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ServiceNow – One of the Fastest Growing Cloud-Computing Company

Cloud computing has changed the face of the IT industry. It has increased the scope for software companies and the people seeking innovation. ServiceNow is one such company that saw the scope in cloud computing and decided to move forward to work in software-as-a-service. In fact, ServiceNow is known as one of the pioneers of software-as-a-service. The company came into being in 2003, and ever since, it has been growing towards its goal of clients’ satisfaction. Fred Luddy founded ServiceNow, and the company headquarter is located in Santa Clara, California.

ServiceNow, today, deals in platform-as-a-service operations like Cloud computing, technical management support, IT service management, and Enterprise Service Management and is currently serving over 6000 customers worldwide. The company has also started to incorporate artificial intelligence technology into its cloud computing service to yield more practical solutions. ServiceNow employs over 12000 people, and as of 2019, made revenues worth US$3,460,437,000.

Broke to Billionaire Story of ServiceNow

Fred Luddy, the founder of ServiceNow, has a real ‘rags to riches story and has also given us an example of “the age is just a number”. Luddy founded the company, after he went through a $35 million personal fortune loss, because of a fraud in his previous company, Peregrine Systems, around fourteen years ago. He was was the CTO at the company and lost his money due to accounting fraud.

But later, Luddy geared up and started to work on the next project, i.e. a cloud-based product (software-as-a-service) to ease out operations for the average office worker. Luddy founded the software company Glidesoft, Inc. in 2003, just before Luddy turned 50, discarding the psychological thing for people that 50 years is too late for starting a business. In 2004, the company name was changed to ServiceNow, and till 2005, the founder was working on software that the company was going to sell.

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In 2005, ServiceNow hired its first five employees (Luddy’s brother Rob being one of them) and raised US$2.5 million in venture capital. Rob joined the company as the first sales representative, who took the product into the market, making first of the sales for the company.

In just two years after raising the money and going into the market, ServiceNow made revenues worth US$13 million. In 2007, the company moved to San Jose, Silicon Valley, and the company started to make profits. ServiceNow had a D series fundraising lead by Sequoia Capital in 2009, where it raised 41.4 million.

By 2011, ServiceNow had opened offices in places like San Diego, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, London and Frankfurt. The same year, it partnered with Accenture such that the former was offering consulting services to the latter through its hundred dedicated employees.

In 2012, ServiceNow had its first IPO, and the same year its headquarter was moved to Santa Clara, California. ServiceNow made revenues worth 1.39 billion in 2016 and reached the market cap of 12.34 billion. The company also ranked number 1 on the Forbes Most Innovative Companies list in 2018, and in 2021, it was among the world’s most admired companies for the 2021 list of Fortune Magazine.

Acquisitions

In the year 2013, ServiceNow started to make acquisitions to encourage company growth. Mirror42 (2013), Neebula Systems (2014), Intréis (2015), Brightpoint Security (2016), DxContinuum (2017), VendorHawk (2018), Parlo (2018), Appsee Ltd. (2019), Loom Systems and Passage AI (2020), Attivio (2020), Element AI (2020), Intellibot (2021), and Lightstep (2021) are some of the names of its acquired companies.

The Founder: Fred Luddy

Fred Luddy, the founder of ServiceNow is known as one of the software-as-a-service pioneers. He is an American national and grew up in New Castle, Indiana. Luddy completed his high school at a local public school and has always been interested in computer programming. He joined Indiana University but left his studies in between to work more on his programming skills.

Before starting ServiceNow, he was working at Peregrine Systems as the CTO. But in 2003, due to accounting fraud, he lost money worth $35 million in the same company. After starting ServiceNow, he served the company as the CEO till 2011 and then started working an advisory role for ServiceNow till 2016.

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Realme GT 5G Launched Globally and Realme TechLife Robot Vacuum

On Tuesday, the Realme GT 5G was officially unveiled at a virtual conference around the world. The new Realme phone features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC, 8GB or 12GB RAM, and a 120Hz AMOLED display. The Realme GT has up to 256GB of internal storage and features such as Dolby Atmos audio, a 64-megapixel primary camera, and a vapor cooling system made of stainless steel.

