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Denise (robot)

Denise is a 1.5 m, 8 kg passive-dynamic walking biped robot built by Martijn Wisse at Delft University of Technology, powered by pneumatic hip muscles with minimal control.

Denise C. Johnson

Denise C. Johnson is an engineering executive who leads Caterpillar's Resource Industries group and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for autonomous mining equipment.

Denise Gray

Denise Gray is an American engineer nicknamed the "Battery Czar" who developed electric-vehicle lithium-ion batteries at General Motors and led LG Energy Solution's North American operations.

Denison Dam

Denison Dam is a rolled earth-fill dam on the Red River near Denison, Texas, built by the Army Corps of Engineers from 1939 to 1944 and impounding Lake Texoma.

Denison Mines

Denison Mines Corp. is a Toronto-based Canadian uranium mining and development company focused on Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin, with the Wheeler River project as its flagship asset.

Denisovsky Vostochny Coal Mine

Denisovsky Vostochny Coal Mine (шахта «Восточная Денисовская») is an underground coking coal mine in the Neryungri District of Yakutia, Russia, commissioned in 2021 with a capacity of 4 million tonnes per year.

DENM

DENM (Decentralized Environmental Notification Message) is an event-based safety message defined by ETSI that carries road hazard information to vehicles, for warnings like roadworks or slow vehicles.

Dennard scaling

Dennard scaling, or Dennard's law, is a 1974 rule from IBM's Robert Dennard stating that shrinking transistors use proportionally less power, keeping power density constant.

Dennis A. Woodford

Dennis A. Woodford is a Canadian power systems engineer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who created the EMTDC/PSCAD simulation software, co-founded Electranix Corporation, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Dennis F. Wilkie

Dennis F. Wilkie is an American control theorist at Ford Motor Company who led its electric vehicles segment and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Dennis Hart Mahan

Dennis Hart Mahan (1802–1871) was an American military engineer and West Point professor of civil and military engineering from 1832 to 1871, who wrote the first American books on fortifications and civil engineering.

Dennis Hong

Dennis Hong is a roboticist, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA, and founding director of RoMeLa, known for humanoid robots such as DARwIn-OP and ARTEMIS.

Dennis J. Picard

Dennis J. Picard (1932–2019) was an American defense-electronics engineer who served as chairman and CEO of Raytheon, completing Patriot and doubling the company through acquisitions.

Dennis M. Bushnell

Dennis M. Bushnell was an American aerospace scientist who spent 60 years at NASA's Langley Research Center, the last 28 as Chief Scientist, retiring in 2023.

Dennis Meier

Dennis Meier is a materials scientist working on ferroelectric domain walls and oxide nanoelectronics, known for half-wave rectification at domain walls and a 2025 cryogenic memristor.

Dennis Muilenburg

Dennis A. Muilenburg is an American aerospace executive who served as Boeing's president, CEO, and chairman, resigning in December 2019 after two fatal 737 MAX crashes.

Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011) was an American computer scientist at Bell Labs who created the C programming language and co-created Unix with Ken Thompson, winning the 1983 Turing Award.

Dennis Specialist Vehicles

Dennis Specialist Vehicles was an English commercial vehicle maker in Guildford, Surrey, founded as Dennis Bros. in 1901 and known for fire engines and the Dart bus.

Dennis Tito

Dennis Tito is an American engineer and investment manager who became the first paying space tourist, visiting the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz in 2001.

Denny S. Parker

Denny S. Parker is an American environmental engineer who spent about 45 years at Brown and Caldwell and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Deno

Deno is a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime with secure defaults, created by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl; version 2.0, released in October 2024, added Node.js and npm compatibility.

Denodo

Denodo Technologies, founded 1999 by Ángel Viña in A Coruña, Spain, and headquartered in Palo Alto, is a private data management vendor whose Denodo Platform delivers data virtualization and logical data management, integrating 200+ sources without replication; TPG Growth invested $336 million in 2023.

Denoising autoencoder

A denoising autoencoder (DAE) is an autoencoder trained to reconstruct clean data from corrupted input, introduced by Vincent, Larochelle, Bengio, and Manzagol at ICML 2008.

Denoising diffusion implicit models (DDIM)

Denoising diffusion implicit models (DDIM) are a deterministic, non-Markovian sampler for diffusion models introduced by Jiaming Song, Chenlin Meng, and Stefano Ermon in October 2020.

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM)

A denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) is a generative model that learns to reverse a gradual noising process, introduced in 2015 and made practical by a 2020 paper.

Denon

Denon, also known as Kabushiki Kaisha Denon, is a Japanese audio brand founded in 1910, known for hi-fi components, AV receivers, headphones, turntables, and early digital audio firsts.

Denormalization

Denormalization is the deliberate addition of duplicated or precomputed data to a database design to speed up reads and avoid costly joins, common in data warehouses and NoSQL systems.

Dense captioning

Dense captioning is a computer vision task in which a model both localizes regions of an image and captions each in natural language, introduced by Stanford researchers in 2015.

Dense mapping (SLAM)

Dense mapping is a SLAM approach that reconstructs a complete 3D model of an environment, assigning geometry to every observed pixel or voxel rather than tracking sparse features.

Dense passage retrieval

Dense passage retrieval, or DPR, is a retrieval method introduced by Facebook AI in 2020 that finds relevant text passages using neural embeddings instead of keyword matching.