Thank you Everpuredata for the excellent collaboration. Without flash storage on our AIRI cluster we couldn't get the hundreds of terabytes of whole slides onto the GPUs in time. It takes a village to fight cancer. x.com/calvinnieh/sta…

A modern Babbage machine?

My father who died before the invasion of the computers had two technical aids that he used for his work - a watch and a pen - both of these served him with no updates for many years. Computers are great fun and I enjoy programming them - but they waste a colossal amount of time

If you're considering applying to PhD programs in CS, I highly recommend this extremely helpful, brutally honest guide by CMU School of Computer Science's Mor Harchol-Bolter. It was invaluable in helping me prepare and in deciding if grad school was the right choice: cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/grads…

Anastasia Ailamaki is the recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for her pioneering work on the architecture of database systems, its interaction with computer architecture, and scientific data management. sigmod.org/2019-sigmod-ed…

New contest going on at work to guess what day we will hit 100PB of storage used across on-prem and cloud. Note, when I started in 2003 we had less than 20TB. Broad Institute #100PB #petabytes

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Congrats, Luis and team. Can’t wait to see what you build!

I don't know, but I'm guessing this memo was an influence for Fred Brooks' "Mythical Man-Month"

We’ve had a dream for many years of a TTS engine with enough emotional range to do voice acting. We’re incredibly proud to unveil Flowtron, the TTS narrating the 2020 I AM AI video. Take a listen: youtu.be/bOf2S7OzFEg?t=…

Interested in a postdoc building computationally capable small satellite constellations? We're growing our lab space program. Get in touch if you love computer architecture, systems, & space. We launch in Dec. 2020 with Alba Orbital and again with others in early 2021!

In 2003, as an incoming PhD student attending my first ISCA conf, Luiz spent an hour talking to me. I'll never forget this small bit of mentorship at a crucial point in my career. I went from feeling like an imposter to being part of a community. Thanks and congrats, Luiz!

As a PM, I used to be pretty proud about my ability to seamlessly translate between engineer, designer, marketer and help the team work together. Then I started talking to legal and I don't know what words are anymore.

Databricks has 4 immigrant founders. We moved to the US for the opportunity to work with the best minds in the world. Our projects power all sectors of the US economy. We employ 1400 people & growing, most in the US. None of these would've happened if we were to start in 2020.

Science, engineering, and entrepreneurship, and venture capital at its finest! Congrats to Gene Berdichevsky on the fundraise to scale production. (And kudos to Sutter Hill Ventures and Mike Speiser for believing early!)

Dark Arts xkcd.com/2531/ m.xkcd.com/2531/

I'm hiring multiple PhD students for Fall'22 at CMU. My research bridges computer architecture & systems software to enable datacenter computing. If you're interested in related topics, come work with me! RTs appreciated! More info: akshithasriraman.com ece.cmu.edu/admissions/ind…

ece.cmu.edu/news-and-event… Today with Alba Orbital we launched the Tartan-Artibeus-1 pocketqube (as UNICORN-2TA1), the first batteryless, intermittent, orbital edge computing nanosatellite aboard the SpaceX Falcon-9 Transporter-3 mission!

Exciting to see FoundationDB being open sourced! github.com/apple/foundati…