Technology and the built world

Jiashi Feng

Jiashi Feng (冯纪栅) is a computer vision researcher, formerly an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore and now a research lead at ByteDance.

Jiaxing power station

Jiaxing power station is a large coal-fired power station in Zhapu, Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, which reached 6,300 MW across nine units in June 2025, the largest in East China.

Jiayuguan Aluminum power station

Jiayuguan Aluminum power station (酒钢铝电自备电厂) is a coal-fired captive power station of at least 1,400 MW in Jiayuguan, Gansu, China, built to supply the aluminum smelting operations of Gansu Dongxing Aluminum.

Jibo

Jibo was a tabletop social robot with a swiveling body and animated face, created by Jibo, Inc., launched in 2017 and mostly disabled by a 2019 server shutdown.

Jidoka

Jidoka (自働化), often translated as autonomation, is a Toyota Production System principle in which machines detect abnormalities and stop, and workers can halt the line.

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Jie Xiao

Jie Xiao is a battery materials scientist, a Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since 2022 and, since 2024, Boeing Martin Professor at the University of Washington.

Jie Xue

Jie Xue is a Chinese-American electronics packaging engineer, Vice President of Technology and Quality at Cisco Systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Jie Yin

Jie Yin is an American-based mechanical engineer and professor at North Carolina State University who works on soft robots, mechanical metamaterials, and kirigami-based reconfigurable structures.

Jiebo Luo

Jiebo Luo is the Hopeman Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, known for computer vision and multimedia research and a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAI.

Jielong-1

Jielong-1 (捷龙一号, Smart Dragon-1, SD-1) is a Chinese four-stage solid-propellant launch vehicle developed by China Rocket Co. for small satellites; it flew once, in 2019, placing three satellites into orbit from Jiuquan.

Jielong-3

Jielong-3 (捷龙三号, "Smart Dragon-3", also listed as CZ-11A) is a Chinese four-stage solid-fuel small-lift launch vehicle that first flew from a sea platform in December 2022, carrying 14 satellites.

Jieyang LNG Terminal

The Jieyang LNG Terminal, known as the Yuedong LNG terminal, is a liquefied natural gas import terminal at Huilai County, Jieyang, Guangdong, China, opened in 2017 and owned by PipeChina.

Jiffy Lube

Jiffy Lube is an American franchisor of automotive preventive maintenance centers, best known for fast oil changes. It opened its first service center in 1979 and pioneered the quick-lube industry.

Jig (tool)

A jig is a workholding device in manufacturing that holds and locates the workpiece while guiding the cutting tool, most often through hardened steel bushings in drilling.

JIGSAWS

JIGSAWS (JHU-ISI Gesture and Skill Assessment Working Set) is a public surgical dataset of kinematics, video, and skill annotations, built by Johns Hopkins University and Intuitive Surgical.

Jihun Oh

Jihun Oh, also known as J.K. Oh (오지훈), is a Korean materials scientist and KAIST professor since 2013 who researches artificial photosynthesis, electrocatalysis, and CO2 reduction.

Jikes

Jikes is an open-source Java source-to-bytecode compiler written in C++ at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, first released in 1997 as IBM's first open-source project.

Jikes RVM

Jikes RVM (Research Virtual Machine) is an open-source Java virtual machine, begun as IBM Research's Jalapeño project and released in 2001 as a research testbed for compilation and garbage collection.

Jikji

Jikji (직지) is a Korean Buddhist anthology printed in 1377 at Heungdeoksa Temple in Cheongju, the oldest extant book printed with movable metal type, predating the Gutenberg Bible by 78 years.

Jilin cogen power station

The Jilin cogen power station (吉林热电厂), also called the Jilin Thermal Power Plant, is a coal-fired cogeneration plant in Jilin City, China, founded in 1955 with 690 MW.

Jilin Electric Power

Jilin Electric Power is a Chinese power generation company in Changchun controlled by SPIC, renamed SPIC Green Energy in 2026 as it shifted to renewables.

Jilin-1

Jilin-1 (吉林一号) is a Chinese commercial Earth-observation satellite constellation developed and operated by Chang Guang Satellite Technology of Changchun, with its first launch in 2015.

Jill E. Seebergh

Jill E. Seebergh is an American chemical engineer and Boeing Principal Senior Technical Fellow, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for sustainable aircraft coatings.

Jillian M. Buriak

Jillian M. Buriak is a materials chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alberta, known for silicon surface chemistry and nanomaterials for solar cells and batteries.

Jim Beam

Jim Beam is a brand of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey produced in Clermont, Kentucky, tracing its lineage to Jacob Beam's first barrel sold in 1795.

Jim Blinn

Jim Blinn is a computer graphics pioneer whose techniques, including bump mapping and environment mapping, are standard in animation; he also created the Voyager flyby animations at JPL.

Jim Bridenstine

Jim Bridenstine, also known as James Frederick Bridenstine, is an American politician and former Navy pilot who served as a Republican congressman from Oklahoma and as NASA administrator from 2018 to 2021.

Jim Bridger Steam Plant

The Jim Bridger Steam Plant is a four-unit coal-fired power station in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, near Rock Springs, owned two-thirds by PacifiCorp and one-third by Idaho Power Company.

Jim Ciston

Jim Ciston is an American materials scientist and Deputy Director of the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for 4D-STEM electron microscopy and ultralow-dose imaging.