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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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He also received the 2002 IEEE Medal of Honor for “contributions to high-frequency transistors and hot-electron devices, especially heterostructure devices from heterostructure bipolar transistors to lasers, and their molecular beam epitaxy technology.” National Academy of Engineering. Vladimir G. Gelnovatch served in the U.S.

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Opposed-piston engine company Achates Power raises $35.2M in Series C Financing; new industry advisory board

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the developer of a family of two-stroke compression-ignition opposed-piston engines ( earlier post ), has finalized $35.2 Daniel Hancock, retired vice president, global powertrain engineering, who spent more than four decades at General Motors Co. director of engine research at Southwest Research Institute and 2002 SAE president.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. as a software engineer.

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Inventor of the First AI System That Could Read Handwriting Dies at 72

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University at Buffalo. Srihari was a pioneer in the field of computational forensics who in 2002 developed CEDAR-FOX , a software system that identifies people through their handwriting. He was a professor of computer science and engineering for more than 40 years. Bangalore University in India. Sargur “Hari” Srihari.

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Audi taps Mertens from Volvo to lead technical development

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Mertens has exceptionally broad technical expertise and an international background in the automotive industry. After his apprenticeship as a toolmaker, Peter Mertens studied production technology at Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. —Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management.

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Bombardier introduces new, more efficient and cleaner Evinrude outboards

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Bombardier Recreational Products & Vehicles (BRP) has introduced a new two-stroke direct-injection outboard engine that produces up to 75% fewer total regulated emissions, with 15% better fuel efficiency and 20% more torque than leading four-stroke engines: the G2 engines, the next generation of Evinrude E-TEC outboard engines.

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