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Frasca International
Frasca International is an American flight simulator manufacturer based in Urbana, Illinois, founded by aviation pioneer Rudy Frasca in 1958, with devices from desktop trainers to full flight simulators.
Frauenkirche, Dresden
The Frauenkirche, meaning Church of Our Lady, is a Lutheran baroque church in Dresden built by George Bähr between 1726 and 1743 and destroyed in 1945.
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation
The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (Fraunhofer IPA) is an applied research institute in Stuttgart, Germany, founded in 1959 and the largest production-engineering institute of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
Fraunhofer IPMS
Fraunhofer IPMS, formally the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems, is a Dresden-based German research institute developing MEMS, microdisplays, and nanoelectronics on 200 and 300 mm wafers for industry.
Frauscher Sensor Technology
Frauscher Sensor Technology is an Austrian railway technology company, founded in 1987 and part of Wabtec since December 2025, making wheel sensors and axle counters.
Frecciarossa 1000
The Frecciarossa 1000 is an Italian high-speed electric train built for Trenitalia by AnsaldoBreda and Bombardier, in service since 2015 with a design speed of 400 km/h.
Fréchet Inception Distance
The Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) is a metric for image-generation quality, introduced in 2017, that compares generated images to real ones, with lower scores indicating closer resemblance.
Fréchet Video Distance
Fréchet Video Distance (FVD) is a metric for evaluating generative video models, introduced by Google researchers in December 2018 as the video analog of the Fréchet Inception Distance for images.
Fred B. Schneider
Fred B. Schneider is an American computer scientist at Cornell University known for work on fault-tolerant distributed systems, security, and formal methods, including fail-stop processors.
Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks, born Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr., was an American computer scientist who managed IBM's System/360, wrote The Mythical Man-Month, and won the 1999 Turing Award.
Fred C. Koch
Fred C. Koch was an American chemical engineer who developed an improved oil cracking process, built refineries in the Soviet Union, and cofounded Koch Industries' predecessor in 1940.
Fred H. Poettmann
Fred H. Poettmann was an American chemical and petroleum engineer known for the Poettmann-Carpenter gas-lift correlation, 30 years at Marathon Oil, and a Colorado School of Mines professorship.
Fred Haise
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (born 1933) is an American astronaut and engineer who was lunar module pilot on Apollo 13, the 1970 mission aborted by an oxygen tank explosion.
Fred N. Finn
Fred N. Finn (1923–2023) was an American pavement engineer who led the AASHO Road Test work, the Asphalt Institute design procedure, and SHRP's $50 million asphalt research program.
Fred Noonan
Fred Noonan, also known as Frederick Joseph Noonan, was an American navigator who pioneered Pan Am's Pacific routes and disappeared with Amelia Earhart during their 1937 round-the-world flight.
Fred Perry (clothing label)
Fred Perry is a British clothing label founded in 1952 by the tennis champion Fred Perry, best known for its piqué polo shirt with the Laurel Wreath logo.
Fred Sterzer
Fred Sterzer is an American microwave engineer based in Princeton, New Jersey, and President of MMTC, Inc., known for microwave radiometry that measures subsurface body temperature without contact.
Fred Trump Jr.
Fred Trump Jr. (Frederick Crist Trump, 1938 to 1981) was an American airline pilot, the eldest son of Fred Trump Sr. and older brother of Donald Trump.
Fred van der Weij
Fred van der Weij, a Dutch product developer and engineer from Almere, invented the air fryer; Philips licensed his patented design and launched the Airfryer in 2010.
Fred W. Albaugh
Frederic W. Albaugh (1913–1999) was an American chemist-engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led plutonium reprocessing and reactor research at Hanford, helping establish Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Frederic C. E. Oder
Frederic C. E. "Fritz" Oder (1919–2006) was an American aerospace engineer and retired Air Force colonel who directed the Air Force program that created America's first satellite reconnaissance systems.
Frederic Holloway
Frederic Holloway (1914–1990) was an American chemical engineer and Exxon executive who worked on fluid catalytic cracking and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965.
Frédéric Kaplan
Frédéric Kaplan is a French digital humanities researcher, professor at EPFL in Lausanne, best known for the Venice Time Machine and as president of the Time Machine Organization.
Frederick Anthony Kish Jr.
Frederick Anthony Kish Jr., known as Fred Kish, is an American electrical engineer at North Carolina State University who developed high-efficiency LEDs and commercial photonic integrated circuits.
Frederick C. Lindvall
Frederick C. Lindvall (1903–1989) was an American electrical and mechanical engineer who chaired Caltech's engineering division for over 20 years and modernized American engineering education.
Frederick Dryer
Frederick L. Dryer is an American combustion engineer, emeritus professor at Princeton and research professor at the University of South Carolina, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Frederick F. Lange
Frederick F. Lange (1939–2010) was an American ceramic scientist and engineer at UC Santa Barbara, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for contributions to ceramic processing.
Frederick F. Ling
Frederick F. Ling, also known as Frederick Fongsun Ling, was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and tribologist who wrote Surface Mechanics and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Frederick Fleet
Frederick Fleet, also known as Fred Fleet, was a British lookout aboard the Titanic who sighted the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and survived in Lifeboat 6.
Frederick G. Jaicks
Frederick G. Jaicks (died 1998) was an American steelmaking engineer who spent his career at Inland Steel, rising from 1940 trainee to president in 1966 and later chairman and chief executive.