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"Trying to figure out how to put a Google in every data center" - Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal
Google No. 1 has required many years of work to get up and running, along with millions of dollars of equipment and countless hours of mental toil by some of the computer industry's brainiest folks. But Google No. 2 you might be able to build yourself in a spare weekend. That's one way of thinking about a research project at the University of California, Berkeley, being funded, as it happens, by Google, among others. The researchers aren't interested in finding the secret behind Google's search algorithms. Instead, Armando Fox, a computer scientist and director of the RAD Lab project at Berkeley, and his team are trying to take the mystery out of Google's data centers. WSJ Online article (Local copy of text)
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"RAD Lab wins backing from five major IT firms" UC Press Release, 5/30/2006
BERKELEY – The University of California, Berkeley, today (Tuesday, May 30) announced a new influx of industry support for its Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems laboratory, or RAD Lab, which will be dedicated to creating the next generation of Internet design tools. IBM Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories, Inc., Nortel Networks and Oracle Corporation have signed on as affiliate members of the Internet research lab, each pledging annual contributions of up to $170,000 for the next five years. More: Local |UC Berkeley Press Release
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"Technology rivals step up to support Internet research at Berkeley ," David Pescovitz, Forefront, Spring, 2006
Google, Microsoft and Sun join forces Berkeley Engineering computer sciences faculty and three industry giants are uniting their talents to launch a new research center that will revolutionize Internet service technology in the face of dwindling federal funding for such research. The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems laboratory (RAD Lab) will be underwritten by $7.5 million over five years from Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Six founding faculty will provide the brain power, including" ... More: Local | Forefront
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"ACM President Elected To National Academy Of Sciences, American Academy Of Arts And Sciences," ACM Press Release, 4/27/06
New York, NY, April 27, 2006 - David Patterson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors in American science and engineering. The Academy's April 25 announcement recognizes honorees for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Patterson, professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the few computer scientists to achieve this recognition. On the previous day, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Patterson, who has served as president of ACM since 2004, joins the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 16 countries for the NAS 2006 class. The NAS is a private organization of scientists and engineers established in 1863 to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology. The announcement by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of the 2006 class includes 175 fellows and 20 foreign honorary members. Among the notables in this class are former Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton; Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts; and many leading scientists and scholars from across the nation. Founded in 1780 by John Adams and other scholar-patriots, the Academy has elected the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation. ... More: Local | ACM
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" U.S. Defense Dollars For Computer Science Plunge," Jean Kumagai, IEEE Spectrum, 2/1/2006
David Patterson had a great idea. Two years ago, the eminent computer scientist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was looking at recent advances in statistical machine learning, an area within artificial intelligence involving how computers can learn automatically. It occurred to him that the technology had enormous potential to make distributed computer systems, military as well as commercial, more stable and robust. So he contacted the logical source to fund such an idea: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense organization known for backing long-range, blue-sky research. To his surprise, he was refused. "They didn't even respond for many months, and then it was just a perfunctory rejection," recalls Patterson, an IEEE Fellow and president of the Association for Computing Machinery, in New York City. He next tried the National Science Foundation, in Arlington, Va., but was again turned down. Talking to his Berkeley colleagues, who'd also had grant proposals declined, Patterson says, "We came to the conclusion that the style of high-risk, high-impact research we've been doing, involving 3 to 6 faculty and maybe 20 to 30 graduate students, was going to be a problem." ... More: Local | IEEE Spectrum
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"Internet Center Will Unite Industry, School," Alex Zaman, The Daily Californian, 1/17/2006
UC Berkeley researchers are teaming up with technology giants Google, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft to broaden the range of Internet service technology. Starting this semester, UC Berkeley professors and graduate students will develop methods of software engineering that streamline the creation and maintenance of Internet service providers at the Reliable, Adaptive, and Distributed Systems Laboratory located in Soda Hall. "Right now, it takes hundreds of researchers, technicians and engineers to create and run an Internet service," said lab co-founder David Patterson, UC Berkeley professor of computer science. "Our goal is to eventually allow one million people to create their own Internet service." ... More: Local | The Daily Californian
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"Google, Microsoft and Sun fund new UC Berkeley Internet research center," UC Press Release, 12/15/2005
BERKELEY – In a bold effort to revolutionize Internet service technology, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are teaming up with Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems to launch a new Internet research laboratory on the campus. The three companies will provide $7.5 million over five years to fund research at the Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems laboratory, or the RAD Lab, UC Berkeley researchers announced today (Thursday, Dec. 15)... More: Local |UC Berkeley Press Release
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"Three Technology Companies Join to Finance Research," John Markoff, NY Times, 12/15/2005
BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 12 - With federal funds for basic computer science research at universities in decline, three of the industry's leading companies are joining to help fill the void. University of California computer scientists plan to announce on Thursday that the companies - Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems - will underwrite a $7.5 million laboratory on the Berkeley campus. The new research center, called the Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems Laboratory, will focus on the design of more dependable computing systems. ... More: Local | NY Times
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"Helping new ideas hit the street," Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 12/15/2005
Helping new ideas hit the street By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Three technology giants have banded together to provide researchers at the University of California-Berkeley with $7.5 million to help entrepreneurs make their innovations available to as wide an audience as possible. Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems each will contribute $500,000 a year over the next five years to fund research at a new UC-Berkeley lab. The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems Laboratory, or RAD Lab, will be staffed with six UC-Berkeley faculty members and about a dozen computer science graduates... More: Local | Mercury News
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"3 tech titans to fund lab," Micheal Yi, San Francisco Chronicle, 12/15/2005
Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems are teaming up to donate $7.5 million for a new computer science lab at UC Berkeley in an effort that they hope will make it easier for Internet entrepreneurs to test their ideas. The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems laboratory seeks to figure out ways to automate servicing, managing and maintaining large data centers, computer science Professor Randy Katz said Wednesday... More: Local | SF Chronicle
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"University to get new open source lab," Barbara Grady, Oakland Tribune, 12/15/2005
The University of California, Berkeley's College of Engineering is expected to announce today the opening of a new Internet research lab and collaboration with Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems that will pump $7.5 million into the lab. The new RAD Lab, to be located in Soda Hall, will focus its research on open source development of software for Internet services, according to the university. Technically, it will work on so-called Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed (RAD) systems, thus the name RAD Lab... More: Local | Okaland Tribune
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"Google, Microsoft to Fund New Internet Lab," Michal Liedtke, AP Business Writer, 12/15/2005
(this article appeared in at least 60 newspapers, according to Google News)
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience. Sun Microsystems Inc. also is joining the $7.5 million project at the University of California, Berkeley. The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems, or RAD, lab was scheduled to open Thursday and will dole out $1.5 million annually over five years, with each company contributing equally... More: Local
