Black box (disambiguation)

A black box is a device, object, or system whose inner workings are unknown; only the "stimuli inputs" and "output reactions" are known characteristics.

Black box may also refer to:

Technical term

Science and technology

• Black box (phreaking), device to defeat telephone toll charges
• Black box theory, a systems engineering theory for black boxes
• Black-box testing, a form of software testing that involves adjusting inputs to an application without reference to the source code of the application
• Blackboxing

Finance

• Algorithmic trading, a black box is a term for a data center that performs algorithmic trading

Transportation

• Event data recorder, a device installed in some automobiles to record information related to vehicle crashes or accidents
• Flight recorder, an aircraft-borne device used in disaster investigation, consisting of a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder
  • Flight operations quality assurance
  • Quick access recorder
• Train event recorder, a device that records data about the operation of train controls and performance
• Voyage data recorder, a device designed to collect data from various sensors on board a ship

Other uses

• Black box or black cube art museum, a type of museum design for modern artworks
• Black box theater, simple unadorned performance space
• Black box warning, U.S. warning on a prescription drug
• "Black Box", a nickname for the Nuclear Football, the briefcase that accompanies the President of the United States and contains nuclear missile launch codes
• Censor bars

Proper name

Business

• Black Box Corporation, Pennsylvania-based supplier of computer network hardware

Film and television

• Black Box (1978 film), American film by Scott B and Beth B
• Black Box (2002 film), Argentine film (Caja Negra)
• Black Box (2013 film)
• Black Box (TV series), a 2014 ABC television series
• Black Box (The Outer Limits), an episode from the 1995 revival of that TV series
• Survival in the Sky, a TV series on the investigations of aviation accidents known as Black Box in the UK
• La Boîte noire ("The Black Box"), a French mystery film
• The Black Box (serial), a 1915 film serial
• Black Box Affair, a 1966 Eurospy film

Games

• Black Box (game), board and computer game
• Black Box Games, video game studio bought by Electronic Arts
• The Black Box, a canceled video game

Literature

• Black Box (novel), by Israeli writer Amos Oz
• Black Box (comics) a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe
• Black Box (short story), a short story by Jennifer Egan
• La boîte noire ("The Black Box"), a Spirou et Fantasio comic album
• The Black Box (novel) by Michael Connelly
• Blackbox (novel) by Nick Walker

Music

• Black Box (band), Italo/electronic dance music group
• "Black Box" (song), debut single of Australian Idol winner Stan Walker
• A Black Box, an album by Peter Hammill
• Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years, a Wax Tax Box set album
• Black Box (Brown Eyed Girls album), album by South Korean group Brown Eyed Girls
• Black Box (Naked City album), compilation album by Naked City
• Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970–1978), a Black Sabbath album
• The Black Box, a box set album by Danish rock band Gasolin'

Science and technology

• Blackbox, a window manager that works on X Window System platforms
• BlackBox Component Builder, software development environment for Component Pascal
• Black Box, the common name for the tree species Eucalyptus largiflorens
• Project Blackbox, prototype name for Sun Modular Datacenter

See also

• Box (disambiguation)
• Black Body