Albert Dorman, M.S. CEE ’62

A member of the National Academy of Engineering and founding chairman and first CEO of AECOM, a global infrastructure company, has died. He was 97. His success at AECOM notwithstanding, his most famous achievement was his connection to one of the most popular vacation destinations in the world; as Disneyland’s civil engineer of record, his signature is on the theme park’s original plans. In 2014, USC Viterbi honored him with the Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award at the annual Viterbi Awards, and, in 2016, he was inducted into the university’s Half Century Trojans Hall of Fame. Dorman was also the namesake of several significant USC Viterbi undergraduate academic awards, including the USC Albert Dorman Grand Challenge Scholar Award and the USC Albert Dorman Future Leader Award.

 

 

Luiz André Barroso, Ph.D. CE ’96

Barroso, a computer scientist whom The New York Times credited for “chang[ing] the fabric of the internet” for his pioneering work at Google, has died of cardiac arrest. Barroso was 59. As a VP of engineering in the Core and Maps teams, his work in multicore CPUs and energy-efficient server design at Google shaped the foundation of modern computer architecture and hyperscale technology. Barroso also co-authored “The Datacenter as a Computer,” the first textbook to describe the architecture of warehouse-scale computing systems.