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Deedee Trotter
DeeDee Trotter (De'Hashia Tonnek Trotter), American sprinter born 1982, two-time Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist (2004, 2012) and 2012 Olympic 400m bronze medalist; 2007 US champion, EF Tokyo 2020 ambassador.
Deeds of Suppiluliuma
The Deeds of Suppiluliuma (CTH 40) is a Hittite biographical account of King Suppiluliuma I, written by his son Mursili II after the king's death around 1322 BC.
Deedy Das
Deedy Das is an Indian-American venture capitalist and Partner at Menlo Ventures who invests in early-stage AI companies and helped launch the $100 million Anthology Fund with Anthropic.
Deee-Lite
Deee-Lite (ディー・ライト) was a New York dance trio formed in 1986: Lady Miss Kier, DJ Dmitry, and Towa Tei. Their 1990 hit "Groove Is in the Heart" reached No. 4 on the Hot 100; three Elektra albums preceded their 1996 breakup.
Deeg
Deeg (डीग) is a town in Rajasthan, India, 35 km north of Bharatpur, first capital of the Jat rulers of Bharatpur. Its 18th-century fortified Water Palace, built by Badan Singh and Suraj Mal, is famed for fountains, bhawans, and Mughal war trophies.
Deeksha Seth
Deeksha Seth (born 1990, Delhi) is an Indian former actress, Femina Miss India 2009 finalist, who debuted in Telugu film Vedam (2010) opposite Allu Arjun, acted in ten films across four languages, then earned an MBA from IESE and joined Tripledot Studios in London.
Deel
Deel is a global HR and payroll platform founded in 2019 by Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang, letting companies hire and pay workers in over 150 countries.
Deemed university
Deemed university (Institution Deemed to be University) is an Indian higher-education institution declared a university under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 by Central Government notification on UGC advice; 161 exist, governed by the UGC Deemed Universities Regulations 2023.
Deems Taylor
Deems Taylor (1885-1966), American composer, critic, and radio commentator; wrote the Met-commissioned operas The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson, the Through the Looking Glass suite, and narrated Disney's Fantasia.
Deen Castronovo
Deen Castronovo, born 1964 in Westminster, California, is an American drummer and vocalist known as Journey's drummer since 1998 (with a 2015-2021 gap) and formerly of Bad English and Ozzy Osbourne's band.
Deena Deardurff
Deena Diane Deardurff (later Schmidt), American swimmer born 1957 in Cincinnati, Ohio; Cincinnati Marlins member who won 1972 Munich Olympic gold in the 4x100 m medley relay, placed fourth in the 100 m butterfly, and later publicly disclosed coach abuse.
Deena Drossin Kastor
Deena Drossin Kastor, born 1973, American distance runner; 2004 Olympic marathon bronze medalist and American marathon record holder (2:19:36, London 2006), the first US woman under 2:20.
Deena Nicole Cortese
Deena Nicole Cortese (born 1987, New Egypt, New Jersey) is an American reality TV personality who joined MTV's Jersey Shore in season 3 (2010) replacing Angelina Pivarnick, appeared on Snooki & JWoww and Couples Therapy, and stars in Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.
Deenanath Mangeshkar
Deenanath Mangeshkar (दीनानाथ मंगेशकर), also Master Deenanath (1900–1942), Marathi natyasangeet singer-actor born in Mangeshi, Goa; founder of Balwant Sangeet Mandali and Balwant Pictures; father of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle.
Deendayal Upadhyaya
Deendayal Upadhyaya (दीनदयाल उपाध्याय; 1916-1968), Indian politician, RSS pracharak, Jana Sangh General Secretary 1951-1967 and president 1968, author of Integral Humanism (1965), the BJP's basic philosophy.
Deep active learning
Deep active learning trains deep neural networks with fewer labeled examples by letting the model choose which unlabeled samples a human annotator should label next, in repeated pool-based rounds.
Deep Argo
Deep Argo is an expansion of the international Argo program in which profiling floats measure temperature and salinity from the ocean surface to the sea floor every 10 days.
Deep Basin, Alberta
The Deep Basin is a large tight gas region in western Alberta along the foothills, holding natural gas in low-permeability Cretaceous rocks over a broad continuous area.
Deep belief network
A deep belief network (DBN), or deep belief net, is a generative neural network with many layers of hidden variables, introduced by Hinton, Osindero, and Teh in 2006.
Deep biosphere
Deep biosphere: microbial ecosystems living below continental surfaces and the seafloor in permanent darkness, from South African mines to oceanic gyre sediments. Cells metabolize up to a millionfold slower than surface organisms; estimates place 12–45% of Earth's microbial biomass underground.
Deep Blue (chess computer)
Deep Blue, IBM's chess supercomputer descended from Carnegie Mellon's Deep Thought, defeated world champion Garry Kasparov 3.5-2.5 in New York in May 1997, evaluating about 200 million positions per second.
Deep Blue Sea (1999 film)
Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 American horror and science-fiction film directed by Renny Harlin, in which genetically engineered sharks hunt scientists at an underwater research facility.
Deep Blue Sea 2
Deep Blue Sea 2 (ディープ・ブルー2) is a 2018 direct-to-video shark horror film directed by Darin Scott, starring Danielle Savre and Michael Beach, about genetically enhanced bull sharks loose in an offshore lab; unrelated to the 1999 original, it holds 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Deep Blue Sea 3
Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) is a direct-to-video shark horror film, third in the Deep Blue Sea franchise, directed by John Pogue, starring Tania Raymonde, about genetically enhanced bull sharks attacking researchers on Little Happy island, Mozambique Channel.
Deep Blue Something
Deep Blue Something is an American rock band formed in Denton, Texas, in 1991, best known for "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which topped the U.K. chart in 1995.
Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov
Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov: two six-game chess matches, Philadelphia 1996 (Kasparov 4-2) and New York 1997 (Deep Blue 3.5-2.5), the first match win by a computer over a reigning world champion.
Deep borehole disposal
Deep borehole disposal is a concept for disposing of radioactive waste in boreholes drilled several kilometers into crystalline rock, sealing waste far deeper than mined repositories.
Deep brain stimulation
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is neurosurgical implantation of electrodes and a pacemaker-like neurostimulator to treat Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia, OCD, and epilepsy; FDA-approved since 1997, with the first adaptive closed-loop system approved in February 2025.
Deep Breath (Doctor Who)
Deep Breath is the 2014 feature-length opening episode of Doctor Who series 8, written by Steven Moffat and directed by Ben Wheatley, introducing Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor alongside Jenna Coleman's Clara in Victorian London against Clockwork Droids.
Deep clustering
Deep clustering is a family of machine learning methods that jointly learns a neural network representation and a clustering of unlabeled data, exemplified by Deep Embedded Clustering (DEC).