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SOC 2
SOC 2 is an attestation framework from the AICPA under which a licensed CPA firm examines a service organization's controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy.
SOCAR Turkey
SOCAR Turkey, also written SOCAR Türkiye, is the Turkish arm of Azerbaijan's state-owned oil and gas company SOCAR, its largest asset being the STAR Refinery at Aliağa, opened in 2018.
SOCATA TBM
The SOCATA TBM, also called the Daher TBM, is a family of French pressurized single-engine turboprops built at Tarbes and flown since 1990, beginning with the TBM 700.
Social Climate Fund
The Social Climate Fund (SCF) is a European Union funding instrument of €65 billion supporting vulnerable households as the EU extends carbon pricing to buildings and road transport.
Social cost of carbon
The social cost of carbon (SCC) estimates, in dollars, the damage from a 1-ton increase in CO2 emissions, and is the figure US agencies used to weigh climate rules.
Social engineering (security)
Social engineering, also called social hacking, is the use of deception to trick people into revealing sensitive information or committing fraud instead of exploiting technology.
Social force model
The social force model is a pedestrian simulation method introduced by Dirk Helbing and Péter Molnár in 1995, treating crowd motion as social forces and reproducing lane formation.
Social impact of the phonograph
The social impact of the phonograph covers how recorded sound moved from failed office dictation to coin-operated arcades and, by the late 1920s, most US homes.
Social media
Social media is a family of internet services where users create profiles, share content, and interact within networks of connections, reaching 5.24 billion users worldwide in early 2025.
Social media sentiment analysis
Social media sentiment analysis is a natural language processing method that detects opinions in posts, classifying them as positive, negative, or neutral, with lexicon, machine learning, and transformer approaches.
Social navigation
Social navigation is the capability of a mobile robot, vehicle, or virtual agent to move through environments shared with people while respecting social norms such as personal space.
Social network analysis
Social network analysis (SNA) studies social structure by mapping relationships among actors, such as people, organizations, or countries, rather than treating individuals as independent units.
Social Science Research Network
The Social Science Research Network, known as SSRN, is an open-access preprint repository founded in 1994 in Rochester, New York, and owned by Elsevier since 2016.
Social Security Death Index
The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is a publicly searchable genealogical index of deceased Americans, built by commercial services from the Social Security Administration's Death Master File.
Social Security number
A Social Security number (SSN) is a nine-digit number issued by the U.S. Social Security Administration, created in 1936 to track workers' earnings and now a nearly universal U.S. identifier.
Social signal processing
Social signal processing (SSP) is a research domain that gives computers the ability to sense and understand human social signals, relational attitudes exchanged through nonverbal behavior during interactions.
Social-GAN
Social-GAN is a deep learning model combining a GAN with LSTMs to predict multiple socially plausible pedestrian paths, published by Gupta and colleagues at CVPR in 2018.
Social-LSTM
Social-LSTM is a recurrent neural network architecture for predicting pedestrian trajectories in crowded spaces, introduced at CVPR 2016, assigning each person an LSTM linked through a Social pooling layer.
Socially assistive robotics
Socially assistive robotics is the branch of robotics that helps people through social interaction rather than physical contact, defined by David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić in 2005.
Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec
The Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) is a Quebec crown corporation that licenses drivers and vehicles and runs the province's public no-fault auto insurance.
Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad
Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad (SHT) is Chad's state-owned national oil company, created in 2006 to manage the government's oil interests, including a 25% stake in the Doba consortium acquired in 2014.
Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen
Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen (SPSE) is a French pipeline company, founded in 1958, that runs crude oil pipelines from Fos-sur-Mer near Marseille to Karlsruhe in Germany.
Société nationale d'électricité du Congo
Société nationale d'électricité du Congo, known as SNEL, is the state-owned electricity utility of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 1970 and operating the Inga dams.
Société Nationale Des Pétroles Du Congo
The Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNPC) is the Republic of the Congo's state-owned national oil company, created by law in 1998 to manage the country's petroleum interests.
Society for Information Display
The Society for Information Display (SID), founded at UCLA in 1962, is an international professional society for the display industry, known for its annual Display Week symposium and Display Industry Awards.
Society for Nautical Research
The Society for Nautical Research is a British learned society and charity, founded in 1910, that promotes research into seafaring, shipbuilding, and nautical subjects.
Society of Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1940 to promote the study and conservation of architecture, landscapes, and urbanism.
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is a not-for-profit member association and CableLabs subsidiary, founded in 1969, serving the broadband industry through standards, certification, and training.
Society of Chemical Industry
The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) is an international, multidisciplinary charity founded in London in 1881 to advance applied chemistry, known for the Perkin Medal and its journals.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), founded in 1930, is a professional society for applied geophysics, headquartered in Houston with more than 11,000 members in over 100 countries.