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Jay Wright Forrester
Jay Wright Forrester (1918–2016) was an American engineer and management scientist at MIT who led the Whirlwind computer project, invented magnetic core memory, and founded system dynamics.
Jaya algorithm
The Jaya algorithm is a parameter-less, population-based optimization method introduced by R. Venkata Rao in 2015, moving candidates toward the best and away from the worst solution.
Jayadev Misra
Jayadev Misra (born 1947) is an Indian-born American computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the UNITY formalism and the Orc language.
Jayakwadi Dam
Jayakwadi Dam, also known as Jaikwadi or Nath Sagar Dam, is a major dam on the Godavari at Paithan, Maharashtra, the state's largest irrigation project, completed in 1976.
Jayant Coal Mine
Jayant Coal Mine, also called the Jayant Opencast Project, is one of India's largest opencast coal mines, operated by Northern Coalfields Limited in Madhya Pradesh since 1977.
Jaypee Group
The Jaypee Group, also known as Jaiprakash Associates, was an Indian infrastructure conglomerate based in Noida, founded by Jaiprakash Gaur, with cement, power, and real estate interests.
Jaypee Nigrie Super Thermal Power Project
Jaypee Nigrie Super Thermal Power Project is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station at Nigrie in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh, India, with two 660 MW supercritical units commissioned in 2014 and 2015.
Jayshree Seth
Jayshree Seth is a chemical engineer who serves as Corporate Scientist and first-ever Chief Science Advocate at 3M, holds 80 U.S. patents, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Jaywalking
Jaywalking is the act of a pedestrian crossing a street illegally, typically outside a crosswalk or against a signal, and is an offense in many American jurisdictions.
Jaz drive
The Jaz drive was a removable hard disk drive made by Iomega, storing 1 or 2 GB per cartridge. Introduced in 1995, it was discontinued in 2002.
Jazeera Airways
Jazeera Airways (طيران الجزيرة) is a Kuwaiti low-cost airline established in 2004 as Kuwait's first private airline. It operates an all-Airbus fleet from Kuwait International Airport.
JBoss
JBoss is a brand of Java application server and middleware software, originally an open-source application server first released in 1999 and owned by Red Hat since 2006.
JBT Corporation
JBT Corporation, formally John Bean Technologies Corporation, was an American industrial technology company spun off from FMC Technologies in 2008 to serve food processing and air transportation.
JCB Hydromax
The JCB Hydromax is a hydrogen-powered land speed record car built by British manufacturer JCB, driven by Andy Green to 406.320 mph at Bonneville in 2026.
JCT contracts
JCT contracts are standard-form building contracts published by the Joint Contracts Tribunal, formed in 1931, and used in most UK building works alongside the NEC suite.
JD Edwards
JD Edwards is an enterprise resource planning software brand, originally J.D. Edwards & Company, founded in Denver in 1977 and acquired by PeopleSoft in 2003, then Oracle in 2005.
JD.com (京东)
JD.com (京东), also known as Jingdong Mall, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing that combines direct sales, a marketplace, and its own logistics network.
JDBC driver
A JDBC driver is a vendor-specific Java library implementing the JDBC API, allowing a Java application to connect to and issue commands against a specific database management system.
JEA (Florida)
JEA is the municipally owned electric, water, and sewer utility of Jacksonville, Florida, an independent city agency since the late 1960s and the largest municipal utility in Florida.
Jean Batten
Jean Gardner Batten, born Jane Batten, was a New Zealand aviator whose 1930s solo flights included the first direct flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.
Jean H. Felker
Jean H. Felker (1919–1994) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who led development of TRADIC, the first fully transistorized computer in the United States.
Jean Lafitte
Jean Lafitte, also spelled Laffite, was a French pirate and smuggler who dominated New Orleans commerce and helped win the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
Jean Mermoz
Jean Mermoz (1901–1936) was a French aviator who flew airmail for the Aéropostale and made the first commercial mail crossing of the South Atlantic in 1930.
Jean Ponce
Jean Ponce is a French computer-vision researcher, professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris since 2023, known for the PMVS multiview stereopsis algorithm and the textbook Computer Vision: A Modern Approach.
Jean Wilim Tom
Jean Wilim Tom is an American chemical engineer in pharmaceutical process development who contributed to 12 marketed drugs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Jean Zay (supercomputer)
Jean Zay is a French supercomputer for high-performance computing and AI, operated by the CNRS at IDRIS in Orsay since 2019 and quadrupled to 125.9 petaflops in 2025.
Jean-Baptiste Michel
Jean-Baptiste Michel is a French and Mauritian data scientist, co-leader with Erez Lieberman Aiden of the 2011 culturomics paper that produced the Google Books n-gram corpus and Ngram Viewer.
Jean-Pierre Kruth
Jean-Pierre Kruth, born in Knokke in 1952, is a Flemish engineer and emeritus KU Leuven professor who pioneered metal additive manufacturing and won the 2015 Bower Award.
Jean-Yves Parlange
Jean-Yves Parlange is a French-born hydrologist and emeritus Cornell professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for contributions to water flow in soils.
Jean‐Marie Tarascon
Jean-Marie Tarascon, born in 1953 in Marmande, is a French solid-state chemist who developed the first plastic rechargeable lithium-ion battery and sodium-ion batteries, winning the 2022 CNRS Gold Medal.