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

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He was largely responsible for moving the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1978 from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Compared with bipolar junction transistors, which were predominant in ICs then, MOS transistors are easier to scale and consume less power. He was a member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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A decade later he earned a master’s degree in engineering from Drexel University , in Philadelphia. In 2004 he founded the Stata Center for Computing, Information, and Intelligence Sciences. Mancino earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1951 from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.

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