Technology and the built world

Eleven Music

Eleven Music is a text-to-music model family from ElevenLabs, first released in August 2025, that generates complete songs with vocals and instrumentals from natural-language prompts.

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an American AI audio company founded in 2022 by Piotr Dąbkowski and Mati Staniszewski, known for generative voice tools like text to speech and voice cloning.

ElevenLabs Scribe

ElevenLabs Scribe is a family of speech-recognition models by ElevenLabs, first released in February 2025, with word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and coverage of roughly 90 to 99 languages.

Eleventy

Eleventy is an open source static site generator written in JavaScript, created in 2018, that turns templates and content into static HTML with no client-side JavaScript by default.

Elf Aquitaine

Elf Aquitaine was a French oil and gas company formed in 1976 from state-owned predecessors, privatized in 1994, and taken over by TotalFina in 2000, later part of TotalEnergies.

Elf Bar

Elf Bar, sold in the US as EBCreate, is a Chinese-owned brand of flavored disposable e-cigarettes that became Britain's top vape brand in 2022 and was the most used among American teens by 2024.

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir is a Sudanese hydrologist and climatologist who holds the H. M. King Bhumibol Professorship at MIT, known for research on the Nile, extreme heat, and malaria.

ElGamal encryption

ElGamal encryption, also known as the ElGamal cryptosystem, is a public-key encryption scheme published by Taher ElGamal in 1985, based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Elgaugol

Elgaugol (Эльгауголь) is a Russian coal mining company, established in 2013, holding the license for the Elga coking coal deposit in Yakutia, one of the world's largest.

Elgin National Watch Company

The Elgin National Watch Company, formerly the National Watch Co, was an American watch manufacturer in Elgin, Illinois, and by the late 1920s the world's leading mass producer of watches.

Elgin Oil and Gas Field

The Elgin Oil and Gas Field is a high-pressure, high-temperature gas and condensate field in the Central Graben of the UK North Sea, developed with the adjacent Franklin field by TotalEnergies.

Elginskiy Coal Mine

The Elginskiy Coal Mine (Эльгинское месторождение, also called the Elga deposit) is a large open-pit coking coal mine in the Neryungri Region of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia.

Eli Fromm (1939–2025) was an American electrical and bioengineering researcher at Drexel University, known for implantable biotelemetry transmitters and for leading national engineering education reform.

Eli Reshotko

Eli Reshotko (1930–2025) was an American mechanical engineer and Kent H. Smith Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.

Eli Ruckenstein

Eli Ruckenstein (1925–2020) was a Romanian-born American chemical engineer who spent nearly fifty years at the University at Buffalo and received the National Medal of Science in 1998.

Eli Sternberg

Eli Sternberg (1917–1988) was an Austrian-born American mechanician, professor at Brown and Caltech, known for viscoelasticity, conservation laws in elastostatics, crack-tip stress fields, and the 1985 Timoshenko Medal.

Eli Sutter

Eli Sutter is an American-based materials scientist, professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, known for work on two-dimensional van der Waals materials and graphene growth on metals.

Elia Group

Elia Group is an Euronext-listed holding company that owns the Belgian transmission system operator Elia and the German operator 50Hertz, keeping power flowing for more than 30 million people.

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Elias Koutsoupias

Elias Koutsoupias, born in Greece in 1963, is a theoretical computer scientist who introduced the price of anarchy with Christos Papadimitriou, winning the 2012 Gödel Prize for the work.

Elias Towe

Elias Towe is a materials scientist and electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University who works on photonic devices and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant for scientific literature that searches 138 million papers, screens and extracts data, and generates cited reports, with tooling for systematic reviews.

Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK)

Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK) is an open AI safety problem: how to get a model to report what it internally knows, named by the Alignment Research Center in 2021.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky (born 1979) is an American AI safety researcher who co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, seeded the LessWrong community blog, and argues superhuman AI likely means extinction.

Elihu Thomson

Elihu Thomson was an English-born American electrical engineer and inventor, co-founder of Thomson-Houston, which merged with Edison General Electric in 1892 to form General Electric, where he served as chief engineer.

Elijah McCoy

Elijah McCoy, also known as Elijah J. McCoy, was a Canadian-American engineer whose 1872 automatic lubricator let steam engines run without stopping for oiling; he held 57 patents.

Elijah Petersen

Elijah J. Petersen is an American environmental engineer and staff scientist at NIST, known for nanomaterial toxicity measurement methods and honored with a Presidential Early Career Award.

Elio D'Appolonia

Elio D'Appolonia (1918–2015) was a Canadian-born American geotechnical engineer who founded the Pittsburgh consulting firm D'Appolonia in 1956 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Elio Motors

Elio Motors was an American vehicle startup founded in Phoenix in 2009 by Paul Elio to build a three-wheeled, 84-mpg commuter car, but it never delivered one.

Elisa-3

Elisa-3 is a 5 cm miniature differential-drive mobile robot made by GCtronic, an EPFL spin-off, for education and swarm robotics research, with magnetic wheels for climbing.