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JSI (other)
JSI may refer to: * Japan Science Institute, now IBM Research – Tokyo, a Japanese research lab * John Shea Insurance Canada Cup Qualifier, a former Canadian curling bonspiel * John Snow, Inc, an American public health research and consulting firm * Skiathos Island National Airport, in Greece * Jožef Stefan Institute The Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) () is the largest research institute in Slovenia. The main research areas are physics, chemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, information technologies, physics, reactor physics, energy and Natural environm ..., a scientific institute located in Ljubljana, Slovenia See also * JS-1 (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Science Institute
IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, near IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York. It is the largest industrial research organization in the world with operations in over 170 countries and twelve labs on six continents. IBM employees have garnered six Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, 20 inductees into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame, 19 National Medals of Technology, five National Medals of Science and three Kavli Prizes. , the company has generated more patents than any other business in each of 25 consecutive years, which is a record. History The roots of today's IBM Research began with the 1945 opening of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. This was the first IBM laboratory devoted to pure science and later expanded into additional IBM Research locations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shea Insurance Canada Cup Qualifier
The John Shea Insurance Canada Cup Qualifier was an annual curling bonspiel held at the Ottawa and Rideau Curling Clubs in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In odd years, the event was a qualifier for the men's Canada Cup of Curling while in even years the event is the women's qualifier. It was held annually in December, and was part of the World Curling Tour. The rotating format begun in 2006, when Ottawa hosted the JSI Women's Canada Cup Qualifier. The other qualifier was held annually at the Saville Centre in Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Central Alberta ... and was known as the Diversified Transportation Canada Cup Qualifier. In 2004, Ottawa hosted the Canada Cup East Qualifier for both sexes (the 2005 event was cancelled). Prior to this, the event had nothing to do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Snow, Inc
John Snow, Inc. (JSI) is a global consulting organization dedicated to improving people’s lives around the world through greater health, education, and socioeconomic equity for individuals and communities, and to providing an environment where people of passion can pursue this cause. JSI was founded in 1978 by Joel Lamstein and Norbert Hirschhorn. In 2022, Margaret Crotty was appointed as CEO and president, succeeding founder Lamstein. The firm is based in Boston. Activities On January 8, 2010, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke on the 15th anniversary of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), JSI president Joel Lamstein appeared as a guest blogger in the ''Huffington Post''. The article, "Re-Discovering U.S. Leadership: An Unlikely Contender", highlights issues facing woman around the world—in particular refugees and those displaced—as Secretary Clinton reaffirmed the U.S. government's support for universal access to reprodu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skiathos Island National Airport
Skiathos Alexandros Papadiamantis Airport is an airport on the island of Skiathos, Greece. Its runway is able to accommodate aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 757-200. The runway is characterised as 'short and narrow'. Because of the uneven terrain on the island of Skiathos, Skiathos Airport was created by reclaiming land from the sea between Skiathos island and the smaller island of Lazareta (a former leper colony) effectively joining the two islands into one larger island, though it was built on land already part of Skiathos. The location was chosen by a mechanic who lived in Volos. The airport is named after Alexandros Papadiamantis, a Greek novelist and native of the island. The airport's short runway and its proximity to an adjacent public road have made it a popular destination for planespotters. It is often compared to Princess Juliana International Airport Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jožef Stefan Institute
The Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) () is the largest research institute in Slovenia. The main research areas are physics, chemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, information technologies, physics, reactor physics, energy and Natural environment, environment. At the beginning of 2013 the institute had 962 employees, of whom 404 were PhD scientists. The mission of the Jožef Stefan Institute is the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge at the frontiers of natural science and technology for the benefit of society at large through the pursuit of education, learning, research, and development of high technology at the highest international levels of excellence. History The institute was founded by the State Security Administration (Yugoslavia) in 1949 for atomic weapons research. Initially, the Vinča Nuclear Institute in Belgrade was established in 1948, followed by the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb in 1950 and the Jožef Stefan Institute as an Institute for Physic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
