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Niantic Spatial
Niantic Spatial is an American geospatial AI company formed in 2025 when Niantic, the maker of Pokémon GO, spun off its platform after selling its games to Scopely.
Nibble
A nibble, also spelled nybble, is a unit of digital information equal to four bits, half of a byte, and corresponds to one hexadecimal digit.
Nibutani Dam
Nibutani Dam (二風谷ダム) is a dam on the Saru River in Biratori, Hokkaido, Japan, built on expropriated Ainu land and known for the 1997 Nibutani Dam Decision.
Nicalon
Nicalon is a family of continuous silicon carbide fibers produced by Nippon Carbon of Tokyo and used to reinforce polymer, metal, and ceramic matrix composites for aerospace and nuclear applications.
Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project
The Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project was a proposed 275.5 km ship canal across Nicaragua linking the Pacific and Caribbean, granted in 2013 and canceled in 2024.
Nice Côte d'Azur Airport
Nice Côte d'Azur Airport, also known as Côte d'Azur International Airport, is an international airport southwest of Nice, France, and the country's second-busiest after Paris.
Nichia Corporation
Nichia Corporation (日亜化学工業) is a Japanese chemical and optoelectronics manufacturer in Anan, Tokushima, founded in 1956, where Shuji Nakamura developed the first high-brightness blue LED in 1993.
Nicholas A. Melosh
Nicholas A. Melosh is a materials scientist and professor at Stanford University who directs the Nanofabrication Center and is known for diamondoid electron-emission research and nanostraws that deliver molecules into cells.
Nicholas Ayache
Nicholas Ayache, born 1958 in Paris, is a French computer scientist and Research Director at Inria Sophia Antipolis, known for medical image analysis and co-founding the MICCAI conference.
Nicholas Carlini
Nicholas Carlini is an American computer security researcher at Anthropic, known for adversarial attacks on machine learning models and extracting training data from large language models.
Nicholas Glavin
Nicholas Glavin is a materials scientist and Senior Materials Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, known for 2D materials research and the 2025 PECASE award.
Nicholas J. Garber
Nicholas J. Garber is a traffic engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who co-authored the textbook Traffic & Highway Engineering and held professorships at Virginia and Central Florida.
Nicholas J. Grant
Nicholas J. Grant (1915–2004) was an American metallurgist and MIT professor known for high-temperature alloys and rapid solidification processing, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
Nicholas Kotov
Nicholas A. Kotov is an American materials scientist and chemical engineer at the University of Michigan known for biomimetic nanostructures, self-assembled nanocomposites, and chiral nanomaterials.
Nicholas L. Abbott
Nicholas L. Abbott is an American chemical engineer, the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University since 2018, known for liquid-crystal sensors and self-assembly directed by topological defects.
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte is an American computer scientist who founded MIT's Architecture Machine Group, co-founded the MIT Media Lab in 1985, and wrote the 1995 bestseller Being Digital.
Nicholas Rott
Nicholas Rott, born Miklós Rott in Budapest in 1917, was a Hungarian-born aerodynamicist who developed thermoacoustics, taught at ETH Zurich, Cornell, and UCLA, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Nicholas Turner (chemist)
Nicholas J. Turner (born 1960) is a British chemist at the University of Manchester known for engineering enzymes, above all imine reductases, as biocatalysts for making chiral amines.
Nichrome
Nichrome, often written NiCr, is a family of nickel-chromium resistance alloys, usually 80% nickel and 20% chromium, used in heating elements from toasters to industrial furnaces.
Nick Andersen
Nick Andersen, full name Nicholas M. Andersen, is an American cybersecurity official and Marine veteran who joined CISA in 2025 and became its Acting Director in February 2026.
Nick Donofrio
Nick Donofrio is an American electrical engineer who spent 44 years at IBM, retiring in 2008 as Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology, and now chairs Quantexa.
Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster, also known as Nicholas Feamster, is an American computer scientist and Neubauer Professor at the University of Chicago who studies computer networking and Internet security.
Nick Frosst
Nick Frosst, also known as Nicholas Frosst, is a Canadian computer scientist who co-founded the AI company Cohere in 2019 and is lead vocalist of the band Good Kid.
Nick Holonyak
Nick Holonyak Jr. (1928–2022) was an American electronics engineer who demonstrated the first practical visible LED at General Electric in 1962, and later taught for fifty years at the University of Illinois.
Nick McKeown
Nick McKeown is a Stanford computer networks researcher, co-inventor of software-defined networking and creator of the iSLIP scheduling algorithm, who won the 2025 Marconi Prize.
Nick Newman (naval architect)
Nick Newman, born 1935, is an American naval architect and marine hydrodynamicist, MIT professor emeritus known for the textbook Marine Hydrodynamics and the wave-load code WAMIT.
Nick Parziale
Nick Parziale, or Nicholaus Parziale, is an American experimental fluid dynamicist and professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, known for krypton tagging velocimetry in supersonic and hypersonic flows.
Nick Schrock
Nick Schrock is an American software engineer, co-creator of GraphQL at Facebook, and founder and CTO of Dagster Labs, whose open-source Python data orchestration platform Dagster raised $49M.
Nick Szabo
Nick Szabo is an American computer scientist and cryptographer who coined the term smart contract in 1994 and designed Bit Gold, a precursor to Bitcoin.
Nick Tahou Hots
Nick Tahou Hots, also known as Nick Tahou's, is a restaurant in Rochester, New York, founded in 1918 and known as the home of the trademarked Garbage Plate.