR (Optical Character Recognition) — The mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten, or printed text into machine-encoded text.
• OCW — OpenCourseWare
• ODSA — Office of the Dean for Student Affairs (old)
• ODSL — Office of the Dean for Student Life (formerly part of the Office of the MIT Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs)
• ODUE — Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education
• OE — Ocean Engineering
• OED — Organization and Employee Development (office within the Human Resources Department)
• OEIT — The Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
• OFCCP — Office for Federal Contract Compliance Programs
• OFDS — Office of Faculty Diversity Searches
• OFMS — Office of Facilities Management Systems
• OH — Overhead (rate)
• OKI — Open Knowledge Initiative
• OLPC — One Laptop per Child
• OLS — Office of Lab Supplies (old)
• OME — Office of Minority Education
• ONR — Office of Naval Research
• OO — Ombuds Office, in the Office of the President
• OPAC — Online Public Access Catalog (Libraries)
• OpenID — A shared identity service.
• ORC — Occupational Resource Center
• OSP — Office of Sponsored Programs
• OSTP — (White House) Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Outgoing Mail Server — The server that routes email messages to incoming servers on the Internet. Outgoing mail servers are also referred to as SMTP servers. The outgoing mail server at MIT is named outgoing.mit.edu and secure connections are recommended.
• Outliner — A BrioQuery tool used to construct and modify reports, Pivot reports and Charts.
• owa.mit.edu — The server name for our Outlook Web Access (OWA) instance. See also [glossary:OWA].
• OWL — Web Ontology Language