He was born in Stavanger his father was a military engineer.

Ali Othman Taha, and of the Chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement Army (SPLM A), His Excellency Mr. John Garang.

His father worked as an engineer at a local company and his mother as a newspaper editor.

What got you to be, at the same time, a mechanical engineer, a geographer and a mathematician and so on, a physicist?

In 1972 the family travelled on to Kenya, where Ilija's father had obtained a job as engineer.

The Selimiye Mosque in Edirne was built during the years 1568 74, when Sinan was in his prime as an architect.

One grows up to become a computer scientist, one grows up to join the Navy, one grows up to become an engineer, and then there's me the comic book artist.

The Group has continued, however, to gather testimony that Mr. Mazio was not a victim but a key architect of Commandant Jérôme's economic interests.

So being a mechanical engineer, being at MIT and having lots of resources available to me, I thought I'd try to do something about it.

Within the framework of a joint operation with Chile, Ecuador would shortly be sending to Haiti a group of 63 military engineers and would be providing equipment for road building.

Benjamin Herschel Babbage (6 August 1815 22 October 1878) was an English engineer, scientist, explorer and politician, best known for his work in the colony of South Australia.

KS Now, the interesting thing about this is, you don't have to be an engineer to appreciate why a 10 foot pole that can fit in your pocket is so interesting.

He altered this mouse so that it was genetically engineered to have skin that was less immunoreactive to human skin, put a polymer scaffolding of an ear under it and created an ear that could then be taken off the mouse and transplanted onto a human being.

One of the guys I hired was an engineer named Jack Dorsey, and a year later we were trying to decide which way to go with Odeo, and Jack presented an idea he'd been tinkering around with for a number of years that was based around sending simple status updates to friends.

On 29 September 2004, we signed a memorandum of understanding to contribute to the United Nations reserve forces in that brotherly Caribbean country by dispatching a company of 66 military engineers and trucks in a joint operation with Chile.

Think about it. If you were an engineer and I told you that you had to build an automobile, but it had to start off to be this big, then it had to grow to be full size and had to work every step along the way.

About a year and a half ago, Stephen Lawler, who also gave a talk here at TED in 2007 on Virtual Earth, brought me over to become the architect of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft's online mapping effort.

Guevara, who was practically the architect of the Soviet Cuban relationship, then played a key role in bringing to Cuba the Soviet nuclear armed ballistic missiles that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.