Posts Tagged ‘Engineer’

Heat blamed for Filipino engineer’s death in Saudi

Monday, June 21st, 2010
A Filipino engineer in Saudi Arabia died of heart attack last week while at work. Labor Attach� David Des Dicang of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Al Khobar confirmed that 60-year old Wilfredo Bautista suffered a heart attack inside his office past noon on June 14.

Minority Report UI designer John Underkoffler talks about the future of gestures

Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Unless you're an engineer who designs cutting-edge user interfaces, you've probably never heard the name John Underkoffler before ... but you've definitely seen his work. Remember the computer Tom Cruise uses by waving his hands around in Minority Report ? He designed that. And it wasn't just faked together for the movie, Underkoffler had a working prototype at MIT before that, and now he's ...

The Trouble With Energy – Part 4

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
This is part 4 of a series of posts co-authored by phoenix , who is an Engineer heavily involved in the energy sector. It will be based on a submission we made recently to the Australian Government. Part 1 is here . Part 2 is here . Part 3 is here . Introduction In parts 1-3 we presented the problem. In essence, it is this: - The migration to alternate and renewable energy sources will take a significant time to plan and implement. - Due to the depletion of fossil fuel res