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Feb. 5, 1990: MIT's Project Athena advances distributed computing
A collaborative project born to advance computing infrastructure at MIT led to important developments in distributed computing. “Petitioning the gods of distributed computing” published in Computerworld Volume 24, Issue 6...
May 3, 1993: Computer users overwhelmed by new "unstructured" information streams
A flood of new information streams led to the birth of “information overload” for computer users. “Grow with the information flow” published in Computerworld Volume 27, Issue 18 on May...
May 3, 1993: Computer industry adopts green policies
In response to concerns about landfill waste from discarded computers and government incentives to be more energy efficient, companies adopted new environmentally friendly standards in the 1990s. “PC makers embrace...
Can Data Predict the Future of Women's Economic Empowerment?
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021, the Cloudera Foundation merged with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. by Sonja Kelly, Mehrdad “Mehi” Mirpourian...
Data projects secret to success is not the algorithm
Courtesy of The Rockefeller Foundation Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Rockefeller Foundation in its AI+1 report and appeared on the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021,...
What is the Data4Change Accelerator?
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021, the Cloudera Foundation merged with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. July 30, 2020 Cloudera Foundation embarks...
How can you track the spread of COVID-19 in the absence of wide-scale testing?
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021, the Cloudera Foundation merged with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. by Nikita Japra June 9, 2020...
Modeling movement: understanding internally displaced migration
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021, the Cloudera Foundation merged with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. by Ethan Harrison June 23, 2020...
Social innovation with geo data thrives at College of William & Mary
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021, the Cloudera Foundation merged with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. by Mike Olson June 23, 2020...
William & Mary undergrads create one of world's largest open, free databases of political administrative boundaries
geoBoundaries members Joshua Panganiban and Lauren Hobbs an the International Fund for Agricultural Development during their internship through the geoLab. Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Cloudera Foundation...