Technology and the built world

Standard work

Standard work, also called standardized work, is a lean manufacturing method documenting the best-known way to combine person, machine, and material in a job, enabling consistent repetition and kaizen.

Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV) is a class of digital television formats with lower picture resolution than high definition, typically 480 or 576 active lines in 4:3 or 16:9.

Standard-essential patent

A standard-essential patent (SEP) is a patent without which a product cannot implement a technology standard such as Wi-Fi or 4G, typically licensed on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms.

Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway, also known as Stephenson gauge, has rails 1,435 mm apart, a spacing proposed by George Stephenson and now the world's most widely used railway gauge.

StandardAero

StandardAero is an independent provider of aerospace engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul services, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, and tracing its origins to a 1911 Winnipeg machine shop.

Standardization

Standardization is the consensus process by which experts, industry, and government develop voluntary standards specifying requirements for products, processes, and services, which become binding when adopted into contracts or regulation.

Standards Australia

Standards Australia, formerly the Standards Association of Australia, is Australia's independent, not-for-profit national standards body. Founded in 1922, it maintains over 6,000 Australian Standards and represents Australia at ISO and the IEC.

Standards Council of Canada

The Standards Council of Canada, or Conseil canadien des normes, is a federal Crown corporation created in 1970 that coordinates voluntary standardization and accredits standards development and conformity assessment bodies.

Standards Organization of Nigeria

The Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) is Nigeria's apex standardization body, established by an act of 1971 to prepare Nigerian Industrial Standards, certify products, and assure quality of goods.

Standby power

Standby power, also called vampire power or phantom load, is the electricity consumed by devices that appear switched off while still plugged in, totaling 20 to 60 watts per home.

Standedge Tunnels

The Standedge Tunnels are four parallel tunnels beneath the Pennines between Marsden and Diggle, England, including the canal tunnel on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, opened in 1811 and the longest in Britain.

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Standen

Standen is an Arts and Crafts country house at East Grinstead, West Sussex, built 1891–1894 by Philip Webb for James and Margaret Beale, furnished by Morris & Co., Grade I listed, and a National Trust property since 1972.

Standortauswahlgesetz

The Standortauswahlgesetz (StandAG), the Repository Site Selection Act, is a German federal law requiring a science-based search for a nuclear waste repository, begun in 2013.

Stanford Alpaca

Stanford Alpaca is a 7-billion-parameter instruction-following language model released by Stanford researchers on March 13, 2023, a fine-tune of Meta's LLaMA 7B reproduced for under $600.

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, known as SAIL, is Stanford University's AI research lab, founded in 1963 by John McCarthy and known for DENDRAL, the Stanford Cart, and robotics.

Stanford Pupper

Stanford Pupper is a small open-source quadruped robot developed at Stanford University that can hop, trot, and run, built for about $600 to $1000 for research and education.

Stanford torus

The Stanford torus is a wheel-shaped space habitat design from a 1975 NASA study: a rotating ring about 1.8 km across providing Earth-normal gravity for 10,000 residents.

Stanford White

Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the New York firm McKim, Mead & White, known for Madison Square Garden, the Washington Square Arch, and Rosecliff.

Stanford/JPL Hand

The Stanford/JPL Hand, later the Salisbury Hand, is a three-fingered, tendon-actuated robot hand developed from 1982 under a NASA program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Stanford.

Stanislaus S. Wong

Stanislaus S. Wong is a materials chemist, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, known for carbon nanotube chemistry and nanostructure synthesis.

Stanley (vehicle)

Stanley is a driverless Volkswagen Touareg SUV built by Stanford's team under Sebastian Thrun that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and its $2 million prize.

Stanley Atcitty

Stanley Atcitty is an American electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories who works on grid energy storage and received the Presidential Early Career Award from President Obama in 2012.

Stanley Backer

Stanley Backer (1920–2003) was an American textile engineer and MIT professor who led its Fibers and Polymers Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Stanley Barber

Stanley Arthur Barber (1921–2002) was a Canadian-born soil scientist who spent his career at Purdue University, building a mechanistic model of nutrient uptake by plant roots.

Stanley Black & Decker

Stanley Black & Decker, also known as the Stanley Works, is an American tool and industrial manufacturer in New Britain, Connecticut, formed in 2010 when Stanley merged with Black & Decker.

Stanley C. Suboleski

Stanley C. Suboleski is an American mining engineer and coal executive who served at Massey Energy and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Stanley controller

The Stanley controller is a geometric lateral path-tracking method for autonomous vehicles that steers from heading error and lateral offset, named after Stanford's 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge winner.

Stanley Corrsin

Stanley Corrsin (1920–1986) was an American fluid dynamicist at Johns Hopkins University, a National Academy of Engineering member known for the Obukhov–Corrsin scalar spectrum theory.

Stanley Crane

L. Stanley Crane (1915–2003) was an American railroad engineer and executive, president of Southern Railway and chairman of Conrail from 1981, returning it to profit and private ownership.