SCI
Encyclopedia
Companies
- SCiSCiSquare Enix Limited, doing business as Square Enix Europe, is a British publisher of video game software wholly owned by Square Enix. Square Enix Europe has its head office in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....
, formerly Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer - Sanmina-SCI, an Electronics Manufacturing Services company
- Sequential CircuitsSequential CircuitsSequential Circuits Inc. was a California-based synthesizer company that was founded in the early 1970s by Dave Smith and sold to Yamaha Corporation in 1987. The company, throughout its lifespan, pioneered many groundbreaking technologies and design principles that are often taken for granted in...
Inc, a synthesizer company - Service Corporation InternationalService Corporation InternationalFor other uses of the acronym SCI, see SCIService Corporation International is North America’s largest provider of end-of-life arrangements and services. With its headquarters in Neartown, Houston, Texas, United States, SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states,...
, a large company in the funeral industry. - Shipping Corporation of IndiaShipping Corporation of IndiaThe Shipping Corporation of India is a company owned by the Government of India based out of Mumbai that operates and manages vessels that services both national and international lines.-History:...
Organizations and sporting
- Safari Club InternationalSafari Club InternationalSafari Club International is an international organization composed of hunters. SCI has more than 50,000 members and 180 local chapters. SCI's website displays the bannertext "Safari Club International is the Leader in Protecting the Freedom to Hunt and Promoting Wildlife Conservation...
- wildlife preservation and hunting organization - Schistosomiasis Control InitiativeSchistosomiasis Control InitiativeSchistosomiasis Control Initiative is an initiative that helps governments in African countries tackle neglected tropical diseases caused by worms...
- Scientific Computing and Imaging InstituteScientific Computing and Imaging InstituteThe Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute is a permanent research institute at the University of Utah. It is a leader in engineering and research in the areas of scientific computing, visualization, and imaging...
- Scituate, MassachusettsScituate, MassachusettsScituate is a seacoast town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on the South Shore, midway between Boston and Plymouth. The population was 18,133 at the 2010 census....
, coastal town in the South Shore region of the US state - Service Civil InternationalService Civil InternationalService Civil International is an international non-governmental voluntary service organisation and peace movement with 43 branches and groups worldwide...
, an international non-governmental volunteer organisation - Silverthorn Collegiate InstituteSilverthorn Collegiate InstituteSilverthorn Collegiate Institute is a high school located in the west end of Toronto. It is under the sanction of the Toronto District School Board. The name comes from the "The Silverthorn Woods" or "Silverthorn's Bush" that border it on the south and the west...
, a secondary school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. - Sister Cities InternationalSister Cities InternationalSister Cities International is a nonprofit citizen diplomacy network that creates and strengthens partnerships between United States and international communities. More than 2,000 cities, states and counties are partnered in 136 countries around the world...
- Skate Canada InternationalSkate Canada InternationalThe Skate Canada International is an international, senior-level invitation-only figure skating competition organized by Skate Canada. It is the second competition of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. The location changes yearly. Medals are awarded in four disciplines: Ladies' singles, Men's...
, a figure skating competition - Society of Chemical IndustrySociety of Chemical IndustryThe Society of Chemical Industry is a learned society set up in 1881 "to further the application of chemistry and related sciences for the public benefit". Its purpose is "Promoting the commercial application of science for the benefit of society". Its first president was Henry Enfield Roscoe and...
- Solar Cookers InternationalSolar Cookers InternationalSolar Cookers International is a California 501 nonprofit, non-governmental organization that spreads solar cooking awareness and skills worldwide, particularly in areas with plentiful sunshine and diminishing sources of cooking fuel...
- Sport Club InternacionalSport Club InternacionalSport Club Internacional is a Brazilian football team and multi-sport club from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, founded on April 4, 1909, and are one of the only five clubs to have never been relegated, along with Santos, São Paulo, Flamengo and Cruzeiro. They play in red shirts, white shorts and...
, a football club in Brazil - Strategic Computing InitiativeStrategic Computing InitiativeThe United States government's Strategic Computing Initiative funded research into advanced computer hardware and artificial intelligence from 1983 to 1993...
, a program to fund research in artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
and advanced computer hardware in the 1980s. - Sustainable Commodity InitiativeSustainable Commodity InitiativeThe Sustainable Commodity Initiative is a joint initiative launched by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in 2003...
, a partnership of IISD-UNCTAD-AidEnvironment and UNCTAD - Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, an academic conference that changed its name from SCI to WMSCIWMSCIWMSCI, the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, is a computer science and engineering conference that has occurred annually since 1995.-History:...
in 2005
Science
- Abbreviation for Metcalf Center for Science and EngineeringMetcalf Center for Science and EngineeringMetcalf Center for Science and Engineering is a building owned by Boston University and named for Arthur G.B. Metcalf. Metcalf founded what would later become the university's engineering college and served as its chair. He also donated millions of dollars toward the construction of the building...
, a building at Boston University - ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, as in "comp sci" (computer science) or "bio sci" (biology) - Science Citation IndexScience Citation IndexThe Science Citation Index is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960, which is now owned by Thomson Reuters. The larger version covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from ...
Other
- Scalable Coherent Interface
- SCI 124, the notation for the Shapley Supercluster
- Sensitive Compartmented InformationSensitive Compartmented InformationSensitive compartmented information is a type of United States classified information concerning or derived from sensitive intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes. All SCI must be handled within formal access control systems established by the Director of National Intelligence...
- Serial Communication Interface
- Sierra's Creative InterpreterSierra's Creative InterpreterSierra's Creative Interpreter is the scripting language created by Jeff Stephenson of Sierra On-Line for its adventure games after the older AGI, and the runtime environment for such adventure games....
- Site of Community ImportanceSite of Community ImportanceA Site of Community Importance is defined in the European Commission Habitats Directive as a site which, in the biogeographical region or regions to which it belongs, contributes significantly to the maintenance or restoration at a favourable conservation status of a natural habitat type or of a...
- Smart Charge Injection
- Special Criminal Investigation, a video game
- Spinal cord injurySpinal cord injuryA spinal cord injury refers to any injury to the spinal cord that is caused by trauma instead of disease. Depending on where the spinal cord and nerve roots are damaged, the symptoms can vary widely, from pain to paralysis to incontinence...
- String Cheese Incident, a jam band
- Structure Conservation Index