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Ikramullah Khan Niazi

Ikramullah Khan Niazi, also known as Ikramullah Niazi, was a Pakistani civil engineer from Mianwali best known as the father of cricketer and Prime Minister Imran Khan, and founder of the Pakistan Educational Society.

Ikuo Takeuchi

Ikuo Takeuchi (竹内 郁雄, born 1946) is a Japanese computer scientist known for the Takeuchi function behind the Lisp benchmark "Tak", the multi-paradigm language TAO, and the ELIS Lisp machine.

Il Jeon

Il Jeon is a South Korean nano-engineering professor at Sungkyunkwan University, known for carbon nanotube transparent electrodes for perovskite solar cells and reconfigurable memristor artificial synapses.

Il Redentore

Il Redentore, the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, is a votive church on the Giudecca in Venice, designed by Andrea Palladio in fulfillment of a Senate vow made during the plague of 1576.

Il‐Kwon Oh

Il-Kwon Oh (오일권) is a South Korean mechanical engineer, a full professor at KAIST since 2015, known for MXene artificial muscles and wearable haptic devices.

ILA Berlin Air Show

The ILA Berlin Air Show (Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung) is a biennial aerospace trade show and air show at Berlin ExpoCenter Airport in Schönefeld, Germany, tracing its origins to 1909.

Ilan A. Blech

Ilan A. Blech is an engineer and researcher in semiconductor metallurgy and thin-film stress measurement, at Fairchild Semiconductor from 1964 and co-inventor on a 1992 Flexus patent.

Ilan Kroo

Ilan Kroo is an American aeronautical engineer, the Thomas V. Jones Professor at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering for aircraft design methodology and the SWIFT airplane.

Ilan Ramon (אילן רמון)

Ilan Ramon (אילן רמון), born Ilan Wolferman, was an Israeli Air Force colonel who became the first Israeli astronaut, dying in the 2003 Columbia disaster.

ILCA (company)

ILCA, Inc. (株式会社イルカ) is a Japanese video game and computer graphics company headquartered in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 2010, it led Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, One Piece Odyssey, and Sand Land.

Ilesanmi Adesida

Ilesanmi Adesida, born in Nigeria in 1949, is an electrical engineer known for nanometer-scale semiconductor fabrication who served as Dean of Engineering and Provost at the University of Illinois.

Ilha Solteira hydroelectric plant

Ilha Solteira hydroelectric plant (Usina Hidrelétrica Ilha Solteira) is a Brazilian plant on the Paraná River with 3,444 MW from 20 Francis turbines, operating since 1973.

Ilia Valov

Ilia Valov is a materials scientist who has headed the Nanoelectrochemistry group at Forschungszentrum Jülich since 2018, known for research on memristive devices and quantum resistance standards.

Ilias Gyftopoulos

Elias Panayiotis Gyftopoulos (Ηλίας Γυφτόπουλος; 1927–2012) was a Greek-born American nuclear engineer and thermodynamicist at MIT, known for a unified non-statistical quantum theory of mechanics and thermodynamics and for introducing exergy analysis into energy-systems engineering.

Ilijan power station

The Ilijan power station is a 1,271 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle plant in Batangas City, Philippines, operating since 2002 and described as the country's largest.

Ilısu Dam

Ilısu Dam (Ilısu Barajı) is a concrete-faced rock-fill dam on the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey, completed in 2020 with 1,208.6 MW, the largest dam on the Tigris.

Illegal number

An illegal number is a number deemed unlawful to hold or share in some jurisdiction because it encodes prohibited data, such as prime numbers encoding the DVD decryption program DeCSS.

Illinois and Michigan Canal

The Illinois and Michigan Canal is a 96-mile waterway in northeastern Illinois, opened in 1848 to link Lake Michigan at Chicago with the Illinois River at LaSalle.

Illinois Bell

Illinois Bell is the Bell operating company providing local telephone service in Illinois since 1920, formerly the largest division of Ameritech and now operating as AT&T Illinois.

Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad was an American railroad chartered by Illinois in 1851 and financed by the first major federal land grant; Canadian National acquired it in 1999.

Illinois Commerce Commission

The Illinois Commerce Commission is the public utility regulator of Illinois, created in 1921 to set rates and ensure reliable, low-cost service from the state's utilities.

Illinois Department of Transportation

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is the state agency responsible for Illinois' highways, bridges, transit, rail, and aviation. It was created on January 1, 1972.

Illinois Power Agency

The Illinois Power Agency is an Illinois state agency that procures electricity and renewable energy credits for utilities like ComEd and administers the Illinois Renewable Portfolio Standard.

Illinois Secretary of State

The Illinois Secretary of State is the state's driver licensing and vehicle registration authority, also the state librarian, with Alexi Giannoulias as its 38th officeholder since 2023.

Illinois Structural Health Monitoring Project

The Illinois Structural Health Monitoring Project is a University of Illinois research program developing wireless smart sensor systems for civil infrastructure, deployed on the Jindo Bridge in South Korea.

Illinois Waterway locks and dams

The Illinois Waterway locks and dams are federal structures on a 268-mile, 9-foot channel from Joliet to near Beardstown, carrying barge traffic between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi.

Illinois Zero Emission Credit program

The Illinois Zero Emission Credit program is a state program created by the 2016 Future Energy Jobs Act in which utilities buy credits supporting nuclear plants.

Illness and injuries during spaceflight

Illness and injuries during spaceflight are the medical events, from rashes to evacuations, that astronauts experience before, during, and after missions in the spaceflight environment.

Illustrious

Illustrious is a family of open-weights text-to-image models for anime and illustration, built on Stable Diffusion XL by OnomaAI Research, first trained in May 2024 on the Danbooru2023 dataset.

Illustrious-class aircraft carrier

The Illustrious class was a class of four fleet aircraft carriers built for the British Royal Navy, the first in any navy with fully armored hangars.