Isis (disambiguation)
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Isis
was a goddess in Egyptian mythology.
Isis may also refer to:
Isis
Isis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
was a goddess in Egyptian mythology.
Isis may also refer to:
Aircraft
- Integrated Standby Instrument System, used on the Airbus A320 familyAirbus A320 familyThe Airbus A320 family is a family of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger jet airliners manufactured by Airbus Industrie.Airbus was originally a consortium of European aerospace companies, and is now fully owned by EADS. Airbus's name has been Airbus SAS since 2001...
of airliners - Integrated Sensor is StructureIntegrated Sensor is StructureThe Integrated Sensor is Structure, sometimes called Integrated Sensor is the Structure, , is a program managed by the United States Air Force to research the feasibility of using an unmanned airship as a high-altitude reconnaissance and surveillence platform...
, project to develop an airship for intelligence uses
Computing
- Image and Scanner Interface Specification, interface for image scanning technologies
- IS-ISIS-ISIntermediate System To Intermediate System , is a routing protocol designed to move information efficiently within a computer network, a group of physically connected computers or similar devices....
, network routing protocol - ISIS/DrawISIS/DrawISIS/Draw was a chemical structure drawing program for Windows, published by MDL Information Systems. It was available free of charge for academic and personal use. It acted as a front end to ISIS/Base, a chemical database program from the same company, as well as some other ISIS products...
, chemistry modeling program - Integrated Software for Imagers and SpectrometersIntegrated Software for Imagers and SpectrometersIntegrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers, also abbreviated to Isis, is a specialized software package developed by the USGS to process images and spectra collected by current and past NASA planetary missions sent to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and other solar system bodies.-History:The history...
, software to process images and spectra collected by NASA planetary missions. Created by the United States Geological Survey. - ISIS Modelling SoftwareISIS Modelling SoftwareISIS is a software package which is used for river modelling. Developed by Halcrow Group Limited, it is used throughout the world as an analysis tool for flood risk mapping, flood forecasting and other aspects of flood risk management analysis...
, river modelling software - ISIS (operating system)ISIS (operating system)ISIS is an operating system, created by Intel for their Intel Microprocessor Development System around 1976 and adopted as ISIS-II for systems with floppy drives. User interface is Unix-like, even from the program interface point of view, communication with the kernel is this way...
, operating system used on the Intel 8085Intel 8085The Intel 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1977. It was binary-compatible with the more-famous Intel 8080 but required less supporting hardware, thus allowing simpler and less expensive microcomputer systems to be built....
processor - ISIS programming language, variant of JOSSJOSSJOSS was one of the very first interactive, time sharing programming languages.JOSS I, developed by J. Clifford Shaw at RAND was first implemented, in beta form, on the JOHNNIAC computer in May 1963...
- Integrated Scientific Information System, software program including the MDL ChimeMDL ChimeMDL Chime is a free plugin used by web browsers to display the three dimensional structures of molecules. It is part of the ISIS product line acquired by Symyx Technologies from scientific publisher Elsevier in October 2007. It is based on the RasMol code.Chime is used by a wide range of...
plug-in - Infinitely Scalable Information Storage, Avid Technology storage method known as Avid Unity ISIS, used for broadcasting
- ISIS, a networking tool, part of Proteus (design software)Proteus (design software)Proteus is software for microprocessor simulation, schematic capture, and printed circuit board design. It is developed by Labcenter Electronics.The XGameStation Micro Edition was designed using Labcenter's Proteus schematic entry and PCB layout tools....
- ISIS PapyrusISIS PapyrusISIS Papyrus is a Swiss-based commercial software development group that sells its products in 42 countries either directly or through business partners...
, Swiss-based commercial enterprise software vendor - International Species Information SystemInternational Species Information System-External links:*...
, non-profit software developer for zoos and aquariums - CDS/ISIS, non-numerical information storage and retrieval software developed by UNESCO
- ISIS (mobile payment system)ISIS (mobile payment system)ISIS is a joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless in the mobile payment space, announced on 16 November 2010. The system is reported to be based on the near field communications . Notably, Sprint is not part of the consortium. The CEO of ISIS is Mike Abott...
