Google plans to evaluate the crop of engineers as job candidates, given that the work environment in the Googleplex is similar to the tournament: "intense competition, no pressure," according to the company's web page.
Admittedly most of Quovadx’s examples are specific to certain sectors, for example healthcare and financial services, but it begs the obvious question - how close are we to missing out on the code altogether?
Forget the Unified Modelling Language (UML - a developer notation tool designed to help people define technical architectures in business terms). The IT people are more comfortable with use cases and UML artefacts.
RFID [is] a solution looking for a problem to solve. Electrical engineers working on University College London's 'Optag' project have designed a prototype RFID tag with a much greater range than a standard RFID chip - up to 20 metres.
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