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InterPlanetary File System

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system, described by Juan Benet in 2014, that addresses content by cryptographic hash instead of server location.

Interplanetary Internet

The Interplanetary Internet, also known as space internet, is a proposed communication architecture using delay-tolerant networking, begun at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1998 by Vint Cerf and Adrian Hooke.

Interplanetary spaceflight

Interplanetary spaceflight, also called interplanetary travel, is the flight of spacecraft between planets of the Solar System, from launch through cruise to arrival, using trajectories shaped by orbital mechanics and gravity assists.

Interplanetary Transport Network

The Interplanetary Transport Network, or Interplanetary Superhighway, is a network of gravitationally determined pathways letting spacecraft travel between planets with little propellant at the cost of longer flight times.

InterPositive

InterPositive is an AI filmmaking company founded by Ben Affleck in 2022 that builds post-production tools; Netflix acquired it in 2026 for about $587 million.

Interpretability of vision and multimodal models

Interpretability of vision and multimodal models extends mechanistic interpretability, explaining neural networks through internal features and circuits, from language models to vision transformers and vision-language models.

Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey concern the meanings assigned to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 film, whose monolith, HAL 9000, and Star Child are never explained.

Interpreter (computing)

An interpreter is a program that executes code in another language at the software level, often evaluating source or bytecode directly instead of producing a native executable.

InterPro

InterPro is a free database at EMBL-EBI that classifies protein sequences into families and predicts domains and sites, integrating signatures from 13 member databases since its creation in 1999.

Interprocedural analysis

Interprocedural analysis is static program analysis that extends dataflow analysis across procedure boundaries, incorporating procedure calls and calling contexts rather than analyzing each function in isolation.

Interrupt

An interrupt, also called a computer or CPU interrupt, is a signal that makes a processor suspend its current program, run a handler routine, and then resume.

Interrupt handler

An interrupt handler, also called an interrupt service routine (ISR), is software the processor runs in response to a hardware interrupt, suspending the current program to service events like key presses.

Interrupt latency

Interrupt latency is the delay between an interrupt request being raised and the first instruction of its service routine, a central performance metric for real-time systems.

Interrupt request

An interrupt request (IRQ) is a signal sent to a computer's processor, usually by a hardware device, to momentarily interrupt its operations so the device can be serviced.

Interruption (electric power)

An interruption in electric power is a complete loss of supply voltage or load current, defined by IEEE Standard 1159 and classified by duration into four categories.

Intersection (road)

An intersection, also called an at-grade junction, is a point where two or more roads meet or cross at the same grade, where traffic must yield, stop, or signal.

Intersection type

An intersection type is a type whose values belong to all of its components at once, introduced by Coppo and Dezani in 1978 and written A & B in TypeScript and Scala 3.

Intersnack

Intersnack is a German snack manufacturer founded in 1968. It produces snacks under more than 30 brands, generating sales of around €4.5 billion in 2024.

Intersolar Europe

Intersolar Europe is one of the world's largest solar industry exhibitions, held annually at Messe München in Munich and covering photovoltaics, solar thermal, and storage.

Interspeech

Interspeech is the annual international conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the world's largest conference on spoken language processing, formed in 2004 by merging EUROSPEECH and ICSLP.

Interstate 10

Interstate 10 is a 2,460-mile coast-to-coast Interstate Highway across the southern United States, from Santa Monica, California, to Jacksonville, Florida, that passes through eight states and was completed in 1990.

Interstate 10 in Arizona

Interstate 10 in Arizona is the 391-mile Arizona segment of I-10, linking Phoenix and Tucson and running from the California line near Ehrenberg to the New Mexico line.

Interstate 10 in Texas

Interstate 10 in Texas is the 877-mile Texas segment of I-10, running from El Paso through San Antonio and Houston to Orange, the longest interstate segment in any state.

Interstate 105 (California)

Interstate 105, known locally as the Century Freeway, is a 17.3-mile east–west freeway in Los Angeles County connecting LAX to Norwalk, opened in 1993 at a cost of $2.25 billion.

Interstate 11

Interstate 11, also known as the Oran Gragson Freeway, is a proposed highway connecting Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, with only a short Nevada segment open.

Interstate 110 (California)

Interstate 110 is a freeway in Los Angeles County, California, running from the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro north to downtown Los Angeles along the Harbor Freeway.

Interstate 15

Interstate 15 is a 1,437-mile north–south Interstate Highway in the western United States, running from San Diego, California, through Las Vegas and Salt Lake City to the Canadian border in Montana.

Interstate 20

Interstate 20 is a 1,539-mile east–west Interstate Highway in the southern United States, running from I-10 near Kent, Texas, through Dallas, Birmingham, and Atlanta to Florence, South Carolina.

Interstate 238 and California State Route 238

Interstate 238 and California State Route 238 are two San Francisco Bay Area highways sharing a number but not a road, best known for I-238's anomalous numbering.

Interstate 35

Interstate 35 (I-35) is a 1,568-mile Interstate Highway running from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, to Duluth, Minnesota, splitting through Dallas and Fort Worth.