As a share of the population, New York still has far fewer programmers, software developers and similar workers than Silicon Valley and Seattle.
Ms. Borsook, who lives in Santa Cruz, has been observing and interacting for years with the area's computer programmers, software engineers, cryptographers and venture capitalists.
For years, tech companies, banks, and even traditional industrial companies have been hiring programmers, software developers, and computer scientists as fast as they can find them.
Andrew Bujalski, whose 2002 feature, "Funny Ha Ha," is often cited as the first mumblecore film, returns with "Computer Chess" (July 17), set around 1980, a drama about a tournament involving programmers' software in the early days of personal computing.
Even if Microsoft improves the product, PC operating systems are inherently more fragile than, say, telephone network operating systems because they have to manage a far greater variety of tasks and interact with other programmers' software.
With the formal public distribution of an overview by Advanced Micro's programmers, software developers can now begin modifying existing applications or creating new programs to run on the chip, which the company expects to ship next year.
Migrants can work as computer programmers, software designers, scientists, and engineers, or work on outsourcing projects.
A hackathon is typically an event where computer programmers, software designers, graphic artists, and others come together to create a new product.
Many people are aware that there is a current and growing need in the labor force for more computer programmers, software developers, coders, web developers, network and computer systems architects and administrators, and computer and information research scientists.
