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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. In 1988 he helped write Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits. for 37 years.

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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. There he led network management research and helped design Italy’s first electronic exchange and data network. In 2017 and 2018 he served as head of EIT’s Industrial Doctoral School , headquartered in Palaiseau, France.

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Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis

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But his desire to understand how the human brain works led him to switch from physics to electrical engineering and ultimately to pursue signal processing at the University of Vermont. In 2018 the company spun off from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Breakthrough Device designation.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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In the 1990s, he became known for his long-running legal battle against Universal Manufacturing Corp. The Clapper also had an “away” setting that was activated by noise, designed to deter burglars while homeowners were on vacation. Eventually, they filed for a U.S. patent for the new and improved device.

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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.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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candidate at Stanford University, launches Peregrine at Norway’s Slakbreen glacier. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Peregrine is a modified UAV carrying a miniaturized ice-penetrating radar that we designed around a software-defined radio.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves? 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. As Verne understood, the U.S.