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LeNet

LeNet is a family of convolutional neural networks from Yann LeCun's team at AT&T Bell Labs for reading handwritten digits, culminating in LeNet-5 in 1998.

Leningrad nuclear power plant

The Leningrad nuclear power plant (Ленинградская АЭС) is a Russian nuclear power station at Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast, supplying more than 55% of the electricity of St Petersburg and the region.

Leningrad-Vyborg-State Border Gas Pipeline

The Leningrad-Vyborg-State Border Gas Pipeline is a natural gas transmission pipeline in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, owned by Gazprom and running from near Saint Petersburg to the Finnish border since 1973.

Lenna

Lenna, also spelled Lena, is a 512 × 512 digitized photo of Swedish model Lena Forsén that became a standard test image in image processing.

Lennart Ljung (electrical engineer)

Lennart Ljung, born 1946 in Malmö, Sweden, is a Swedish electrical engineer and professor emeritus at Linköping University, known for the modern theory of system identification.

Lennox generating station

Lennox Generating Station is a dual-fueled oil and natural gas peaking power station on Lake Ontario in Greater Napanee, Ontario, owned by Ontario Power Generation.

Lennox International

Lennox International is an American heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration manufacturer founded in 1895 by Dave Lennox, who built the world's first riveted-steel furnace, and headquartered in Richardson, Texas.

Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum (born 1942) is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for the Blum–Shub–Smale theory of computation over the real numbers and for advancing women in computing at Carnegie Mellon.

Lenovo (联想集团有限公司)

Lenovo (联想集团), formally Lenovo Group Limited, is a Hong Kong-listed Chinese technology company founded in 1984 that acquired IBM's PC business in 2005 and is the world's largest personal computer vendor.

Lenovo Legion Go

The Lenovo Legion Go is a Windows 11 handheld gaming PC released by Lenovo in October 2023, with an 8.8-inch touchscreen, rear kickstand, and detachable controllers like the Nintendo Switch's.

Lenovo LOQ

Lenovo LOQ (pronounced "lock") is Lenovo's budget gaming PC sub-brand, positioned below its premium Legion line for new and first-time gamers; announced March 23, 2023 with 15- and 16-inch laptops and the LOQ Tower.

Lensless imaging

Lensless imaging is a computational imaging method that replaces a camera's focusing lens with a thin coded mask or diffuser on a bare sensor, reconstructing the image algorithmically.

Lenticular printing

Lenticular printing, also called wiggle pictures, is a technique that combines an interlaced image with a plastic sheet of cylindrical lenses, producing flips, animations, and 3D effects without glasses.

LEO (computer)

LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) was a family of British computers built by J. Lyons and Co.; LEO I ran the world's first business computer job in 1951.

Leo Breiman

Leo Breiman (1928–2005) was an American statistician and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who created bagging and Random Forests, co-created CART, and won the 2005 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award.

Leo Chiang

Leo Chiang is an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for process data analytics, after 24 years at Dow Chemical.

Leo R. Beard

Leo Roy Beard (1917–2009) was an American civil engineer and hydrologist who coined the term hydrologic engineering, founded the Corps' Hydrologic Engineering Center, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.

Leo Rover

Leo Rover is a four-wheeled mobile robot platform made by Fictionlab of Wrocław, Poland, sold as a kit or assembled and built on ROS for research and education.

Leo Young (electrical engineer)

Leo Young (1926–2006) was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who led microwave filter research at Stanford Research Institute, directed research at the Pentagon, and co-authored the 1964 filter handbook.

LEON (microprocessor)

LEON is a family of fault-tolerant 32-bit SPARC V8 microprocessor cores developed by ESA and Gaisler, distributed as open-source VHDL and used as the standard core for European spacecraft.

Léon Charles Thévenin

Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who published Thévenin's theorem in 1883, letting a linear circuit be replaced by a voltage source and resistance.

Leon K. Kirchmayer

Leon K. Kirchmayer (1924–1995) was an American electrical engineer at General Electric, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for power-system control and planning.

Leon Theremin (Лев Сергеевич Термен)

Leon Theremin, born Lev Sergeyevich Termen, was a Russian physicist and inventor who created the theremin, the first major electronic instrument, and the Great Seal listening bug.

Leon-Castile (oil field)

Leon-Castile is a pair of deepwater oil fields in the Keathley Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana, which began producing oil in 2025.

LEON3

LEON3 is a synthesizable VHDL model of a 32-bit SPARC V8 processor, designed at Gaisler Research in Sweden in 2004 for spacecraft, with a fault-tolerant variant flying on satellites such as Spot-6 and Galileo.

Leonard Adleman

Leonard Adleman, born 1945, is an American computer scientist at the University of Southern California who co-invented the RSA cryptosystem in 1977 and founded DNA computing in 1994.

Leonard Cutler

Leonard Cutler (1928–2006) was an American physicist who cofounded HP Labs and led development of the HP 5060A and 5071A cesium atomic clocks, whose 5071A remains the largest contributor of cesium clocks to Coordinated Universal Time.

Leonard F. Fuller

Leonard F. Fuller (1890–1987) was an American electrical engineer who, as chief engineer of the Federal Telegraph Company, developed high-power Poulsen arc transmitters used by the United States Navy for long-distance radio telegraphy.

Leonard J. Koch

Leonard J. Koch (1920–2015) was an American nuclear engineer who served on EBR-I, the first reactor to generate electricity, and managed its successor EBR-II at Argonne.

Leonard Kleinrock

Leonard Kleinrock, born 1934, is an American computer scientist at UCLA whose mathematical theory of packet switching underpinned the Internet; his lab sent the first ARPANET message in 1969.