This document discusses AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). It defines AJAX as a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications. AJAX allows web pages to be updated asynchronously by exchanging small amounts of data with the server without reloading the entire page. The document outlines the technologies that power AJAX like HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, and XMLHttpRequest and how they work together to enable asynchronous updates on web pages.