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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., As Google’s business expanded, its need for infrastructure increased.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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ComputerWorld/Google Books /3M 3M didn’t rest on its laurels with the floppy disk either, and tried to push the technology further, most notably with Floptical disk technology , which Jim Adkisson, who helped create the 5.25-inch Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. San Diego, Calif.