King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST; Arabic: مدينة الملك عبدالعزيز للعلوم والتقنية, romanized: Madīnat al-Malik ʻAbd-al-ʻAzīz lil-ʻUlūm wa-al-Tiqnīyah) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a governmental organization established in 1977 as the Saudi Arabian National Center for Science & Technology (SANCST; المركز الوطني العربي السعودي للعلوم والتقنية, al-Markaz al-Waṭanī al-ʻArabī al-Saʻūdī lil-ʻUlūm wa-al-Tiqnīyah); in 1985, it was renamed King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. Source: Wikipedia (en)