Category Archives: Cyber Architecture
Google Global Database
Google, a few months ago, released a paper detailing the infrastructure surrounding their new database technology, Spanner. Spanner allows for databases that span multiple datacenters hubs. Like most of the new tech we discussed over the semester, Spanner will be … Continue reading
Now is the Winter of AI’s discontent
Artificial intelligence is one of the burgeoning industries that big data will provide with many helpful technological improvements. However, how much will increased computational power provide to an industry that has made very few ground breaking developments in its several … Continue reading
If the computer industry got a do-over, what should it do differently?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/science/rethinking-the-computer-at-80.html Is computer architecture too complex to be revolutionized? Several of our reading’s have mentioned the absurdity of the fact that despite constant and consistent innovation in almost every other area of computation, the basic structure of computers has not … Continue reading
UM Honors 352: Cyberscience Fall 2012 