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Paul S. Peercy
Paul S. Peercy was an American materials scientist and semiconductor researcher who directed microelectronics research at Sandia National Laboratories and was dean of engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1999 to 2013.
Paul Stephen Drzaic
Paul Stephen Drzaic is an American display scientist and Distinguished Engineer at Apple who led commercialization of E Ink e-paper, the technology behind the Kindle screen.
Paul Teutul Jr.
Paul Teutul Jr., also known as Paul Michael Teutul, is an American custom motorcycle designer and television personality best known for American Chopper and Orange County Choppers.
Paul Teutul Sr.
Paul Teutul Sr. (Paul John Teutul, born 1949) is an American motorcycle designer and television personality who founded Orange County Choppers in 1999 and starred in American Chopper.
Paul Torgersen
Paul Torgersen (1931–2015) was an American industrial engineer who served Virginia Tech as dean of engineering from 1970 to 1990 and as its 14th president from 1994 to 2000.
Paul V. Braun
Paul V. Braun, also published as Paul Braun, is an American materials scientist at the University of Illinois known for battery electrodes that charge in seconds.
Paul W. M. Blom
Paul W. M. Blom is a Dutch physicist known for research on polymer LEDs and organic solar cells, and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
Paul Westerhoff
Paul K. Westerhoff is an American environmental engineer at Arizona State University known for research on nanomaterials and PFAS in drinking water; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Paul Wurth
Paul Wurth is a Luxembourg-based engineering company that supplies ironmaking and cokemaking technology, known for the Bell Less Top charging system invented in 1969 and owned by SMS group.
Paul Zia
Paul Zia (1926–2023) was a Chinese-born American structural engineer at North Carolina State University and a founding figure of prestressed concrete in the United States.
Paulínia Refinery
The Paulínia Refinery (REPLAN) is a Petrobras oil refinery in Paulínia, Brazil, opened in 1972 and the largest in the country at 434,000 barrels per day.
Paulo Afonso IV hydroelectric plant
Paulo Afonso IV is a 2,462 MW hydroelectric plant on the São Francisco River at Paulo Afonso, Bahia, Brazil, the largest plant of the Paulo Afonso Complex.
Paulo J.M. Monteiro
Paulo J.M. Monteiro is a civil engineer and materials scientist at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for his work on concrete.
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
Pause Giant AI Experiments is a 2023 open letter from the Future of Life Institute calling for a six-month pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Paute Molino hydroelectric plant
The Paute Molino hydroelectric plant, also known as Cola de San Pablo, is a 1,100 MW hydroelectric station on the Paute River in Ecuador, operating since 1983.
Pauto Sur Oil and Gas Field
The Pauto Sur Oil and Gas Field is an onshore field in Colombia's Llanos basin, Casanare, discovered in 1995 and described as the country's largest gas producer.
Pavel Durov (Павел Валерьевич Дуров)
Pavel Durov (Павел Дуров) is a Russian-born technology entrepreneur who founded VKontakte in 2006 and Telegram in 2013, and left Russia in 2014 after refusing to hand over user data.
Pavel Sukhoi
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (Павел Сухой, 1895–1975) was a Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Sukhoi Design Bureau, creating over 50 designs including the Su-7, Su-24, and Su-27.
Pavement condition index
The pavement condition index (PCI) is a 0-to-100 rating of pavement surface condition, developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and standardized in ASTM D6433.
Pavement management system
A pavement management system (PMS) is a set of tools that helps road agencies plan and maintain pavement networks, recommending treatments so the network stays serviceable at least cost.
Pavement milling
Pavement milling, also called cold planing or asphalt milling, is a road-rehabilitation process in which a rotating cutter drum grinds away a controlled depth of old pavement for recycling.
Pavement preservation
Pavement preservation is a program of planned, cost-effective treatments applied to existing pavements, chiefly while still in good condition, to extend service life and improve safety without adding structural capacity.
Paveway
Paveway is a family of bolt-on guidance kits, developed by Texas Instruments for the US Air Force in the late 1960s, that convert standard bombs into laser-guided precision weapons.
Pavilion
A pavilion is a light, often ornamental free-standing building, or a projecting subdivision of a larger building; the word comes from the French pavillion, originally a square tent.
Pavlodar-Shymkent Oil Pipeline
The Pavlodar-Shymkent Oil Pipeline (Russian: Нефтепровод Павлодар – Шымкент) is an operating crude oil trunk pipeline in Kazakhstan, running from Pavlodar in the north to Shymkent in the south.
PAWAFURU PUROYAKYU Kaimaku Medal Series!
PAWAFURU PUROYAKYU Kaimaku Medal Series! (パワフルプロ野球 開幕メダルシリーズ！) is a series of four-player medal pusher arcade games by Konami Amusement, part of the Power Pros franchise, first released in Japan in 2024.
Pawan K. Goenka
Pawan K. Goenka is an Indian mechanical engineer known as the "Father of the Scorpio" SUV, who rose to lead Mahindra & Mahindra and now chairs IN-SPACe.
Pax8, Inc.
Pax8, Inc. is an American cloud commerce marketplace company founded in 2012 and based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, connecting managed service providers with vendors of cloud software and infrastructure.
Paxos (computer science)
Paxos is a family of distributed consensus algorithms presented by Leslie Lamport in 1998, which keeps replicated systems safe despite crashes and lost messages and underlies Google's Chubby and Spanner.
Pay television
Pay television, also called pay TV, premium television, or subscription television, is programming delivered only to subscribers who pay a periodic fee, beginning with HBO in 1972.