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Paying Tribute to Computer Science Pioneer Frederick Brooks, Jr.

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Brooks left IBM in 1964 to found the University of North Carolina ’s computer science department in Chapel Hill. Although he retired from teaching in 2013, Brooks was still active in the university’s research program in virtual environmentsand scientific visualization until 2020. Brooks received a Ph.D.

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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school. He was a former professor and dean at several schools including Temple University , California State University, Northridge , and Ohio University.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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and received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1957 from Rutgers University there. While there, he applied to join the electrical engineering faculty at the Air Force Academy , in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was accepted, and the academy sponsored his postgraduate studies at Iowa State University , in Ames.

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Honor a Loved One With an IEEE Foundation Memorial Fund

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One way the Foundation does so is by partnering with IEEE units to create memorial funds, which pay tribute to members, family, friends, teachers, professors, students, and others. This type of giving honors someone special while also supporting future generations of engineers and celebrating innovation.

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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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Kroemer was professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara , when he died. Kroemer taught electrical engineering at the University of Colorado , Boulder, from 1968 to 1976 before joining UCSB , where he led the university’s semiconductor research program.

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Wireless Innovator Gerard J. “Jerry” Foschini Remembered

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Decades of innovation at Bell Labs Foschini received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1961 from the New Jersey Institute of Technology , in Newark. He earned a master’s degree in EE in 1963 from New York University and went on to earn a Ph.D. in EE in 1967 from Stevens Institute of Technology , in Hoboken, N.J.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. This tribute is an excerpted version of an article dedicated to his memory written by three of his colleagues: IEEE Member Jae Jeong Hwang, Zoran M. College of Engineering, Guindy , in Chennai, India.