Along with the Realme GT 5G, the Chinese company unveiled the Realme TechLife Robot Vacuum cleaner as its new Internet of Things (IoT) product, which will compete with the iRobot Roomba 971 and Xiaomi’s Mi Robot Vacuum-Mop P. Realme also revealed the global prices for the Realme Watch 2 Pro and Realme Watch 2. Furthermore, the company teased its first tablet and laptop, dubbed the Realme Pad and Realme Book, respectively.

Realme GT 5G

The Realme GT 5G is priced at EUR 449 (approximately Rs. 39,900) for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage variant. The phone also comes with a 12GB RAM + 256GB storage option for EUR 599. (Rs. 53,200). The Realme GT 5G will first be available in Poland, Russia, Spain, and Thailand, before expanding to other markets. It will be available in three colors: Dashing Blue, Dashing Silver, and Racing Yellow (vegan leather).

As an introductory offer, the Realme GT 5G will be available for as little as EUR 369 (Rs. 32,800) for the 8GB + 128GB variant between June 21–25. Customers in Europe and other regions will be able to purchase the 12GB + 256GB variant for EUR 499 (Rs. 44,300) during the Amazon Prime Day sale on June 21–22. The Realme GT 5G will not be available in India until further notice.

The Realme GT 5G was released in China for CNY 2,799 (approximately Rs. 32,100) for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage model. It was also available in a 12GB RAM + 256GB storage variant for CNY 3,299 (Rs. 37,800).

Realme TechLife Robot Vacuum

The Realme TechLife Robot Vacuum is priced at EUR 299. (roughly Rs. 26,600). It will be available for pre-order on AliExpress and Realme.com beginning June 16. Realme also announced the global pricing of the Realme Watch 2 Pro and Realme Watch 2 in addition to the Robot Vacuum.

The Realme Watch 2 Pro will cost EUR 74.99 (approximately Rs. 6,700) and EUR 54.99, respectively (Rs. 4,900). Both smartwatches will be available on Amazon and Realme.com beginning tomorrow. The Realme TechLife Robot Vacuum, as well as the Realme Watch 2 Pro and Realme Watch 2, have yet to make their India debut.

Specifications for the Realme GT 5G

The dual-SIM (Nano) Realme GT 5G runs Android 11 with Realme UI 2.0 and has a 6.43-inch full-HD+ AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 120Hz, a touch sampling rate of 360Hz, and a screen-to-body ratio of 91.7 percent. The octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC is under the hood, along with up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM. A 64-megapixel Sony IMX682 primary sensor, an 8-megapixel secondary sensor with a wide-angle lens, and a 2-megapixel macro shooter are housed in the smartphone’s triple rear camera setup. The Realme GT has a 16-megapixel selfie camera sensor with an f/2.5 lens on the front for selfies and video chats.

The Realme GT 5G supports UFS 3.1 storage up to 256GB. 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm headphone jack are among the connectivity options. There is a fingerprint sensor built into the display. The phone has a 4,500mAh battery with 65W SuperDart charging support. According to the manufacturer, the proprietary charging technology can charge the built-in battery from zero to 100 percent in 35 minutes. Furthermore, the Realme GT 5G is 8.4mm thick and weighs 186 grams.

Specifications for the Realme TechLife Robot Vacuum

Using a LiDAR-based navigation system, the Realme TechLife Robot Vacuum is intended to provide a 2-in-1 vacuum and mopping solution. According to the company, the new offering provides a precise cleaning experience to households. The robot vacuum cleaner stands 10 centimeters tall and has a tempered Gorilla Glass top cover. It also has 38 sensors, including a time-of-flight (ToF) wall sensor, a water tank detection sensor, a cliff sensor, and an infrared recharge sensor.

