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An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, safety and cost. The word engineer is derived from the Latin roots ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").
Engineers are grounded in applied sciences, and their work in research and development is distinct from the basic research focus of scientists. The work of engineers forms the link between scientific discoveries and their subsequent applications to human needs.
Engineers develop new technological solutions. During the engineering design process, the responsibilities of the engineer may include defining problems, conducting and narrowing research, analyzing criteria, finding and analyzing solutions, and making decisions. Much of an engineer's time is spent on researching, locating, applying, and transferring information. Indeed, research suggests engineers spend 56% of their time engaged in various different information behaviours, including 14% actively searching for information.
A software engineer is an engineer who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software work.
Prior to the mid-1960s, software practitioners called themselves computer programmers or software developers, regardless of their actual jobs. Many people prefer to call themselves software developer and programmer, because most widely agree what these terms mean, while software engineer is still being debated. A prominent computing scientist, E. W. Dijkstra, wrote in a paper that the coining of the term software engineer was not useful since it was an inappropriate analogy, "The existence of the mere term has been the base of a number of extremely shallow—and false—analogies, which just confuse the issue...Computers are such exceptional gadgets that there is good reason to assume that most analogies with other disciplines are too shallow to be of any positive value, are even so shallow that they are only confusing."
Actors: Heath Allyn (actor), Mark Holliway (actor), Karl Anderson (actor), Sarah E. Gonzalez (miscellaneous crew), Ben Foster (producer), Ben Foster (director), Ben Foster (editor), Jack Lee (actor), Troy Dillinger (actor), Mark Dennis (producer), Mark Dennis (actor), Mark Dennis (writer), Brad Montesi (producer), Mark Dennis (director), Billy Harvey (actor),
Plot: For several years, the Counting Project has been working on a time travel experiments in a secret government facility overseen by the NSA. One month ago, Ally North was the first time traveler to be killed in a time jump gone wrong. Tonight, Ally's boyfriend and fellow scientist, Mitch breaks into the Counting Room after hours and makes an unauthorized and illegal time jump. Security falls short and Mitch escapes without being identified. The small group of engineers and scientists involved in the project are immediately called in and briefed by their supervisor, Plath. One thing is for certain; whoever was able to bypass security and operate the time machine is among the men standing in the room.
Keywords: time-travelActors: Jon Briddell (actor), Nils Allen Stewart (miscellaneous crew), Nils Allen Stewart (actor), John Gilbert (actor), Kenn Kashima (editor), Judith Williams (miscellaneous crew), Jennifer Marks (actress), Gwen Somers (actress), Paul LeClair (actor), Mario F. de la Vega (miscellaneous crew), John Michael Vaughn (actor), Catherine Brewton (actress), Joe Babicki (actor), Ed Herbstman (actor), Bill Blum (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Horror,Actors: Lewis Schoenbrun (editor), Andrew Stevens (producer), Eric Wurst (composer), David Wurst (composer), Jeff Fahey (actor), Alan B. Bursteen (producer), Ashok Amritraj (producer), Patrick Kilpatrick (actor), Pete Antico (actor), Frank McRae (actor), Robert Miano (actor), Michael Monks (actor), Ernie Hudson (actor), Mike Tristano (miscellaneous crew), Brent Huff (actor),
Plot: When a prestigious Senator boards a train at Union Station, he is expecting an emblematic, smooth ride. However, his trip is ferociously interrupted when a militia group hijacks the train, taking him and several other passengers as hostages and planting a nuclear bomb somewhere on board. A gallant ATF Agent who happens to be a passenger on the train is the one man who just may be capable of both freeing the hostages and defusing the bomb before time runs out.
Keywords: aikido, atf, atf-agent, bomb, die-hard-scenario, fight, fighting, fistfight, gunfight, hand-to-hand-combatActors: Richard Stanley (actor), Irma St. Paule (actress), Bill Raymond (actor), Raymond Mamrak (actor), Rick Warner (actor), Brad Pitt (actor), David Morse (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Stephen Bridgewater (actor), Aaron Michael Lacey (actor), John Panzarella (actor), Christopher Meloni (actor), Frank Gorshin (actor), Chris Marker (writer), Bruce Willis (actor),
Plot: An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.
