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DARPA Subterranean Challenge

The DARPA Subterranean Challenge was a prize competition run by DARPA from 2018 to 2021 to develop robots that rapidly map and search underground environments.

DARPA Swarm Challenge

The DARPA Swarm Challenge is a set of DARPA efforts to test large autonomous swarms of drones and ground vehicles for military missions, chiefly the OFFSET program.

DARPA Triage Challenge

The DARPA Triage Challenge is a three-year DARPA prize competition, running from 2023 to 2026, to develop autonomous systems for medical triage in mass casualty incidents.

DARPA Urban Challenge

The DARPA Urban Challenge was a 2007 competition in which autonomous vehicles navigated a simulated urban course in traffic, won by Carnegie Mellon's Boss for a $2 million prize.

DARPA Urban Challenge 2007

The DARPA Urban Challenge was a 2007 competition in which eleven teams drove fully autonomous vehicles through simulated city traffic in Victorville, California, for a $2 million prize.

Darquain Oil Field

Darquain Oil Field, also known as Darkhovin, is a giant onshore oil field in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, holding an estimated 8 billion barrels of oil in place.

Darrell G. Schlom

Darrell G. Schlom is an American materials scientist at Cornell University, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Sciences, known for oxide thin-film growth and materials-by-design.

Darrell Ward

Darrell Ward (1964–2016) was an American long-haul truck driver from Montana, known as "the Montana Legend" on the History Channel series Ice Road Truckers, which he joined in 2012.

Darren Woods

Darren W. Woods is an American business executive who has been chairman and chief executive officer of ExxonMobil since January 1, 2017, succeeding Rex Tillerson.

Darsh T. Wasan

Darsh T. Wasan is an American chemical engineer at Illinois Institute of Technology, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for colloid and interface science.

Dart (programming language)

Dart is an open-source, client-optimized programming language developed by Google, announced in 2011 and best known as the language behind the Flutter toolkit for mobile, desktop, and web apps.

DART simulator

DART (Dynamic Animation and Robotics Toolkit) is an open-source C++ physics simulator for articulated bodies in robotics and animation, developed at Georgia Tech and powering Gazebo.

Dartford Crossing

The Dartford Crossing is a road crossing of the River Thames between Kent and Essex, made up of two tunnels and the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.

Dartington Hall

Dartington Hall, a Grade I listed medieval great house near Totnes, Devon, built 1388-1399 for John Holland, half brother of Richard II, and restored from 1925 by the Elmhirsts for the Dartington Experiment.

Dartmouth workshop

The Dartmouth workshop, formally the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, was a 1956 summer gathering at Dartmouth College regarded as the founding event of AI.

Darvaza

Darvaza gas crater, the "Gates of Hell" or "Door to Hell" (Light of Karakum), is a burning methane pit in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert near Derweze, about 260 km north of Ashgabat, with disputed 1960s–1971 origins and over 900,000 tonnes of methane emitted.

Darwent & Dalwood

Darwent & Dalwood was an Adelaide contracting firm that in 1870 won the contract to build the northern section of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line, from Port Darwin to the King River.

Darwin (operating system)

Darwin, also known as Apple Darwin, is the open source operating system Apple develops as the core of macOS, iOS, and its other operating systems.

Das Island LNG Terminal

Das Island LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas plant on Das Island, 160 km offshore Abu Dhabi, the first LNG plant in the Middle East, producing since 1977.

Das U-Boot

Das U-Boot, usually shortened to U-Boot, is a free, open-source boot loader for ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V, x86, and other architectures, supporting over 1200 embedded boards.

Daseke

Daseke was a North American flatbed and specialized trucking company founded by Don Daseke in 2008, serving industrial customers until its 2024 acquisition by TFI International.

Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh

The Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh, also known as the Gupta Temple, is an early sixth-century Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu at Deogarh in Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Dashboard

A dashboard, also called an automobile instrument panel, is the panel facing a vehicle's driver that carries instruments, warning lights, and controls for operating the vehicle.

Dashcam

A dashcam, also called a dashboard camera or driving recorder, is a small video recorder mounted in a vehicle that records the road, preserving accidents as evidence.

Dask

Dask is an open-source Python library for parallel and distributed computing built on task graphs. It scales pandas, NumPy, and list-like workflows through Dask DataFrame, Array, and Bag collections, with single-machine and distributed schedulers; BSD-3 licensed, NumFOCUS-sponsored, latest release 2026.8.0.

Dassault Aviation

Dassault Aviation, formerly Avions Marcel Dassault, is a French aerospace company that builds the Rafale fighter jet, Falcon business jets, drones, and space systems, with over 10,000 aircraft delivered since 1916.

Dassault DELMIA Apriso

Dassault DELMIA Apriso is a manufacturing operations management suite by Dassault Systèmes, combining MES functionality with quality, warehouse, and maintenance tools; it was acquired from Apriso Corporation in 2013.

Dassault Falcon 20

The Dassault Falcon 20, originally the Mystère 20, is a French twin-engine business jet first flown in 1963, Dassault's first business jet and the initial model of the Falcon family.

Dassault Falcon 2000

The Dassault Falcon 2000 is a twin-engine large-cabin business jet built by Dassault Aviation of France, developed from the three-engine Falcon 900 and in service since 1995.

Dassault Falcon 50

The Dassault Falcon 50 is a French three-engine long-range business jet by Dassault Aviation, first flown in 1976, the first business aircraft certified to cross the North Atlantic.