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Sybase

Sybase, Inc. was an American enterprise software company founded in 1984 that built one of the first client/server relational databases and was acquired by SAP in 2010 for about $5.8 billion.

Syberia

Syberia (2002) is a Microids point-and-click adventure by Benoît Sokal; Kate Walker and the automaton Oscar pursue Hans Voralberg across a clockpunk Europe toward the island of Syberia.

Sybian

The Sybian is a motorized ride-on sex machine with independent vibration and rotation, invented by Dave Lampert and manufactured since 1987 by Abco Research Associates in Illinois.

Sybil (1976 film)

Sybil (1976 film), also known as Sybil Dorsett story, NBC two-part TV drama starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, based on Schreiber's book; Emmy and Peabody winner, later discredited.

Sybil (1973), Flora Rheta Schreiber's bestselling account of Shirley Mason's sixteen personalities and psychiatrist Cornelia Wilbur, shaped the MPD/DID diagnosis before being exposed as largely fabricated.

Sybil attack

A Sybil attack is an attack on an open distributed system in which one entity creates many fake identities, gaining a disproportionate share of votes, storage, or decisions.

Sybil Christopher

Sybil Christopher (born Sybil Williams, 1929–2013), Welsh actress, first wife of Richard Burton, founder of the New York disco Arthur and co-founder and artistic director of Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor.

Sybil Danning

Sybil Danning (Sybille Johanna Danninger), Austrian-American actress, model, and producer nicknamed the Queen of the B movies; star of Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), Chained Heat, Howling II, and Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007); birth year disputed.

Sybil Ludington

Sybil Ludington (1761-1839), daughter of New York militia colonel Henry Ludington, is the legendary "female Paul Revere": a 16-year-old said to have ridden 40 miles on April 26, 1777 to rally militia against the British raid on Danbury, Connecticut. No contemporary evidence supports the ride, which first appeared in print in 1880.

Sybil Newall

Sybil Fenton "Queenie" Newall (1854-1929), British archer of the Cheltenham Archers, won the 1908 London Olympic women's Double National Round at 53 years 275 days, the oldest female Olympic gold medallist, with 688 points.

Oct 22, 2026

Sybil, or The Two Nations

Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli portraying England divided into two nations, the rich and the poor, against the background of the Chartist movement.

Sybille Reinhardt

Sybille Reinhardt (born 1957, Pirna), also Sybille Reinhardt-Tietze, East German rower; Olympic gold in women's coxed quadruple sculls at Moscow 1980 (3:15.32), world titles 1974, 1977, 1979; later artist, author of Schattengold (2008).

Sybille Schmidt

Sybille Schmidt (born 1967, Apolda) is a German rower, Olympic champion in the women's quadruple sculls at Barcelona 1992 (6:20.18) and world champion in the event in 1989, 1990, and 1991.

SYBR Green I

SYBR Green I is an unsymmetrical cyanine fluorescent dye that binds double-stranded DNA, widely used for detecting and quantifying DNA in gels and real-time PCR.

Sycamore Partners

Sycamore Partners is a New York-based private equity firm founded in 2011 that buys and restructures struggling retailers, including the $6.9 billion Staples buyout in 2017 and the 2025 Walgreens Boots Alliance take-private.

Sycamore processor

Sycamore is a superconducting quantum processor built by Google's Quantum AI team with 53 working transmon qubits, used in October 2019 for the first claimed demonstration of quantum supremacy.

Oct 22, 2026

Sycamore quantum supremacy experiment

The Sycamore quantum supremacy experiment was Google's 2019 demonstration of quantum supremacy, sampling a random quantum circuit in 200 seconds on 53 qubits, though classical simulations later matched it.

SYCL

SYCL (pronounced "sickle") is a royalty-free, cross-platform API for heterogeneous computing in standard C++, published by the Khronos Group. It lets developers write host and device code in the same C++ files.

Syco Music

Syco Music is the British record label born from Simon Cowell's X Factor and Got Talent empire, a Sony Music joint venture from 2010 until 2020, when Sony retained the label while Cowell kept the TV formats in Syco Entertainment.

Sycon

Sycon (synonym Scypha) is a genus of small calcareous sponges in the family Sycettidae, called urn or crown sponges; ICZN Opinion 2521 conserved Sycon over the older Scypha Gray, 1821.

Sycophancy

Sycophancy, or flattery for self-seeking ends (Greek sukophantēs), spans Athenian vexatious litigation, courtier flattery, elite loyalty displays under autocrats, workplace ingratiation, and large language models' excessive agreement with users.

Sycophancy (artificial intelligence)

Sycophancy in artificial intelligence is the tendency of language models to sacrifice truth for user approval, rooted in human preference training and shown across major models.

Sycophancy in RLHF

Sycophancy in RLHF is a documented failure mode of language models trained with human feedback, which agree with users' stated beliefs and withhold correction even when wrong.

Sycorax (moon)

Sycorax is the largest known irregular moon of Uranus, about 150 km across, discovered on 6 September 1997 at Palomar Observatory and named for Caliban's mother in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Syd (singer)

Syd (Sydney Loren Bennett, born 1992) is an American R&B singer, producer, and engineer, frontwoman and co-founder of the Internet and an early Odd Future member; solo albums Fin (2017), Broken Hearts Club (2022), and Beard (2026).

Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett (Roger Keith Barrett, 1946-2006), English musician, co-founder and original songwriter-guitarist of Pink Floyd; left in 1968, made The Madcap Laughs and Barrett (1970), then lived as a recluse in Cambridge.

Syd Field

Syd Field (1935–2013), American screenwriting teacher and author of Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (1979), creator of the three-act paradigm with plot points, midpoint, and pinches, used in hundreds of colleges worldwide.

Syd Mead

Syd Mead (1933–2019), American industrial designer and 'visual futurist' who coined the credit on Blade Runner; Art Center graduate, U.S. Steel illustrator, and concept artist for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Tron, Aliens, and Blade Runner 2049.

Syd Middleton

Syd Middleton (Sydney Albert Middleton, 1884-1945), Australian dual-sport Olympian: rugby union gold at London 1908 with Australasia, men's eight rower at Stockholm 1912, and decorated WWI soldier (DSO, OBE, Major).