Monday, July 03, 2006

Indirect fame

In a NYT article on Google's infrastructure:

"Mr. Gates acknowledged that MapReduce was a significant technology, but he asserted that Microsoft was building its own parallel processing software, opening another front in the technological war between the two companies.

"They did MapReduce; we have this thing called Driad that's better," Mr. Gates said. "But they'll do one that's better."

Woo hoo! Dryad (they spelled it wrong) is a project started in my lab, and I was the one who named it! Wheeee!

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