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Conoco
Conoco, or Continental Oil, was an American integrated oil company founded in 1875 in Ogden, Utah, that merged with Phillips Petroleum in 2002 to form ConocoPhillips.
ConocoPhillips
ConocoPhillips is an American independent exploration and production company headquartered in Houston, Texas, formed in 2002 by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum and active in 15 countries.
ConocoPhillips Optimized Cascade process
The ConocoPhillips Optimized Cascade process is an LNG liquefaction technology developed by Phillips Petroleum in the 1960s, first used at the Kenai plant in Alaska in 1969.
Conor Walsh
Conor J. Walsh is an Irish roboticist at Harvard who invented the soft exosuit, a textile-based wearable robot that assists walking, running, lifting, and impaired gait.
Conowingo Bridge
The Conowingo Bridge was a series of crossings of the Susquehanna River at Conowingo, Maryland; the covered wooden bridge opened in 1859 was demolished in 1927 for the Conowingo Dam.
Conowingo Dam
Conowingo Dam, completed in 1928, is a hydroelectric dam on the lower Susquehanna River in northern Maryland between Cecil and Harford counties, producing up to 572 megawatts.
Conqueror (tank)
The Conqueror, officially Tank, Heavy No. 1, 120 mm Gun, FV214, was a British heavy tank of the Cold War. It served in West Germany from 1955 to 1966.
Conrail
Conrail, officially the Consolidated Rail Corporation, is a switching and terminal railroad owned by CSX and Norfolk Southern, operating shared freight areas in New Jersey and Detroit.
Conroy Virtus
The Conroy Virtus was a proposed twin-fuselage American aircraft, designed in 1974 by John M. Conroy to carry the Space Shuttle Orbiter, using B-52 fuselage sections; NASA chose a 747 instead.
Conselho Federal de Engenharia e Agronomia
Conselho Federal de Engenharia e Agronomia (Confea) is Brazil's federal professional regulatory council for engineering, agronomy, geology, geography, and meteorology, created in 1933 and headquartered in Brasília.
Consensus (computer science)
Consensus, or distributed consensus, is the problem of getting processes in a distributed system to agree on a value even when some crash or messages are lost.
Consensus control
Consensus control is a branch of distributed control theory that designs local control laws so multi-agent agents converge to agreement, underpinning UAV control and sensor networks.
Consensus-based bundle algorithm
The consensus-based bundle algorithm (CBBA) is a decentralized task allocation algorithm for robot teams, introduced by Choi, Brunet, and How in 2009, that pairs auctions with consensus.
Consensus-based optimization
Consensus-based optimization (CBO) is a derivative-free swarm method for non-convex objectives, introduced by René Pinnau and colleagues in 2017, with provable convergence and applications in machine learning.
ConsenSys
ConsenSys is a blockchain software company founded in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, best known for the MetaMask wallet, the Infura API service, and the Linea layer 2 network.
Conservation Drones
Conservation drones are low-cost autonomous UAVs used to survey forests, wildlife, and illegal activity, a term coined in 2012 by Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich.
Conservation voltage reduction
Conservation voltage reduction (CVR) is a grid technique in which utilities lower feeder voltage a few percent to cut energy use, peak demand, and line losses.
Conservative Q-Learning
Conservative Q-Learning is an offline reinforcement learning algorithm proposed by Aviral Kumar and Sergey Levine's team in 2020, whose conservative Q-functions prevent overestimation errors on unseen actions.
Conservatory (greenhouse)
A conservatory, also called a garden conservatory, is a glass and metal structure built as an indoor garden room for displaying plants, distinct from a greenhouse.
Consignee
A consignee is the party named in a contract of carriage or transport document as entitled to take delivery of the goods at destination, under the Hamburg and Rotterdam Rules.
Consistency model
A consistency model is a generative model that maps noise directly to data, enabling one-step image generation, introduced by OpenAI researchers in a 2023 paper.
Consistency models
Consistency models are generative models introduced at OpenAI in March 2023 by Song, Dhariwal, Chen, and Sutskever that map noise directly to data, enabling fast one-step image generation.
Consistent hashing
Consistent hashing, also called stable hashing, is a technique for distributing keys among servers so that few keys move when servers are added or removed, introduced by David Karger and colleagues in 1997.
CONSOL Energy
CONSOL Energy was an American coal producer and exporter headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, tracing its mining operations to 1864 and merging with Arch Resources in January 2025 to form Core Natural Resources.
Console server
A console server, also called a serial console server, is a network appliance that gives administrators command-line access to equipment when the main network is down.
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American four-engine heavy bomber of World War II, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, with about 18,500 built between 1940 and 1945.
Consolidated B-32 Dominator
The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was an American four-engine very heavy bomber built during World War II as insurance against the failure of the B-29 program; only 118 were built.
Consolidated bioprocessing
Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) is a cellulosic ethanol process in which enzyme production, biomass hydrolysis, and fermentation of hexose and pentose sugars occur in a single step by one microorganism, proposed in 1996.
Consolidated Edison
Consolidated Edison, commonly called Con Edison or Con Ed, is a New York holding company supplying electricity, gas, and steam to New York City and Westchester County.
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer
The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, also known as the P4Y Privateer, was a four-engine US Navy patrol bomber developed from the B-24 Liberator for long-range maritime patrol from 1944.