2012
January 2012
Prof Aims to Rebuild Google With Stuff In Desk Drawer
"Dave Andersen looked into a desk drawer filled with tiny computers. Each was no bigger than a hardback novel, and their chips ran no faster than 600 MHz. Built by a little-known company called Soekris Engineering, they were meant to be wireless access points or network firewalls, and that's how Andersen — a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon — used them in a previous research project. But that project was over, and he thought: "They've got to be good for something else."" [more]
Wired -- Jan 5, 2012
2011
December 2011
PDL / CMU's Impact on Distributed File Systems Continues
Many years later, CMU's seminal work on
distributed file systems continues to have huge impact on the field.
From AFS to Coda, CMU's work has laid a foundation atop which some of the
most popular cloud backup and sharing systems, such as Dropbox and iCloud,
are built. Check out this Wired article for more.
Wired -- December 25, 2011
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