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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Opposed-piston engine company Achates Power raises $35.2M in Series C Financing; new industry advisory board

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The company also announced the formation of a new Industry Advisory Board, and its selection as a semi-finalist in the Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Energy Security Prize. The company says that the Series C funding and Industry Advisory Board formation will help accelerate its product development and commercialization efforts.

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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. Three years later, the company was acquired by Compaq and his project was terminated.

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Inventor of the First AI System That Could Read Handwriting Dies at 72

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University at Buffalo. Srihari was a pioneer in the field of computational forensics who in 2002 developed CEDAR-FOX , a software system that identifies people through their handwriting. State University of New York as well as the University of Buffalo , where he founded its Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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telephone companies. He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. Fraser held several leadership positions at the company during his 30 years there.

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SpaceX and Dish’s Super-Shady War for the World

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At issue is a set of frequencies where Musk’s SpaceX sets its Starlink Internet service, the company's well-publicized play for broadband beaming down from low-Earth orbit to satellite dishes in remote areas. Space has international dimensions, points out Plum Consulting’s Selçuk K?rtay, Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network Corp.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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He joined its Junior ROTC at his high school in Dayton, Ohio, and won a scholarship from the corps to attend the University of Notre Dame , in Indiana. He participated in the university's USAF ROTC program before earning a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering in 1987. He got the degree in 1991. I'm proud of that accomplishment.".

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