Richard Black
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Dans l’actualité | Science News Explores
High-speed lasers write data — to last millennia — inside glass
The library, robot, laser, microscope and platters of glass are all part of a research program named Project Silica. Richard Black directs this project at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. “Project Silica is a new approach to storing data,” he…
Dans l’actualité | TechTarget
Project Silica takes archive data through the looking glass
As data grows, so does the need to store it. Microsoft's Project Silica is offering an archive alternative to tape with the promise of permanence.
Collaborators: Silica in space with Richard Black and Dexter Greene
| Gretchen Huizinga, Richard Black, et Dexter Greene
College freshman Dexter Greene and Microsoft research manager Richard Black discuss how technology that stores data in glass is supporting students as they expand earlier efforts to communicate what it means to be human to extraterrestrials.
Dans l’actualité | GeekWire
Microsoft joins with students to document humanity with a ‘Golden Record’ of glass
Forty-seven years after NASA sent a “Golden Record” into deep space to document humanity’s view of the world, Microsoft’s Project Silica is teaming up with a citizen-science effort to lay the groundwork — or, more aptly, the glasswork — for…
Dans l’actualité | BBC Technology of Business
‘Insane’ amounts of data spurs new storage tech
Project Silica uses powerful lasers to enable a piece of glass about the size of a DVD to store more than seven terabytes of data, helping to manage the rapidly growing supply.
RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval
| Richard Black, Marco Caballero, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Ant Rowstron, David Sweeney, et Hugh Williams
RASCAL is an untethered robot with a modular design, allowing it to move flexibly along and between evenly spaced storage shelves. Discover how it can address the availability and scalability challenges of existing automated storage and retrieval systems.
Project Silica: Sustainable cloud archival storage in glass
| Richard Black, Burcu Canakci, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Sergey Legtchenko, Ant Rowstron, et Ioan Stefanovici
This research paper was presented at the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (opens in new tab) (SOSP 2023), the premier forum for the theory and practice of computer systems software. For millennia, data has woven itself into every…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Microsoft Unlocked | Sealed in glass
Sealed in glass Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world. Storing data on glass might sound futuristic, but it’s a concept that dates back to the 19th century when…
Dans l’actualité | Data Center Dynamics
Issue 46 – The Last Data Center
Long-term data storage enters a new epoch. What will remain of the human race? We don't know how long our species will survive, and even if we can hold on for thousands more tears it is not clear that the…