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NMC 811
NMC 811, also written NCM811, is a nickel-rich lithium-ion battery cathode material, LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2, named for its 8:1:1 nickel-manganese-cobalt ratio, offering high capacity but facing degradation and safety challenges in electric vehicles.
NMEA 0183
NMEA 0183 is a marine electronics data standard, first published in 1983, that sends ASCII sentences over a serial line from one talker device to listeners.
No Easy Day
No Easy Day is a 2012 memoir by a Navy SEAL writing as Mark Owen, the first firsthand account of the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
No free lunch theorem
The no free lunch (NFL) theorem is a 1997 mathematical result by Wolpert and Macready stating that averaged over all possible objective functions, all search algorithms perform equally well.
No instruction set computing
No instruction set computing (NISC) is a computer architecture in which a compiler maps programs directly onto a custom datapath, introduced by Daniel Gajski in the early 2000s.
No Kum-sok
No Kum-sok (卢今锡), later Kenneth H. Rowe, was a North Korean Air Force pilot who defected in September 1953 by flying his MiG-15 jet to South Korea.
No Language Left Behind
No Language Left Behind is a Meta AI machine translation project announced in 2022 whose NLLB-200 model translates directly between 200 languages, including many low-resource African and Indian languages.
No overtaking sign
A no overtaking sign is a regulatory traffic sign, designated C,13aa under the Vienna Convention, that prohibits overtaking until a sign canceling the restriction is passed.
No Thanks (app)
No Thanks is a free barcode-scanning app that tells shoppers whether a product is on a boycott list connected to Israel. It was launched in 2023 by Palestinian engineer Ahmed Bashbash.
No-AI label
A No-AI label is a visible badge or declaration stating a work was produced without generative AI, issued by many competing schemes with no legal force.
No-regret learning
No-regret learning is an online decision-making method where a player repeatedly chooses actions against unknown losses, with regret growing sublinearly, dating to work by Hannan and Blackwell in the 1950s.
No-till farming
No-till farming, also called zero tillage, is a crop production method that drills seeds directly into untilled soil, leaving crop residue on the surface to reduce erosion.
No. 1 Squadron (South African Air Force)
No. 1 Squadron was the senior fighter squadron of the South African Air Force, serving as a front-line unit from 1920 until its disbandment in 1997.
No. 1 Squadron RAAF
No. 1 Squadron RAAF, formed as No. 1 Squadron AFC in 1916, is the Royal Australian Air Force's oldest squadron, now flying F/A-18F Super Hornets from Amberley.
No. 2 diesel
No. 2 diesel is a middle-distillate petroleum fuel for high-speed diesel engines in trucks and locomotives, the most common grade sold at United States retail pumps.
No. 303 Squadron RAF
No. 303 Squadron RAF, the Polish Kosciuszko Squadron, was an RAF fighter squadron formed at Northolt in August 1940, the top-scoring Fighter Command unit of the Battle of Britain.
No. 617 Squadron RAF
No. 617 Squadron RAF, the "Dambusters", is a Royal Air Force squadron formed in 1943 to attack the Ruhr dams, and now flies the F-35B from RAF Marham.
No. 9 Squadron (Pakistan Air Force)
No. 9 Squadron, nicknamed the Griffins, is the senior-most fighter squadron of the Pakistan Air Force, raised in 1943 and now flying F-16s from Sargodha.
Noa Lincoln
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln is an American agroecologist and associate professor of Indigenous Crops and Cropping Systems at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, studying traditional Hawaiian agriculture.
NOAA (satellite series)
The NOAA satellite series is a family of American polar-orbiting weather satellites named since NOAA-1 launched in 1970, supplying over 80% of the data used in numerical weather prediction.
Noah A. Smith
Noah A. Smith is an American NLP researcher, a University of Washington professor and AI2 senior director who leads the OLMo open language model effort.
Noah J. Cowan
Noah J. Cowan is an American mechanical engineer at Johns Hopkins University who studies locomotion control in animals and robots, founding the LIMBS Laboratory and winning a 2010 PECASE award.
Noah Snavely
Noah Snavely is a computer scientist, professor at Cornell Tech, and Google DeepMind research scientist known for turning ordinary online photos into 3D models, work behind Microsoft Photosynth.
Noam Brown
Noam Brown is an AI research scientist at OpenAI who led Libratus and Pluribus, the first superhuman poker AIs, and co-developed CICERO, the first human-level Diplomacy AI.
Noam Nisan
Noam Nisan is an Israeli computer scientist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, credited with founding algorithmic mechanism design and honored with the Gödel and Knuth Prizes.
Noam Shazeer
Noam Shazeer is an AI researcher who co-authored the 2017 Transformer paper, co-founded Character.AI in 2021, and returned to Google in a $2.7 billion deal in 2024.
Nobel Sport
Nobel Sport is a French ammunition manufacturer headquartered in Paris, known for hunting shotshells and powders produced at its Pont-de-Buis plant in Brittany, part of Sofisport.
Noble Automotive
Noble Automotive, also known as Noble Cars, is a British low-volume sports car manufacturer founded by engineer Lee Noble in Leeds in 1999, best known for the M12 and M600.
Noble Energy
Noble Energy was a Houston-based American oil and natural gas exploration and production company, active from 1932, known for Israel's Tamar and Leviathan gas fields.
Noboru Kikuchi
Noboru Kikuchi is a Japanese mechanical engineer, University of Michigan professor emeritus and former president of Toyota Central R&D Labs, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.