An interesting article on Wired.com today, featuring Google computer scientists Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat:
Time and again, we hear the story of Xerox PARC, the Silicon Valley research lab that developed just about every major technology behind the PC revolution, from the graphical user interface and the laser printer to Ethernet networking and object-oriented programming. But because Google is so concerned with keeping its latest data center work hidden from competitors – and because engineers like Jeff Dean aren’t exactly self-promoters — the general public is largely unaware of Google’s impact on the very foundations of modern computing. Google is the Xerox PARC of the cloud computing age (more following the link…).
» Read more: “If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet”
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