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Josh Cellars

Josh Cellars is an American wine brand founded in 2007 by Joseph Carr in tribute to his father Josh, owned by Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits since 2012, selling California varietals around $20 and reaching 6.2 million cases in 2023.

Josh Wardle

Josh Wardle is a Welsh software engineer who created Wordle, sold to The New York Times in 2022, and earlier made Reddit's April Fools' experiments The Button and Place.

Joshua Robinson

Joshua A. Robinson is an American materials scientist and professor at Pennsylvania State University known for confinement heteroepitaxy, which grows atomically thin metals and nitrides beyond graphene.

Joshua Tenenbaum

Joshua B. Tenenbaum is a professor of computational cognitive science at MIT who applies Bayesian models to human learning and created the Isomap algorithm, winning a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019.

Josiah Dykstra

Josiah Dykstra is an American cybersecurity and digital forensics researcher who spent over a decade at the NSA and received a Presidential Early Career Award.

Josiah Hester

Josiah Hester is a Native Hawaiian computer scientist and associate professor at Georgia Tech known for battery-free computing, intermittent systems, and wearable health sensing devices.

Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) was an English potter who founded the Etruria works, perfected Queen's Ware and Jasperware, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Jota Samper

Jota Samper (José Jaime Samper Escobar) is a Colombian architect and urban planner from Medellín, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for the Atlas of Informality.

Jottacloud

Jottacloud is a Norwegian cloud storage and online backup service founded by Roland Rabben in 2008, marketed around privacy and data stored in company-owned Norwegian data centers.

Jotun FPSO

The Jotun FPSO is a floating production, storage and offloading vessel in the Norwegian North Sea, serving the Jotun field from 1999 and the Balder area from 2025.

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

The Journal of Construction Engineering and Management is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, covering research in construction engineering and construction management.

Journal of Engineering Mechanics

The Journal of Engineering Mechanics is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, covering applied mechanics as it relates to civil engineering since 1956.

Journal of Environmental Engineering

The Journal of Environmental Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, covering wastewater treatment, contaminant transport, and hazardous and solid waste research.

Journal of Field Robotics

The Journal of Field Robotics (JFR) is a bimonthly Wiley peer-reviewed journal on robotics in unstructured environments, published since 1984 and formerly titled Journal of Robotic Systems.

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

The Journal of Hydraulic Engineering is a peer-reviewed civil engineering journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1983, covering flows in conduits, rivers, and estuaries.

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems

The Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, abbreviated JINT, is a peer-reviewed robotics journal published by Springer Nature in the Netherlands since 1988, covering intelligent systems theory and practice.

Journal of Materials Research

The Journal of Materials Research is a monthly peer-reviewed journal covering materials research, founded in 1986 by the Materials Research Society and published with Springer Nature since 2021.

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

The Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics is a monthly peer-reviewed engineering journal published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 2009, covering mechanisms, machine systems, and robotics.

Journal of Robotic Surgery

The Journal of Robotic Surgery is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Springer since 2007 and founded by surgeon Vipul Patel, covering robotic surgical systems, clinical outcomes, simulation, training, and imaging.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, known as JSAH, is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal on the history of the built environment, published since 1941 by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

The Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management is a monthly peer-reviewed civil engineering journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1983.

Journaling file system

A journaling file system, also called a journaled file system, records changes in a log, the journal, before writing them to disk, enabling fast recovery after a crash.

Joy Buolamwini

Joy Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American-Canadian computer scientist who founded the Algorithmic Justice League in 2016; her MIT research exposed racial and gender bias in commercial facial-analysis systems.

Joy for All companion pets

Joy for All companion pets are animatronic robotic cats, dogs, and birds that give older adults pet companionship without feeding or daily care. Created by Hasbro in 2015.

JoyAI-Image

JoyAI-Image is an open-source unified multimodal foundation model from JD.com, released in 2026, that performs image understanding, text-to-image generation, and instruction-guided editing in a single system.

Joybubbles

Joybubbles, born Josef Carl Engressia Jr. (1949–2007), was a blind American phone phreak who could whistle 2600 Hz tones into phones and make free long-distance calls.

Joyent

Joyent is an American cloud infrastructure and software company founded in 2004, best known for SmartOS, Triton DataCenter, Manta storage, and serving as Node.js's original corporate steward.

Jōyō

Jōyō (常陽) is a sodium-cooled experimental fast reactor fueled with uranium-plutonium mixed oxide at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Oarai institute in Ibaraki, Japan, reaching criticality in 1977.

Joystick

A joystick, also called a control stick, is an input device with a stick on a base that the user tilts to control a cursor, vehicle, or on-screen character.

JP GIROUD

Jean-Pierre (JP) Giroud is a French geotechnical engineer who coined "geotextile" and "geomembrane" in 1977, co-founded Geosyntec Consultants in 1983, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.