He spent 12 years at Sun Microsystems as a distinguished engineer where he worked on areas such as networking, security, and operating systems.

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According to IBM Distinguished Engineer Harry Kolar, noise is one of the many potential environmental impacts of both wave energy and tidal energy currently being studied.

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"'IEEE 802.3 technologies and the varied Ethernet networks that they enable are found everywhere, and the standard's application horizon continues to expand, " said David Law, chair of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group and distinguished engineer with HP Networking.

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Solar power may be not be best way to reduce the environmental impact of sprawling data centers built by companies such as Apple and Facebook, James Hamilton, an Amazon vice president and distinguished engineer argued on his personal blog last Saturday.

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Lord Broers, a distinguished engineer and former vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, was worried by how little we spent on research and development as a country compared to rivals - 1.7% of GDP in the UK, as compared to 2.8% in Germany and 2.9% in the United States.

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The presentation was hosted and chaired by Lord Broers, Chair of the All-Party Group and Committee of the House of Lords, former President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and a distinguished electrical engineer.

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