"Until now, there hasn't been a simple way for developers to experiment in augmented reality, especially for gameplay, " said Adam Wilson, co-founder and chief software architect of Orbotix.
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Raikes and Gates, who will step down from his day-to-day role as Microsoft's chief software architect in July, are so close they have vacation homes near one another.
He talked about moving into cloud computing, and was aided onstage by chief software architect Ray Ozzie, who talked about flexibility of purpose and output for all kinds of consumers and businesses.
"Enterprise system integration is a complicated business dominated by massive software companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and IBM, which in turn are supported by thousands of boutique consultancies, " said Craig Materick, chief software architect at ThinkFlood.
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Not only did Domscheit-Berg and Jonsdottir stop working with WikiLeaks, so did the "architect, " who took the software that had enabled the site to safely receive anonymous leaks.
Retail banks are facing the same challenges travel agencies confronted a decade ago, says John Schlesinger, chief enterprise architect at Temenos, a core banking software company.
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Essentially, demand for cloud jobs maps closely to IT overall, led by such positions as software engineer, Java developer, systems engineer and enterprise architect.
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"Hyperscale companies architect their infrastructure with bare bones servers and open source software that scales-out cost-effectively in the hundreds and thousands, " said David Floyer, Wikibon Chief Technology Officer.
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As chief systems architect for the company, Kenoyer knew he could combine some clever software with the latest digital signal processor chips to make the same system at a fraction of the cost.
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