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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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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. is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. He was a member of the university’s.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. Rao received a master’s degree in mathematics in 1940 from Andhra University , in Visakhapatnam.

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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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Remembering Ross Stone, an Influential Leader of IEEE Technical Activities

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Communications and patent law expert Stone received a bachelor’s degree in 1967 in earth sciences from the University of California, San Diego. He was an adjunct professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and the Politecnico di Torino. He worked as chief scientist at McDonnell Technologies and a research advisor at IRT.