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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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Later, he led the creation of the IEEE Virtual Museum (now the Engineering and Technology History Wiki ), an online repository of educational content. The US $10,000 scholarship is administered by IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study.

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

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—co-corresponding author Zhongwei Chen, a professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. The team comprised scientists from the CFN and Sustainable Energy Technologies Department at Brookhaven Lab, APS at Argonne National Lab, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. Allan Alcorn acquainted with video-game development. Pong is an inherently social game.

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EST Editor Calls for Papers on Gulf Spill; Ending the Addiction

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Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es101727m.

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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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