Whether it’s rebuilding a car engine or diagramming a sentence, people can learn about many things simply by taking them apart and putting them back together again. That, in a nutshell, is the concept ...

“Reverse engineering” has something of a negative connotation. People tend to associate it with corporate espionage or creative desperation. In reality, reverse engineering is a useful skill and a ...

Reverse-engineering the human brain so we can simulate it using computers may be just two decades away, says Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of the best-selling book The ...

Recently a client asked me for advice on setting up a reverse engineering project. The company had just hired a senior engineer from a competitor that had pulled ahead of them the year before with the ...

Portable CMMs and software make reverse engineering useful for modifications, new designs, and duplicating parts without drawings. If you can measure an object, you can reverse engineer it. The key is ...