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Paying Tribute to Computer Science Pioneer Frederick Brooks, Jr.

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Brooks left IBM in 1964 to found the University of North Carolina ’s computer science department in Chapel Hill. Although he retired from teaching in 2013, Brooks was still active in the university’s research program in virtual environmentsand scientific visualization until 2020. Brooks received a Ph.D.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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Saracco also taught courses on technology forecasting and market impact at the University of Trento in Italy. He was also a co-chair of the IEEE Digital Reality initiative, dedicated to facilitating disruptive technological innovations and fostering cross-industry collaborations globally while taking societal impact into consideration.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. This tribute is an excerpted version of an article dedicated to his memory written by three of his colleagues: IEEE Member Jae Jeong Hwang, Zoran M. College of Engineering, Guindy , in Chennai, India.

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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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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

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Sanctuary AI ] The time has come for humanoid robots to enter industrial production lines and learn how to assist humans by undertaking repetitive, tedious and potentially dangerous tasks for them. This April, we’re making the legendary game playable on our robotic mowers as a tribute to 30 years of mowing down demons.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. His third, lithium iron phosphate, is now one of the most popular battery chemistries in the automotive industry. Nobel Laureate John B.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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He reshaped the music industry with the iPod, the mobile phone industry with the iPhone, and the movie industry with. He also transformed the publishing industry with iBooks and media subscription services. In his tribute to Jobs, former U.S. Jobs was not an engineer, an IT professional, or even a college graduate.

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