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Knoll
Knoll is an American furniture company founded in 1938 by Hans Knoll, known for modernist designs and pioneering professional interior design through its Knoll Planning Unit.
Knot
The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, or about 1.15 mph, named for the knotted rope of the old chip log.
KNOT Offshore Partners LP
KNOT Offshore Partners LP, a Marshall Islands limited partnership formed in 2013 and listed on the NYSE as KNOP, owns 19 shuttle tankers on long-term charters, headquartered in Aberdeen.
Knowledge cutoff
A knowledge cutoff, or data cutoff, is the date up to which a machine learning model's training data was gathered, so it lacks later events.
Knowledge distillation (for LLMs)
Knowledge distillation for large language models is a training technique that transfers a large teacher model's behavior into a smaller student, introduced by Hinton, Vinyals, and Dean in 2015.
Knowledge editing (ROME/MEMIT)
Knowledge editing is a family of techniques that surgically changes specific facts stored in a trained language model's weights without retraining, notably ROME (2022) and MEMIT.
Knowledge graph
A knowledge graph is a structured representation of knowledge as a network of entities and relationships, typically stored as triples, popularized by Google's 2012 search launch.
Knowledge graph embedding
Knowledge graph embedding is a machine learning method that represents knowledge graph entities and relations as low-dimensional vectors, used to predict missing links and classify triples.
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Knowledge representation and reasoning (KR) is the artificial intelligence field concerned with encoding knowledge in machine-interpretable form and computationally drawing conclusions, such as checking consistency or answering queries.
Knowledge tracing
Knowledge tracing is a machine learning method that predicts how likely a student is to answer future questions correctly, serving as the student model in intelligent tutoring systems.
Knowledge-based recommender system
A knowledge-based recommender system (KBR) recommends items by reasoning over explicit knowledge and the user's stated requirements, avoiding cold-start problems in infrequent purchases like financial services.
Knowles Corporation
Knowles Corporation is an American electronics components manufacturer founded in 1946 and headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, best known for microphones and speakers for hearing aids.
Known good die
A known good die (KGD) is a bare semiconductor die tested and screened before assembly to match the quality and reliability of an equivalent packaged chip.
Knud Rahbek
Knud Rahbek (1891–1971) was a Danish electrical engineer who discovered the Johnsen–Rahbek electrostatic adhesion effect with Alfred Johnsen in 1917, and later helped build Denmark's first radio stations.
Knurling
Knurling is a manufacturing process, typically done on a lathe, in which hardened toothed wheels press straight, diagonal, or diamond ridges into a rotating cylinder for grip.
Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
The Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm, or KMP, is a string matching algorithm that turns the search string into a finite state machine, published by Knuth, Morris, and Pratt in 1977.
KNX (standard)
KNX is an open standard for home and building automation controlling lighting, heating, ventilation, blinds, and security, governed by the KNX Association in Brussels and standardized as ISO/IEC 14543-3.
Koa (web framework)
Koa is an HTTP middleware framework for Node.js using async functions, designed by the team behind Express as a smaller foundation for web applications and APIs.
Kobalt (satellite)
Kobalt-M, also known as Yantar-4K2M, was a Russian film-return photographic reconnaissance satellite, the final version of the Yantar-4K2 series, launched ten times from Plesetsk between 2004 and 2015.
Kobbi Nissim
Kobbi Nissim is a computer scientist, professor at Georgetown University, and co-introducer of differential privacy, the privacy framework used in the 2020 US Census; he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.
Kobe power station
Kobe power station (神戸発電所) is a coal-fired power plant in Kobe, Japan, owned by Kobe Steel, with four units totaling 2,700 MW supplying Kansai Electric.
Kobi Cohen
Kobi Cohen (קובי כהן) is an Israeli signal processing and communications researcher, an Associate Professor at Ben-Gurion University known for deep reinforcement learning for dynamic spectrum access.
Kobo eReader
The Kobo eReader is a line of E Ink e-readers made by Rakuten Kobo of Toronto, launched in 2010 and distinguished from the Kindle by open formats and library borrowing.
KoboldAI
KoboldAI is an open-source suite for running AI language models on a user's own computer, built around story writing, roleplay, and text generation, including KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite.
Kobryn-Brest-Warsaw Gas Pipeline
The Kobryn-Brest-Warsaw Gas Pipeline is a gas transmission pipeline from Kobryn and Brest in Belarus to Warsaw, commissioned in 1985 as an offshoot of the Soviet Siyaniye Severa system.
Kobuki
Kobuki (Korean for "doll") is a differential-drive mobile robot base developed by Yujin Robot of Seoul as the base of the TurtleBot 2, a standard ROS research and education platform released in 2012.
Koch Industries
Koch Industries, rebranded as Koch Inc. in 2024, is a privately held American conglomerate based in Wichita, Kansas, founded in 1940 and led by Charles Koch since 1967.
Kochi LNG Terminal
The Kochi LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas import terminal at Puthuvypeen island in Kochi, Kerala, India, owned and operated by Petronet LNG Limited as its second terminal.
Kochi Metro (കൊച്ചി മെട്രോ)
Kochi Metro (കൊച്ചി മെട്രോ), also called Kochi Metro Rail, is a rapid transit system serving Kochi, Kerala, India, opened in June 2017; it runs about 28 km from Aluva to Tripunithura.
Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangalore Gas Pipeline
The Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangalore Gas Pipeline is a 1,104 km natural gas pipeline in southern India, built by GAIL to carry LNG from Kochi, Kerala, to Mangaluru and Bengaluru.