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Arts and entertainment

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Alice in Chains Alice in Chains (often abbreviated as AIC) is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1987 by guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney, who later recruited bassist Mike Starr and lead vocalist Layne ...
, American rock band * Alice in Chains: AIC 23, a 2013 mockumentary *
Anime International Company , often abbreviated as AIC is a Japanese animation studio founded on June 15, 1982 and located in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. On December 10, 2015, AIC RIGHTS Co., Ltd was established through a company split, in which AIC Rights received the transfer ...
, a Japanese animation studio * Art Institute of Chicago, an art museum in Chicago


Business

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AIC Diversified Canada AIC Limited was a Canadian mutual fund company which commenced operations in 1985, as Total Finance. AIC was purchased in 1987, by Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman. In May 2008, the company's total assets under management was just over $5.6 billioIFICn ...
, a Canadian mutual fund company *
American Investment Council The American Investment Council (AIC), formerly the Private Equity Growth Capital Council (PEGCC), is a lobbying, advocacy, and research organization based in Washington, D.C., that was launched by a consortium of private equity firms in Februar ...
, formerly known as PEGCC, US trade association for the private equity and growth capital investment industry *
Asia Internet Coalition The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) is a trade association co-founded by eBay, Google, Nokia, Skype, and Yahoo! in 2010. AIC lobbies government agencies to address public policy issues and facilitate the development of the internet economy in the Asi ...
, an internet trade group in Asia *Association of Investment Companies, also known as The Association of Investment Trust Companies, UK trade association for closed-ended investment companies


Charitable organizations

* Advocates for Informed Choice, now called
Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth Advocates for Informed Choice, doing business as, dba interACT or interACT Advocates for Intersex Youth, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization using innovative strategies to advocate for the legal and human rights of children with intersex trai ...
, a U.S. NGO * Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli NGO *
American Indian Center The American Indian Center (AIC) of Chicago is the oldest urban Native Americans in the United States, American Indian center in the United States. It provides social services, youth and senior programs, cultural learning, and meeting opportunitie ...
, social and cultural center *
American Institute for Conservation The American Institute for Conservation (AIC) is a national membership organization of conservation professionals, headquartered in Washington D.C. History The AIC first launched in 1972 with only a handful of members. Now it is grown to over 3 ...
, an American organization devoted to preserving historic works


Computing

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Adaptec Adaptec was a computer storage company and remains a brand for computer storage products. The company was an independent firm from 1981 to 2010, at which point it was acquired by PMC-Sierra, which itself was later acquired by Microsemi, which itse ...
integrated circuit *
Add-in card In computing, an expansion card (also called an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card) is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector, or expansion slot (also referred to as a bus s ...
, or expansion card, a circuit board that adds functionality to a computer *
Apple Intermediate Codec The Apple Intermediate Codec is a high-quality 8-bit 4:2:0 video codec used mainly as a less processor-intensive way of working with long-GOP MPEG-2 footage such as HDV. It is recommended for use with all HD workflows in Final Cut Express, iMovie ...
, a video codec used on OS X


Economics

* Actual Individual Consumption, a measure of economic well-being alternative to
Gross Domestic Product Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjective nature this measure is oft ...


Politics and government

* State Administration for Industry and Commerce, a Chinese regulatory agency *
African Independent Congress The African Independent Congress (AIC) is a minor political party in South Africa. Founded in Matatiele on December 12, 2005, the AIC was a protest against the location of the area within the boundaries of the Eastern Cape province rather tha ...
, a South African political party *
Arab–Israeli conflict The Arab–Israeli conflict is an ongoing intercommunal phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century, but had mostly faded out by the ...
, a long-running conflict between Israel and Arab countries *
American Iranian Council The American Iranian Council (AIC) was formed in 1990 as a US-based bi-partisan think tank focused upon promoting better relations between the United States and Iran. Former United States Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was the original honorary C ...
, a think tank devoted to improving US–Iranian relations * ''
Association Internationale du Congo The International Association of the Congo (french: Association internationale du Congo), also known as the International Congo Society, was an association founded on 17 November 1879 by Leopold II of Belgium to further his interests in the Con ...
'', an organization promoting Leopold II's rule of the Congo and predecessor to the Congo Free State, active from 1879 to 1885 * Australian Intelligence Community, the government agencies that make up Australia's intelligence operations


Philosophy

* Animal–industrial complex, a term describing systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals


Religion

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African Initiated Church An African-initiated church (AIC) is a Christian church independently started in Africa by Africans rather than chiefly by missionaries from another continent. Nomenclature A variety of overlapping terms exist for these forms of Christianity: Af ...
, a Christian church founded by Africans, also known as African Independent Church, African Indigenous Church or African Instituted Church *
Africa Inland Church Established in 1895, Africa Inland Mission (AIM) is a Christian mission sending agency focused on Africa. Their stated mission is to see "Christ-centered churches established among all African peoples." AIM established the Kapsowar Hospital in 19 ...
, a church in Eastern Africa related to Africa Inland Mission *
American Islamic Congress Founded late in 2001, the American Islamic Congress (AIC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the United States. AIC is a non-religious, civil rights organization whose stated goal is to build interfaith and inter-ethnic understanding ...
, an American Muslim organization *
Answers In Creation Old Earth creationism (OEC) is an umbrella of theological views encompassing certain varieties of creationism which may or can include day-age creationism, gap creationism, progressive creationism, and sometimes theistic evolutionism. Broadly ...
, an organization promoting Old Earth creationism


