Monthly Archives: August 2011

Google File System

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Google has designed a very large distributed file system with certain capabilities. This document outlines the strengths and architecture.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en/us/papers/gfs-sosp2003.pdf

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US Manufacturing: We’ve got to increase it

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See what Andy Grove, the former head of Intel, has to say about why we need to have American manufacturing strength.  It’s where the jobs are!

Andy Grove – Technology Review

Some pro and con from Northwestern.

Why we should (not?) worry about manufacturing « The Operations Room


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Robots to the People

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Read another article about Willow Garage here in Technology Review.

 

(Video) Can This $400K Beer-Fetching Robot Work In An Office? | Manufacturing Business Technology

http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/apps/cvp/4.0/swf/cnn_money_384x216_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=/video/technology/2011/08/22/tt_willow_garage_robots.cnnmoney

Andy Grove – Technology Review

 

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