Technology and the built world

iTwin

iTwin is Bentley Systems' term for an infrastructure digital twin, and the name of the cloud platform Bentley provides for creating, visualizing, and analyzing twins of roads, bridges, and utilities.

Iubenda

Iubenda is an Italian software-as-a-service company founded in 2011 in Milan that provides privacy policy generators, cookie consent banners, and terms and conditions tools for websites and apps.

IUPK

IUPK (Izin Usaha Pertambangan Khusus) is an Indonesian special mining license under the 2009 Mining Law, best known for governing Freeport's Grasberg mine in Papua.

Oct 21, 2026

Iustiniani Pons (Bridge of Justinian, Sangarius Bridge, Turkish Justinianos Köprüsü) is a Late Roman arched bridge built by Emperor Justinian I across the Sangarius River at Serdivan, Sakarya, Turkey, with an original span of about 430 m.

Oct 10, 2026

Ivan A. Getting

Ivan A. Getting was an American physicist and engineer who headed Army radar development at MIT, led Raytheon, and championed the satellite navigation system that became GPS.

Ivan Kozhedub

Ivan Kozhedub (Іван Кожедуб) was a Soviet fighter pilot of Ukrainian origin, the highest-scoring Allied fighter ace of World War II, credited with 62 victories.

Ivan M. Viest

Ivan M. Viest (1922–2012) was a Slovak-born American structural engineer who pioneered composite steel-concrete construction and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.

Ivan Marusic

Ivan Marusic FRS is an Australian-based fluid mechanician and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, known for discovering turbulent superstructures and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.

Ivan Mora-Sero

Iván Mora-Seró, born 1974, is a full professor at Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, Spain, known for research on quantum dot and halide perovskite solar cells.

Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland, born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska, is an American computer scientist who created Sketchpad, built the first head-mounted display, and won the 1988 Turing Award.

Ivan T. Frisch

Ivan T. Frisch (1937–2024) was an American communications network scientist who led the design of ARPANET's network structure and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Ivanpah Solar Power Facility

The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, formally the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is a concentrating solar thermal power plant in the Mojave Desert of California that opened in 2014.

Ivar Aasen Oil and Gas Field

Ivar Aasen is a producing oil and gas field on the Utsira High in the Norwegian North Sea, operated by Aker BP, with first oil in December 2016.

Ivatsevichy-Kobryn-Dolyna Gas Pipeline

The Ivatsevichy-Kobryn-Dolyna Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Ivatsevichy in Belarus to Dolyna in Ukraine, built in 1976 and 1981 for Russian gas transit.

Iveco

Iveco, an acronym of Industrial Vehicles Corporation, is an Italian manufacturer of trucks, vans, and buses founded in 1975 from five European brands, based in Turin.

Iveco Daily

The Iveco Daily, also known as the Iveco Turbodaily, is a large van and light commercial vehicle built by Iveco since 1978, with over 3 million produced.

Iveco LMV

The Iveco LMV, known in Italian service as the VTLM Lince, is a 4x4 armored light tactical vehicle built by Iveco Defence Vehicles in Bolzano, Italy.

Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr.

Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. was an American Air Force test pilot and Korean War ace who in 1956 became the first person to fly above 100,000 feet.

Iver (AUV)

The Iver is a family of torpedo-shaped, man-portable autonomous underwater vehicles originally built by OceanServer Technology and now produced by L3Harris, used for seafloor survey, mine countermeasures, and research.

Iver Johnson

Iver Johnson was an American firearms, bicycle, and motorcycle manufacturer, founded by Norwegian-born gunsmith Iver Johnson, that operated from 1871 to 1993 and was known for the inexpensive Safety Automatic revolver with its transfer-bar safety.

Oct 21, 2026

Iveria

Iveria (ივერია) is Tbilisi's 1967 Soviet high-rise hotel, later a refugee shelter, rebuilt as the Radisson Blu Iveria in 2009 and home to Casino Iveria, one of Georgia's first casinos with 23 tables and 225 slots.

IVF-PQ index

The IVF-PQ index is an approximate nearest-neighbor search structure combining inverted file clustering with product quantization compression, introduced by Jégou, Douze, and Schmid at INRIA in 2011.

Ivo F.J. Vankelecom

Ivo F.J. Vankelecom, also known as Ivo Vankelecom, is a Belgian membrane scientist and full professor at KU Leuven who leads its Membrane Technology Group.

Ivory (soap)

Ivory is a brand of bar soap introduced in 1879 by Procter & Gamble of Cincinnati, best known for its "99 and 44/100% pure" and "it floats" slogans.

Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture)

Ivy Bridge, also known as Intel Ivy Bridge, is Intel's third-generation Core microarchitecture, a 22 nm refinement of Sandy Bridge launched in 2012 and the first high-volume chip to use 3-D Tri-Gate transistors.

Ivy King

Ivy King was a 500-kiloton nuclear test conducted by the United States on 15 November 1952 at Enewetak Atoll, the largest pure-fission bomb it ever tested.

Ivy Mike

Ivy Mike was the first full-scale test of a hydrogen bomb, detonated by the United States on 1 November 1952 at Enewetak Atoll with a 10.4-megaton yield.

Iwao Iwasaki

Iwao Iwasaki is a metallurgical engineer who spent 40 years at the University of Minnesota and its Coleraine minerals laboratory researching taconite and mineral resources.

Oct 22, 2026

Iwashimizu Hachimangū

Iwashimizu Hachimangū (石清水八幡宮) is a Shinto shrine on Mount Otokoyama in Yawata, Kyoto, founded in 859 to enshrine Emperor Ōjin as the god Hachiman; its main buildings are National Treasures.