SMO

The acronym SMO may refer to:

• Senior Medical Officer
• Sequential Minimal Optimization, a fast method to solve huge quadratic programming problems, widely used to speed up the training of the Support Vector Machines (SVMs)
• Singapore Mathematical Olympiad, a mathematics competition
• Saturday Morning Orchestra, an amateur orchestra based in the south of England. Established in 1971 and named after its rehearsal time.
• Site Management Organization, a person or an organization that enters into a contract with a pharmaceutical company or a contract research organization to assume the responsibilities of a clinical investigator
• Sliding mode observer, a state observer that uses discontinuous sliding mode control to achieve finite-time zero estimator error in at least one dimension
• Social media optimization
• Social movement organization
• Solar Monitoring Observatory, a space science observatory for the International Space Station
• Survey and Mapping Office, an office of the Lands Department is the central authority for land surveys and all types of mapping in Hong Kong
• SQL Server Management Objects, a collection of objects through which programs can manage Microsoft SQL Server
• the International Air Transport Association code for Santa Monica Airport in the United States
• the Samoan language code

Biology

• Smoothened, a gene that encodes a protein of the same name
• Spermine oxidase, an enzyme
• Styrene monooxygenase, an enzyme

Institutions

• Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, a Gaelic medium college in Scotland