AIC may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Alice in Chains Alice in Chains (often abbreviated as AiC) is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1987. Since 2006, the band's lineup has comprised vocalist/guitarists Jerry Cantrell and William DuVall, bassist Mike Inez, and drummer Sean Kinney. Voca ...

, 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 Company, Inc. was established through a company split, in which AIC Rights received the tr ...

, a Japanese animation studio *

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park. Its collection, stewa ...

, an art museum in Chicago * Académie Internationale de la Céramique ( International Academy of Ceramics) *

An Inspector Calls ''An Inspector Calls'' is a modern morality play and drawing room play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's ...

, a 1945 play by J. B. Priestley

Business

* American Investment Council, formerly known as PEGCC, US trade association for the private equity and growth capital investment industry * Asia Internet Coalition, 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, 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 American Indian center in the United States. It provides social services, youth and senior programs, cultural learning, and meeting opportunities for Native American peoples. For m ...

, 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 ove ...

, an American organization devoted to preserving historic works

Computing

Adaptec Adaptec, Inc., 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, ...

integrated circuit * Add-in card, 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, iMovi ...

, 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 total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performanc ...

Politics and government

State Administration for Industry and Commerce The State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC; ) was the authority in the People's Republic of China responsible for advancing legislation concerning the administration of industry and commerce in the People's Republic. On a local leve ...

, a Chinese regulatory agency *

African Independent Congress The African Independent Congress (AIC) is a minor political party in South Africa. Founded in Matatiele on 12 December 2005, the AIC was a protest against the location of the area within the boundaries of the Eastern Cape province rather than ...

, a South African political party *

Arab–Israeli conflict The Arab–Israeli conflict is a geopolitical phenomenon involving military conflicts and a variety of disputes between Israel and many Arab world, Arab countries. It is largely rooted in the historically supportive stance of the Arab League ...

, a long-running conflict between Israel and Arab countries * American Iranian Council, a think tank devoted to improving US–Iranian relations * '' Association Internationale du Congo'', 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 Australian Intelligence Community (AIC) and the National Intelligence Community (NIC) or National Security Community of the Australian Government are the collectives of statutory intelligence agencies, policy departments, and other government ...

, the government agencies that make up Australia's intelligence operations

Philosophy

Animal–industrial complex Animal–industrial complex (AIC) is a concept used by activists and scholars to describe what they contend is the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals. The term was adapted from the " Military-industrial complex" outlined by ...

, a term describing systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals

Religion

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: ...

, a Christian church founded by Africans, also known as African Independent Church, African Indigenous Church or African Instituted Church * Africa Inland Church, a church in Eastern Africa related to Africa Inland Mission * American Islamic Congress, an American Muslim organization * Answers In Creation, an organization promoting Old Earth creationism

Schools

Academia de la Inmaculada Concepción The Academy of the Immaculate Conception (, generally abbreviated as AIC, or simply ''La Inmaculada'') is a coeducational Catholic school located in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Founded in 1905, it is among Puerto Rico's oldest institutions of learnin ...

, a Catholic school in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico * Alcanta International College, a private secondary school in Guangzhou, China *

American International College American International College (AIC) is a private university in Springfield, Massachusetts. History American International College was originally established on July 18, 1885 by Calvin E. Amaron who sought to create an institution of higher ...

, a college in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States * American Islamic College, a college in Chicago, United States * Arizona International College, a former public college in Arizona, United States * Art Institute of Colorado, a university in Denver, United States * Associated Independent Colleges, a group of eight colleges in Queensland, Australia *

Auckland International College Auckland International College was an independent coeducational secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand. AIC was established by a Japanese educational for-profit corporation, Oshu Corporation. It adopted the IB Diploma Programme as its sole c ...

, a private secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand * Australian Indigenous College, a former business college in Queensland, Australia * Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, formerly known as the Army Industrial College

Science

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 ...

, 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 fie ...

, an American chemistry organization * Ampere Interrupting Capacity, the maximum safe fault current in a circuit breaker * AIC (gene), 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 The Anglo-Italian Cup (, also known as the Anglo-Italian Inter-League Clubs Competition and from 1976 to 1986 as the Alitalia Challenge Cup, Talbot Challenge Cup or Gigi Peronace Memorial) was a European football competition. The competition was ...

, 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 college ...

, 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 higher education, colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic schola ...

, all members competed in the state of

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...

* ''Associazione Italiana Calciatori'' (

Italian Footballers' Association The Italian Footballers' Association (Italian language, Italian: ''Associazione Italiana Calciatori''), also referred to by the acronym AIC, is the trade union, association for Association football, footballers in Italy. Established on 3 July 196 ...

), a football association in Italy

Statistics/Machine Learning

, a measure of the relative quality of a statistical model, for a given data set

Transport and military

* Action Information Center, the tactical center on a warship or aircraft * ICAO designator for

Air India Air India is the flag carrier of India with its main hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, and secondary hubs at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, alo ...

, 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

* Adult In Custody, an acronym used to describe

incarcerated Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is considered "false imprisonment". Impris ...

people, especially in the context of

penal labor Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending on the context. Forms of Sentence (law), sentence involving penal labour hav ...

Aichach-Friedberg Aichach-Friedberg is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the districts of Augsburg, Donau-Ries, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Pfaffenhofen, Dachau, Fürstenfeldbruck and Landsberg, a ...

, a district in Bavaria, Germany * Alternative Information Center, joint Palestinian-Israeli NGO * ''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