Realme claims that the preloaded LiDAR system on the TechLife Robot Vacuum is up to 12% more accurate than competitors’ systems. It is also said to be 98 percent accurate in mapping. The Realme device, like the Mi Robot Vacuum-Mop P and other similar vacuum cleaners, works with the Realme Link app, which allows users to create custom partitions, set cleaning modes, and schedule cleaning — all from their phones. You can also ask Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant for help.

The suction power of the Realme TechLife Robot Vacuum is 3,000 Pascals. It also has a 5,200mAh battery that is said to provide three times the cleaning power in a 100-square-meter room. Furthermore, the vacuum cleaner has a low noise level of 55 decibels.

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OnePlus Nord CE 5G launched – List of specifications and features.

Leave a Comment / News, Product, Tech News / By Annasha

On 10th June 2021, OnePlus launched the new model in the Nord series, OnePlus Nord CE 5G. The company made the announcement through an online live stream and revealed the new features of this latest smartphone. The new OnePlus Nord smartphone varies from the original Nord model that was released last year on a few grounds. Both the outlook and the internal system have been significantly modified to make it look both sleek and for better performance. The slim appearance of the new Nord CE 5G makes it the slimmest OnePlus model after the OnePlus 6T which was released almost three years ago. This new OnePlus Nord model comes in three different colors and each one has options for a matte and glossy back finish.

Specifications of OnePlus Nord CE 5G

The new OnePlus Nord CE 5G is powered by Android 11 and OxygenOS 11 with dual-sim (Nano). OnePlus has chosen the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC for running the system of the new model and it also comes with Adreno 619 GPU and RAM of 6GB. The display of Nord CE 5G features a 6.43-inch full HD AMOLED display. The aspect ratio of the display is 20:9 with a refresh rate of 90Hz.

The OnePlus Nord CE 5G will be offering internal storage of 256GB with connectivity options including 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v5.1, GPS/ A-GPS/ NaVIC, NFC, USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm headphone jack (Gadgets 360). The different types of sensors in the mobile include an ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, magnetometer, gyroscope, and accelerometer. Apart from these features, it has an in-display fingerprint sensor, speakers with noise cancellation support, 4500 mAh battery life. The battery has been improved as compared to the last Nord model by OnePlus.

Price and Availability

In India, the price of the new OnePlus Nord CE 5G starts from Rs. 22,999. This price is for the variant of 6GB+128GB. The price of the model for 8GB+128GB variants starts from Rs. 24, 999. One of the models of the new Nord CE 5G starts from Rs. 27,999 and is a showstopper with a 12GB+256GB storage variant. The three different colors available for all these models are Blue Void (matte), Charcoal Ink (Glossy), and Silver Ray. OnePlus Nord CE 5G will be made available from 16th June and you can also preorder from today itself. They will be available in the online stores of OnePlus and Amazon.

Camera System of Nord CE 5G

OnePlus has always been one of the top choices of users when it comes to camera quality. Be it for photography, video calling, or taking selfies, the photographs produced by a OnePlus are highly distinguishable. The new OnePlus Nord CE 5G comes with a triple rear camera system. The camera setup consists of a 64-megapixel primary sensor with a lens of aperture f/1.79. The primary sensor has electronic image stabilization (EIS) which helps greatly while shooting videos with users being in motion. The secondary camera has a sensor of 8 megapixels with an ultra-wide lens of f/2.25 and the third one is a 2-megapixel monochrome sensor with an f/2.4 lens.

OnePlus can easily substitute heavy gear for a photographer especially while hiking or traveling in busy areas. The images and the videos are of very high quality and quench the need for a good camera. With the pandemic shifting of our work culture to a remote version, users can easily attend video calls with the front camera of Nord CE 5G which features a 16 megapixel Sony IMX471 sensor that also has EIS.

