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

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Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. He was an active member of UConn’s Chinese bible study group for more than 40 years. as an engineer.

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

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Mr. Wolen’s dishes are almost too impressive for a neighborhood spot like Boka, which recently turned 20 years old. His mother is Chinese, his father Creole. A high-end chain based in Hong Kong, the Peninsula imported to Chicago a style of Chinese luxury dining rarely seen outside Asia. The best way to describe Lula Cafe?

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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