The engineer

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In this blog post we’re going to take a look at a Junior Engineer’s duties and responsibilities, what you might be doing in a typical day onboard a vessel, who Junior Engineers report to, and what the skills, interests and attributes you will need to become a successful Marine Engineer are.

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"In India, if you throw an engineer, you will hit a stone."

Margaret Hamilton is credited with having coined the term software engineering while developing the guidance and navigation system for the Apollo spacecraft.

Kirsch is skeptical of the digital humanities as an institution. He likens this new form of historical analysis to consumerism: we are impressed with it only because it is new and different, not because it improves upon the task it is accomplishing. Kirsch is also a bitter individualist who does not think that computers can possibly comprehend the Human Experience, and anyway, since computers are programmed by people, they cannot be any better than people.

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Something special just appeared over at the Prometheus Forum. The site just landed more than a handful of behind-the-scenes images from the making-of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, his Alien-ish prequel now in theaters from Twentieth Century Fox. Within the batch of pic they share the first ever look at the reported “Elder Engineer” played by Matthew […]