Janus

Janus may refer to:

General

• Janus (mythology), the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings
• Janus (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter
• Janus (simulation), a military combat simulation first developed in the late 1970s by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Combat Simulation Laboratory
• Society of Janus, a San Francisco based BDSM education and support group
• Janus Capital Group, an investment company based in Denver, Colorado
• Zündapp Janus, a bubble car model by Zündapp
• a Janus word, or auto-antonym: a word with two opposite meanings
• Janus (TV series), A television series created by the Australian Broadcasting Commission with two story lines: the criminal family being prosecuted and the police/judicial process
• Schempp-Hirth Janus, a two-seater glider
• HMS Janus, a name used by British naval ships
• JANUS clinical trial data repository

People

• Janus of Cyprus, king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432
• Janusz I, Archbishop of Gniezno
• Janus I, Duke of Masovia
• Janus II, Duke of Masovia
• Janus Junius Toland, a sobriquet of pantheist philosopher John Toland
• Janus Ulitius, the Latinized name of 17th century philologist Jan van Vliet
• Janus Friis, the Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA and Skype, the peer-to-peer telephony application
• Samantha Womack (born 1972), English actress, formerly Samantha Janus

Computing

• Janus (programming language) -- more than one programming language
• "Janus" was a codename used for Microsoft Windows 3.1x and Windows 2000 (DEC Alpha and Itanium 64-bit editions)
• Janus (DRM), a Microsoft Digital Rights Management platform
• JANUS clinical trial data repository, a standard supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a data warehouse for human clinical trial information

Film and music

• Janus Films, an American film distribution company
• Janus Records, a record label
• Janus (band), an orchestral darkwave group
• Janus (US band), an alternative metal band from Chicago, IL
• Janus, the criminal organization in the James Bond movie GoldenEye
• The Janus Project, a taboo cloning project in the movie Judge Dredd (film)
• "Janus", a song from the album Out and About with the Gone Jackals by hard rock group The Gone Jackals
• "Janus" appears on the CD Inner Journeys: Myth + Legends by Cusco

Literature and comics

• Janus: A Summing Up, a book by Arthur Koestler
• Janus (comics), a superhero in the DC Comics universe
• Janus (Marvel Comics), a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe and an enemy of Marvel Comics' Dracula
• The Janus Directive, a DC Comics crossover
• Janus (Stargate), an "Ancient" scientist in the TV series Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG-1
• Janus (Angels and Demons), the antagonist in the novel Angels and Demons

• Janus Publishing, a British publishing company known for publishing the work of previously unpublished authors
• Janus (short story), a short story by Ann Beattie

Magazines

• Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961
• Janus (science fiction magazine), a feminist science fiction magazine
• Janus (spanking magazine), a British spanking magazine edited by Harrison Marks

Games and gaming

• Janus chess, a chess variant
• Janus Zeal, a character in the game Chrono Trigger
• In In Nomine (role-playing game), Janus is the Archangel of the Wind

Geography

• Janus Island, an island of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
• Janus Lake (Ontario), Canada
• Janus Lake (Washington), Snohomish County, Washington
• Mont Janus, France
• Mount Janus (Antarctica)
• Mount Janus (Newfoundland), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Mount Janus (Svalbard), Norway
• Janus Peak, British Columbia, Canada

Science

• Janus-faced molecule, used to describe a molecule whose effects on organisms can vary between beneficial and toxic
• Janus Experiments, a series of experiments on radio-sensitivity in mice and dogs
• JANUS as an acronym for Joint Analog Numerical Understanding System -- Scientist John C. Lilly spoke of participating in a project of this name to develop a human/dolphin language in his research. ^{[1] [2]}

Military

• Joint Analog Numerical Understanding System -- cited ^[3] in connection with a program of simulation-based training in artillery.

Citations

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