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Google, Microsoft, Sun to Fund New Internet Lab

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-totally-rad dept.

brajesh writes "Yahoo! News has an AP story about Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems coming together to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience. The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems or RAD lab is scheduled to open Thursday and will dole out $1.5 million annually over five years, with each company contributing equally. From the article : 'Conceivably, the lab's services could help launch another revolutionary company like online auctioneer eBay Inc. or even Google, which has emerged as one of the world's most valuable companies just seven years after its inception in a Silicon Valley garage.'"

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  1. garage? by muhgcee · · Score: 1, Informative

    Silicon valley garage? I know the image of a tech company starting in a Silicon Valley garage may be somewhat romantic, but didn't Google start in a Stanford lab?

  2. Re:they will research quantum superposition... by mysqlrocks · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am sorry, but the evil or not evil can not be confirmed until we kill the evil or the cat or set the box on fire. I can't recall which.

    Schrodinger's cat is neither dead nor alive until the box is opened and we observer whether or not the nucleus decayed and emitted a particle that triggered the apparatus which opened the canister of poison and killed the cat. Setting the box on fire is an interesting twist on the experiment, and I do mean twist as in twisted.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger's_cat

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    Bradley Holt
  3. Read the papers ... by TallMatthew · · Score: 3, Informative
    Did anybody bother to read the RAD website? Look at the papers that have been generated ...

    • A Flexible Architecture for Statistical Learning and Data Mining from System Log Streams
    • Combining Visualization and Statistical Analysis to Improve Operator Confidence and Efficiency for Failure Detection and Localization
    • Control Considerations for Scaling Event Processing
    • Predictive control for dynamic resource allocation in enterprise data centers

    Looks like they're trying to come up some fancy-schmancy approach to network management, emergency handling and risk control. It would make sense all three of these orgs would be interested in refining techniques along those lines, but pardon me while I yawn.