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International Roughness Index
The International Roughness Index (IRI) is a road pavement quality metric that summarizes surface roughness using a simulated reference vehicle, originating from a 1982 World Bank experiment in Brazil.
International Safety Management Code
The International Safety Management Code is a mandatory International Maritime Organization standard, adopted in 1993, requiring shipping companies to establish documented safety management systems for ship safety and pollution prevention.
International SafetyNET
International SafetyNET is a satellite service for broadcasting maritime safety information, such as navigational and weather warnings, distress alerts, and search and rescue notices, to ships at sea.
International Sail Training Association
The International Sail Training Association (ISTA) was a British-based association that organized the Tall Ships Races in Europe from the 1950s until its assets passed to Sail Training International in 2002.
International satellite registration
International satellite registration is the dual system by which States record satellites through ITU spectrum filings and UN registration under the Outer Space Treaty and the 1975 Registration Convention.
International Seismological Centre
The International Seismological Centre (ISC), established in 1963 with UNESCO's help, is a non-profit organization in Thatcham, England, that collects seismological data from agencies worldwide.
International Ship and Port Facility Security Code
The International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code) is a set of measures to enhance ship and port security, adopted by the IMO in December 2002.
International Software Testing Qualifications Board
The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) is a Belgian-registered not-for-profit association, founded in Edinburgh in 2002, governing the world's most recognized software testing certification program.
International Solar Energy Society
The International Solar Energy Society (ISES), founded in 1954, is the world's longest-standing solar organization, with members in over 110 countries, advocating a transition to 100% renewable energy.
International Solid-State Circuits Conference
The International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is an annual IEEE conference, held each February in San Francisco since 1954, where engineers present peer-reviewed advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip.
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS, МКС) is a permanently crewed research laboratory in low Earth orbit, assembled by more than 40 flights and continuously occupied since November 2000.
International standard
An international standard is a voluntary document adopted by an international standards organization such as ISO, IEC, or ITU, providing rules and guidelines for products, processes, and services.
International standard paper sizes
International standard paper sizes, also known as ISO paper sizes, are sheet dimensions defined by ISO 216, whose A series includes the common office size A4.
International Style
The International Style is a modern architectural style that emerged in Western Europe in the 1920s, named by Hitchcock and Johnson in their 1932 MoMA exhibition.
International Sustainability and Carbon Certification
International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) is a certification system, operated by ISCC System GmbH, verifying sustainability and greenhouse gas performance of feedstocks and fuels through third-party audits.
International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction
The International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC) is an annual peer-reviewed conference run by IAARC since the early 1980s, with over 5,600 peer-reviewed papers published.
International Symposium on Computer Architecture
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) is an annual conference for new ideas and experimental results in computer architecture, jointly sponsored by the IEEE and the ACM since 1973.
International Symposium on Field and Service Robotics
The International Symposium on Field and Service Robotics (FSR) is a selective, single-track biennial robotics conference, first held in Canberra in 1997, covering robots that work in mines, farms, and disaster sites.
International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
The International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) is an annual IEEE research conference on computer architecture, held since 1995 and ranked alongside ISCA, MICRO, and ASPLOS.
International Symposium on Industrial Robots
The International Symposium on Industrial Robots (ISIR) was an annual robotics conference held from 1970 to 1996, renamed the International Symposium on Robotics in 1997.
International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design
The International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) is an annual ACM/IEEE-sponsored conference covering power-efficient design from devices and circuits to architecture and software, dating to 1994.
International Symposium on Medical Robotics
The International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) is an annual IEEE-published conference covering surgical robotics, prosthetics, haptics, and image-guided interventions, first held in Atlanta in March 2018.
International Symposium on Microarchitecture
The International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) is an annual IEEE/ACM conference on processor design and computer architecture, one of the field's top venues with an acceptance rate near 20%.
International Symposium on Robotics Research
The International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR) is a biennial robotics research symposium, the flagship symposium of the International Foundation of Robotics Research since 1983.
International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics
The International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) is an annual IEEE conference on robots for disaster response and hazardous environments, founded in 2002.
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) was a set of collaborative forecasts identifying technologies the global semiconductor industry would need, produced from 1998 to 2016.
International Telecommunication Regulations
The International Telecommunication Regulations are a binding ITU treaty setting principles for international telecommunication services, revised at the 2012 Dubai conference whose signing split 144 delegations 89 to 55.
International Telecommunication Service Numbers
International telecommunication service numbers are ITU-assigned number ranges giving one dialable number to a global service: freephone (+800), shared cost (+808), and premium rate (+979), reserved under the E.164 plan.
International Test Conference
The International Test Conference is an annual IEEE-affiliated conference on electronic testing of devices, boards, and systems, held since 1970 and known as the cornerstone of the TestWeek events.
International Transport Forum
The International Transport Forum (ITF), created in 2006 from the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, is an OECD-hosted think tank for transport policy holding an annual summit of ministers in Leipzig.