After graduating, he left Egypt and headed to Stanford to take a Masters in the same topic and an MBA at University of Santa Clara.

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Jim was a frequent presenter at many industry events including many IDEMA conferences, the Head and Media Technology Review Conference, the 100th Anniversary of Magnetic Recording and Information Storage at Santa Clara University (SCU) as well as other events put on by the Institute of Information Storage Technology at SCU, and at his own DataStorage Conferences.

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Terri Griffth at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, refers to this as systems savvy.

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Meir Statman, chairman of the finance department at Santa Clara University, helped develop Personalfund.

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Thane Kreiner is currently Executive Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University.

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It carried a total of six picosatellites: the Aerospace pair plus four others, three of which were built by students at Santa Clara University and one by amateur radio enthusiasts.

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