Richard Black
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Collaborators: Silica in space with Richard Black and Dexter Greene
| Gretchen Huizinga, Richard Black, and 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.
RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval
| Richard Black, Marco Caballero, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Ant Rowstron, David Sweeney, and 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, and 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…