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Alias Smith and Jones
Alias Smith and Jones: American ABC Western series (1971-1973) created by Glen A. Larson, starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy as outlaws Heyes and Curry seeking amnesty; 50 episodes, Duel replaced by Roger Davis after his 1971 death.
Aliasing
Aliasing is the distortion that occurs when a signal is sampled at too low a rate, so high frequencies appear as spurious lower frequencies in the reconstruction.
Aliaskhab Kebekov
Aliaskhab Kebekov (Ali Abu Muhammad), 1972-2015, Dagestani Avar theologian, second emir of the Caucasus Emirate from March 2014; first non-Chechen, non-militant leader; banned civilian attacks, opposed Islamic State, killed by Russian forces April 2015.
Aliayabiagba
Aliayabiagba (Alaiyabiagba) is a populated place of about 228,000 people in Ajeromi/Ifelodun, Lagos State, Nigeria, at 6.45°N, 3.33°E, near Ajegunle and Apapa, known for the Boundary Market.
Alibaba Cloud (阿里云)
Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun (阿里云), is the cloud computing and AI subsidiary of Alibaba Group, founded in 2009. It is China's largest cloud provider by market share.
Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group is a Chinese technology company founded in Hangzhou in 1999 by 18 people led by Jack Ma, operating e-commerce marketplaces, cloud computing, and logistics businesses.
Alibaba Pictures (阿里巴巴影业集团)
Alibaba Pictures (阿里巴巴影业集团), Hong Kong-listed film company (1060) formed 2014 from China Vision under Alibaba Group; segments in film, Tao Piao Piao ticketing, drama, IP; renamed Damai Entertainment Holdings in June 2025.
Alibaba Qwen and Tongyi unit
The Alibaba Qwen and Tongyi unit, known as Tongyi Lab and now Alibaba Token Hub, is Alibaba Group's AI division that develops the Qwen foundation models and Tongyi products.
Alibaba T-Head (平头哥半导体)
Alibaba T-Head (平头哥半导体), also known as T-Head Semiconductor, is Alibaba Group's semiconductor design subsidiary in Shanghai, founded in 2018, known for its Hanguang 800 AI chip and Zhenwu accelerators.
Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum (அலிபாபாவும் நாற்பது திருடர்களும்)
Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum (அலிபாபாவும் நாற்பது திருடர்களும்), aka Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, is a 1956 Tamil fantasy swashbuckler by T. R. Sundaram's Modern Theatres, starring M. G. Ramachandran and P. Bhanumathi; the first full-length Gevacolor colour film of Tamil and South Indian cinema.
Alibag (अलिबाग)
Alibag (अलिबाग), also Alibaug, is a coastal town and Raigad district headquarters in Maharashtra, across the harbour from Mumbai. Known for Kolaba Fort built by Shivaji in 1680, Kanhoji Angre's Maratha naval base, beaches, and ferry access from the Gateway of India.
ALiBi
ALiBi (Attention with Linear Biases) is a positional encoding method for transformer language models that adds a linear distance penalty to attention scores, letting models trained on short sequences run on longer ones.
Alibori Department
Alibori is a department of northeastern Benin, capital Kandi, created 15 January 1999 from Borgou. Area 26,242 km², 867,463 people (2013), six communes, borders Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria; Benin's main cotton area.
Alica Schmidt
Alica Schmidt (born 1998, Worms) is a German 400 m and 4x400 m relay sprinter for SCC Berlin, with European U20 silver and U23 bronze relay medals, two Olympic appearances (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), a 52.07 s 400 m best, and over 5 million Instagram followers.
Alicaforsen
Alicaforsen (ISIS 2302) is an investigational antisense oligonucleotide developed by Isis Pharmaceuticals, now licensed to Atlantic Healthcare, that inhibits ICAM-1 and is studied for ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and pouchitis.
Alicante
Alicante (Alacant), Mediterranean port city and provincial capital in Spain's Valencian Community; 366,221 inhabitants (2025), EUIPO seat, University of Alicante, Santa Bárbara castle, beaches, Tabarca, and Alicante-Elche airport with 19.95 million passengers.
Alice (1988 film)
Alice (Něco z Alenky) is Jan Švankmajer's 1988 surrealist feature debut, a Czechoslovak-Swiss-British-West German co-production adapting Lewis Carroll with live action and stop-motion; it won the Annecy Grand Prix 1989.
Alice (2022 film)
Alice (2022) is Krystin Ver Linden's directorial debut thriller-drama, premiering at Sundance and released March 18, 2022. Keke Palmer plays an enslaved woman who escapes a Georgia plantation and learns it is 1973; inspired by peonage accounts, it scored 28% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Alice is the protagonist of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
Alice (American TV series)
Alice (1976–1985) is a CBS American sitcom adapted from Martin Scorsese's 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, starring Linda Lavin as widowed waitress Alice Hyatt at Mel's Diner in Phoenix, with Vic Tayback, Polly Holliday's Flo, and the spin-off Flo.
Alice (group)
Alice (アリス) is a Japanese folk rock trio formed in 1971 by Shinji Tanimura and Takao Horiuchi, whose 1978 hit "Champion" reached number 1 on the Oricon chart.
Alice (앨리스) (South Korean TV series)
Alice (앨리스) is a 2020 SBS Friday-Saturday South Korean sci-fi drama, 16 episodes, starring Kim Hee-sun and Joo Won, directed by Baek Soo-chan, about detective Park Jin-gyeom and time travelers from 2050.
Alice & Bob
Alice & Bob is a French quantum computing company in Paris, founded in 2020 by Théau Peronnin and Raphaël Lescanne, building a fault-tolerant quantum computer from superconducting cat qubits.
Alice A Robie
Alice A. Robie is a neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, trained at Brandeis and Caltech, known for machine-vision fly behavior tools and mapping the fruit fly circuits that turn learned valence into action.
Alice Agogino
Alice Agogino is an American mechanical engineer and emeritus professor at UC Berkeley known for design research and co-founding Squishy Robotics, which builds airdroppable tensegrity sensor robots.
Alice AI (AI model family)
Alice AI (Алиса AI) is a family of generative artificial intelligence models developed by Yandex, introduced on October 28, 2025, to power its Alice assistant and other services.
Alice and Bob
Alice and Bob are fictional placeholder names for the two communicating parties in cryptographic protocols, introduced by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman in their 1978 RSA paper.
Alice and Steve
Alice and Steve is a six-part British comedy-drama ('wrong-com') by Sophie Goodhart for Disney+ and Hulu, streaming from 8 June 2026, starring Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement as best friends feuding over Alice's 26-year-old daughter Izzy, with a Canneseries Best Series win and a second season confirmed in August 2026.
Alice B. Toklas
Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967), American-born Paris writer and cook, lifelong partner of Gertrude Stein; author of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954), famous for its Haschich Fudge recipe and culinary-autobiography form.
Alice Bailey
Alice Bailey, born Alice LaTrobe Bateman, was a British-born esoteric writer who claimed her books were dictated by a Tibetan Master and founded the Arcane School.