The keynote was followed by technical presentations from system architects, CTOs, and CEOs from major embedded-Linux companies, as well as an afternoon keynote entitled "Linux -- The Embedded Cinderella" from Jim Ready, CEO and founder of MontaVista.

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This new food system will need contractors, architects, construction workers, and not least, new farmers.

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"Microsoft provided the technical and engineering muscle, but NYPD personnel were the architects of this new system, " Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a Wednesday news conference.

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It has been about celebrating architects of the domestic system.

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The architects of the ACO initiative somehow assume that making the existing system more efficient will make health-care affordable.

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For the 12, 000-seat basketball arena, architects at Wilkinson Eyre devised a rapidly erected steel-frame system shrink-wrapped with a white PVC skin, the curved steel stretchers forming a pattern of alternating diagonal projections on the outside.

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Far more damaging has been a system for vetting new buildings that was hurriedly introduced last summer in reaction to architects faking data for earthquake-proofing.

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