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Scott Kirkpatrick
Scott Kirkpatrick is a physicist and computer scientist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2000 and lead author of the landmark 1983 simulated annealing paper in Science.
Scott M. Husson
Scott M. Husson is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at Clemson University, a 2000 PECASE recipient who co-founded the membrane-chromatography company Purilogics, acquired by Donaldson Company in 2022.
Scott McNealy
Scott McNealy, born in 1954, is an American business executive who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and led it as chief executive officer for 21 years, until 2006.
Scott R. White
Scott R. White was an American materials scientist and professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for self-healing polymers and frontal polymerization.
Scott Russell linkage
The Scott Russell linkage is a mechanism that converts rotation or sliding input into an exact straight-line output, patented in 1803 and named for John Scott Russell.
Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker is a computer scientist and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered software-defined networking and fair queueing, founded Nicira Networks and Databricks, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Scott T. Milner
Scott T. Milner is an American polymer physicist who spent 19 years at ExxonMobil before joining Penn State, and received the 2025 APS Polymer Physics Prize.
Scott Technology
Scott Technology is a New Zealand company headquartered in Dunedin that designs and manufactures automation and robotic systems for meat processing, mining, and logistics, founded in 1913.
Scott Wu
Scott Wu, born in 1997, is an American entrepreneur and former competitive programmer who co-founded Cognition, the company behind the AI software engineer Devin, launched in March 2024.
Scott X. Mao
Scott X. Mao, also published as S. X. Mao, is a materials scientist and mechanical engineer, professor at Purdue University, known for in-situ atomic-resolution TEM of nanomaterials.
Scottish & Newcastle
Scottish & Newcastle was a British brewer formed in 1960, the United Kingdom's largest until its £7.8 billion break-up by Heineken and Carlsberg in 2008.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is the electricity network business of SSE plc, running transmission in northern Scotland and distribution in northern Scotland and central southern England.
Scottish Aviation Bulldog
The Scottish Aviation Bulldog, also known as the Beagle Bulldog, is a two-seat aerobatic military trainer produced at Prestwick, Scotland, from 1971, with 130 serving the RAF.
Scottish Water
Scottish Water is the publicly owned water and wastewater utility of Scotland, created in 2002, supplying drinking water and treating wastewater for over 5.2 million people.
ScottishPower
ScottishPower, also known as Scottish Power plc, is a UK energy utility owned by Spain's Iberdrola, formed in 1990 and combining generation, networks, and retail supply.
Scour protection
Scour protection is the set of engineering measures that prevent or limit erosion of sediment around structures founded in water, most commonly around offshore wind turbine foundations and bridge piers.
Scout (rocket family)
Scout was an American small orbital launch vehicle flown for NASA from 1960 to 1994, and in February 1961 it became the first entirely solid-propellant rocket to reach orbit.
Scout Terra
The Scout Terra is a full-size electric pickup from Scout Motors, unveiled in 2024 with up to 350 miles of range and production targeted for 2027.
Scram
A scram, also called a reactor trip, is the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor in which all control rods are rapidly inserted to stop the fission chain reaction.
Scramjet
A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is an airbreathing jet engine that burns fuel in supersonic airflow, pursued since the 1950s for hypersonic flight up to at least Mach 15.
Scrap
Scrap, or scrap metal, is discarded metal from parts, vehicles, and manufacturing waste that is collected and recycled as a major feedstock for steel and aluminum production.
Scrap preheating
Scrap preheating is a steelmaking technique in which ferrous scrap destined for an electric arc furnace is heated by the furnace's hot off-gases, saving about 60 kWh per ton.
Scratch (programming language)
Scratch is a free, block-based visual programming language for children, created at the MIT Media Lab and launched in 2007, now run by the Scratch Foundation.
Scratch test (coating adhesion)
The scratch test measures coating adhesion by drawing a diamond stylus across a coated surface under increasing force until the coating fails at a critical load.
Scratch testing
Scratch testing drags a diamond stylus across a coated surface under controlled load to measure coating adhesion and scratch hardness; the critical load marks coating failure.
Scratch-drive actuator
The scratch-drive actuator (SDA) is an electrostatic MEMS actuator, invented by Akiyama and Shono, whose flexible plate advances in small steps to produce linear motion.
ScratchJr
ScratchJr is a free, block-based introductory programming language and tablet app for children aged 5 to 7, inspired by Scratch and launched in July 2014.
Scratchpad (language models)
A scratchpad is generated text in which a language model writes intermediate computation steps before its final answer, introduced in a 2021 paper by Maxwell Nye and coauthors.
Scratchpad memory
Scratchpad memory (SPM) is a small, software-managed on-chip memory with fixed access latency, used in DSPs, microcontrollers, GPUs, and AI accelerators as an alternative to cache.
Screed
A screed is a thin layer of cement-sand mortar or fine concrete applied over a floor slab to level it and receive the final flooring.