Some of them are decidedly funky . Recruiters from Symantec and Sun Microsystems said this was the first NSBE conferences they'd been to, but they planned to come to more. A PacBell spokesperson, on the other hand, said the phone company has been following the NSBE circuit for years. An undergraduate student in mechanical engineering at Santa Clara, Myers was one of the few conference participants in jeans and a T-shirt. Bright and confident, she seemed more problem-solver than parliamentarian, spending much of her time rearranging scheduling matters and tracking down lost workshop facilitators on a cellular phone.
Scientists develop theories about the way the world works.
It's the job of scientists to put those theories to work, building something, doing something. Maybe when she's finished designing the bridge at the Southern Crossing or completed plans for the new San Jose airport, Myers or one of her friends can help me squeeze some more memory into my Mac and keep it from bombing. Now that would be a challenge.