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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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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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In 1967 he left the startup and joined the Fairchild R&D Laboratory, in San Jose, Calif. He authored and edited many technical manuals and was granted several U.S. Sampson earned a bachelor's degree in electrical and chemical engineering in 1952 from Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon. Louis, Axelrod joined the U.S.

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Tesla + Toyota

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: After being sucker-punched first by the recession and then by the closure earlier this year of the NUMMI plant with its nearly 5,000 auto-worker jobs, the Bay Area’s fourth-largest city is suddenly coming to — buoyed by last week’s news that electric-car maker Tesla will jump-start NUMMI. Hub of green tech.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates in San Jose, Calif., Coughlin is a regular contributor on digital storage for the Forbes blog and other news outlets. IEEE-USA president as well as chair of the IEEE New Initiatives Committee , the IEEE Public Visibility Committee , and IEEE Region 6. Virginia Tech.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. San Jose, Calif., But word went out.

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