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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. Even with $4/gallon gas ($6.13

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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 2004 Barroso was tasked with investigating ways to build more efficient data centers. In 1974 he joined the Electric Power Research Institute , in Palo Alto, Calif.,

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv

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Ziv, an electrical engineering professor at the Technion —the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa—and his colleague Abraham Lempel perfected the lossless compression technique, enabling perfect data reconstruction. in electrical engineering in 1962. He moved to the United States to attend MIT , where he earned a Ph.D.

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