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Generative Bionics

Generative Bionics is an Italian deep-tech startup in Genoa, founded in 2024 as a spinoff of the Italian Institute of Technology, that develops humanoid robots for industrial applications.

Generative design

Generative design is a computational engineering method that uses algorithms, combining optimization, machine learning, and simulation, to automatically produce many design alternatives meeting specified goals and constraints.

Generative engine optimization

Generative engine optimization (GEO), also called Answer Engine Optimization, structures web content so generative AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews cite it, formalized at a 2024 ACM conference.

Generative grammar

Generative grammar is a system of formal rules introduced by Noam Chomsky in 1957, which is a mentalist research program linked to Universal Grammar and the Minimalist Program.

Generative model

A generative model, or generative statistical model, is a statistical model that learns the probability distribution of data, letting it generate new samples, score examples, and classify via Bayes' rule.

Generative pre-trained transformer

A generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) is a large language model built on a transformer decoder, pre-trained to predict the next token; OpenAI introduced the name in 2018.

Generative Replay

Generative replay, introduced as Deep Generative Replay at NIPS in 2017, is a continual learning technique where a generative model synthesizes pseudo-samples of past tasks to prevent catastrophic forgetting.

Generator circuit breaker

A generator circuit breaker (GCB) is a switching device between a power plant generator and its step-up transformer, rated above 1 kV and designed to interrupt very large, heavily asymmetrical fault currents.

Generator Rex

Generator Rex: Man of Action's Cartoon Network animated series (2010-2013, three seasons), adapted from the Image comic M. Rex, about nanite-infected teen agent Rex Salazar fighting E.V.O.s for Providence; Ben 10's sibling show.

Generic Attribute Profile

The Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) is a Bluetooth specification, built on the Attribute Protocol, that defines how devices expose and discover services and read, write, and notify characteristic values.

Generic drug

Generic drug: a copy of a brand-name medicine with the same active ingredient, strength, dosage form, and route, approved via ANDA (Hatch-Waxman, 1984) on bioequivalence evidence; about 90% of US prescriptions, saving $2.2 trillion 2009-2019.

Generic programming

Generic programming, also called genericity, is a programming style in which algorithms and data structures are written once, parameterized over types, while keeping compile-time type checking.

Generic structure

A generic structure, also called a Fraïssé limit or rich model, is a countable homogeneous structure containing every finite structure from a given class, unique up to isomorphism.

Generic top-level domain

A generic top-level domain (gTLD), also known as a generic TLD, is a top-level domain like .com or .org that does not represent a country or territory.

Generic trademark

Generic trademark: a term that names an entire product class, such as 'bicycle' for bicycles, rather than a brand. Not registrable; famous lost marks include aspirin, escalator, thermos, yo-yo, and cellophane through genericide.

Generics in Java

Generics in Java are a language facility, introduced in Java 5, for declaring classes and methods with type parameters, letting one declaration like List work with many element types.

Generik

Generik is the DJ and producer alias of Tyson O'Brien, an Australian house artist from Melbourne discovered by Calvin Harris, with Las Vegas and Ibiza residencies.

Genes & development

Genes & Development (Genes Dev) is a semimonthly peer-reviewed journal founded in 1987 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press with the Genetics Society, covering molecular biology, gene expression, and developmental biology.

Genesco

Genesco Inc., formerly General Shoe, is a Tennessee footwear and apparel retailer operating Journeys, Schuh, and Johnston & Murphy, with fiscal 2026 sales of $2.4 billion.

Genesee County, Michigan, United States

Genesee County is a county in southeastern Michigan, created in 1835, with Flint as its county seat and largest city; it is best known for auto manufacturing and the Flint water crisis.

Genesee power station

The Genesee power station is a roughly 1.8 GW natural gas-fired power station near Warburg, Alberta, owned by Capital Power and supplying about 10% of Alberta's electricity.

Geneseeq (世和基因)

Geneseeq (世和基因), formally Nanjing Geneseeq Biotechnology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese precision-oncology company founded in Nanjing in 2013 by Shao Yang that develops next-generation sequencing cancer gene tests, including genomic profiling and early detection assays.

Genesia Ventures

Genesia Ventures is an independent seed-stage venture capital firm based in Tokyo, founded by Soichi Tajima in 2016, investing in startups across Japan, Southeast Asia, and India.

Genesion/Apobathmoi

Genesion/Apobathmoi (Γενέσιον, Ἀπόβαθμοι) is an Archaic-to-Roman coastal sanctuary and settlement of ancient Argolis near Kiveri, Greece, with a small sanctuary of Poseidon Genesios and the legendary landing place of Danaus.

Genesis (band)

Genesis, British rock band formed at Charterhouse School (founding year reported as 1965, 1966, or 1967), founded by Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford, and Phillips; prog era with Hackett and Collins, then Collins-led 1980s pop success, 150 million albums sold.

Genesis (generative physics simulation platform)

Genesis, also known as Genesis World, is an open-source GPU-parallel multi-physics engine and robotics simulation platform begun in December 2024 and now developed with support from Genesis AI.

Genesis (Genesis album)

Genesis (1983) is the twelfth Genesis studio album, self-titled as the first with all tracks written by Collins, Banks, and Rutherford; it hit UK no. 1, went quadruple Platinum, and yielded "Mama" and "That's All".

Genesis (בְּרֵאשִׁית)

Genesis, called Bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית) in Hebrew after its opening word, is the first book of the Torah; its English name derives from the Greek Γένεσις, meaning "origin".

Genesis 1:1 (בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ)

Genesis 1:1 (בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ) is the opening verse of the Hebrew Bible, traditionally translated "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

Genesis Alternative Ventures

Genesis Alternative Ventures is a Singapore-based venture debt firm lending to venture-backed technology companies across Southeast Asia, founded by Jeremy Loh, Ben J Benjamin, and Martin Tang around 2018.