The first true conversational interface arguably dates to 1975, when Will Crowther, an engineer who worked on router code for the ARPANET, combined into a computer game for his daughters his two favorite hobbies — exploring Mammoth Cave National Park and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
The first half of the scale's name referred to Herbert Saffir, an engineer who had written building safety codes in coastal Florida, and who in the late 1960s was tasked with creating a hurricane-preparedness model for the United Nations.
"It meant that our commanders all round the world knew what they were up against because they were given details of the enemy's order of battle which told them exactly what his strengths and weaknesses were," says Ken Halton, an engineer who worked at Bletchley on the code-cracking machines.
Engineers who code especially beautifully become famous in their communities, and the works are seen as almost religious, according to several developers.
They have engineers who code the core language for systems that are used by the traders, and the traders would make some applications on top of this core.
"And even if it hadn't been, algorithms are frequently 'black boxes,' producing decisions that can't be explained even by the engineers who coded the algorithm," said Reich, the Marc and Laura Andreessen Faculty Co-Director at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.
Like the DARPA engineers who coded the internet protocol, these students hadn't appreciated the impact of their invention.
And Google, which gives away Android, makes money from ads in the apps and collects data from handsets). An engineer who taught himself to code at age 8, Kondik has a graying, receding hairline.
She is an engineer who knows cars inside out.
There's Phillip, a recent widower; Jack, a telecommunications engineer who invented a dance code; Lindsay, a gay clogger; Deon, a macho club kid; and Franc, danseur nonprolificus (a species identified in the program as indigenous to Australia's bars and nightclubs), who distracts himself with drink, cell phone and cigarette as the other dancers wind around him.
The 55-year-old Hasso Plattner, an energetic engineer who still writes software code, concedes not an inch to his rivals.
