Technology and the built world

IWC Schaffhausen

IWC Schaffhausen, also known as the International Watch Company, is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1868 in Schaffhausen by the American watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones.

IWI Jericho 941

The IWI Jericho 941, also known as the Baby Eagle, is an Israeli semi-automatic pistol developed by IMI from the CZ-75 design and introduced in 1990.

IWI Negev (נגב)

The IWI Negev (נגב), originally the IMI Negev, is an Israeli light machine gun developed in the 1980s, adopted by the IDF in 1997, and made in 5.56×45mm and 7.62×51mm.

IWI Tavor

The IWI Tavor (Tavor TAR-21) is an Israeli bullpup assault rifle in 5.56×45 mm NATO developed by Israel Weapon Industries and adopted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2003.

IWI Tavor X95

The IWI Tavor X95, also called the Micro Tavor, is a bullpup assault rifle made by Israel Weapon Industries with IDF units and fielded since 2010 in 5.56 NATO.

IWI Zion-15

The IWI Zion-15 is a semi-automatic AR-15-pattern rifle chambered in 5.56 NATO, built by IWI US, the American subsidiary of Israel Weapon Industries, introduced at the 2020 SHOT Show.

IWork

iWork, also known as Apple iWork, is Apple's productivity suite of three apps, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, first bundled in 2005 and free with new devices since 2013.

IX Lira

IX Lira, also known as Lira or Lira-1X, is a natural gas discovery in Romania's deep-water Black Sea sector, made by a Lukoil-led consortium in October 2015.

Ixachi Oil and Gas Field

Ixachi is an onshore oil and gas field in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, Mexico, operated by Pemex and discovered in November 2017, its name meaning "giant" in Náhuatl.

Ixtal Oil and Gas Field

Ixtal is an offshore oil and gas field off Tabasco and Campeche, Mexico, discovered by Pemex in 1993 and producing light crude from Upper Jurassic carbonates since 2005.

Ixtoc Oil and Gas Field

Ixtoc is an oil field in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico's Yucatán coast and part of the Cantarell Complex, best known for the 1979 Ixtoc I blowout.

Iyad Rahwan

Iyad Rahwan is an Australian computer scientist who directs the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Iyak Oil Field

Iyak is an operating conventional oil field in shallow water about 17 miles offshore Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, one of six fields in OML 67's East Area cluster.

Izabela Szlufarska is a Polish-educated materials scientist and engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for a 2009 Nature paper showing that classical friction laws extend to the nanoscale.

IZh (Иж) (motorcycle)

IZh (Иж) is a family of Russian road motorcycles made in Izhevsk from 1933 by the Izhevsk Motorcycle Plant; its Planeta line became the most mass-produced Soviet motorcycle.

iZotope

iZotope is an American audio software company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2001 by MIT students and best known for the RX audio restoration and Ozone mastering suites.

J (programming language)

J is a high-level array programming language designed by Ken Iverson and Roger Hui as a dialect of APL, replacing APL's special symbols with ordinary ASCII characters.

J Strother Moore

J Strother Moore is an American computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, co-creator of the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm and the ACL2 theorem prover.

J-2 (rocket engine)

The J-2 was a large liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne, powering the upper stages of NASA's Saturn IB and Saturn V from 1968 to 1973.

J-B Weld

J-B Weld is an American brand of two-part epoxy adhesives, best known for its steel-reinforced "cold weld" epoxy marketed as an alternative to torch welding.

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J-integral

The J-integral is a path-independent contour integral characterizing energy release rate and crack-tip field severity in elastic and elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, introduced by J. R. Rice in 1968 and standardized in ASTM E1820.

J-POWER Tachibana-wan power station

Tachibana-wan Thermal Power Station (橘湾火力発電所) is a coal-fired power station in Anan, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, owned by J-POWER, with two 1,050 MW units commissioned in 2000.

J-TEXT

J-TEXT, or Joint Texas Experimental Tokamak, is a medium-sized iron-core tokamak at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, with first plasma in 2007.

J-XX

J-XX, also written J-X or XXJ, was the placeholder designation Western observers used from the mid-2000s for China's fifth-generation stealth fighter program, which proved to be the Chengdu J-20.

J. B. Hunt

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, founded by Johnnie Bryan Hunt in Arkansas in 1969, is one of North America's largest surface transportation and logistics companies, headquartered in Lowell, Arkansas.

J. Barry Cooke

J. Barry Cooke (James Barry Cooke, 1915–2005) was an American civil engineer whose consulting in over 20 countries drove worldwide acceptance of the concrete face rockfill dam.

J. Brent Hiskey

J. Brent Hiskey is an American hydrometallurgist and Professor Emeritus of Mining and Geological Engineering at the University of Arizona, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.

J. Bruce Ismay

J. Bruce Ismay (Joseph Bruce Ismay) was an English shipowner and chairman of the White Star Line who survived the Titanic's sinking in 1912 and resigned the following year.

J. C. R. Licklider

J. C. R. Licklider (1915–1990) was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose 1960 paper "Man-Computer Symbiosis" and ARPA leadership shaped interactive computing and networking.