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Jaigarh-Dabhol Gas Pipeline

The Jaigarh-Dabhol Gas Pipeline (JDPL) is a 56-kilometer natural gas pipeline in Maharashtra, India, built by H-Energy to link its Jaigarh LNG terminal to GAIL's national gas grid at Dabhol, completed in June 2021.

Jailbreak (computer science)

A jailbreak is a privilege escalation attack that removes an operating system's restrictions, most commonly used to gain root control of Apple iOS devices to install unapproved software.

Jailbreak-Zero

Jailbreak-Zero is a black-box automated red-teaming framework, introduced by Kai Hu and colleagues in January 2026, that generates jailbreak prompts for large language models without human-written seed examples.

JailbreakBench

JailbreakBench is an open-source benchmark and public leaderboard for evaluating jailbreak attacks and defenses against large language models, released in March 2024 by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, ETH Zurich, EPFL, and Sony AI.

Jailbreaking (large language models)

Jailbreaking is the practice of crafting prompts or prompt sequences that make a large language model produce behavior its safety training was designed to refuse, such as harmful instructions.

Jaiprakash Power Ventures

Jaiprakash Power Ventures Limited (JPVL) is an Indian power generation company, incorporated in 1994, that operates 2,220 MW across one hydroelectric and two thermal plants in Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh.

Jaipur International Airport (जयपुर अंतर्राष्ट्रीय हवाई अड्डा)

Jaipur International Airport (जयपुर अंतर्राष्ट्रीय हवाई अड्डा), also known as Sanganer Airport, serves Jaipur, Rajasthan, about 13 km south of the city, and is the state's busiest airport.

Jais (language model)

Jais, named for Jebel Jais, the highest peak in the United Arab Emirates, is a family of open bilingual Arabic-English large language models from Inception, MBZUAI, and Cerebras Systems.

Jais (جيس) (model family)

Jais (جيس) is a family of open-weight bilingual Arabic-English large language models developed by Inception, Cerebras Systems, and MBZUAI, first released in August 2023 and expanded to 20 models in 2024.

Jaisalmer Fort (जैसलमेर दुर्ग)

Jaisalmer Fort (जैसलमेर दुर्ग), also called Sonar Quila or the Golden Fort, is a sandstone hill fort on Trikuta Hill in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, built by Rawal Jaisal in the twelfth century.

Jakarta flood control and Great Garuda

Jakarta flood control protects Indonesia's sinking capital through polders, pumps, and dikes, while the Great Garuda was a proposed bird-shaped 35 km sea wall across Jakarta Bay.

Jakarta International Stadium

Jakarta International Stadium (JIS; Indonesian: Stadion Internasional Jakarta) is a football stadium with a retractable roof in North Jakarta, opened in 2022 as the home of Persija Jakarta.

Jakarta odd-even scheme

The Jakarta odd-even scheme, known in Indonesian as ganjil-genap, is a road-space rationing policy limiting private cars on main roads by license-plate parity, introduced in 2016.

Jakob Ackeret

Jakob Ackeret (1898–1981) was a Swiss aeronautical engineer and professor at ETH Zurich from 1931 to 1967, a founder of modern supersonic aerodynamics who proposed the designation Mach number.

Jakub Pachocki

Jakub Pachocki is a Polish computer scientist who has been Chief Scientist at OpenAI since May 2024, succeeding Ilya Sutskever, and helped create the reasoning models o1 and o3.

Jal Jeevan Mission (जल जीवन मिशन)

Jal Jeevan Mission (जल जीवन मिशन), also called Har Ghar Jal, is an Indian government program launched in 2019 to provide tap water to every rural household.

Jal Mahal

Jal Mahal, or Water Palace, is an 18th-century palace of red sandstone in Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, with four of its five storeys submerged when the lake is full.

Jalalabad Oil and Gas Field

The Jalalabad field is a natural gas and condensate field in Block 13 at Sylhet, northeastern Bangladesh, discovered in 1989 and operated by Chevron Bangladesh.

Jalles Machado

Jalles Machado is a Brazilian sugar, ethanol, and bioelectricity producer headquartered in Goianésia, Goiás, operating three mills that crush 9 million tonnes of sugarcane per harvest.

Jam density

Jam density is the maximum vehicle density a road lane can hold when traffic is at a complete standstill, typically around 150 vehicles per kilometer per lane.

Jamal J. Azar

Jamal J. Azar (born 1937) is a McMan Chair professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Tulsa, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Jamba (model family)

Jamba is a family of large language models from AI21 Labs, first released in March 2024, combining Transformer and Mamba layers with a 256K-token context window.

Jambaran-Tiung Biru Unitized Oil and Gas Field

Jambaran-Tiung Biru Unitized Oil and Gas Field (JTB) is an onshore gas and condensate field in Bojonegoro Regency, East Java, Indonesia, operated by Pertamina EP Cepu since 2022.

Jambukeswarar Temple, Thiruvanaikaval

Jambukeswarar Temple, also called Thiruvanaikoil or Jambukeswaram, is a Shiva temple on Srirangam island near Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, and one of the five Pancha Bhoota Sthalams.

James A. Dumesic

James A. Dumesic is an American chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for microkinetic analysis of catalysis and catalytic conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals.

James A. Fay

James A. Fay, also known as James Alan Fay, was an American MIT mechanical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for combustion research.

James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant

The James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant is a boiling water reactor on Lake Ontario in Scriba, New York, operating commercially since 1975 and now run by Constellation Energy.

James A. Trainham III

James A. Trainham III is an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997, who spent 25 years at DuPont, rising to chief technology officer of Invista.

James A. Yurko

James A. Yurko is an American materials engineer who leads Apple's alloy engineering work and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

James Adeche Momoh

James Adeche Momoh is a Nigerian-American electrical engineer and Howard University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for grid optimization and power grid policy in Africa.