Lawrence Livermore has a long history of fielding some of the world's largest computers, fueled by our nearly insatiable need for both capacity and capability computing.
He would require federal agencies to use ozone-friendly products, energy-saving computers, fuel-efficient vehicles, and recycled products.
Microsoft said increased demand for personal computers fueled top line growth.
Universities and their professors are awarded thousands of patents each year, some with vast potential value, in fields as disparate as prescription drugs, computer chips, fuel cells, aircraft and medical devices.
In the 1990s, Volkswagen, Mercedes and BMW were the first to combine computer technology, fuel injection and turbocharging to make diesels quieter and cleaner than the smoking, rattling diesels of old.
He does not bother with the carburetors that came on the older cars, but installs modern computer-controlled fuel injection.
Over the years, Dr. Willson and his students have pioneered several improvements to a computer-controlled fuel delivery system that greatly reduces the engine's nitrogen oxide emissions.
"It was the hot setup," Mr. Hyde said, but compared with the computer-controlled fuel injection systems of today's cars, Fuelies were notoriously finicky.
Analysts had worried earlier this year that a worldwide shortage of computer chips fueled by a surge in demand for wireless phones and hand-held computers could hurt sales at Mattel and other toymakers.
With computer-controlled fuel injection, most cars are very good at staying at the perfect ratio of fuel and air for full combustion -- called stoichiometric -- when engine speed is constant.
