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GenCast

GenCast is a machine-learning weather forecasting model from Google DeepMind that produces probabilistic ensemble forecasts of global weather up to 15 days ahead, described in Nature in December 2024.

Genchi genbutsu

Genchi genbutsu (現地現物) is a Toyota management principle meaning "go and see for yourself": decision makers confirm facts through personal observation at the source rather than relying on reports.

GENCI

GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif) is a French public research infrastructure, created in 2007, that acquires and allocates national supercomputing, data, and AI resources for research.

Genco Shipping & Trading

Genco Shipping & Trading Limited is a New York City drybulk shipowner, incorporated in the Marshall Islands in 2004 and listed on the NYSE as GNK.

Gender of connectors and fasteners

Gender of connectors and fasteners, also called plug genders, is the engineering convention where male parts carry pins or external threads and female parts carry sockets or internal threads.

Gene Alan Frantz

Gene Alan Frantz is an American electrical engineer known as "the Father of DSP" for leading digital signal processor development at Texas Instruments, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Gene Amdahl

Gene Amdahl (1922–2015) was an American computer architect and entrepreneur who designed the IBM System/360, founded Amdahl Corporation to build IBM-compatible mainframes, and formulated Amdahl's law.

Gene expression programming

Gene expression programming (GEP) is an evolutionary algorithm, invented by Cândida Ferreira in 1999, that evolves computer programs by translating linear chromosomes into expression trees.

Gene H. Golub

Gene H. Golub, also known as Gene Golub, was an American numerical analyst, the Stanford professor nicknamed "Professor SVD" who made the singular value decomposition practical and co-wrote Matrix Computations.

Gene Kranz

Gene Kranz, born Eugene Francis Kranz in 1933, is a retired NASA flight director who led the team that returned Apollo 13 to Earth in 1970.

Gene Ontology

The Gene Ontology is a standardized vocabulary for describing gene functions across all species, founded in 1998 and organized into molecular function, biological process, and cellular component.

Geneformer

Geneformer is an attention-based deep learning model for single-cell biology, pretrained on about 30 million human transcriptomes by Christina Theodoris and colleagues, published in Nature in 2023.

Geneious

Geneious is a commercial desktop bioinformatics suite for molecular biology and sequence analysis, first released in 2005 by Biomatters of Auckland, New Zealand and now part of Dotmatics.

Genel Energy

Genel Energy is a London-listed oil and gas company formed in 2011, with production in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and exploration in Oman and Somaliland.

Genelba power station

Genelba power station (Central Termoeléctrica Genelba, CTGEBA) is a natural gas-fired thermal plant in Marcos Paz, Argentina, operating since 1999 with an installed capacity of 1,253 MW.

Generac

Generac Power Systems is an American manufacturer of energy technology, including home standby generators, portable and industrial generators, and battery storage, founded in 1959 in Wales, Wisconsin.

Generac Holdings Inc.

Generac Holdings Inc. is an American manufacturer of generators and energy technology, founded in 1959 and headquartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, whose home standby generators are the most widely installed in the United States.

General Atomics

General Atomics, also known as General Atomic Corporation, is a privately held American defense company in San Diego, founded in 1955 and known for the Predator drones.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is a San Diego–area subsidiary of General Atomics that designs remotely piloted aircraft, including the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper, with more than 1,200 aircraft delivered.

General Atomics Avenger

The General Atomics Avenger, originally Predator C and now flown as the MQ-20, is a jet-powered stealth drone built by General Atomics that first flew in 2009.

General Atomics FQ-42 Dark Merlin

The General Atomics FQ-42 Dark Merlin, designated YFQ-42A as a prototype, is an uncrewed fighter aircraft built for the US Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.

General Atomics Mojave

The General Atomics Mojave is a short takeoff and landing unmanned aircraft developed by General Atomics, unveiled in 2021, carrying up to 16 Hellfire missiles.

General Atomics MQ-1 Predator

The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, also called the Predator drone, is a remotely piloted reconnaissance aircraft that served the US Air Force from 1995 until 2018.

General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle

The General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle, also called the MQ-1C Warrior, is a United States Army drone for reconnaissance, surveillance, and attack, capable of carrying four Hellfire missiles.

General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper

The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, also known as the Predator B, is an armed American surveillance and strike drone first flown in 2001 and used in combat since 2007.

General average

General average is a maritime law principle requiring all parties to a sea voyage to share losses from an extraordinary sacrifice made for common safety, such as jettison.

General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil flying except scheduled airline service and paid charter flights, covering business, medical, agricultural, and recreational flying from two-seat trainers to business jets.

General Aviation Revitalization Act

The General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 is a United States federal law establishing an 18-year statute of repose on product liability lawsuits against general aviation aircraft manufacturers.

General contractor

A general contractor, also called a main or building contractor, holds the primary contract for constructing an entire project and subcontracts specialized trades such as electrical and plumbing.

General Data Protection Regulation

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), formally Regulation (EU) 2016/679, is a European Union law on the protection of personal data, applicable since 25 May 2018.