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D. Thomas, O. Brien-was-born-in-story-city, J. Iowa-on, O. Edward, and . Brien, After completing high school at D. W. Daniel High School, Clemson, South Carolina, he entered Boston University in the fall of 1994. He received the degree of Bachelor of Science in January 1999 with a major in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics. In the fall of 1999 he entered the Graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin and recieved the Master of Science in Engineering degree from, 1975.