Dan Reich is a tech entrepreneur and engineer.

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Dennis Hong, a robotics engineer at Virginia Tech, said research into "soft robotics" was part of a wider trend towards designing more flexible and innovative machines, such as his own "Whole Skin Locomotion" (WSL) robotic mechanism.

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Glick 55, came up with the idea for Jinni six years ago after spending 20 years as an engineer at Oracle and Israeli tech company Orca working on building electronic guides for pay TV operators in Europe.

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We have escalation procedures where a tech support person can go directly to an engineer.

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Billionaire Silicon Valley tech investor Peter Thiel has funded a Canadian engineer trying to tap the power of tornadoes to generate carbon-free electricity.

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The Indian-born engineer knew he wanted to be a tech entrepreneur from an early age.

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But its 16 authors, led by Michael Ladisch, a biological engineer at Purdue University, reckon that high-tech chow will, within the next 25 years, protect troops from attack by biological weapons, insulate them against cold weather and even make them visible to their commanders by satellite.

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Hawkins, an engineer by training, remains an ardent believer in high-tech medicine.

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The big shift here for the tech savvy crowd is what we must recognize as the end of the era of the engineer.

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Mr East thinks governments can encourage tech-hubs to grow, but he thinks their formation is organic and is not possible for governments to engineer.

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