Seems like the rear camera system of the OnePlus Nord CE 5G is the center of attraction as it has multi autofocus options (PDAF+CAF). The shooting options available in the phone for the rear camera are Nightscape, Ultrashort HDR, Panorama, Pro Mode, Portrait, and Smart Scene Recognition. Videos can be recorded in 4K resolution with 30fps. Time-lapse can also be made while doing videography.

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Maxim Integrated – Developers of Innovative Analog ICs

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Maxim Integrated is one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The company is over 38 years old and was established by a nine-member team following a two-page business plan. Today the company trades on Nasdaq as MXIM, NASDAQ-100 component, and S&P 500 component and has its headquarters located in San Jose, California, U.S. Based on the 2020 records, the number of employees working for Maxim is over 7000 people and recorded annual revenue of the company is US$2.191 billion.

Founding History of Maxim Integrated

Maxim was founded by a bunch of semiconductors design and sales experts in April 1993. The team included Jack Gifford, Fred Beck, Dave Bingham, Steve Combs, Lee Evans, Dave Fullagar, Roger Fuller, Rich Hood, and Dick Wilenken, Jack Gifford leading the team. All of these members were related to the semiconductor industry in terms of having contributed to the semiconductor industry on a major scale.

The nine-team members of the company represented a two pages plan in front of a local investor and raised a US$9 million capital in the venture to start the company. The company started by developing 24 second-source products, and later in 1985, it launched its first proprietary product MAX600, which won the company an industry award. This was the beginning of the innovative journey for the company.

In 1987, Maxim had its first IPO, and in the same year, the company introduced its first most successful product, MAX232, leading to the most successful fiscal year. In the second quarter of 1988, Maxim recorded sales worth 28.3 million. In 1989, after it acquired its first wafer fabrication plant from Saratoga Semiconductor, the company started the in-house manufacturing of the IC wafers.

In 1991, Maxim made a policy of working 24 hours a day, skipping all the holidays, leading to a hike in profits, from $7.6 million to $13.7 million, for that year. Maxim also made it to Business Week’s Top 100 Small Companies and Forbes’s Top 200 in both 1991 and 1992 for being a good place for work and having the best customer service. By the beginning of the 90s, Maxim had bagged contracts from companies like International Business Machines, Motorola, and Hitachi and had introduced more than 600 new chips. The acquisition of Tectronix in 1994 helped Maxim to enter the wireless and fiber-optics communications businesses.

The company recorded annual revenue worth $500 million in 1998, and in 2005, it was listed in the Fortune 1000 company. By 2008, the company had registered 50% more patents in its names, whereas in 2010, it built the first analog product on a 300mm wafer. Maxim’s total revenue for the fiscal year 2011 was over $2.47 billion, and as per 2019 records, Maxim Integrated was serving 35,000 global customers.

Acquisitions by Maxim

Maxim is known for the lucrative acquisitions that it made in the past 38 years. The company started off by acquiring the first wafer fabrication (fab) facility in Sunnyvale, California in 1990, The company then acquired the semiconductor division of Tektronix in 1994, followed by acquiring an additional wafer fab from IC Works in 1997 and Dallas Semiconductor in 2001. Later Maxim purchases the CMOS fab from Philips in 2003, a 0.18-micrometer fab from Atmel, and Vitesse Semiconductor’s Storage Products Division in 2007. In 2008 and 2009, Maxim acquired Mobilygen, Innova Card as well as two product lines from Zilog, Inc.

Starting from 2010, the next decade included the acquisitions of Teridian Semiconductor Corporation (2010), Trinity Convergence Limited (2010), Phyworks (2010), SensorDynamics (2011), Cambridge Analog Technologies, Inc. (2011), Genasic Design Systems Ltd. (2012), Volterra Semiconductor (2013), Icron Technologies (2018), and Trinamic (2020).

