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I²C

I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) is a two-wire serial bus invented by Philips Semiconductors in 1982 for communication between chips on the same board, with every device addressable.

I2P

I2P, the Invisible Internet Project, is an anonymous, decentralized overlay network that routes traffic through encrypted unidirectional tunnels and hosts internal services such as eepsites and BitTorrent.

I²S

I²S (Inter-IC Sound) is a three-wire serial bus standard for carrying digital audio between integrated circuits, such as DACs and audio codecs, developed by Philips in 1986.

I386

I386 is the common name for the Intel 80386, a 32-bit microprocessor introduced in 1985, the first 32-bit chip in Intel's PC line and the origin of IA-32.

I486

The I486 is a 32-bit x86 microprocessor family Intel introduced in 1989, the first x86 chip with over a million transistors, serving as Intel's desktop processor until the 1993 Pentium.

IA-32

IA-32, also known as x86-32, is the 32-bit instruction set architecture Intel introduced with the 80386 in 1985, defining the x86 family's 32-bit programming model.

IA-64

IA-64, also known as the Intel Itanium architecture, is a 64-bit instruction set developed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard, launched in the Itanium processor in 2001.

IA3 (machine learning)

IA3, short for Infused Adapter by Inhibiting and Amplifying Inner Activations, is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method introduced in 2022 in which learned vectors rescale a transformer's internal activations.

IAA Mobility

IAA Mobility is a biennial mobility trade fair in Munich, held since 2021 by the German Association of the Automotive Industry as successor to the Frankfurt IAA.

IAE V2500

The IAE V2500 is a high-bypass turbofan engine built by the International Aero Engines consortium, powering the Airbus A320ceo family, the McDonnell Douglas MD-90, and the Embraer C-390 Millennium.

IAEA PRIS

IAEA PRIS, the Power Reactor Information System, is the International Atomic Energy Agency's worldwide database of nuclear power reactors, the reference source for official statistics on nuclear power since 1969.

IAEA Safety Standards Series

The IAEA Safety Standards Series is the publication series through which the International Atomic Energy Agency establishes safety standards, in three categories: Safety Fundamentals, Safety Requirements, and Safety Guides.

IAI Eitan (איתן)

The IAI Eitan, also called Heron TP, is a large Israeli reconnaissance drone by Israel Aerospace Industries with over 30 hours of endurance, first flown in 2006.

IAI Harop

The IAI Harop, also marketed as Harpy 2, is an Israeli loitering munition built by Israel Aerospace Industries, derived from the Harpy and controlled by a human operator who can abort an attack.

IAI Heron

The IAI Heron (Machatz) is an Israeli medium-altitude long-endurance drone built by Israel Aerospace Industries for surveillance and reconnaissance, first flown in 1994 and operated by over 22 countries.

IAI Kfir

The IAI Kfir, also designated F-21, is an Israeli multirole fighter developed in the 1970s from the Dassault Mirage 5 airframe with an Israeli-built J79 engine.

IAI Lavi (לביא)

The IAI Lavi (לביא, "young lion") was a multirole jet fighter developed by Israel Aircraft Industries in the 1980s, canceled by Israel's cabinet in 1987.

IAI Nesher

The IAI Nesher was a fighter built in Israel in the early 1970s as a copy of the French Mirage 5, and it served in the Yom Kippur War.

IAI RoboCylinder

The IAI RoboCylinder (ロボシリンダ) is a family of programmable electric linear actuators made by Intelligent Actuator (IAI) of Japan, launched in 1999 as a replacement for pneumatic cylinders.

IAI RQ-5 Hunter

The IAI RQ-5 Hunter, also known as the MQ-5 Hunter, was a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle built by Israel Aircraft Industries with TRW for the US Army, serving from 1996 to 2015.

IAI Searcher

The IAI Searcher, in Hebrew חוגלה, is a family of tactical reconnaissance UAVs made by Israel Aerospace Industries' MALAT division, in Israeli service since 1992.

Iain Boyd

Iain Boyd is an aerospace engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder who works on hypersonic flight and space propulsion, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Iain Finnie

Iain Finnie (1928–2009) was a professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for work on erosion and brittle fracture.

Iain Staffell

Iain Staffell is an energy systems researcher and Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London, known for research on storage costs, heating decarbonisation, and Britain's electricity system.

Ian Carroll (software developer)

Ian Carroll is an American software developer and independent security researcher who founded the award-flight search engine Seats.aero and disclosed vulnerabilities affecting airlines, hotel locks, and McDonald's hiring chatbot.

Ian D. Sharp

Ian D. Sharp is a materials scientist and semiconductor physicist who held the Chair for Experimental Semiconductor Physics at the Technical University of Munich from 2017 to 2024.

Ian Gauld Clark

Ian Gauld Clark is a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech specializing in planetary entry, descent, and landing, and led the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project.

Ian Goodfellow

Ian Goodfellow (Ian J. Goodfellow) is an American machine learning researcher who invented the generative adversarial network (GAN) in 2014 and is lead author of the MIT Press textbook Deep Learning.

Ian Marius Peters

Ian Marius Peters, also published as Marius Peters, is a physicist who researches photovoltaics, heading Sustainable Photovoltaics at Forschungszentrum Jülich and a professorship at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Ian McHarg

Ian McHarg (1920–2001) was a Scottish-born landscape architect and planner who taught at the University of Pennsylvania and wrote Design with Nature (1969), the pioneering book on ecological planning.