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Pathfinding
Pathfinding is the computational problem of finding a route through a graph or map from a start to a goal, minimizing costs such as distance or travel time.
Pathmark
Pathmark was a supermarket chain in the northeastern United States from 1968 to 2015, first under Supermarkets General and later A&P, an early pioneer of checkout scanning; the brand was revived in 2019.
Pathways (Google)
Pathways is Google's runtime and scheduler for executing machine learning workloads across thousands of TPU chips, announced by Jeff Dean in 2021 and used to train PaLM.
Patio process
The patio process is a method of refining silver by mercury amalgamation, introduced by Bartolomé de Medina at Pachuca, Mexico, in the mid-1550s and used for about 350 years.
Patnow power station
Patnow power station (Elektrownia Pątnów) is a lignite-fired power station at Pątnów near Konin in central Poland, owned by ZE PAK; after retirements only its 474 MW unit, Poland's first supercritical unit, remains in operation.
Patoka (oil hub)
Patoka is the second-largest crude oil storage and pipeline hub in the United States after Cushing, Oklahoma, located in Marion County, Illinois, and serving as the terminus of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Patos-Marinza Oil Field
The Patos-Marinza oil field is a heavy-oil field in central Albania, east of Fier, discovered in 1928 and one of the largest onshore oil fields in Europe.
Patratu Coal Mine
The Patratu Coal Mine is a proposed underground coal mine in Ramgarh district, Jharkhand, India, planned by Central Coalfields Limited with a capacity of 5 million tonnes per annum.
Patratu JSEB power station
The Patratu JSEB power station, formally Patratu Thermal Power Station (PTPS), was a 840 MW coal-fired power station at Patratu in Jharkhand, India, owned by the Jharkhand State Electricity Board.
Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam
Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited, commonly abbreviated PVUNL, is an Indian power generation company incorporated in 2015, owned 74 percent by NTPC and 26 percent by Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam.
Patreon
Patreon, also known as Patreon.com, is a membership platform founded in 2013 by Jack Conte and Sam Yam that lets fans pay creators recurring monthly or per-work pledges.
Patria AMV
The Patria AMV (Armoured Modular Vehicle) is a Finnish 8×8 wheeled armored vehicle made by Patria, in serial production since 2004 with over 1,600 sold by 2021.
Patrice Simon
Patrice Simon is a French materials scientist and electrochemist, professor at Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, known for his work on nanoporous carbons for supercapacitors.
Patricia Selinger
Patricia Selinger is an American computer scientist who invented cost-based query optimization while leading IBM's System R team, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Patrick Cousot
Patrick Cousot is a French computer scientist who, with his wife Radhia Cousot, invented abstract interpretation, a theory underlying static analyzers that verify Airbus flight-control software.
Patrick Drahi
Patrick Drahi (פטריק דרהי) is a French-Israeli billionaire telecom and media entrepreneur, born in Casablanca in 1963, who founded and built the Altice group through more than 20 acquisitions.
Patrick F. Flynn
Patrick F. Flynn is an American mechanical engineer, retired vice president for research at Cummins Engine Company, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Patrick Hsu
Patrick Hsu, also known as Patrick D. Hsu, is an American bioengineer, Arc Institute co-founder, and Stanford professor known for bridge RNAs, the first programmable RNA-guided DNA recombinases.
Patrick Suppes
Patrick Suppes (1922–2014) was an American philosopher of science at Stanford from 1950, known for measurement theory, computer-assisted instruction, and brain-wave research, winning the 1990 National Medal of Science.
Patrick Winston
Patrick Henry Winston (1943–2019) was an American computer scientist who directed the MIT AI Laboratory for 25 years and wrote a widely used textbook on artificial intelligence.
Patrol boat
A patrol boat is a small naval or coast guard vessel, typically 10 to 60 meters long, used for border protection, anti-smuggling, fisheries patrols, and rescue.
Patrol Boat, River
The Patrol Boat, River (PBR) was a small, fast fiberglass patrol craft built for the US Navy, the principal river patrol vessel in South Vietnam from 1966.
Patrol Craft Fast
The Patrol Craft Fast, or Swift boat, was a 50-foot aluminum patrol craft the US Navy used for coastal and riverine patrols during the Vietnam War.
Patrol Police of Ukraine
The Patrol Police of Ukraine (Патрульна поліція України) is the road-patrol and first-response unit of the National Police of Ukraine, created in 2015 to replace the Soviet-era traffic police.
Patrol torpedo boat PT-109
PT-109 was a US Navy motor torpedo boat rammed by a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Islands in 1943 while commanded by John F. Kennedy.
Patrouilleurs Hauturiers
The Patrouilleurs Hauturiers (PH) are a class of ten offshore patrol vessels being built for the French Navy by Piriou, CMN, and Socarenam, with the first launched in 2026.
Pattern 1853 Enfield
The Pattern 1853 Enfield, or P53 Enfield, is a British .577 caliber rifled musket adopted in 1853, the second-most used rifle of the American Civil War.
Pattern 1914 Enfield
The Pattern 1914 Enfield, known as the P14 and later Rifle No. 3, is a British bolt-action rifle in .303 British made largely in America during World War I.
Pattern Energy
Pattern Energy is a privately held American clean energy company headquartered in San Francisco, operating more than 40 wind, solar, and transmission facilities across North America.
Pattern formation in robot swarms
Pattern formation in robot swarms is the problem of making many simple, autonomous robots arrange into a specified shape using only local interactions, famously shown by 1,024 Kilobots in 2014.