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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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He also received the 2002 IEEE Medal of Honor for “contributions to high-frequency transistors and hot-electron devices, especially heterostructure devices from heterostructure bipolar transistors to lasers, and their molecular beam epitaxy technology.” As an undergraduate student at Monmouth University , in West Long Branch, N.J.,

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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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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. He received the 2002 U.S. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk exercises all of his TSLA stock options that will expire in 2022

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Such an amount translates to about $1 million per day since the Tesla CEO came over to the country to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 or about $1.5 million per day since he became a US citizen in 2002. . Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips. Disclaimer: I am long TSLA.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk held 21.2% stake in TSLA as of the end of 2021, reveals SEC filing

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This effectively made Musk’s 2021 tax bill one of the largest in the United States’ history, translating to about $1 million in taxes per day since Musk came over to the country to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 or about $1.5 million per day since the CEO became a US citizen in 2002. .

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Rice/EPA study finds ground-level ozone falling faster than CMAQ model predicted

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Researchers from Rice University and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report in a paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry that particularly in Northeastern cities, ozone levels dropped even beyond what was anticipated by cutting emissions of NO x from 2002 to 2006. This is good news. from 2002 to 2006.

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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school. He was a former professor and dean at several schools including Temple University , California State University, Northridge , and Ohio University.

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