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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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Becoming a Leader at NASA

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He got a master's in EE from Johns Hopkins University. "I In 2001, after three years there, an opening at Goddard became available. This article appears in the November 2021 print issue as "Marcellus Proctor.". I started working at Tracor Systems (now part of BAE Systems) in their Standard Missile Program," recalls Proctor. "In

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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The attacks of 9/11 in 2001 further strengthened his resolve. He joined its Junior ROTC at his high school in Dayton, Ohio, and won a scholarship from the corps to attend the University of Notre Dame , in Indiana. He participated in the university's USAF ROTC program before earning a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering in 1987.

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China team develops hollow porous silica nanocubes for anodes for Li-ion batteries

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A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei) has developed hollow porous SiO 2 (silicon dioxide, or silica—e.g., 2001] reported that commercial SiO 2 nanoparticles could react with Li between 0.0 Scientific Reports 3, Article 1568 doi: 10.1038/srep01568. Click to enlarge.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor.