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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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He and his staff developed concepts for wideband shipboard air-surveillance radar with reduced susceptibility to electronic countermeasures; self-defense radar; and space-borne radar for detecting ships. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. In 1965 he became superintendent of the radar division at the U.S.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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In 2004 Barroso was tasked with investigating ways to build more efficient data centers. Two years later, he published a paper in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society , demonstrating two fundamental statistical concepts still heavily used in the field today. Seven years later he joined the General Physics Corp.

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