Glossary - I

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• IAA — International Academy of Astronautics
• IAC — International Advisory Committee
• IAC (Institute Awards Convocation) — Annual awards convocation that honors students, faculty, and staff for their remarkable contributions to the Institute.
• IACME — Industrial Advisory Council of Minority Education
• IAIA — International Association for Impact Assessment
• IAMAS — International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
• IAP — Independent Activities Period
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• iCampus — MIT-Microsoft Alliance
• ICAN — Institute Career Assistance Network
• ICANN — Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
• ICAT — International Center for Air Transportation
• ICRMOT — International Center for Research on the Management of Technology
• IDDS — International Development Design Summit
• IDEA — Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
• IDEAS — Innovation, Development, Enterprise, Action, and Service (student program for public service projects)
• Identity Theft — Identity theft is the illegal use of another person’s identifying information in order to steal money or get other benefits.
• IDF (old) — International Development Forum. Now known as the International Development Network (IDN)
• IDG — International Development Group (with Urban Studies and Planning)
• IDI — International Development Initiative
• IdP (Identity Provider) — A system that creates, maintains, and manages identity information.
• IDRP — International Development and Regional Planning. Former name of the International Development Group.
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• IESL — Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory
• IETF — Internet Engineering Task Force
• IFC — Interfraternity Council
• IFNP — International Food and Nutrition Program
• iGEM — Intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine
• IGERT — Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
• iHouse — International House for Global Leadership
• IHTFP — I Hate This F*****g Place. Also: I Have Truly Found Paradise, I Help Tutor FirstYear Physics, Institute Has the Finest Professors, It's Hard to Fondle Penguins, and more.
• IIE — Institute of Industrial Engineers
• IIT — Italian Institute of Technology
• iLabNotebook — An electronic laboratory notebook
• ILC — Institute Library Catalogue (Libraries)
• ILG — Independent Living Group
• ILO — Industrial Liaison Office (now called the Industrial Liaison Program)
• ILP — Industrial Liaison Program
• IM — Intramural (sports)
• IMAP — IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a client-server approach to email in which email is kept on the server. When you work with email, your email program (the client) connects to the post office server to access your email. Since your email stays on the server, you can easily access it from multiple workstations and programs just like you can access your voice mail messages from any phone.
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• IMVP — International Motor Vehicles Programs
• Incident — Any one of the following:
• InCommon — A common framework for trustworthy shared management of access to on-line resources.
• INCOSE — International Council on Systems Engineering
• Infinite Corridor — A quarter-mile hallway through the heart of the Institute (ground floor of buildings 7, 3, 10, 4 and 8)
• INFORMS — Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• INL — Idaho National Laboratory
• InSar — Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
• INSITE — Institutional Space and Inventory Techniques
• Interfaces (Cables and Connectors) — The cable that comes out of the wall jack is a UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) Ethernet cable.
• IOM — Institute of Medicine
• IP (generic term) — Intellectual Property (generic term)
• IP (Internet Protocol) — The Internet protocol defines how information gets passed between systems across the Internet.
• IP address — An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numeric address that identifies a computer or network device on the internet, usually written in decimal notation, separated by periods. All resources on the Internet must have an IP address.
• IPC — Information Processing Center
• IPC (Industrial Performance Center) — An MIT-wide research unit, based in the School of Engineering.
• IPhO — International Physics Olympiad
• IPO — Intellectual Property Office
• IPOP — Interim Planning Overlay Permit
• IPS — Information Processing Services (old)
• iQuarium — A colorful, interactive aquarium display screen. A project of iCampus.
• IRB — Institutional Review Board
• IREX — International Research and Exchanges Board
• Iris Project — Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (a project among MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, the International Computer Science Institute, New York University, and Rice University)
• IRMs — Instructor Resource Modules (in Aero-Astro CDIO)
• IS — Information Systems - MIT administrative IT dept up through 2003. Reorganized in 2004 as Information Services and Technology (IS&T)
• IS&T — Information Systems and Technology
• ISCM — Integrated Supply Chain Management (Program)
• ISG — Iranian Studies Group (at MIT)
• ISN — Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
• ISTAB — IS&T Student Technology Advisory Board
• ISU — International Space University
• IT — Information Technology - generic term
• ITAG — Infrastructure Technology Architecture Group
• ITAR — International Traffic in Arms Regulations
• ITCC — Information Technology Coordinating Council
• ITER — International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
• ITIL — The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of industry-standard best practices and procedures for IT service management.
• ITRI — Industrial Technology Research Institute
• ITS — Internet Transaction Server
• ITS (Laboratory) — Intelligent Transportation Systems, a lab at MIT
• IT-SPARCC — Information Technology Strategic Planning and Resources Coordinating Council
• ITSS — Information Technology Security Support (within Information Systems and Technology). This name is no longer used for the team, which is now known as Security Operations Team.
• IVCF — InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
• IWPC — Information Work Productivity Council