Engineers built spam filters and faster crawling and indexing to present information almost as fast as it was created.
When the Army Corps of Engineers built a giant new headquarters for the Navy and War Departments in record time during World War II, locals marveled at how unobtrusive the five-sided building was.
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Post-Katrina, the Corps of Engineers built gates to close off the canals in the event of a storm surge threat, and equipped them with pumps that lift rainwater up and over the closed gates.
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"You've really got one way through it that's the Salang Tunnel, " he said, referring to the treacherous, high-altitude truck route that passes through a long, decrepit tunnel that has seen little maintenance since Soviet engineers built it in the early 1960s.
To address this it said its engineers had built new tools for the site to ensure the text and numbers would still look normal.
Linkoping is quite a small town and many of the engineers who built the planes the first time round are still there, working on the re-modifications.
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Engineers have built a contraption of water heater size that strips hydrogen out of natural gas while burning the carbon to provide heat for the home.
The Army Corps of Engineers had built up the beach, but the ocean still flows to a creek that curves around the back of Coney Island.
Big Flat sits in the middle of the Bureau of Land Management's 64, 000-acre King Range National Conservation Area, a patch of northern California so rugged that the engineers who built Highway 1, which hugs the coast from San Diego to Oregon, took the road 30 miles inland here to avoid it.
Electrical engineers at Stanford built a cardiac device that uses a combination of inductive and radiative transmission of power, at about 1.7 billion cycles per second, to its coiled receiving antenna.
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About 75 vehicles crossed the 1, 200-foot floating bridge over the Sava River built by army engineers.
Tributaries built by American engineers in the 1950's run off the river feeding the surrounding fields.
Here the early supercomputers built by GCHQ engineers, were installed.
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Launched in June 2009, element14 is the first, innovative information portal and eCommunity specifically built for electronic design engineers.
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To that end, Coursekit has built a team of capable engineers and product designers.
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De Lesseps's insistence that the canal be built without locks had led engineers to try to cut directly through the rock to sea level.
From a French fur trader with an iron hand to the Army Corps of Engineers reshaping the riverbed, Indian casinos built on brownfields to 280, 000 radioactive mice buried at the Falls, many of Niagara's stories are like the drums secreted in its landfills: shoved out of sight, covered over to look presentable, and driven by with glazed eyes, a quick flick of the radio volume.
The system was originally built in 1960 by technicians and engineers from a host of countries including France, Poland and Italy.
You may try to explode it, blow it up, whatever, depending on what you want to do with it, and in this case, they're going to send waves coming in off the shore, you know, lapping in off of Lake Pontchartrain, and they want to try to understand why the flood protection built by the Army Corps of Engineers did not hold up.
Fuhu designers and engineers spent countless hours ensuring that each nabi is built with unmatched precision - meticulously thinking through every little detail.
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The car was designed and built by a team of British motorsport engineers in Norfolk, and driven by estate agent Nick Ponting, 21, from Gloucestershire.
In terms of recruiting, Horowitz says the firm has built relationships with more than 4, 000 engineers, designers and product managers.
Samsung, by contrast, sells dozens of different phones running software built by Google, Microsoft, and its own engineers.
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Nemesis was designed and built in under two years by a team of British motorsport engineers in Norfolk.
For decades, great companies were built on the back of some type of technical breakthrough their engineers developed a faster chip, a better search algorithm, a snappier operating system.
To achieve that, the engineers will have to include multiple cell types and devise a system that allows the lab-built creature to sense its environment and use an internal "decision-making circuit" to pick different behaviors.
Built on a coastal resort outside the city, the campus has over 300 rooms where engineers stay while they train on ZTE systems.
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But engineers say the levees preventing this below-sea-level city from being turned into a swamp were built to withstand only Category 3 hurricanes.
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