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InSight

InSight was a NASA Discovery-program Mars lander that operated on Mars from November 2018 to December 2022, placing the first seismometer on the Martian surface and recording 1,319 marsquakes.

Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit

The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) is an open-source C++ library for N-dimensional image segmentation and registration, created in 1999 for the US National Library of Medicine.

Insignia (Xbox)

Insignia is a free, community-run, reverse-engineered replacement for Microsoft's original Xbox Live servers, restoring online multiplayer to the original Xbox after the 2010 shutdown.

Insitu

Insitu, Inc. is an American unmanned aircraft manufacturer in Bingen, Washington, founded in 1994, best known for the ScanEagle drone and owned by Boeing since 2008.

Insomniac Games

Insomniac Games is an American video game studio in Burbank, California, best known for Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank, and Marvel's Spider-Man; Sony acquired it in 2019.

Inspect (evaluation framework)

Inspect, also known as Inspect AI, is an open-source Python framework for large language model evaluations and red-teaming, developed by the UK AI Security Institute and released in 2024.

Inspection car

An inspection car is a dedicated rail vehicle fitted with instruments that measure track geometry and rail condition while traveling over the line, replacing older visual inspections.

Inspiration4

Inspiration4 was a privately chartered SpaceX flight that launched four civilian astronauts into orbit on September 15, 2021, the first orbital human spaceflight with no professional government astronauts aboard.

Inspire Arena

Inspire Arena (인스파이어 아레나) is a 15,000-capacity indoor arena in the Inspire Entertainment Resort on Yeongjong Island in Incheon, South Korea, opened in December 2023 with the Melon Music Awards.

Inspire Award (FIRST Tech Challenge)

The Inspire Award is the highest team judged award in FIRST Tech Challenge, given to the team that best embodies the program with Gracious Professionalism and strength across all judged award categories.

Instagram

Instagram is a photo- and video-sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms, launched in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and bought by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012.

Instagrid

Instagrid is a German company, founded in 2018 in Ludwigsburg, that makes portable battery power systems replacing petrol and diesel generators in construction, film, and emergency services.

Installation (computer programs)

Installation, also called software installation, is the process of setting up a computer program to run on a system, using installers, package managers such as APT, or app stores.

Installed Building Products

Installed Building Products is an American specialty construction company, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio since 1977, that installs insulation, garage doors, gutters, and related products for builders.

Instance segmentation

Instance segmentation is a computer vision method that detects each individual object in an image and assigns it a pixel-level mask, class label, and confidence score.

Instant film

Instant film is self-developing photographic film that produces a visible print minutes after exposure, without external processing; Polaroid makes it at its Enschede, Netherlands plant.

Instant messaging

Instant messaging (IM), or IMing, is the real-time exchange of text messages over the internet through client apps, distinct from SMS; IRC began it in 1988 and ICQ followed in 1996.

Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial

The Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI) is a joint CSIC and UPC university research institute in Barcelona, created in November 1995 to conduct basic and applied research in human-centered robotics and automatic control.

Institut Pascal

The Institut Pascal is a French joint research unit of the Université Clermont Auvergne and the CNRS in Clermont-Ferrand, covering robotics, mechanics, and process engineering.

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, known as IACMI – The Composites Institute, is a U.S. public-private consortium for composites manufacturing research founded in 2015.

Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System in Pensacola, founded in 1990, best known for its humanoid robotics program.

Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics

The Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) is a French robotics and artificial intelligence research laboratory in Paris, run by Sorbonne University, CNRS, and Inserm.

Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety

The Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (French: Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire, IRSN) was France's public institute for nuclear safety expertise, created in 2002.

Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis

The Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), German Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse, is a Karlsruhe Institute of Technology research institute founded in 1995.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences

The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) is the research and engineering laboratory of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in Boulder, Colorado, known for the Longley-Rice radio propagation model.

Institute of Aerospace Systems (TU Braunschweig)

The Institute of Aerospace Systems (Institut für Luft- und Raumfahrtsysteme, ILR) was a research institute of TU Braunschweig in Germany working on unmanned aircraft and space debris.

Institute of Automation and Robotics Poznan

The Institute of Automation and Robotics (Instytut Automatyki i Robotyki, IAR) is a research and teaching institute of Poznań University of Technology in Poznań, Poland, founded in 1970.

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院自动化研究所, CASIA) is a research institute in Beijing established in 1956 as China's first national automation institution, now focused on intelligent science and technology.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a not-for-profit professional association for electrical engineering, electronics, and computing, formed in 1963 through a merger of the AIEE and IRE.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society

The IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) is a technical society of the IEEE for engineers and researchers in communications, founded in 1952 and counting over 40,000 members.