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InnerSource

InnerSource is the use of open source principles and practices for software development within a single organization, a term proposed by Tim O'Reilly around 2000.

Innocenti

Innocenti, also known as Leyland Innocenti, was an Italian company founded in Milan in 1933, famous for the Lambretta scooter and small cars built until 1997.

Innolux

Innolux Corporation (群创光电) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of TFT-LCD panels for TVs, monitors, laptops, and phones, founded in 2003 with links to the Hon Hai group.

InnoTrans

InnoTrans is the leading international trade fair for transport technology, held every two years in Berlin by Messe Berlin, featuring vehicles displayed on 3,500 meters of track.

Innovatio IP Ventures

Innovatio IP Ventures was an American patent assertion entity that bought Wi-Fi patents from Broadcom in 2011 and demanded licensing fees from thousands of coffee shops and hotels.

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, formerly Industry Canada, is the Government of Canada department responsible for industrial policy and radio frequency spectrum management. Created in 2015.

Innovyze

Innovyze was a Portland, Oregon company founded in 1996 that made hydraulic modeling software for water, wastewater, stormwater, and flood systems, acquired by Autodesk for $1 billion in 2021.

Inode

An inode (index node) is the Unix filesystem data structure that stores a file's metadata, such as size, permissions, and ownership, while names live in directory entries.

InP HEMT

An InP HEMT is a high-electron-mobility transistor fabricated on an indium phosphide substrate, among the fastest transistors available and the choice for extremely low-noise amplification at millimeter-wave frequencies.

InP quantum dot solar cells

InP quantum dot solar cells are photovoltaic devices using colloidal indium phosphide nanocrystals as the light-absorbing layer, studied as a low-toxicity alternative to lead- and cadmium-based quantum dots.

Inpainting (image processing)

Image inpainting fills in missing or damaged regions of a photograph by synthesizing plausible content from surrounding pixels or a generative model, used for photo restoration and object removal.

Inpainting diffusion

Inpainting diffusion is the use of denoising diffusion models to fill in or replace masked regions of an image, conditioning on surrounding pixels and a text prompt.

Inphi

Inphi Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company, founded in 2001 in Westlake Village, California, that made high-speed data chips and was acquired by Marvell in 2021.

Input device

An input device, also called input hardware, is a hardware component that converts physical actions such as keystrokes, cursor movements, and voice commands into electrical signals a computer can process.

Input event

The input event is a DOM event fired when the value of an input, select, or textarea element changes through user action like typing or checking a checkbox.

Input shaping

Input shaping is a feedforward control technique that convolves a command signal with impulses to cancel residual vibration, used on cranes, disk drives, and spacecraft since Posicast control in 1957.

Input/output

Input/output (I/O), also written input and output, is the transfer of data between a computer and the outside world, using devices such as keyboards, displays, and printers.

INS Arihant

INS Arihant is India's first indigenously built nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, launched at Visakhapatnam in 2009, commissioned in 2016, and completing India's first SSBN deterrence patrol in 2018.

INS Tamal

INS Tamal (F 71) is a stealth frigate of the Indian Navy, commissioned on 1 July 2025 at Kaliningrad, Russia, the last Talwar-class frigate built there.

INS Vikramaditya (आईएनएस विक्रमादित्य)

INS Vikramaditya (आइएनएस विक्रमादित्य) is an aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy, a heavily rebuilt former Soviet Kiev-class cruiser that entered service on 16 November 2013.

INS Vikrant (2013)

INS Vikrant is India's first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier, commissioned in 2022 and the largest ship ever built in India, operating up to 30 aircraft.

INS Viraat (विराट)

INS Viraat (विराट) was a Centaur-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy from 1987 to 2017, having previously served in the Royal Navy as HMS Hermes.

INS Vishal

INS Vishal, originally designated Indigenous Aircraft Carrier 2 (IAC-2), is a planned 65,000-ton CATOBAR aircraft carrier for the Indian Navy, on hold since December 2022.

INSAS rifle

The INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) is a family of 5.56×45 mm assault rifles and light machine guns developed in India, standard rifle of the Indian Army from the 1990s.

InSe field-effect transistor

An InSe field-effect transistor is a transistor whose conducting channel is made of indium selenide, a two-dimensional semiconductor prized for high electron mobility and a 1.26 eV band gap.

Insensitive munition

An insensitive munition (IM) is a munition designed to give its required explosive performance while tolerating unplanned stimuli such as heat, fire, impact, and nearby detonations, governed by NATO's STANAG 4439.

Insert molding

Insert molding, also called insert injection molding, is an injection molding process where plastic is injected around a preformed insert, usually metal, producing a finished assembled part.

Inshorts

Inshorts is an Indian news aggregation app that summarizes national and international stories into 60-word briefs, started in 2013 as the Facebook page News in Shorts.

Inside FERC

Inside FERC, formally Inside F.E.R.C.'s Gas Market Report, is Platts' monthly survey of bidweek natural gas trades, publishing index prices that settle much of the North American gas market.

Inside–outside–beginning (tagging)

Inside–outside–beginning (IOB) tagging, or BIO tagging, is a natural language processing encoding that marks chunk boundaries with I, O, and B tags on each word.