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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 computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. In 2004 Barroso was tasked with investigating ways to build more efficient data centers.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. Alabama A&M University. FY2017 Low-No projects. 1,200,000.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The logical place to build a small computer was inside IBM's General Products Division, which focused on minicomputers and the successful typewriter business. He obtained 8088 microprocessors from Intel , made sure Microsoft kept the development of DOS secret, and quashed rumors that IBM was building a system. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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