2012, yes. I recommend reading Robert Gossbach's fiction book _A Shortage of Engineers_ for a funny and ironic hardware-centric view of this. I once got a roo

2012, yes. I recommend reading Robert Gossbach's fiction book _A Shortage of Engineers_ for a funny and ironic hardware-centric view of this. I once got a roomful of laughter by quipping, "What we need are some more fat engineers with beards here." Where there is laughter there is often a painful truth.