Intel and Facebook have long been technology collaboration partners on hardware and software optimizations to drive more efficiency and scale for Facebook data centers.

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Samuels deployed to Afghanistan for nine months in support of RDECOM's initiative to stand up a science and technology collaboration and integration center in theater.

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His vision is one of technology augmenting relationships instead of reducing them, one of technology enabling collaboration instead of cementing silos.

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