Technology and the built world

Federal Office for Information Security

The Federal Office for Information Security (German: Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI) is Germany's national cybersecurity agency, a federal authority founded in 1991, known for its IT-Grundschutz standard.

Federal Office for Radiation Protection

The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, BfS) is an independent scientific-technical federal authority of Germany responsible for radiation protection, established in 1989 and seated in Salzgitter.

Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management

The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, or BASE, is Germany's independent federal authority licensing and supervising nuclear waste disposal, storage, and transport.

Federal Radio Commission

The Federal Radio Commission, created by the Radio Act of 1927, licensed stations, allocated frequencies, and controlled power until the Communications Act of 1934 replaced it with the FCC.

Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center

The Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC) is a United States interagency center, created in 1987, that coordinates federal radiological monitoring during nuclear or radiological incidents.

Federal Railroad Administration

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is a US Department of Transportation agency created in 1966 that regulates railroad safety and administers grants for freight and passenger rail.

Federal Road Safety Corps

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) is Nigeria's lead agency for road traffic administration and safety management, established by the federal government in February 1988 to prevent crashes on federal highways.

Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, also known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, is the US law signed by Eisenhower that funded the Interstate Highway System.

Federal-Mogul

Federal-Mogul was an American automotive parts maker founded in 1899 and headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, with $7.8 billion in 2017 revenues before its 2018 acquisition by Tenneco.

Federated averaging

Federated averaging (FedAvg) is a distributed machine learning algorithm, reported by McMahan and colleagues in 2016, in which a server averages locally trained models from clients holding private data.

Federated identity

Federated identity, also called federated identity management (FIM), lets a user log in once with an identity provider and access other organizations' systems without their verifying the user directly.

Federated learning

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning method, named by McMahan and colleagues at Google in 2017, in which clients train a shared model locally and exchange only model updates.

Federated meta-learning

Federated meta-learning is a machine learning approach combining federated learning with meta-learning, so a shared model learned without exchanging raw data adapts to each client with a few local gradient steps.

Federated multi-task learning

Federated multi-task learning (FMTL) is a distributed machine learning approach in which multiple clients jointly train models for related but distinct tasks while keeping their data local.

Federated transfer learning

Federated transfer learning (FTL) is a machine learning approach combining federated and transfer learning, letting parties train models across different domains without exchanging raw data.

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record-holding community

The FAI record-holding community is the international cohort of aviators who set and pursue flight records ratified by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, which has registered over 20,000 records since 1906.

Federation Tower (Башня «Федерация»)

Federation Tower (Башня «Федерация») is a two-tower skyscraper complex in the Moscow International Business Center, built from 2004 to 2017; its Vostok tower reaches 374 meters.

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Federico Rosei

Federico Rosei is an Italian and Canadian nanomaterials scientist, formerly at INRS in Quebec, who has held the Chair of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Trieste since 2023.

FedEx

FedEx Corporation is a Memphis, Tennessee-based multinational delivery and logistics company founded by Frederick W. Smith in 1971, which pioneered overnight air freight via its hub-and-spoke airline, Federal Express.

FedEx Express

FedEx Express, originally Federal Express Corporation, is the world's largest express transportation company, founded by Fred Smith in Memphis, Tennessee in 1971 around a hub-and-spoke overnight air freight system serving more than 220 countries.

FedEx Express Flight 087

FedEx Express Flight 087 was a cargo flight from Shanghai that overran the runway at Subic Bay, Philippines, on October 17, 1999, ending in the bay; both crew survived.

FedEx Express Flight 80

FedEx Express Flight 80 was a cargo flight whose MD-11 crashed while landing at Narita International Airport in strong winds on March 23, 2009, killing both crew members.

FedEx Freight

FedEx Freight is a North American less-than-truckload freight carrier headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, that transports heavy and bulky shipments; FedEx spun it off as an independent, publicly traded company in 2026.

Fediverse

The Fediverse is a network of decentralized social media platforms whose independent servers, called instances, exchange content over shared open protocols like ActivityPub, letting users on one server follow users on another without a central company.