IRIS

IRIS can refer to:

In technology

* IRIS-T, a German air-to-air missile
* International Reactor Innovative and Secure, an advanced light water nuclear reactor design
* Internal Rotary Inspection System, an ultrasonic method for the nondestructive testing of pipes and tubes
* IRIS (missile), an Iranian satellite launcher
* The International Railway Industry Standard
* Infrared interferometer spectrometer and radiometer, a scientific instrument aboard the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft

In computer technology

* [http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3981.txt Internet Registry Information Service] Core Protocol, a proposed query/response protocol for Internet registries
* Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems, a peer-to-peer internet project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* I.R.I.S. Group, an optical character recognition software company
* IRIS GL, a computer graphics system which evolved into OpenGL

Administrative systems

* IRIS Behaviour Management (standing for "It Really Is Simple"), a web-based school management information system
* Insurance Regulatory Information System, National Association of Insurance Commissioners database
* Iris Recognition Immigration System, an electronic immigration and border control system implemented in the United Kingdom
* Integrated Rutgers Information System, the online public access catalog for many of the Rutgers University libraries

Other uses

* Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, a defunct hypertext project at Brown University
* Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, also known as the IRIS Consortium
* Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, a complication of anti-HIV treatment
* IRIS (Romanian band), a hard-rock band

ee also

* Iris
* IRI