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DECEMBER 11, 2009

satellite imagery; from left, 1975, 1989, and 2001. Landsat images via Google Earth. Through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, Google introduced an online suite of beta software that leverages cloud computing to track worldwide land-use changes such as deforestation. by Jack Rosebro. Sources: USGS. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 3, 2024

Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., Kim saw a role for his expertise in the endeavor—he has a Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

Amprius’ Series A and B investors include Trident Capital, VantagePoint Capital Partners, IPV Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Chinergy Capital, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, and Stanford University. SAIF Partners was founded in 2001 and currently manages over $3.6 billion in capital.

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APRIL 30, 2023

“The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. Once the dust had settled, Cerf sent an email to his old friend Eric Schmidt, who had been hired as CEO of Google in 2001. “Hi

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The Virginia Tech institute has been building connected-vehicle technology since 2001. In 2013, Google brought its autonomous car to the Smart Road for several weeks of closed-course testing. Focus will be placed on the communication’s format, visual or audible, and the order and timing of such messages.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

featured California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, General Colin Powell, and early customers including Bank of America; The Coca-Cola Company; Cox Enterprises; eBay; FedEx Express; Google; Staples; and Walmart. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy can trace its roots to the NASA Mars space program. The event was hosted at eBay Inc.,

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