21.   Computer engineers and others warn of oversupply and worry about diluted salaries.

22.   Computer engineers, Saffo notes, gathered in Silicon Valley partly because of Stanford University and the nearby Government research laboratories.

23.   Computer software engineers might land jobs with US high tech firms.

24.   Dan, a computer software test engineer, searched the Prodigy and Microsoft Network online subscriber lists to no avail.

25.   Demand for computer engineers has significantly changed the way high-tech firms retain their prized employees.

26.   Finlan, who is married and has two young children, says he has never held the title of computer engineer even though he has the degree.

27.   For his own daughter, a computer engineer, he found six prioritized matches.

28.   For the last three decades, computer engineers have been creating smaller and smaller circuits, as predicted by Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel.

29.   He wants to be a computer engineer.

30.   His goal, he said, was to be a computer science engineer.