London-born Cameron Sinclair, 32, is nominated for his work with the humanitarian group Architecture for Humanity.

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Keller, 53, had been a director in the platform architecture group at Apple focusing on mobile products.

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Rick Echevarria, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of its business client platform division, sounded like he had heard this question before.

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The group visited museums, studied the architecture and made sketches of the landscape, even the foliage.

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Microsoft's Distributed Systems group utilized a new file system architecture, dubbed Flat Datacenter Storage, over a full bisection bandwidth network to burn through the competition.

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The tour starts in Plaza Congreso where Jed gives tour participants an overview of local history, shares insights into the surrounding architecture and teaches the group how to formally prepare, serve and drink mate, traditional Argentinean tea.

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The group made substantial progress in April by approving the technical requirements, architecture and definitions upon which the standard will be based.

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And while he has lived in Princeton for decades, first as a professor of architecture at Princeton University and now as the head of Michael Graves Design Group and Michael Graves Associates, Rome remains an inspiration and a touchstone.

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