Correction: March 3, 2000, Friday An article in Business Day on Monday about the business plans of Healtheon/WebMD, an online health care information company, misspelled the surname of an executive who supervises software programmers and computer engineers.
The Healtheon piece of the operation, based in Santa Clara, Calif., has close to 1,000 software programmers and computer engineers working full steam on producing the links under the supervision of Pavan Nigram.
What's more, to put the icing on the Millenial entrepreneurs' cake, Buckley told me that the startup just hired one of best known makers of electronics, software, and computers' youngest engineers.
It will require the skills of all of us -- carpenters, metal fabricators, tool and dye makers, scientists, truck drivers, software designers, computer engineers and an array of others.
Mr. Einhorn, 26, is a software systems computer engineer for Goldman Sachs in Manhattan.
So why did this year's prize go to work that "at most is an application of some open-source software," Liu Yang, "a computer engineer who builds and hosts websites," wrote in a blog post that was later deleted by government censors.
From aerospace and chemical engineers to computer software and civil engineers, women are in the minority.
One Manhattan woman, 39, has an information technology job with the City of New York; a Bronx man, 45, said he read Hacker News, and described himself as a software engineer and computer researcher for a large corporate software lab.
Lately, Amazon's profit gains have slowed as it has invested heavily in teams of software engineers and computer scientists to build the technology for its new offerings.
This is, of course, strong in the U.S., but Europe has an impressive history in the open-source movement and churns out many software engineers and computer scientists.
