Sorenson digital video compression and encoding founder dies
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James LeVoy Sorenson, the 86-year-old founder of Sorenson Squeeze digital video compression and encoding technology, dies of cancer.
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Ken Kennedy, a professor who founded the computer science department at Rice University in 1984 and eventually became one of the world's pioneers in parallel and distributed computing, died last week at 61. Computerworld's Gary Anthes remembers Kennedy.
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Harold Zinkin, the inventor of the  widely used Universal Gym machines and a pioneer of modern  bodybuilding, has died at age 82, his friends said on Thursday.
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Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., the inventor of VCR technology for recording TV programs, said Friday that it named Rich Battista as chief executive officer to replace Jeff Shell, who has resigned his positions with the company.
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Ken Kennedy, a pioneer in computer science whose work can be seen in today's supercomputers and video games, has died in Houston at 61.  Kennedy taught at Rice University, where he founded the computer science department in 1984.
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A man who lived for 147 days on a mechanical heart made by Danvers-based Abiomed Inc. died because of complications related to the device, officials said yesterday.
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Ancel Keys, a pioneer in public health best known for identifying the connection between a cholesterol-rich diet and heart disease, has died.
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The 13th patient to receive the world&#39;s first fully implantable artificial heart died Sunday night after an unexpected malfunction in the device made by Abiomed Inc.
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New Albany -- An Indiana man who lived with an artificial heart for 147 days has died, the heart manufacturer said Monday. Abiomed Inc.
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HOUSTON -- Maxime A. Faget, a pioneering NASA engineer who designed the original spacecraft for Project Mercury and whose work helped create every human spacecraft the agency has launched since, has died.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the  computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most  colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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NEW YORK - Richard Avedon, who chronicled the famous with his camera and elevated fashion photography to a 20th century art form, died early Friday.
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Dorothy McEwen, the former wife of the software pioneer who famously lost to Microsoft the chance to supply IBM with the operating system for its first personal computer, has died. She was 61.
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IAMI, Aug. 18  - Neal Fredericks, the cinematographer of the low-budget hit horror film &quot;The Blair Witch Project,&quot; was killed on Sunday in a plane crash while filming a movie. He was 35.
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In a room of mostly white male high-tech players, Anita Brown was the say-it-like-it-is black woman in red high-top sneakers. A social networker and blogger long before anyone heard of those terms, Brown died Sept. 8 of cardiac arrest at age 63.
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Ignacio Insua, a Cuban cameraman working   for Reuters Television in Havana, died on Monday of a heart   attack after suffering spine injuries in a car accident. He was   57.
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NEW YORK Actor Jerry Orbach, who spent part of his childhood in Illinois, has died of prostate cancer at age 69. Orbach played the sardonic cop Lennie Briscoe on TV&#39;s &quot;Law and Order.