MSI may refer to:

Organizations

Marketing Science Institute Founded in 1961, the Marketing Science Institute (MSI) is a corporate-membership-based organization. MSI claims to be unique as the only research-based organization with a network of marketing academics from business schools all over the world as w ...

, a nonprofit learning institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US *

Media Sport Investment Media Sport Investment Limited (MSI) was a London-based international investment fund that was headed by the Iranian-born, British-educated, businessman Kia Joorabchian. It has attracted considerable attention for its partnership between 2004 and 2 ...

, the international fund of investors that ran Sport Club Corinthians Paulista *

Millennium Science Initiative The Millennium Science Initiative, a project of The World Bank and the Science Initiative Group, is an international initiative to build capacity in science and technology in the developing world. Inaugurated in Chile in 1998, the Millennium Scienc ...

, an international program bringing technology to developing nations *

Ministry of Science and Innovation (New Zealand) The Ministry of Science and Innovation (MSI; mi, Te Pūnaha Hiringa Whakaea) was a government agency within the New Zealand government, dealing with the science and innovation sector in New Zealand. History The Ministry became operational on ...

Minority-serving institution In the higher education system of the United States, minority-serving institution (abbreviated MSI) is a descriptive term for universities and colleges that enroll a significant percentage of students from minority groups. Definition The term M ...

, in US higher education *

MSI Reproductive Choices MSI Reproductive Choices, named Marie Stopes International until November 2020, is an international non-governmental organisation providing contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries around the world. MSI Reproductive Choices as an ...

, an international non-governmental organisation providing contraception and safe abortion services, with a global HQ in London, UK *

Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park (Chicago), Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago. It is house ...

Science and Industry Museum The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England, traces the development of science, technology and industry with emphasis on the city's achievements in these fields. The museum is part of the Science Museum Group, a non-departmental pub ...

, in Manchester, England *

University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota is a core research facility of the University of Minnesota that provides hardware and software resources, as well as technical user support, to faculty and researchers at the un ...

Italian Social Movement The Italian Social Movement ( it, Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI) was a neo-fascist political party in Italy. A far-right party, it presented itself until the 1990s as the defender of Italian fascism's legacy, and later moved towards national ...

(''Movimento Sociale Italiano''), a defunct post-fascist party

Companies

Micro-Star International Micro-Star International Co., Ltd (MSI; ) is a Taiwanese multinational information technology corporation headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan. It designs, develops and provides computer hardware, related products and services, including ...

, a Taiwanese information technology company * Midwest Scientific Instruments, a defunct American computer company *

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment management and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in more than 41 countries and more than 75,000 employees, the f ...

(Broker ID), an American financial services company *

Motorola Solutions Motorola Solutions, Inc., is an American video equipment, telecommunications equipment, software, systems and services provider that succeeded Motorola, Inc., following the spinoff of the mobile phone division into Motorola Mobility in 2011. The ...

(NYSE: MSI), an American data communications and telecommunications equipment provider *

Movie Star (company) Movie Star, Inc. is a New York City-based manufacturer, marketer and seller of lingerie, sleepwear and other types of clothing. Organized in 1935 and formerly known as Sanmark Stardust, Inc., the company became Movie Star, Inc. in 1992. It was ac ...

(AMEX: MSI), an American clothing manufacturer

Science and technology

MSI Barcode MSI (also known as Modified Plessey) is a barcode symbology developed by the MSI Data Corporation, based on the original Plessey Code symbology. It is a continuous symbology that is not self-checking. MSI is used primarily for inventory control, m ...

, a continuous numeric barcode symbology *

Microsatellite instability Microsatellite instability (MSI) is the condition of genetic hypermutability (predisposition to mutation) that results from impaired DNA mismatch repair (MMR). The presence of MSI represents phenotypic evidence that MMR is not functioning normal ...

, an abnormality of DNA *

Mass spectrometry imaging Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a technique used in mass spectrometry to visualize the spatial distribution of molecules, as biomarkers, metabolites, peptides or proteins by their molecular masses. After collecting a mass spectrum at one spot ...

, a technique used in mass spectrometry *

Mass sociogenic illness Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria, or mass hysteria, involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no infectious agent responsible for c ...

, the rapid spread of physical symptoms of illness among the members of a group with no physical or infectious cause *

Magnetic source imaging Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a functional neuroimaging technique for mapping brain activity by recording magnetic fields produced by electrical currents occurring naturally in the brain, using very sensitive magnetometers. Arrays of SQUIDs ( ...

, magnetoencephalography combined with magnetic resonance imaging *

Multispectral imaging Multispectral imaging captures image data within specific wavelength ranges across the electromagnetic spectrum. The wavelengths may be separated by filters or detected with the use of instruments that are sensitive to particular wavelengths, ...

, the capture of multiple, specific wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum *

Musculoskeletal injury Musculoskeletal injury refers to damage of muscular or skeletal systems, which is usually due to a strenuous activity and includes damage to skeletal muscles, bones, tendons, joints, ligaments, and other affected soft tissues. In one study, ro ...

, damage of muscular or skeletal systems which is usually due to a strenuous activity

Computing

* .MSI, the filename extension of

Windows Installer Windows Installer (msiexec.exe, previously known as Microsoft Installer, codename Darwin) is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of softwar ...

packages *

Medium Scale Integration An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny M ...

, a generation of integrated circuit chips which contain hundreds of transistors *

Message Signaled Interrupts Message Signalled Interrupts (MSI) are an alternative in-band method of signalling an interrupt, using special in-band messages to replace traditional out-of-band assertion of dedicated interrupt lines. While more complex to implement in a devic ...

, a PCI 2.2 interrupt-mechanism *

MSI protocol In computing, the MSI protocol - a basic cache-coherence protocol - operates in multiprocessor systems. As with other cache coherency protocols, the letters of the protocol name identify the possible states in which a cache line can be. Overv ...

, a basic cache-coherence protocol used in multiprocessor systems

Other uses

Mindless Self Indulgence Mindless Self Indulgence (often referred to as MSI) is an American electropunk band formed in New York City in 1997. Their music has a mixed style which includes punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno, industrial, hip hop, and brea ...

, an American band *

Maison du Sport International The Maison du Sport International (International House of Sport) is an office complex opened in 2006 in Lausanne, Switzerland, via a joint venture between the City of Lausanne, the Canton of Vaud and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It ...

, an office complex in Lausanne, Switzerland *

Multistakeholder initiative Multistakeholder governance is a practice of governance that employs bringing multiple stakeholders together to participate in dialogue, decision making, and implementation of responses to jointly perceived problems. The principle behind such a s ...

, a governance structure *

Mid-Season Invitational The Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) is an annual ''League of Legends'' tournament hosted by Riot Games since 2015. It is the second most important international ''League of Legends'' tournament aside from the World Championship. In 2015 and 2016, ...

, an annual ''League of Legends'' tournament *

Maritime safety information The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is a worldwide system for automated emergency signal communication for ships at sea developed by the United Nations' International Maritime Organization (IMO) as part of the SOLAS Conventi ...

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