| Acronym | Meaning |
| OIES | Office For Interdisciplinary Earth Studies |
| EEC | European Economic Community |
| NAE | National Aeronautical Establishment |
| FRMAC | Federal Radiological Monitoring And Assessment Center |
| LAOL | Los Alamos Opacity Library |
| GBYTE | Gigabyte (109) |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| ASC | Advanced Science Computer |
| PYI | Presidential Young Investigators |
| TASI | Time-assingment Speech Interpolation |