*** VI*** *** THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH|***CAREERS IN ENGINEERING THE INTERNETPeople expect the net to work the same way they expect water to run from the tapoptimisation) engineers, internet developers and those who work for website hosting companies. “The internet jobs market, like any other sector of the IT market, is incredibly fluid and dynamic,” says Grant. “Someone working in the software engineering sector can be very specialised, for example just writing in one internet language. Or they can work ‘inhouse’ for a company that asks them to build a payroll, run an internal computer network and maintain and update their website as well.” The sector skills council for IT and1980 English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, below right, writes a notebook programme called ENQUIRE, which has similar ideas to his later web but is not intended for public use. By the decade’s end Berners-Lee writes the original spec for the web, which his boss at CERN considers “vague but interesting”.CONNECTING UPA BRIEF HISTORY 1945 Electrical engineer Vannevar Bush, above, introduces the concept for an electromechanical device to follow associative trails of links for researchers, called MEMEX, which later develops into what we know as hypertext. 1963 Ted Nelson coins the word ‘hypertext’ to describe the links that create a bridge between two virtual objects. Later that decade Douglas Engelbart’s prototype, the oNLine System (NLS) performs hypertext browsing.1987 The introduction of Apple’s HyperCard is a breakthrough in popularising hypertext in the decade when the widespread use of personal computers really begins. 1990 First public web page created — Tim BernersLee’s own ‘project’ site. 1993 Mosaic, the precursor to the modern Internet Explorer and Firefox, is released by the National Centre for Supercomputer Applications. While it isn’t the first web browser — others such as Cello and ViolaWWW existed before — its ease of use leads to a web boom. 1994 The first web conference and the founding of the W3 Consortium by Tim Berners-Lee 1997 Google is created, which,THE PLANET IN FEWER THAN 20 YEARS THE INTERNET HAS COME FROM BEING VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN TO AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE — AND IT NEEDS TRAINED ENGINEERS BEHIND THE SCENES TO KEEP IT UP AND RUNNING, SAYS ISLA WHITCROFT We are a web-based search selection company with an extensive portfolio of blue chip clients in the energy sector throuhout the Middle East and Far East. We are currently engaged in a search for candidates to work in the Arabian Gulf region with experience of the design and construction of a Light Rail Project. This involves underground and grade level tramway lines with associated stations, depots, maintenance and storage facilties and test track. Candidates are required for the positions listed below:• Senior Civil Engineer • Civil Engineering Supervisors (2) • Track Works Engineer • Quality Engineer • Structural Engineer • Survey Engineer • Senior Systems Engineer • Ventilation/Air Con Engineer • Installation Supervisory Engineer • Power Supply Engineer • Telecommunications Engineer • Signalling EngineerDetails of the above vacancies are listed on our web-site but we are looking for candidates with previous experience of acting as owner representative supervising contractors engaged in design, engineering and construction . All positions carry attractive salaries and benefits packages and many are available on married status. Candidates with professional qualifications and a minimum of 10 years experience on Light Rail Projects should visit our website and upload their CV in MsWord format or simply e-mail mail@energosrecruitment and attach their CV.www.energosrecruitment.SENIOR UK SALES EXECUTIVE £45 55K Autoflame Engineering a world leader in combustion management and control systems for industrial boiler/burner applications, situated in new premises, located in Biggin Hill Kent, with a reputation for quality and innovation. Having recently been awarded the Queens Award for Innovation, Autoflame is looking for a sales professional with a proven track record to develop the business, meet company sales objectives and expand on the new opportunities that are emerging within the UK market. This is a varied senior sales role and will include dealing with; OEM’s, End Users, Local Authorities, Consultants and ME Contractors. The territory is well developed with the Autoflame systems offering a proven reliability for fuel savings and reductions in emissions for industrial and commercial boiler plant with an enviable client list both in the UK and worldwide. The ideal candidate will have a relevant electrical qualification (HNC minimum) and a thorough understanding of control theory. Previous experience with boiler/burner control systems is a distinct advantage. In addition, the right candidate should be highly motivated with excellent communication skills. Ultimately we are looking for a person with engineering DNA and the ability to present at management level within an industry-leading product and organisation. Experience in the combustion engineering sector would be highly regarded. Excellent benefits are provided with this position: Private health care, Pension and company car. Email: jobinfo@autoflame.com‘‘It may seem far removed from the world of steel girders, but the internet is essentially a giant piece of engineering. The man who invented the worldwide web, Tim Berners-Lee, is a Briton who used engineering principles to make his design a reality. Today and every day, software experts are creating pieces of engineering that sit on the framework Berners-Lee invented. Google and Facebook are two examples of this. Both are huge mathematical models, designed in an engineering framework and run alongside a business model that makes them economically viable. “In recent years the internet job sector has expanded significantly in response to the increasingly sophisticated use of the system as a marketing and sales device tool,” says Sean Mullins, sales director of CWJobs. co.uk which specialises in information technology recruitment. “It is no longer enough for companies to have an unchanging website, now they have to use their site to entice people in.“This all needs well-qualified people who can write the software and as a result we have seen more job vacancies for people who have internet-specific skills, but fewer people coming through to fill those jobs.” Most people don’t think about the engineering going on behind the scenes when logging on to the internet. They just expect it to work in the same way they expect water when they turn on a tap. So just who does run the internet? Essentially the system is a mass of independent contributors, ranging from individuals with websites to corporations such as BBC online. Some sites will not change for months. Others, such as Google, will alter by the hour and rely on a huge workforce of software engineers to constantly re-write data. According to John Grant, editor of IT Jobs Watch, a site that tracks the IT job market, the term software engineer can be used to cover a wide range of roles. Those specific to the internet include website software developers, SEO (search engine‘‘GETTYTelecoms, e-skills UK, calculates that there were around 317,000 software professionals working in the UK in 2007, double the number in the early 1990s. It is not known how many of those work solely on the internet or in-house; most software engineers do a mixture of both. The growth is set to continue with e-skills UK predicting a 2.5 per cent increase in the number of software professionals in the next decade, more than five times the national average growth for all jobs. IT provides a highly-skilled work environment. A recent e-skills UK report shows that around half of IT workers are qualified to level four (undergraduate or above) and that management roles have increased by 43 per cent in the last 15 years. Software engineers need to be logical, analytical and methodical, and, according to the website graduatingengineer.com, far from the stereotypical ‘geek’. They must be able to understand and listen to what their employer or client needs and to communicate and negotiate with them to achieve a practical solution. They must also educate their employer about how to get the best out of the software they provide.after a faltering start, revolutionises online searching. The mid-Nineties development of web 2.0, along with greater bandwidth and faster internet connection, had previously led to the emergence of interactive websites such as Amazon (1994), eBay (1995) and Yahoo! (1995). THE FUTURE The vision for the future is web 3.0, currently being called the Linked Data Web. This will develop a web of data rather than documents, enabling internet surfers to input commands into a computer, which will then do the legwork of compiling and linking relevant data for them.
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