The CEO at Maxim Integrated

Tunç Doluca has been serving Maxim Integrated as the President and CEO since January 2007. He was born in Ankara, Turkey. He has a BSEE degree from Iowa State University and an MSEE degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Doluca joined Maxim Integrated in 1984 as a member of the technical staff. In 1993, he was appointed as the Vice President of R&D at Maxim, and the next year, he was named leader of the first vertical business unit for portable power-management products at Maxim. At the beginning of the 2000s, Doluca was heading seven business units in the company and became the Group President in 2005. Doluca has 11 patents under his name and has designed 40 products for Maxim. He has also designed the industry’s first high-integration, notebook power-supply IC (the MAX786).

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Arista Networks – An American company Pioneering in Cloud Networking Solutions since 2004

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Arista Networks is famous for providing cognitive cloud networking solutions for large data centers, high-performance computing centers, and high-frequency trading environments. The company is based in Santa Clara, California and it offers a wide range of products and solutions from cloud networking to telemetry and analytics. Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton, and Kenneth Duda co-founded Arista Networks in 2004. The founders came from a background with rich experience in semiconductor and hardware design.

Introduction to Arista Networks

Arista Networks provides a highly efficient networking solution to big data centers as the products include an array of Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second. The platform of Arista is also made highly secure with CloudVision and Arista EOS (Linux-based network operating system) which is installed in all Arista products. Apart from the highly experienced co-founders of Arista, the current President and CEO of the company is Jayshree Ullal who also has a luminous career history. Arista is very famous around the world for picking up a team of intellectuals who have a rich professional history thus operated by a team of visionaries. The company went public in 2014 and is listed as ANET in NYSE.

Founding History of Arista Networks

As mentioned earlier, all the founders are from an industrial background as they were associated with large enterprises before co-founding Arista Networks. Andy Bechtolsheim co-founded Sun Microsystems back in 1982 and he served as the chief hardware designer of the company. Andy, along with David, co-founded a new company called Granite Systems in 1995 where they started developing Gigabit Ethernet products. After a year, the company was acquired by Cisco Systems. After a few years, Andy and David again opened up a new start-up called Kealia but again it was acquired by Sun Microsystems.

After this acquisition, David and Andy worked at Cisco in executive positions and along with Kennetth Duda. Kennetth Duda was the first employee of Granite Systems and that’s how he met the other two co-founders. They successfully developed a product line for the Cisco company called Catalyst and decided to establish their own company in 2004 which is currently known as Arista Networks. Jayshree Ullal, the current CEO of the company is also an ex-employee of Cisco who worked there for fifteen years. From 2014, there have been several differences followed by filing lawsuits between Cisco and Arista and the latter agreed to $400 million as a part of the settlement.

Customers and Acquisitions

Arista’s customers mainly include big enterprises around the globe that require highly efficient and fast networking platforms. Currently, Arista has many big customers who are in the list of Fortune 500 companies. Arista delivers its products across the data centers and campus with routing and software solutions in order to monitor and be responsive globally. There are around 7,000 customers worldwide served by Arista Networks on a daily basis.

Arista Networks have acquired quite a few companies in the last few years. It’s latest acquisition is Awake Security which is a network detection and response platform that uses AI to prevent both internal and external threats. Along with Awake Security, the company also acquired Big Switch Networks last year. This acquisition led to the availability of DANZ Monitoring Fabric, a network observability software across all switching networks of Arista. In 2018, the company acquired Mojo Networks which provides Arista with Wifi solutions for networks across campus and enterprise. Arista also acquired Metamako in 2018 which augments Arista’s low latency platforms.

The Founders of Arista Networks

Andy Bechtolsheim is currently serving as the Chairman and the Chief Development Officer of Arista Networks. Previously, he worked at Sun Microsystems where he was in charge of next generation server, storage, and network architectures. Andy is a computer engineer who went to Carnegie Mellon University and received his doctorate from Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

After co-founding Arista Networks, David Cheriton co-founded a couple of more companies like Apstra Inc and BrainofT Inc. He received his bachelor’s degree from University of British Columbia and his masters and doctorate from the University of Waterloo. Currently, he is a computer science professor at Stanford University.

