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Genome-scale metabolic model

A genome-scale metabolic model (GEM) is a computational reconstruction of an organism's complete metabolic reaction network, linking each reaction to the genes encoding its enzymes.

GenOn Holdings

GenOn Holdings is an American independent power producer that owns generating plants and sells wholesale electricity, formed in December 2018 when GenOn Energy emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Genrich Altshuller

Genrich Altshuller (Генрих Саулович Альтшуллер), born in 1926 in Tashkent, was a Soviet engineer and inventor who created TRIZ, a theory of inventive problem solving derived from patent patterns.

GenRM and LLM-as-a-judge reward models

GenRM and LLM-as-a-judge reward models use a language model's own verdicts or preference judgments as the reward signal during post-training, replacing separately trained scalar reward heads.

Gensim

Gensim ("Generate Similar") is a free, open-source Python library for unsupervised topic modeling and document embeddings, started in 2008 and designed to stream corpora larger than RAM.

Gensler

Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm founded in San Francisco in 1965 by Art Gensler, now the largest architecture firm in the United States by revenue.

Genspark

Genspark is an AI agent from Palo Alto startup MainFunc, launched in 2024 as an AI search engine and pivoted in April 2025 to a super agent.

Gentari

Gentari is a clean energy solutions company wholly owned by Malaysia's state oil firm Petronas, launched in 2022 to deliver renewable energy, hydrogen, and green mobility solutions across Asia Pacific.

Gentherm

Gentherm, founded in 1991 as Amerigon, is an American thermal management company in Novi, Michigan, known for heated and cooled car seats and medical temperature management products.

Gentilly nuclear power plant

Gentilly-2 is a shut-down 675 MW CANDU nuclear power plant in Bécancour, Quebec, run by Hydro-Québec from 1983 until the Québec government declined to refurbish it in 2012.

Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux, originally code-named Enoch Linux, is a source-based Linux distribution started by Daniel Robbins in 1999, first released in 2002 with the Portage package manager.

GENTRL

GENTRL, or generative tensorial reinforcement learning, is a deep generative model for de novo small-molecule design from Insilico Medicine, described in a 2019 Nature Biotechnology paper.

Geo (automobile)

Geo, also known as Chevrolet Geo, was a General Motors brand selling small Japanese-built cars like the Metro and Prizm through Chevrolet dealers from 1989 to 1997.

Geo Metro

The Geo Metro, later the Chevrolet Metro, was a subcompact economy car sold in North America from 1989 to 2001, a rebadged Suzuki Cultus known for leading EPA fuel economy rankings.

GEO no. 27/2022

GEO no. 27/2022, Ordonanța de urgență a Guvernului nr. 27/2022, is a Romanian emergency ordinance of 18 March 2022 capping final electricity and gas prices, extended to 2026.

Geo Prizm

The Geo Prizm, sold as the Chevrolet Prizm from 1998, was a compact sedan built with the Toyota Corolla at NUMMI in California from 1989 to 2002.

Geo-Jade Petroleum Corp

Geo-Jade Petroleum Corp (洲际油气) is a Chinese independent oil and gas exploration and production company, listed in Shanghai since 1996, with assets in Kazakhstan, Iraq, and Albania.

Geocast

Geocast is a routing method for wireless networks that delivers a packet to every node inside a specified geographic region, using node positions rather than network addresses.

Geocell confinement

Geocell confinement, also known as the cellular confinement system, is a ground improvement technique in which honeycomb-like geosynthetic cells filled with soil or aggregate stiffen road bases and slopes.

Geocentric orbit

A geocentric orbit, also called an Earth-centered orbit, is the path of any object circling Earth, from low orbits to the geostationary ring at 35,786 km.

Geocoding

Geocoding is a geographic information science method that converts human-readable location descriptions, such as postal addresses, into machine-readable geographic coordinates, typically a latitude–longitude pair with a confidence score.

Geodesic dome

A geodesic dome, also called a geodome, is a lightweight spherical structure of triangular struts, first built for a German planetarium in 1922 and popularized by Buckminster Fuller.

Geodis

Geodis is a French international transport and logistics company, wholly owned by the SNCF Group since 2008, tracing its origins to 1904 and recording €11.3 billion in 2024 revenue.

GeoEye

GeoEye was an American commercial satellite imagery company headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, formed in 2006 and best known for GeoEye-1, then the highest-resolution commercial imaging satellite.

Geofencing

Geofencing is the use of virtual geographic perimeters to restrict device operation within an approved territory. It is a critical part of the Operational Design Domain (ODD).

Geoff J. Pryde

Geoff J. Pryde is an Australian quantum physicist at Griffith University known for photonic quantum metrology, including a 2007 Nature demonstration of entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation.

Geoffrey Boothroyd

Geoffrey Boothroyd (1932–2024) was an English-born manufacturing engineer who co-created the DFMA methodology with Peter Dewhurst, taught at UMass Amherst and the University of Rhode Island, and received the 1991 National Medal of Technology.

Geoffrey de Havilland

Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965) was an English aviation pioneer and test pilot who founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company in 1920 and designed the Mosquito and the Comet, the first commercial jet airliner.

Geoffrey Dummer

Geoffrey Dummer (1909–2002) was a British electronics engineer at the Royal Radar Establishment who in 1952 published the first public description of the integrated circuit, though he never built one.

Geoffrey F. Strouse

Geoffrey F. Strouse is a chemistry professor at Florida State University known for nanometal surface energy transfer, an optical ruler technique, and microwave synthesis of nanocrystals.