All the while, quietly in the company's back rooms, engineers also were dabbling in a new frontier in aviation — making planes ever smaller and closer in design to small birds.
IN 2010, the Chicago Public Schools declined to hire Darrell Langdon for a job as a boiler-room engineer, because he had been convicted of possessing a half-gram of cocaine in 1985, a felony for which he received probation.
From an adjacent room, three engineers recorded their path over his body.
In the conference room, the engineers studied a PowerPoint presentation titled "TKM Complex — B1 level status week 34 and actions week 35".
In the conference room, the engineers studied a PowerPoint presentation titled "TKM Complex B1 level status week 34 and actions week 35".
Seated side by side in the room were engineers, lawyers, doctors, Muslim clerics, rug dealers, cabdrivers, bakers and kebab stand operators.
Debbie has incredible drive and determination; she walks confidently into a room of engineers and gains the respect and acknowledgement from an industry that she is so passionate about.
In a modest, early-version of the EA.com control room, two engineers oversee large video monitors that relay traffic patterns from several sports games Electronic Arts already operates online, including the golf games Tiger '99 and P.G.A. Tour, of which tens of thousands of rounds are played online each month via Electronic Arts server computers.
In a Gurgaon business park, a room of engineers train on computer-aided design, fashioning a tool to be used in an automobile.
There was nary a mention of Cambridge Analytica or election interference as a packed room of engineers chuckled to nerdy jokes during keynotes packed with enough coding jargon to make the unindoctrinated assume it was in another language.
