Project Silica
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| Gretchen Huizinga, Richard Black, 和 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.
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…
新闻报道 | 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.
| Richard Black, Marco Caballero, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Ant Rowstron, David Sweeney, 和 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.
新闻报道 | The Times UK
The tiny glass blocks that can preserve your data for centuries
For years governments, hospitals and families have had to use frail magnetic storage for their most important data. Now, scientists have an alternative — that lasts for ever…
新闻报道 | Handelsblatt
Das Yottabyte-Zeitalter – wie Glas unsere Daten rettet
Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz sorgen für Datenmengen, die die Vorstellungskraft sprengen. Ausgerechnet einer der ältesten Werkstoffe der Menschheit soll helfen.
AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage for further progress in 2024.
| Richard Black, Burcu Canakci, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Sergey Legtchenko, Ant Rowstron, 和 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…
新闻报道 | 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…