Keywords: 1910s, 1990s, 2030s, 20th-century, 21st-century, abandoned-theater, activism, activist, airplane, airportActors: Richard Bakalyan (actor), Lloyd Nelson (actor), Lalo Schifrin (composer), Ron Miller (producer), Gary Owens (actor), Denver Pyle (actor), William Bassett (actor), Ike Eisenmann (actor), Bette Davis (actress), Christopher Lee (actor), Jerome Courtland (producer), John Hough (director), Kevin Corcoran (producer), Anthony James (actor), Kim Richards (actress),
Plot: Tia and her brother Tony have supernatural powers, can communicate and move things with the power of their mind alone. They arrive on Earth for a visit in Los Angeles. When Tony uses his powers to prevent an accident, he gets into the hands of Dr. Gannon, a ruthless scientist who's constantly striving for power over the world. He puts him a device into the brain that allows him to control Tony's will. Tia gets help from a kids gang to free Tony and save the Earth.
Keywords: alien, aristocrat, bare-chested-male, brainwashing, brother-sister-relationship, captive, carrying-someone, child, child's-point-of-view, child-abuseActors: Peter Billingsley (actor), George Plimpton (actor), Rick Shaine (editor), Bob Kaliban (actor), Shelley Hack (actress), Joseph Brooks (composer), Joseph Brooks (writer), Danielle Brisebois (actress), Joseph Brooks (producer), Joseph Brooks (actor), Joseph Brooks (director), Jimmy Kelly (actor), Martin Davidson (writer), Jimmy Breslin (actor), Sue Jett (actress),
Plot: Bob Morrison, a successful composer of TV commercial jungles, is unhappy with his his lack of creative freedom in developing the definitive dog-food song. Frustrated, he heads out to Hollywood to score a movie. While in California, he establishes contact with an old girlfriend. Joe Brooks ("You Light Up My Life") co-wrote, produced, directed, scored and starred in the film.
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Rushdy Abaza (actor), Fatin Abdel Wahab (director), Lobna Abdel Aziz (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Josef Abrhám (actor), Zdenek Rehor (actor), Ota Sklencka (actor), Jirí Sovák (actor), Blazena Holisová (actress), Angelo Michajlov (composer), Josef Dobrichovský (editor), Josef Dobrichovský (miscellaneous crew), Bohumil Smída (miscellaneous crew), Cestmír Randa (actor), Jirí Bruder (actor), Vilém Besser (actor), Elmar Klos (miscellaneous crew), Vladimír Körner (writer), Milen Nikolov (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Delmer Daves (director), Max Steiner (composer), Howard Shoup (costume designer), Guy Wilkerson (actor), Delmer Daves (writer), Kent Smith (actor), Delmer Daves (producer), Brian Aherne (actor), Troy Donahue (actor), Everett Glass (actor), Lloyd Nolan (actor), Connie Stevens (actress), Ramsay Hill (actor), William H. Ziegler (editor), Dorothy McGuire (actress),
Plot: Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a ten-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, she's romanced by Conn White, a handsome mountain climber on his way to Alaska. Home in Monterey, Susan longs to hear from Conn. Two locals also take a shine to her - Hoyt Brecker, a horse wrangler who's the son of a criminal, and Wells Corbett, a sweet guy who lives in his high-society parents' shadow. Jump ahead two years, Susan has a desperate secret that her socially-conscious mother won't let her share. Can Susan find happiness - and what is it really that turns a girl into a woman?
Keywords: baby, baby-boy, based-on-novel, deception, emergency-room, faked-pregnancy, fire, horseback-riding, mountain-climber, pregnancyActors: Åke Söderblom (actor), Thor Modéen (actor), Eric Abrahamsson (actor), Thor Modéen (actor), Gunnar Björnstrand (actor), Arne Lindblad (actor), Wiktor Andersson (actor), Artur Cederborgh (actor), Åke Claesson (actor), Erik 'Bullen' Berglund (actor), Arthur Fischer (actor), Emil Fjellström (actor), John Botvid (actor), Axel Högel (actor), Gideon Wahlberg (actor),
Genres: Comedy,