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I was interested in computation—how computers can calculate and also by how the languages that the computers are able to process are transformed by random events that can occur for a variety of reasons. “For my Ph.D., I was interested in computers, but not computers in the sense of practical things,” Gelenbe says. “I

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Today, BYD employes 130,000 people in 11 factories, either in China and one each in India, Hungary and Rumania. That track record—and that potential—is what persuaded Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, to buy 10% of BYD last fall for $230 million. This could turn out to be one of Buffett’s very best deals.

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