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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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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school. He was a former professor and dean at several schools including Temple University , California State University, Northridge , and Ohio University.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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and received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1957 from Rutgers University there. While there, he applied to join the electrical engineering faculty at the Air Force Academy , in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was accepted, and the academy sponsored his postgraduate studies at Iowa State University , in Ames.

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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. students from European universities to help them transform their research into marketable products and solutions. And then there was his passion for training knowledge engineers. The organization supports Ph.D.

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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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This April, we’re making the legendary game playable on our robotic mowers as a tribute to 30 years of mowing down demons. Engineered Arts ] Could an artificial intelligence system learn language from a child? Engineered Arts ] Could an artificial intelligence system learn language from a child?

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