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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

Cars That Think

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. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., He received the 2002 U.S. He died unexpectedly of natural causes.

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

Cars That Think

In the early 2010s, this wave gathered powerful new momentum with the rise of neural networks learning from massive data sets. In 2002, iRobot , a company that I cofounded, introduced the first mass-market autonomous home-cleaning robot, the Roomba, at a price that severely constricted how much AI we could endow it with.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. It was called the ThumbDrive. Had Trek been a larger company with more resources and more patent experience, the story might have had a different ending.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Business Digital Life New Media Comms CIO R&D Government Careers Events E-Monday Video Audio Dublin: 18.04.2009 02:44 AM SiliconRepublic.com Irelands Technology News Service RSS News Alerts Subscribe Features Google reports record Q1 profits BT reveals 24Mbps service Yahoo!, Web development and hosting by Tibus.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Alas, these visitors have stopped coming here since 2002. What I liked most was a Tata Power fast charger on the property. Google maps instructed us to take the Pilani road and avoid Sikar town to reach the Park Avenue resort. Google Maps took me through the bazaars of the city and got me out to the bypass.

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