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10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

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The MESA Air study was funded in 2004 by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The participants lived in six major cities across the United States. The clinics were in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, St. Paul and Winston-Salem.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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While there, he investigated how to build hardware to run more modern business applications and Web services. In 2004 Barroso was tasked with investigating ways to build more efficient data centers. In 1995 he joined the Digital Equipment Corp. Western Research Laboratory , in Palo Alto, Calif., as a software engineer.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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Mancino Former manager of engineering reliability at RCA Life senior member, 93; died 24 September For most of his career, Mancino worked as an engineer at RCA , which was headquartered in New York City. In 2004 he founded the Stata Center for Computing, Information, and Intelligence Sciences. While serving in the U.S.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. Second Sight Medical Products , in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. We just needed to build a device.”. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press/Alamy.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The Sutherland brothers, through a connection of their mother’s, began visiting Edmund Berkeley in New York City from their home in Scarsdale while Ivan was still in grade school. At the time, Berkeley was establishing himself as a leading author, publisher, and consultant for the new world of digital computers.

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Proterra beefs up its battery expertise: Q&A CTO Dustin Grace

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Since its founding in 2004, Proterra has grown to become North America’s largest supplier of electric buses. The company builds its own battery packs, and has a current production capacity of 500 megawatt-hours per year. Charged : Tell us more about the components that you build in-house. It was really all about performance.

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