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Eveleigh Railway Workshops

The Eveleigh Railway Workshops were the principal locomotive and carriage workshops of the New South Wales Government Railways, built from 1882 beside Sydney's Central Station.

Evelyn N. Wang

Evelyn N. Wang is an American mechanical engineer at MIT known for heat-transfer research on solar energy and water purification, and director of ARPA-E from 2023 to 2025.

Event calculus

The event calculus is a logic programming formalism for reasoning about action and change, introduced in 1986 by Robert Kowalski and Marek Sergot, in which events on a single time line initiate and terminate fluents.

Event camera

An event camera, also called a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), is an imaging sensor whose pixels asynchronously report brightness changes, offering microsecond timing, high dynamic range, and low power.

Event capturing and bubbling

Event capturing and bubbling are the two directional halves of DOM event propagation: capturing carries an event down from the root to its target, bubbling carries it back up.

Event extraction

Event extraction is the natural language processing task of identifying event mentions in text and structuring each one, with its participants, time, and location, into a machine-readable record.

Event sourcing

Event sourcing is a persistence pattern in which state changes are stored as immutable events in an append-only log, and current state is derived by replaying those events.

Event time

Event time, in stream processing, is the timestamp of when an event occurred at its source, contrasted with ingestion time and processing time; systems like Flink, Kafka, and Beam use watermarks to handle out-of-order and late event-time data.

Event-driven architecture

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software architecture style in which decoupled components communicate by producing, routing, and consuming events, typically through brokers, trading tight coupling for scalability and resilience.

Event-driven programming

Event-driven programming, also called event-based programming, is a programming paradigm in which execution order is determined by events like user actions, sensor outputs, or messages, using an event loop and handlers.

Event-triggered model predictive control

Event-triggered model predictive control (ET-MPC) is a variant of model predictive control that solves the optimization and exchanges information only when a triggering condition is met.

Eventbrite

Eventbrite is a global self-service ticketing and event management platform founded in San Francisco in 2006, which lets organizers sell tickets and attendees discover events.

Eventide BD980

The Eventide BD980, marketed as the BD980 Obscenity Delay, is a broadcast digital delay line that radio stations used to delete profanity from live programming.

Eventual consistency

Eventual consistency, also called eventually consistent, is a weak consistency model for replicated distributed storage, formulated by Werner Vogels in 2009 and popularized by Amazon's Dynamo key-value store.

Ever Given

Ever Given is a 400-meter container ship owned by Japan's Shoei Kisen Kaisha and chartered to Evergreen, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days in 2021.

EveR-1

EveR-1 (에버원) is a female android developed by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology and unveiled in Seoul in 2006, the first android built in South Korea.

Everclear

Everclear is an American brand of neutral grain alcohol, owned by Luxco since 1980 and sold at up to 190 proof, the practical distillation maximum of 95 percent alcohol by volume.

Evercookie

Evercookie is an open-source JavaScript API by security researcher Samy Kamkar, released in 2010, which stores an identifier across many browser storage mechanisms so it re-creates itself after deletion.

Eveready Battery Company

Eveready Battery Company, also called Eveready Battery, is an American battery manufacturer known today as Energizer, maker of the first commercially sold US battery in 1896.

Everest Oil and Gas Field

The Everest Oil and Gas Field is a gas and condensate field in Block 22/10a of the UK Central North Sea, producing since 1993 and operated by Harbour Energy.

Everett Marine Terminal

The Everett Marine Terminal is a liquefied natural gas import and regasification terminal in Everett, Massachusetts, opened in November 1971 as the first US LNG import terminal.

Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum

The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, also known as Evergreen Air and Space Museum, is an aerospace museum in McMinnville, Oregon, home of the Spruce Goose.

Evergreen Marine

Evergreen Marine, trading as Evergreen Line, is a Taiwanese container shipping company founded by Chang Yung-fa in 1968 with one used cargo vessel, now the world's 7th largest container carrier.

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge

The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also called the Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, carries State Route 520 across Lake Washington in Seattle, connecting Montlake and Medina; it opened in 1963.

Evergy

Evergy, Inc. is a regulated electric utility holding company serving about 1.7 million customers in Kansas and Missouri, formed in 2018 by the merger of Great Plains Energy and Westar Energy.

Evernote

Evernote is a note-taking and task-management application that stores notes, web clippings, and documents in a synced cloud service, founded in 2000 and acquired by Bending Spoons in 2023.

EverQuote

EverQuote is an American online insurance marketplace headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which connects shoppers with property and casualty insurers and agents and earns revenue by selling consumer referrals.

Eversource Energy

Eversource Energy, formerly Northeast Utilities, is New England's largest energy delivery company, a utility holding company serving about 4.4 million electric and gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Everspin Technologies

Everspin Technologies is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, that designs and manufactures MRAM, a non-volatile memory. It was spun out of Freescale Semiconductor in 2008 and listed on Nasdaq in 2016.

EVERTEC

EVERTEC is a financial technology and transaction processing company headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico, serving 26 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and processing over ten billion transactions annually.