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Intel names Brian Krzanich new CEO as company faces challenges
Intel on Thursday announced Brian Krzanich has been selected to be the company's sixth chief executive, taking the helm of one of Silicon Valley's most iconic companies at a time when the company is struggling to gain traction in mobile computing....
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PASSINGS: Donald Payne, Kurt Lehovec
Donald Payne New Jersey's 1st black congressman Rep. Donald Payne, 77, the first African American congressman elected to represent New Jersey and a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, died Tuesday at a hospital in Livingston, N.J. He...Tags: Colon Cancer, Science, Electronics, World War II (1939-1945), Sprague
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Robert Noyce, superstar of Silicon Valley, gets a Google Doodle
Nation NowRobert Noyce: Google Doodle honors Robert Noyce, the co-inventor of the microchip. Robert Noyce. The microchip was small in size, enormous in impact.... -
Fowler Museum gets $2 million for African arts curatorship
Culture MonsterUCLA's Fowler Museum has received $2 million endowment to help pay the salary of its curator of African arts. The donation comes from Jay Last, one of the founders of Silicon Valley and the high-tech industry.... -
Willard S. Boyle dies at 86; a father of the digital camera
Willard S. Boyle, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of the revolutionary imaging device that is at the heart of digital cameras of all descriptions, died May 7 at a hospital in his home town of Wallace, Canada. He was 86 and had...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Space Programs, Electronics, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Science
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Gerald Lawson dies at 70; engineer brought cartridge-based video game consoles to life
Gerald A. "Jerry" Lawson, an electronics engineer and video game pioneer who led the team that developed the first cartridge-based home video game console system to hit the market in the mid-1970s, has died. He was 70.
Lawson, who lived in Santa Clara,...Tags: New York, Science, Electronics, African Americans, Entertainment
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