, a joint venture between US wireless carriers that is developing a NFC-based mobile payment system
Geography
- The IsisThe IsisThe Isis is the name given to the part of the River Thames above Iffley Lock which flows through the city of Oxford. The name is especially used in the context of rowing at the University of Oxford...
, segment of the River Thames - Isis River (disambiguation), various rivers
- Isis HighwayIsis HighwayThe Isis Highway is a state highway in southern Queensland, Australia. The highway is relatively short, and runs for 142 kilometres in a north-east direction from its junction with the Burnett Highway at Ban Ban Springs to Bundaberg...
, Australian highway - Shire of IsisShire of IsisThe Shire of Isis was a Local Government Area located in the Wide Bay-Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, to the south of Bundaberg. The Shire, administered from the town of Childers covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1887 until 2008, when it was amalgamated...
, Queensland, Australia
Music
- Isis (band)Isis (band)Isis was a Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010...
, American post-metal band - Isis (Brisbane band)Isis (Brisbane band)Isis was an independent rock band from Brisbane, Australia, together from 1991 to 1998. Their music had a strong feminist message, and the band became legends of the Brisbane music scene....
, rock band - Isis (horn-rock band), 1970s all-female band
- Isis (Lully)Isis (Lully)Isis is an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The librettist is Lully's frequent collaborator, Philippe Quinault, and like most of Lully's operas, it is a tragédie lyrique. It premièred January 5, 1677 at the court of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and was first published in 1719.The story of the opera centers...
, opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault - "Isis" (song)Isis (song)"Isis" is the second track on the Bob Dylan album Desire. It was written by Bob Dylan in collaboration with Jacques Levy.This song is in a moderately fast 3/4 time, in the key of B-flat major. The arrangement is based on rhythm chords played on acoustic piano, accompanied by bass, drums, and violin...
, by Bob Dylan - "Isis," song from the album Voyage to IsisVoyage to IsisVoyage to Isis is the second album by industrial band Delta-S, released in December, 2007 on WindM Records. The songs "The Phoenix Effect", "Denial", "Wastelands", "Erase", "Rapture of the Deep" and "Waiting for the Sunrise" can all currently be heard on the band's MySpace page.-Track listing:All...
by Delta-S - "Isis," song from the EP Is IsIs IsIs Is is Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third EP released on July 24, 2007. Songs for the EP were written in 2004 in between touring behind the band's first record Fever to Tell...
by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - IsyssIsyssIsyss was an R&B girl group whose name stood for "Intelligent Sexy Young Soul Sisters".- Music career :The original members were LeTecia Harrison, Ardena Clark, La'Myia Good and lead singer Quierra Davis-Martin...
, R&B group
Organizations
- Isis InnovationIsis InnovationIsis Innovation Ltd is a British technology transfer company, wholly owned by the University of Oxford, located in Summertown, Oxford, England.- Overview :...
, British technology transfer company - ISIS neutron sourceISIS neutron sourceISIS is a pulsed neutron and muon source. It is situated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom and is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council...
- Institute for Science and International SecurityInstitute for Science and International SecurityThe Institute for Science and International Security is a non-profit institution founded in 1993 to inform "the public about science and policy issues affecting international security"...
- Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality, former name of the Family Research InstituteFamily Research InstituteThe Family Research Institute , originally known as the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality , is an American non-profit organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado which states that it has "...one overriding mission: to generate empirical research on issues that threaten...
- Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary SciencesInstitute for the Study of Interdisciplinary SciencesThe Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Sciences, ISIS was a British educational charity established in 1985 and founded by researchers formerly connected with the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies whose original purpose was to examine and debate the revisionist theories of Immanuel...
- International Species Information SystemInternational Species Information System-External links:*...
