"Being part of the first DisplayPort 1.2 Source device certification is a significant milestone for us, " said Mike Engbretson, chief technology engineer of Granite River Labs.
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"There will always be ways to reverse engineer technology products - but that spoils the fun!"
Once we see a pattern emerge from one type of bot, then we work to reverse engineer the technology they use and identify it as malicious.
"When you engineer a technology-filled, all-electric mini car that goes from zero-to-60 mph in less than eight seconds, customers won't miss the gas, " said Mark Reuss, president, General Motors North America.
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Davidson has catalogued some 300 individual chips bearing such images as Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, and even a Russian message intended for Cold War-era Soviet operatives (who were attempting to reverse-engineer American technology).
"When you are the first one to get hold of a new gadget, it's important that people around you already know a little bit about the product and can recognize it, " said Toshiyuki Ueno, an engineer and technology consultant, who got an iPad last month in the U.S. and has a reservation to buy a 3G version in Japan.
Domscheit-Berg, a former network engineer for information technology giant EDS and a sometimes member of Berlin's Chaos Computer Club, first discovered WikiLeaks in 2007 via another document repository site called Cryptome.
An engineer from the elite Indian Institute of Technology, he started his career as a low-paid software engineer at a time when India's outsourcing industry was still to take off.
Krebs is an electrical engineer working in the technology industry and an active investor.
And a number of different estimates could be produced depending what software is used to model the satellite's decay, explained Dr Eves, who is lead mission concept engineer at Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL).
He has two college degrees, two decades of experience in information technology, and worked as a network engineer for one of the world's largest telecommunications companies.
"The faculty don't necessarily understand how venture capital works, and the venture capitalists say, 'We're not ATM machines, '" says Holly, 43, an MIT-trained engineer who helped build two technology companies in the 1990s before returning to academia as a champion of commercialization.
"Faced with constraints for energy efficiency and analytic compute capacity to support world-leading geosciences research, we absolutely require technological innovations from leading companies like HP, " said Chris Hill, principal research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-chair, Research and Education Subcommittee, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing.
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"Yeah, there's that little thing called safety, " says David Hermance, executive engineer for Toyota's Advanced Technology Vehicles.
Weili Dai started marvell Technology a decade ago, working alongside her engineer husband, Sehat Sutardja, and his brother, Pantas.
Similarly, the National Engineering Research Centre for Beijing Biochip Technology is headed by Cheng Jing, an engineer and molecular biologist trained in Britain and America.
Scientists have been trying to find ways to control material properties for a long time, says Paul Lagace, an aeronautical and astronautical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In the early 1980s, writer Tom Wolfe predicted that Silicon Valley would usually beat Boston's Route 128 in technology showdowns because Silicon Valley culture elevated the engineer and entrepreneur to higher social status.
In the 1980s Amar Bose, an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of the audio company of that name, pulled off this trick for the first time by designing pilots' headphones that reduce the noise of jet engines.
There are big risks: Unlike real estate, technology can walk out the door in a software engineer's head.
Mr. Marcombes is a soft-spoken, earnest electrical engineer and self-proclaimed geek who loves technology and electronics.
Born in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Mr. Jain got an undergraduate degree in engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur in 1972 and worked as both an engineer and salesman for International Business Machines Corp.
Bhatia had been working for Apple as a hardware engineer after graduating from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, when he and Apple colleague Jack Smith hit upon the concept of web-based email out of frustration at being unable to check their company email away from the office.
Ren, a former military engineer, said the industry must rapidly develop reliable cyberspace technology to support development of education and social skills.
Prof Zhenqiang Ma, an electrical and computer engineer at the University of Wisconsin, argued that the technology could overcome issues with bulky sensors.
Technology upgrades being such a daunting operation - Thai Farmers had to re-engineer 500 branches over three years - they have to pay for themselves and more.
"The industry is very technology- and capital-intensive, " says Go, who is a chemical engineer.
An engineer pinned the name "MentalPlex" on our new mind-reading technology.
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