Technology and the built world

Romashkino field

The Romashkino field, also spelled Romashkinskoye, is a giant oil field in Tatarstan, Russia, discovered in 1948 and developed from 1952 as the centerpiece of the Volga-Ural oil province.

Romb

Romb is a Soviet satellite bus built by the Yuzhnoye design bureau for radar calibration satellites simulating warheads, flown under Cosmos designations from 1976 to 1995.

Rome Call for AI Ethics

The Rome Call for AI Ethics is a declaration of six principles for ethical artificial intelligence, first signed in Rome in 2020 by the Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, and others.

Rome Ciampino Airport (Giovan Battista Pastine, IATA CIA), Rome's second airport after Fiumicino, opened 1916 as an airship base; now serves low-cost flights, cargo, general aviation, and the Italian Air Force's 31° Stormo, with a 23:00-06:00 night curfew.

Rome Fiumicino Airport

Rome Fiumicino Airport, formally Rome Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, is Rome's principal international airport at Fiumicino, 32 km from the city center, and Italy's busiest by passenger traffic.

Romeo-class submarine

The Romeo-class submarine, designated Project 633, was a Soviet diesel-electric torpedo attack submarine of the 1950s; the USSR built only about 20 before switching to nuclear boats.

Romgaz

Romgaz is a Romanian natural gas company headquartered in Mediaș and the largest producer and main supplier of gas in Romania, majority owned by the state.

Ron Alterovitz

Ron Alterovitz is an American computer scientist and roboticist at UNC-Chapel Hill, known for autonomous medical needle steering for lung biopsy and a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award.

Ron Kimmel

Ron Kimmel is an Israeli computer scientist and Technion professor who works on geometric image processing, shape analysis, and deep learning for medical imaging and computational pathology.

Ron Rivest

Ron Rivest, born 1947 in Schenectady, New York, is an American computer scientist at MIT who co-invented the RSA cryptosystem, winning the 2002 Turing Award.

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Ron Rohrer

Ron Rohrer, also known as Ronald A. Rohrer, is an American electrical engineer who pioneered circuit simulation and electronic design automation, creating the CANCER program that led to SPICE.

Ron Weiss

Ron Weiss is an MIT professor of biological engineering and EECS, director of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center, and a pioneer of synthetic biology who programs cells with genetic circuits.

Ronald A. Howard

Ronald A. Howard (1934–2024) was an American engineer and Stanford professor who founded the discipline of decision analysis, introduced policy iteration and influence diagrams, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Ronald A. Rohrer

Ronald A. Rohrer is an American electrical engineer who pioneered circuit simulation and electronic design automation, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Ronald Adrian

Ronald Adrian is an American mechanical engineer and Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, known for developing particle image velocimetry, a leading method for measuring turbulent flow.

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Ronald Coifman

Ronald Coifman, born 1941, is a Yale mathematician known for wavelet theory, Coiflets, and diffusion maps for extracting structure from data; he received the National Medal of Science.

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Ronald de Wolf

Ronald de Wolf (born 1973) is a Dutch researcher in quantum computing and complexity theory at CWI and the University of Amsterdam, known for the polynomial method and the 2023 Gödel Prize.

Ronald F. Probstein

Ronald F. Probstein (1928–2021) was an American mechanical engineer and fluid mechanician, a professor at MIT whose research on hypersonic flow and shock waves informed early spacecraft design and ballistic missile reentry physics.

Ronald Fagin

Ronald Fagin is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research in San Jose, best known for Fagin's theorem, which founded finite model theory.

Ronald Fedkiw

Ronald Fedkiw is a Stanford computer science professor known for the Ghost Fluid Method and fluid simulation software used in films, earning two Scientific and Technical Academy Awards.

Ronald G. Larson

Ronald G. Larson, born 1953 in Minnesota, is an American chemical engineer at the University of Michigan known for polymer rheology and elastic flow instabilities.

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Ronald J. Williams

Ronald J. Williams was an American computer scientist at Northeastern University who created the RTRL and REINFORCE algorithms and coauthored the landmark 1986 backpropagation paper in Nature.

Ronald L. Geer

Ronald L. Geer (born 1926) is an American mechanical engineer who spent his 35-year career at Shell Oil Company, contributing to deep-water offshore drilling including the Blue Water I vessel.

Ronald McNair

Ronald Erwin McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut, the second African American in space, who played saxophone aboard Challenger and died in its 1986 launch explosion.

Ronald Owen Hamburger

Ronald Owen Hamburger is an American structural and seismic engineer, Senior Principal at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger in San Francisco, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Ronald P. Nordgren

Ronald P. Nordgren is an American mechanical engineer at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for offshore engineering and petroleum technology.

Ronald Polcawich

Ronald G. Polcawich is an American materials scientist who develops piezoelectric MEMS at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Maryland, receiving the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.

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Ronald Rael

Ronald Rael is an American architect, author, and design technologist at UC Berkeley, known for the Teeter-Totter Wall at the US–Mexico border and 3D-printed earthen architecture.

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (RRB/ITC), Washington DC's largest structure at 3.1 million sq ft on Pennsylvania Avenue; GSA-owned, TCMA-operated federal building and official World Trade Center, opened May 5, 1998.