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EDM (elucidating diffusion models)

EDM (elucidating diffusion models) is a 2022 framework by Karras et al. of NVIDIA that reorganizes diffusion model sampling, training, and preconditioning into a clearly separated design space.

EDM Awards

The EDM Awards, formally the Electronic Dance Music Awards (EDMAs), are a fan-voted American awards show for electronic dance music, founded by Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton in 2022.

Edman degradation

Edman degradation is a protein chemistry method that sequentially removes and identifies the N-terminal amino acid of a peptide or protein, one residue per cycle, to determine its sequence.

Edmand Lara

Edmand Lara Montaño (also spelled Edman Lara), "Capitán Lara", Bolivian lawyer, ex-police captain, and TikTok anti-corruption figure; Vice President of Bolivia since 8 November 2025 under Rodrigo Paz, later in open opposition to him.

Edme Bouchardon

Edme Bouchardon (1698–1762) was a French sculptor and draftsman, regarded in his lifetime as the greatest sculptor of his time, and best known for the Four Seasons Fountain in Paris.

Edmen Shahbazyan (Էդմեն Շահբազյան)

Edmen Shahbazyan (Էդմեն Շահբազյան), "The Golden Boy," American UFC middleweight born 1997, 17-6 pro record, Contender Series signee, former top-10 prospect who rebuilt after a three-fight skid.

Edmodo

Edmodo.com was a free social learning network and learning management system for K-12 schools, founded in 2008, known as "Facebook for schools," and shut down in 2022.

Edmond Amran El Maleh

Edmond Amran El Maleh (إدمون عمران المالح, 1917–2010) was a Moroccan Jewish writer, journalist, and Communist activist who wrote in French, publishing his first novel at about age 60.

Edmond Barrett

Edmond (Edward, Ned) Barrett, Irish-born athlete, wrestler, and hurler; won 1908 Olympic gold in tug-of-war with City of London Police and bronze in heavyweight freestyle wrestling, plus the 1901 All-Ireland hurling title with London.

Edmond Blaise

Edmond Blaise (1872–1939) was a French organic chemist known for the Blaise reaction, first reported in 1901, who held chairs at Nancy and the Sorbonne and led research at Rhône-Poulenc.

Edmond Brun

Edmond Brun (1898–1979) was a French physicist specializing in fluid mechanics and aerothermics, professor at the Faculté des sciences de Paris and a member of the Académie des sciences.

Edmond Dantès

Edmond Dantès, protagonist of Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (serialized 1844-1846): a Marseille sailor imprisoned 14 years in the Château d'If who escapes, finds a treasure, and returns as the Count of Monte Cristo.

Edmond de Belamy

Edmond de Belamy is a 2018 portrait generated by a GAN and printed on canvas by the Paris collective Obvious, sold at Christie's New York for $432,500.

Edmond de Pressensé

Edmond de Pressensé (1824–1891) was a French Protestant pastor, theologian, historian of the early church, and parliamentarian, pastor of Paris's chapelle Taitbout and a leader of the evangelical party.

Edmond Decottignies

Edmond Decottignies (Edmond Albert Décottignies, 1893-1963), French weightlifter of Travailleurs de Comines; won 1924 Paris Olympic lightweight gold with 440.0 kg and three French titles.

Edmond E. Chang

Edmond E. Chang, also known as Edmond E-Min Chang, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2010.

Edmond H. Fischer

Edmond H. Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edwin G. Krebs for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation.

Edmond Halley

Edmond Halley, also known as Sir Edmund Halley, was an English astronomer and mathematician (1656–1742) who predicted the return of Halley's Comet and financed the first edition of Newton's Principia.

Edmond Hoyle

Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769) was an English writer and barrister whose 1742 whist treatise made him the first systematizer of the game's laws, inspiring the phrase "according to Hoyle."

Edmond J. Yunis

Edmond J. Yunis (1929–2023) was a Colombian-born immunologist and immunogeneticist who led immunogenetics at Harvard and Dana-Farber, known for MHC extended haplotypes, vaccine response genetics, and tetragametic chimerism.

Edmond Kelly

Canon Edmond (Edmund) Kelly (1874–1955) was an Irish Catholic priest and British Army chaplain with the 8th Royal Irish Fusiliers awarded the Military Cross for tending the wounded under shell fire east of Ypres on 16 August 1917.

Edmond Locard

Edmond Locard (1877–1966) was a French forensic scientist who founded the first French police laboratory in Lyon in 1910 and formulated the exchange principle, "every contact leaves a trace."

Edmond Louis Stapfer

Edmond Louis Stapfer (1844–1908) was a French Reformed pastor and theologian, professor of New Testament exegesis and dean at the Protestant theology faculty of Paris.

Edmond Malinvaud

Edmond Malinvaud (1923–2015) was a French economist and statistician who directed INSEE from 1974 to 1987, held the economic analysis chair at the Collège de France, and was a principal figure of disequilibrium macroeconomics.

Edmond Martène

Edmond Martène (1654–1739) was a French Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur who compiled ancient liturgical books and manuscript collections, traveling some 800 monasteries with Ursin Durand.

Edmond Nocard

Edmond Nocard (1850-1903), French veterinarian and Pasteur disciple, founder of veterinary microbiology; discovered Nocardia farcinica (1888), first mycoplasma (1898), and advanced tuberculosis and glanders control.

Edmond O'Brien

Edmond O'Brien (1915–1985), also Eamon Joseph O'Brien, American actor who won the 1954/1955 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Barefoot Contessa and starred in noirs D.O.A., White Heat, and The Hitch-Hiker.

Edmond Picard

Edmond Picard (1836–1924) was a Belgian jurist, legal publisher, and socialist senator who founded the 136-volume Pandectes belges and mentored young writers including Emile Verhaeren and Maurice Maeterlinck.

Edmond post office shooting

Edmond post office shooting: 20 August 1986 massacre in Edmond, Oklahoma, where USPS letter carrier Patrick Henry Sherrill killed 14 coworkers and wounded six before suicide, origin of the phrase "going postal".

Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) was a French poet and dramatist whose verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, premiered in 1897, became one of the most successful French plays ever staged.