Kenneth Duda is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering at Arista Networks. He also worked as the CTO of There.com where he built a real-time 3D distributed system. Kenneth went to MIT where he graduated in three different engineering courses.

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Synopsys – Changing The Way Companies Work And Play

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Advanced silicone chips and increasing software content working together intelligently and securely are at the core of this new era of digital innovation. Synopsys leads Smart Everything with the most advanced chip design and verification technologies worldwide, IP integration and security software, and quality testing.

Synopsys technology allows major firms to integrate their next-generation products into smarts, safety, and safety. They help our clients reach new energy, speed, connection, mobility, and reliability goals from silicone through to software that is vital to Smart Everything’s future.

The Establishment Of Synopsys

In 1986 in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, Synopsys was founded by Aart J de Geus and David Gregory. The company was initially founded as Optimal Solutions, a charter designed and produced by the General Electric team to develop and commercialize synthesis technologies. Over the history of Synopsys, they acquired a number of key acquisitions in silicon and design testing. CoWare, which now belongs to Synopsys, was a supplier of platform-driven software and services for electronic systems (ESL) design. CoWare has operations worldwide, main R&D offices in Belgium, Germany, and India. CoWare has its headquarters at its offices in San Jose, Calif.

In 1992, the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Belgium launched CoWare development as an internal project. As an independent firm, CoWare split out in 1996. Synopsys announced a purchase of CoWare on February 8, 2010.

Products and Solutions

Designing The Best Chips Quicker

Synopsys is the world’s leading supplier of solutions for the development and verification of advanced silicon chips as well as the design of new processes and models for the production of these chips. Their design technologies enhance productivity and deliver the highest quality while optimizing the power, performance, and cost chips. The verification technology cuts months off project plans by allowing complex chips to be verified with software more quickly.

Providing Security Faster

In every level of software development and the whole supply chain, Synopsys helps companies integrate security and quality in the DNA of their software code. It helps in reducing risks while maximizing application development speeds. The customer may identify and solve vulnerabilities and deficiencies in proprietary code, open-source, and application behavior at an unprecedented depth, accuracy, and speed using our statical analysis, software composition analysis, and dynamic analysis solutions. They assist organizations with early and regularly testing their software so that costly product crashes, security violations, and system disasters can be avoided. In order to verify compliance with licenses, correct vulnerabilities, and decrease operational risk, they also automate the securing and management of open-source software.

The Founder of Synopsys: Aart de Geus

Aart has been developing Synopsys from a start-up synthesis company to a global high-tech leader ever since its co-founding in 1986. He has been a global leader in logic synthesis and simulation for many years and often leads important conferences in electronics and design automation.

Dr. de Geus has been widely recognized for his technical, business, and community achievements with multiple awards including Electronic Business Magazine’s “CEO of the Year,” the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, the GSA Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame Award, and the SVLG Lifetime Achievement Award. He served on the Silicon Valley Leadership Group boards, the Applied Materials Alliance, the Global Semiconductor Alliance, and the Alliance for the Design of Electronic Systems.

Chi-Foon Chan: The Co-CEO of Synopsys

Chi-Foon is responsible for vision and strategy building, directing the company, and ensuring excellence in execution supporting the success of our clients. As President and COO of the Company, he was responsible for internal operations and worldwide field organizations 14 years prior to his 2012 appointment as President and CEO.

As Vice President for Applications and Services, Chi-Foon joined Synopsys in 1990, helping to construct the organization of the Technical Field. He supported many significant projects such as IP entry, and facilitated significant acquisitions personally, such as Avanti, Virage Logic, Magma Design Automation, and SpringSoft. In 2014, with Coverity and the acquisition of Codenomicon, he drove Synopsys into the software testing business and into the software security business.

Prior to Synopsys, Chi-Foon was responsible for marketing all NEC chip devices in North America to industry leaders such as NEC Corporation, which was General Manager of the microprocessor group. Before NEC, he was Intel Corporation’s Engineering Manager. He has an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Computer Engineering and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rutgers.