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JP Sanday

JP Sanday, also known as Jean-Paul Sanday, is a Partner at Menlo Ventures since 2019 who invests in enterprise AI and digital health; his exits include Sana, OfferFit, and Photomath.

JP Saxe

JP Saxe (Jonathan Percy Starker Saxe), Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based pop singer-songwriter, grandson of cellist János Starker; Grammy-nominated for "If the World Was Ending" with Julia Michaels; albums Dangerous Levels of Introspection, A Grey Area, Okay Piano Guy.

JP Sears

JP Sears, aka AwakenWithJP, is an American comedian and former holistic life coach from Ohio whose satirical Ultra Spiritual YouTube videos parody wellness culture, later shifting to political commentary, with a book, podcast, tours, and a 2023 Rumble show.

JP the Wavy

JP the Wavy is a Japanese rapper from Shonan, Kanagawa, who broke out in 2017 when the music video for "Cho Wavy De Gomenne" went viral.

JP-10 (fuel)

JP-10, or Jet Propellant-10, is a single-component high-energy-density hydrocarbon fuel made almost entirely of exo-tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene, developed by the US Air Force and Navy in 1978 for missiles.

JP-8

JP-8 (NATO designation F-34) is a kerosene-type jet fuel, essentially commercial Jet A-1 with additives, used by the United States military for aircraft and ground vehicles.

JPEG

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a standard method for lossy compression of still images, published in 1992, and the family of .jpg file formats carrying its data.

JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 is an ISO/IEC 15444 standard for compressing digital images, published in 2000 as a successor to JPEG, using wavelet compression and widely used in digital cinema and archives.

JPEG File Interchange Format

JPEG File Format (JFIF) is a stripped-down file format designed to move JPEG bitstreams across many platforms and applications. It was published in 1992 as version 1.02.

JPEG XL

JPEG XL is a royalty-free still-image compression format, standardized as ISO/IEC 18181 in 2022, offering lossy and lossless coding and lossless recompression of existing JPEG files.

JPEGMafia

JPEGMafia, also JPEGMAFIA, real name Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks (born 1989), American experimental rapper and self-producer; former Air Force member, earlier alias Devon Hendryx, known for Veteran, SCARING THE HOES with Danny Brown, and EXPERIMENTAL RAP.

JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System

JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System is a web service of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that produces accurate, customizable ephemerides for planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft.

JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides

The JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides are numerically integrated orbit solutions, the Development Ephemeris (DE) series, produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to support spacecraft missions; the current versions are DE440 and DE441, published in 2021.

JPL Small-Body Database

The JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB) is a NASA database maintained by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory covering orbital data for nearly one million known asteroids and comets.

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase is an American multinational banking company in New York City, formed in 2000 and, as of 2024, the world's largest bank by market capitalization.

JPMorgan US Corporate Finance Institutional Investors IV

JPMorgan US Corporate Finance Institutional Investors IV was a pair of J.P. Morgan private equity feeder funds that raised about $1.16 billion between 2008 and 2010.

JPS Annual Meeting

The JPS Annual Meeting is the Physical Society of Japan's yearly conference, where research from all 19 divisions meets at one venue alongside award ceremonies and plenary lectures.

JQ Investments

JQ Investments (佳期投资) is a Shanghai-based quantitative hedge fund manager founded in November 2014, known for quantitative equity strategies and for passing RMB 10 billion in assets in 2021.

JQuery

jQuery is a JavaScript library created by John Resig in 2006 that simplifies HTML manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax; it remains the web's most widely used library.

JR (artist)

JR (born 1983) is a pseudonymous French photographer and public artist, called the French Banksy, creator of Portrait of a Generation, Face 2 Face, Women Are Heroes, Inside Out, and Faces, Places; distinct from musicians named JR.

JR Central

JR Central, formally the Central Japan Railway Company, is the Japanese railway company operating the Tokaido Shinkansen between Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, established in 1987.

JR Motorsports

JR Motorsports is an American stock car racing team co-owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. in Mooresville, North Carolina, which has won four Xfinity Series championships.

Jr-Hau He

Jr-Hau He is a Hong Kong-based optoelectronics researcher known for photon management in solar cells and photodetectors, a professor at City University of Hong Kong.

Jr. Pac-Man

Jr. Pac-Man (ジュニア・パックマン) is a 1983 Bally Midway maze arcade game developed by GCC, starring Pac-Man's child in large scrolling mazes with six power pellets and pellet-destroying moving bonus items; unauthorized by Namco.

JRA-25

JRA-25 (Japanese 25-year Reanalysis) is a global atmospheric reanalysis produced jointly by the Japan Meteorological Agency and CRIEPI, covering 1979 to 2004 and completed in 2006 as Japan's first long-term reanalysis.

JRA-55

JRA-55 (Japanese 55-year Reanalysis) is a global atmospheric reanalysis dataset produced by the Japan Meteorological Agency, covering 1958 onward, the second Japanese reanalysis after JRA-25.

Jrk Platform

JRK Platform is a family of private real estate investment funds sponsored by JRK Property Holdings of Los Angeles, which raised over $1.1 billion across funds filed from 2013 to 2019.

Jrue Holiday

Jrue Holiday (Jrue Randall Holiday, born 1990) is an American NBA guard for the Portland Trail Blazers; two-time NBA champion (Bucks 2021, Celtics 2024), two-time All-Star, six-time All-Defense, and two-time Olympic gold medalist.

JS Global Lifestyle

JS Global Lifestyle is a Hong Kong-listed household appliance group, listed in 2019, that owns the Joyoung, Shark, and Ninja brands and was built around Joyoung's 2017 acquisition of SharkNinja.

JS006 (anti-TIGIT antibody)

JS006 (TAB006, CHS-006) is Junshi Biosciences' humanized IgG4κ anti-TIGIT monoclonal antibody for cancer immunotherapy; phase I with toripalimab (NCT05061628), licensed to Coherus for the US and Canada in 2022.