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Guddu power station

Guddu power station, also called Thermal Power Station Guddu, is a gas-fired power station in Kashmore District, Sindh, Pakistan, with a capacity of about 2,402 MW.

Gudong Oil Field

Gudong Oil Field (孤东油田) is a heavy-oil sandstone field in the Yellow River delta region of Shandong Province, China, and a major component of Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield since 1986.

Gudrun oil field

Gudrun is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 1975 and producing since 2014 from an Equinor-operated platform tied to Sleipner A.

Guédelon Castle

Guédelon Castle (Château de Guédelon) is a fortified castle under construction since 1997 near Treigny in Burgundy, France, built from scratch using only 13th-century tools, techniques, and materials as an experimental archaeology project.

Guernsey power station

Guernsey Power Station is a 1,875 MW natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Guernsey County near Byesville, Ohio, operating since 2023 and selling into the PJM market.

GUI testing

GUI testing is a software engineering method that verifies a program's graphical user interface by simulating user interactions such as clicks, taps, and text input, then checking the application's response.

Gui‐Liang Xu

Gui-Liang Xu is a battery materials chemist at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago who uses synchrotron X-rays to study battery degradation, winning a 2025 Early Career Award.

Guiana Space Centre

The Guiana Space Centre, also known as Europe's Spaceport or Centre Spatial Guyanais, is a CNES-operated spaceport near Kourou, French Guiana, from which every ESA-developed launcher, including Ariane, has flown since 1968.

GUID Partition Table

The GUID Partition Table (GPT) is a partitioning scheme for storage devices using 64-bit addressing and GUIDs, developed by Intel in the late 1990s as the successor to MBR.

Guidance (Microsoft)

Guidance is an open-source Python library, originated at Microsoft Research and released in May 2023, that constrains large language model outputs to structures like JSON and SQL in one API call.

Guide tube (nuclear fuel)

A guide tube in a nuclear fuel assembly is a vertical metal tube providing structural support and a channel for control rods, burnable absorbers, or instrumentation.

Guided filter

The guided filter is an edge-preserving image smoothing filter that transfers structure from a guidance image and runs in linear time, introduced by Kaiming He and colleagues in 2010.

Guided filtering

Guided filtering is an edge-preserving image filter, introduced by Kaiming He and colleagues in 2010, that transfers a guidance image's structures to a smoothed output in linear time.

Guided missiles of India

Guided missiles of India, also called Missiles of India, are indigenous ballistic, cruise, and surface-to-air systems built chiefly by DRDO, descending from the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme begun in 1983.

Guided policy search

Guided policy search is a family of reinforcement learning algorithms that uses trajectory optimization to guide policy training, introduced by Sergey Levine and Vladlen Koltun in 2013.

Guided wave testing

Guided wave testing (GWT), also called long range ultrasonic testing (LRUT), is a non-destructive testing method that sends low-frequency ultrasonic waves along pipe walls to detect corrosion and defects.

Guido de Croon

Guido C. H. E. de Croon is a Dutch artificial-intelligence researcher and full professor at Delft University of Technology's Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory, working on insect-inspired autonomy for small drones.

Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer, born in 1956 in The Hague, who created Python in 1991 and later worked at Google, Dropbox, and Microsoft.

Guigang power station

Guigang power station (华电贵港发电厂), also known as Huadian Guigang power station, is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power plant in Guigang, Guangxi, China, owned by China Huadian, with two supercritical units commissioned in 2007.

Guihua Yu

Guihua Yu is a materials scientist and engineer at the University of Texas at Austin who develops nanostructured hydrogels for energy storage, electrocatalysis, and solar-driven water purification.

Guild Education

Guild Education, now Guild, is a Denver-based education benefits administrator founded in 2015 that administers employer-funded tuition programs for frontline workers at companies like Walmart and Disney.

Guild of Air Traffic Control Officers

The Guild of Air Traffic Control Officers (GATCO) is the UK professional body for air traffic management, founded in 1954 and representing about 1,600 controllers.

Guillaume Lample

Guillaume Lample is a French AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and chief science officer of Mistral AI, which he started in Paris in 2023 after working at Meta's Facebook AI Research.

Guillaume Verdon

Guillaume Verdon, also known as Guillaume Verdon-Akzam and as Beff Jezos, is a Canadian mathematical physicist and entrepreneur who founded the thermodynamic computing startup Extropic in 2022 after quantum machine learning work at Google.

Guillermo Juan Araya

Guillermo Juan Araya, also known as Guillermo Araya, is an Argentine-born computational fluid dynamicist and tenured associate professor at UTSA who received the 2025 PECASE award.

Guillermo Sapiro

Guillermo Sapiro, born 1966 in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a computer vision and machine learning researcher known for geodesic active contours and image inpainting, now a Princeton professor after 13 years at Duke.

Guilloché

Guilloché, also called engine turning, is a decorative technique in which machine-guided tools engrave repetitive geometric patterns into metal, used on watch dials, jewelry, and banknotes.

Guinness Nigeria

Guinness Nigeria is a Nigerian beverage company brewing Guinness and other drinks. Its Ikeja brewery, opened in 1962, was the first outside Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Guion Bluford

Guion Bluford, also known as Guy Bluford, is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who became the first African American in space in 1983.

Guisarme

The guisarme is a European polearm with a curved cutting blade and thrusting point, an infantry weapon of the 12th to 15th centuries distinguished by its hook.