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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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He also received the 2002 IEEE Medal of Honor for “contributions to high-frequency transistors and hot-electron devices, especially heterostructure devices from heterostructure bipolar transistors to lasers, and their molecular beam epitaxy technology.” As an undergraduate student at Monmouth University , in West Long Branch, N.J.,

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Inventor of the First AI System That Could Read Handwriting Dies at 72

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University at Buffalo. Srihari was a pioneer in the field of computational forensics who in 2002 developed CEDAR-FOX , a software system that identifies people through their handwriting. State University of New York as well as the University of Buffalo , where he founded its Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. After retiring from IBM in 2002, Williams volunteered at the Computer History Museum , in Mountain View, Calif. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. He left in 1985 to join the Rand Afrikaans University, now part of the University of Johannesburg.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. In 2002 Fraser retired and founded Fraser Research , in Princeton, N.J., He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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EDUCATION Gowen was born in New Brunswick, N.J., and received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1957 from Rutgers University there. He was accepted, and the academy sponsored his postgraduate studies at Iowa State University , in Ames. He was granted his first U.S. in biomedical engineering in 1962.

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

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His cooking — he was the chef de cuisine under Grant Achatz at Alinea — is meticulous and often surprising. KEVIN PANG 3198 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago; warlordchicago.com The post The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. Virtue changed everything.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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Kim Carstensen of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) protested that “ it’s just too early to lower the ambition ”, [ 5 ] while European news agency Euractiv ran the headline “Asian leaders kill hopes for Copenhagen deal” [ 6 ]. Earlier post.) and 5.0%.

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