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Interpreting the Data
Applied Math| Speaker: | Rob Pike, Google Inc. |
| Location: | 1131 Kemper |
| Start time: | Thu, Apr 21 2005, 3:10PM |
Google has large amounts of data -- to index the Web, you need to have an addressable copy of it -- and many custom tools designed to operate at that scale. One of those tools is a special-purpose language for distributed data processing. I will describe that language, including its unusual model and implementation, starting from the point of view of my long-term interest in concurrent programming.