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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. In 1988 he helped write Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits. as an engineer.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Allan Alcorn, shown here in 2011, designed Pong as an exercise, to learn about how to design video games. Under the guise of a contract for General Electric, Bushnell asked Alcorn to design a game similar to ping-pong that could be played on a television. IEEE Spectrum’s special projects editor Stephen Cass grew up in Ireland.

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

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Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Valence has facilities in Nevada, China and Northern Ireland. Valence currently has two manufacturing facilities in China, both wholly-owned; each facility is 50,000 square feet and located next to each other. The second is the module/pack manufacturing plant.

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