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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 researcher specializing in microprocessor design.

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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The US $10,000 scholarship is administered by IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia.

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Researchers propose reason for capacity loss in metal-oxide battery materials

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However, we need to know what happens over many cycles to design longer-lasting batteries because the structure at the charged electrode is different from that of the pristine state. —co-corresponding author Zhongwei Chen, a professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. —Dong Su.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Allan Alcorn, shown here in 2011, designed Pong as an exercise, to learn about how to design video games. Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. If you miss, your opponent scores a point. vonguard/Wikipedia.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He helped develop the Williams-Comstock formula, a critical design tool for magnetic recording systems. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany.

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “China’s Green Winter Olympics.”.

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DOE announces $16M for 17 Phase 1 projects in ultra-high temperature materials program; ARPA-E ULTIMATE

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At the conclusion of Phase 1, teams will be down-selected based on technical review to receive additional funding for development of selected alloy compositions and coatings, as well as the production of generic small-scale turbine blades to demonstrate manufacturability of designs. University of Maryland. University of Virginia.