, an organization which maintains a database on zoo animal populations - The Institute of Science in Society, an organization providing scientific information on ecological sustainability
- ISIS (mobile payment system)ISIS (mobile payment system)ISIS is a joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless in the mobile payment space, announced on 16 November 2010. The system is reported to be based on the near field communications . Notably, Sprint is not part of the consortium. The CEO of ISIS is Mike Abott...
, a joint venture between AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, in the mobile payments industry
Publications
- Isis (journal)Isis (journal)Isis is an academic journal published by University of Chicago Press. It focuses on the history of science, history of medicine, and the history of technology, as well as their cultural influences, featuring both original research articles as well as extensive book reviews and review essays.It was...
, academic journal by the University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago PressThe University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, dozens of academic journals, including Critical Inquiry, and a wide array of...
, focusing on the history of scienceHistory of scienceThe history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....
, medicineHistory of medicineAll human societies have medical beliefs that provide explanations for birth, death, and disease. Throughout history, illness has been attributed to witchcraft, demons, astral influence, or the will of the gods...
, and the technologyHistory of technologyThe history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques, and is similar in many ways to the history of humanity. Background knowledge has enabled people to create new things, and conversely, many scientific endeavors have become possible through technologies which assist... - Isis magazineIsis magazineThe Isis Magazine was established at Oxford University in 1892 . Traditionally a rival to the student newspaper Cherwell, it was finally acquired by the latter's publishing house, OSPL, in the late 1990s...
, student magazine at Oxford University
Ships
- HMS IsisHMS IsisSix ships of the British Royal Navy, and four tenders of the RNVR, have been named HMS Isis, after the Egyptian goddess Isis.* The first Isis was a 50-gun fourth-rate probably launched in 1744 as Colchester....
, several British Royal Navy ships - USC&GS IsisUSC&GS IsisUSC&GS Isis was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1915 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1920.-Construction:...
, a survey ship in service in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1915 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1920 - USS Isis (1901), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
Television
- The Secrets of Isis, 1970s television series
- Isis (Stargate)
- Isis (Battlestar Galactica)Isis (Battlestar Galactica)Hera Agathon or Isis is a fictional character from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.Isis or Hera is the first, and only, known Cylon-Human hybrid child to be born and she first appears in the episode "Downloaded". She is the daughter of the Cylon Sharon "Athena" Agathon and human father...
- Isis Tsunami, contestant on America's Next Top Model
- International Secret Intelligence Service, fictional spy agency in Archer (TV series)Archer (TV series)Archer is an American animated television series created by Adam Reed for the FX network. A preview of the series aired on September 17, 2009. The first season premiered on January 14, 2010. The show carries a TV-MA-LSV rating....
- Isis Eaglet, fictional character in Magical Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha Force
- Isis (Smallville)
- Project Isis (Chuck)
Other uses
- Maria Isis (Maria-Jesus), daughter of Agustin de IturbideAgustín de IturbideAgustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Aramburu , also known as Augustine I of Mexico, was a Mexican army general who built a successful political and military coalition that was able to march into Mexico City on 27 September 1821, decisively ending the Mexican War of Independence...
. - Hurricane Isis (disambiguation), the name of several tropical cyclones
- Isis (HM Prison)Isis (HM Prison)HM Prison Isis is a Category C male Young Offenders Institution, located in the Thamesmead area of the London Borough of Greenwich, in south-east London, England...
, a young offenders institution located in London, England - International Studies of Infarct SurvivalInternational Studies of Infarct SurvivalThe International Studies of Infarct Survival were four randomized controlled trials of several drugs for treating suspected acute myocardial infarction...
, a set of clinical trials - Isis AdventureIsis AdventureIsis Adventure is a series of puzzle games presented by Sonic Games, a Shropshire-based business. The game involves opening physical puzzle boxes made of precision-engineered anodized aluminum to reveal unique codes that can be redeemed for prizes or to reveal further clues...
, puzzle game - Isis (coral), a soft coral genus
- ISIS Drive, a bicycle bottom bracket interface