Fascinated by flight, Chanute was determined to interest other technical professionals in the problems of aeronautics.
The knowledge and expertise of military, diplomatic and technical professionals was overridden by the ideological certainty of political loyalists.
"This is huge," said David Lammers, director of Wesrch.com, a portal for technical professionals, who was briefed by I.B.M. in advance of the paper's presentation.
"They can adjust the transistor for high performance or low power," said David Lammers, director of WeSRCH.com, a Web portal for technical professionals.
"There were educators, health-care professionals, technical professionals, rugged individualists -- man vs. nature types -- and then gay men and lesbians," Mr. Bennett said.
During the Reagan era, the percentage of scientists, engineers, and technical professionals who were working on defense projects was nearly twice what it was during the Clinton years.
UNITS are an international system adopted by the scientific community for measuring things that scientists and technical professionals would be interested in measuring: length, mass, temperature, etc.
Programs to attract new teachers for science and math and to allow retired technical professionals to teach math and science in the classroom would go a long way in helping to address the unprecedented opportunities ahead of us.
Thomas L. Friedman's implicit prescription -- greater emphasis on math and science in American schools and culture -- would only add to the ranks of intelligent, educated and unemployed American technical professionals.