Schools

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Academia de la Inmaculada Concepción The Academy of the Immaculate Conception ( es, Academia de la Inmaculada Concepción, generally abbreviated as AIC, or simply ''La Inmaculada'') is a coeducational Catholic school located in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Founded in 1905, it is among P ...
, a Catholic school in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico *
Alcanta International College Alcanta International College (AIC; ) is an international school in Baiyun District, Guangzhou. Curriculum It offers an International Baccalaureate The International Baccalaureate (IB), formerly known as the International Baccalaureate O ...
, a private secondary school in Guangzhou, China *
American International College American International College (AIC) is a private college in Springfield, Massachusetts. History American International College was originally established on July 18, 1885, as the French Protestant College by Rev. Calvin E. Amaron, who soug ...
, a college in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States *
American Islamic College American Islamic College (AIC) is a private Islamic university in Chicago, Illinois. It accepts students from all backgrounds and claims to prepare students for "leadership and policy making roles in American society; and for management and staf ...
, a college in Chicago, United States *
Arizona International College Arizona International College (AIC) was an American liberal arts college in Tucson, Arizona, that existed from 1996–2005. Background In the 1990s Arizona's public university system hosted two large public universities in Tucson and Phoenix (Un ...
, a former public college in Arizona, United States *
Art Institute of Colorado The Art Institute of Colorado was a for-profit art and culinary school in Denver, Colorado. It briefly operated as a non-profit institution before it closed in 2018. The school was one of a number of Art Institutes, a franchise of for-profit ar ...
, a university in Denver, United States * Associated Independent Colleges, a group of eight colleges in Queensland, Australia *
Auckland International College Auckland International College is an independent coeducational secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand. It adopts the IB Diploma Programme as its sole curriculum plus a Preparation Year Programme for the course (Year 11). The school runs with ...
, a private secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand *
Australian Indigenous College Australian Indigenous College (AIC) was an Australian college for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students that existed over two campuses in Queensland between August 2014 and February 2016. Founding The college was founded in Goodna, ne ...
, a former business college in Queensland, Australia *
Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy The Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy (Eisenhower School), formerly known as the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), is a part of the National Defense University. It was renamed on September 6, 20 ...
, formerly known as the Army Industrial College


Science

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Akaike information criterion The Akaike information criterion (AIC) is an estimator of prediction error and thereby relative quality of statistical models for a given set of data. Given a collection of models for the data, AIC estimates the quality of each model, relative to e ...
, estimates the quality of a statistical model, relative to other models *
American Institute of Chemists The American Institute of Chemists (AIC) is an organization founded in 1923 with the goal of advancing the chemistry profession in the United States. The institute is known for its yearly awards recognizing contributions of individuals in this fi ...
, an American chemistry organization *
Ampere Interrupting Capacity A circuit breaker is an electrical safety device designed to protect an Electrical network, electrical circuit from damage caused by an overcurrent or short circuit. Its basic function is to interrupt current flow to protect equipment and ...
, the maximum safe current in an electrical circuit *
AIC (gene) Aicardi syndrome is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AIC gene In biology, the word gene (from , ; "... Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian units of heredity..." meaning ''generation'' or ''birth'' or ...
, which encodes the Aicardi syndrome protein *
Australian Institute of Criminology The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is Australia's national research and knowledge centre on crime and criminal justice. The Institute seeks to promote justice and reduce crime by undertaking and communicating evidence-based research ...
, an Australian research center on crime


Sports

* Anglo-Italian Cup, a football competition played from 1970 to 1996 between the UK and Italy *
Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference The Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC) was an athletic conference in existence from 1927 or 1928 to 1995 affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The conference membership consisted entirely of colleges ...
, a former college athletic conference competing in the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to its st ...
, all members competed in the state of
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...
* ''Associazione Italiana Calciatori'' (
Italian Footballers' Association The Italian Footballers' Association (Italian: ''Associazione Italiana Calciatori''), also referred to by the acronym AIC, is the association for footballers in Italy. It was established in 1968 and currently has 4,500 members, of which 2,500 ar ...
), a football association in Italy


Statistics/Machine Learning

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Akaike information criterion The Akaike information criterion (AIC) is an estimator of prediction error and thereby relative quality of statistical models for a given set of data. Given a collection of models for the data, AIC estimates the quality of each model, relative to e ...
, a measure of the relative quality of a statistical model, for a given data set


Transport and military

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Action Information Center A combat information center (CIC) or action information centre (AIC) is a room in a warship or Airborne early warning and control, AWACS aircraft that functions as a tactical center and provides processed information for command and control of ...
, the tactical center on a warship or aircraft * ICAO designator for
Air India Air India is the flag carrier airline of India, headquartered at New Delhi. It is owned by Talace Private Limited, a Special-Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Tata Sons, after Air India Limited's former owner, the Government of India, completed the ...
, an Indian airline * Ammunition Identification Code, Ordnance Supply Catalog designation for ammunition used by the US Army Ordnance Corps from 1942 to 1958; see List of U.S. Army munitions by supply catalog designation *
Australian Instructional Corps The Australian Instructional Corps (AIC) was a corps of the Australian Army that existed between 1921 and 1955. Tasked with providing training to soldiers serving in Australia's part-time military force, the corps consisted of Permanent force war ...
, military unit, Australia


Other uses

* Aichach-Friedberg, a district in Bavaria, Germany * ''Association Internationale de la Couleur'' (
International Colour Association The International Colour Association (''Association Internationale de la Couleur (AIC)'', or ''Internationale Vereinigung für die Farbe'') is a learned society whose aims are to encourage research in all aspects of colour, to disseminate the kno ...
), an organization that studies colour {{Disambiguation