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Giving Mood: Ming Hsieh Ming Hsieh (simplified Chinese: 谢明; traditional Chinese: 謝明; b. 1955) is a billionaire Chinese American entrepreneur and philanthropist and the founder of AMAZ technology in 1987 and Cogent Systems in 1990. , the founder of Pasadena-based Cogent Inc., donated $35 million to his Alma Mater's engineering school. The gift to USC's Viterbi School of Engineering The Viterbi School of Engineering (formerly the USC School of Engineering) is located at the University of Southern California in the United States. It was renamed following a $52 million donation by Andrew Viterbi. , which will name the college's electrical engineering department after Hsieh, is the largest ever to an engineering department in the country, and the largest resulting in the renaming of a department at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. . Hsieh founded Cogent after graduating 1984. Cogent is a billion-dollar manufacturer of automated finger-print and other identification systems used by governments, law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). and corporations around the world.
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