Hung Nguyen, Engineer, Orbital, Germantown, Md.

The Binary State Cheerleaders . . . "Gimme a 10101010!!"
Mitchell J. Hein Sr., Electrical Designer, Paper Converting Machine, Green Bay, Wis.

. . . and the photons are emitted as the electrons return to a stable state.
Dave Sieler, El ectronic Designer, Vishay Dale Electronics, Norfolk, Neb.

Patent Application 97-0520: Novel multiplexing of floating-point architecture.
Amy Heidner, P.E., Business Development Manager, Fluke Corp., Everett, Wash.

Chip design in trouble. Will the place-and-route anti-gravity rescue squad prepare their tools?
Mike Harris, Marketing Department, Avant! Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif.

Management has jump-started the design team.
John McGarity, Director of Research, Amptek, Bedford, Mass.

A homogeneous simulation of a digital microwave wireless network.
Jackson Leung, Design Engineer, Texas Instruments Inc., Houston, Texas

That's strange; all of the women seem to be bumping against some sort of transparent barrier.
Michael T. Wright, Principal Staff Engineer, Motorola SSTG, Scottsdale, Ariz.

We've taken our floating-head technology to the next level, but so far we're only getting a 50 percent yield.
Michael T. Wright, Ditto

Adobe Corp. trots out the Mexican jumping beings to promote the latest version of their Acrobat reader.
Brian Plante, Project Leader, Sea-Land Service, Charlotte, N.C.

Microsoft and Sun compete to see who can jump the highest on the Java platform.
Jim Witt, President, Bay Tech Engineering, Waltham, Mass.

Everyone should have rendered correctly on the ground plane. Maybe there's more to that new Pentium floating-point bug than I first believed.
David C. Barber, Independent Consultant, San Diego

Amid shortages of CS graduates high-tech companies haven't faced in years, Silicon Valley headhunters go to the NCAA basketball all-star training camp to scout out potential recruits.
Thai Tran, Design Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Colorado Springs, Colo.

This is what happens when you skimp on pull-down resistors!
David G. Holm, Senior Systems Engineer, Integrating Data Systems, Benton Harbor, Mich.

The latest Eunuchs, with symmetric-processing
elements, multilevel
capability, and automatic load balancing.
Gerard Drewek, Senior Design Engineer, Computing Devices Int'l., Bloomington, Minn.

Live demonstration of frequency-hopping spread-spectrum CDMA technique performed by Qualcomm management team.
Dexiang John Xu, Sr. Software Design Engineer, Celcore Inc., Memphis, Tenn.

I think the guys in the optics department have been working on that blue-laser project just a wee bit too long.
Martin Bono, Senior Technician, ABL Electronics, Madison Heights, Mich.

During weekday morning drills at the Microsoft campus, programmers strive to get a glimpse of the 'road ahead.'
Samarjit Mitter, Senior Analyst, SGE Capital Electronics Services, Santa Clara, Calif.

Wow, it looks like the guys are back from the comet.
Michael A. Gipe, P.E., Blue Sky Engineering, Los Gatos, Calif.

Now ladies and gentlemen, we would like to demonstrate how a shift register works.
David L. Williams, Senior Engineer, Integrated Measurement Systems, Beaverton, Ore.

We have openings for both fixed-point programmers and floating-point programmers.
Team EETnet:, Don Swaab, Gandalf Systems; Jim Randazzo, Nellcor-Puritan Bennett

The accidental gas leak on the Fab 17 line forced the exposed workers to shed their contaminated clothing. Workers who breathed the fumes also had some unpleasant gastrointestinal side effects.
Arnie Berger, Director of R&D, Applied Microsystems, Redmond, Wash.

In the 2004 Computing Olympics, the Slovakian team's perfect-scoring multiply/accumulate function earned a gold medal over the favored Intel team, which lost points in the FPU compulsories.
Michael A. Gipe, Ditto