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Edgar F. Codd
Edgar F. Codd, known as Ted Codd, was an IBM computer scientist whose 1970 relational model became the foundation of most modern databases, earning the 1981 Turing Award.
Edgar G. Hertwich
Edgar G. Hertwich is an Austrian-born environmental engineer and industrial ecologist, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology known for his 2009 trade-linked national carbon footprint analysis.
Edgar M. Cortright
Edgar M. Cortright (1923–2014) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager who established the first U.S. meteorological satellite and space probe programs and supervised Viking 1's landing on Mars.
Edgar Meyhöfer
Edgar Meyhöfer is a German mechanical and biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Michigan who measured the force of a single kinesin motor protein and nanoscale heat flow.
Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Mitchell, also known as Edgar Dean Mitchell, was an American NASA astronaut who became the sixth person to walk on the Moon, on Apollo 14 in 1971.
Edgar Prince
Edgar Dale Prince (1931–1995) was an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Prince Corporation in Holland, Michigan, sold to Johnson Controls for $1.35 billion in 1996.
Edgar Snyder Sanders Jr.
Edgar Snyder Sanders Jr., known as Ed Sanders, is an American chemical engineer specializing in gas separation membranes, with over 50 patents and a role at Osmoses.
EDGE (telecommunication)
EDGE, or Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EGPRS), is a mobile technology that triples GSM data rates by adding 8PSK modulation, with first networks live in 2003.
Edge AI
Edge AI is the practice of running machine learning inference directly on resource-constrained hardware such as smartphones and microcontrollers, driven by latency, privacy, and cost.
Edge case
An edge case, also called an edge condition, is a problem or situation occurring only at an extreme operating parameter, such as a maximum, minimum, or boundary value.
EDGE certification
EDGE certification, short for Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies, is a green building system created by the IFC that certifies buildings saving 20 percent in energy, water, and materials.
Edge computing
Edge computing, also known as edge cloud, is a distributed computing approach that processes data on or near the devices that generate it, rather than in a remote cloud.
Edge connector
An edge connector is a board-to-board interconnect in which gold-plated contact pads, called fingers, along a printed circuit board's edge plug directly into a matching socket.
Edge data center
An edge data center is a small computing facility sited close to the users, devices, or sensors it serves, trading capacity for lower latency and fast local processing.
Edge detection
Edge detection, also known as border detection, is an image-processing technique that locates sharp intensity changes in a digital image, corresponding to object boundaries and scene structure.
Edge enhancement
Edge enhancement is an image processing technique that increases contrast along object boundaries in a digital image, making edge detail more detectable by people and computer vision algorithms.
EDGE Evolution
EDGE Evolution is a set of 3GPP Release 7 enhancements to the GSM/EDGE radio interface, raising peak data rates above 1 Mbps and cutting latency to around 100 ms.
Edge Impulse
Edge Impulse is a cloud-based MLOps platform for building machine learning models on edge devices like microcontrollers, founded in 2019 and acquired by Qualcomm in 2025.
Edge joint
An edge joint is a light-duty welding joint, one of five basic AWS types, joining parallel sheet edges, flanges, and can lids, one of the easiest joints to weld.
EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX is a privately held American data center operator founded in 2009 and based in Herndon, Virginia, operating over 80 data centers across more than 50 global markets.
Edgewood Arsenal human experiments
The Edgewood Arsenal human experiments were classified U.S. Army studies exposing about 7,000 soldier volunteers to over 250 chemicals, including nerve agents and LSD, from 1955 to 1975.
EdgeX Foundry
EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral, open-source IoT edge computing platform hosted by The Linux Foundation that connects devices, sensors, and actuators with applications and cloud systems; it began at Dell and was contributed in April 2017.
Edgio
Edgio is an American content delivery network and edge services company formed in 2022 when Limelight Networks acquired Yahoo's Edgecast business; it shut down in January 2025.
EDGLRD
EDGLRD, pronounced "edgelord," is a Miami-based art and entertainment studio founded by filmmaker Harmony Korine in 2023, blending video game design, AI, and visual effects.
Edifício Copan
Edifício Copan is a large curved residential building in central São Paulo, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1951 and completed in 1966, with about 5,000 residents.
Edinburgh Airport
Edinburgh Airport, also known as Edinburgh International Airport, is Scotland's busiest commercial airport at Turnhouse, about 9 km west of the city center, with a single runway and terminal.
Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle, also known as the Castle of the Maidens, is a fortress on Castle Rock in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the country's most visited paid tourist attraction.
Edinburgh Trams
Edinburgh Trams, also known as the Edinburgh tramway, is the tram system serving Edinburgh, Scotland, running from Edinburgh Airport through the city center to Leith and Newhaven.
Edinburgh Waverley railway station
Edinburgh Waverley railway station, also known as Waverley station, is the principal national railway station of Edinburgh, Scotland, with 23 million passenger journeys in 2024-25.
Edison (energy company)
Edison S.p.A. is an Italian energy company headquartered in Milan, founded in 1884 and controlled by the French utility EDF since 2012, with leading positions in Italian electricity and gas.