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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. He helped found the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. The next year he chaired the 2004 European Magnetic Sensors and Actuators Conference. as an engineer.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008. Meanwhile, worldwide sales of computer equipment had started to boom.

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