Last fall, Apple released a developer preview of Sun's 128-bit Zettabyte File System (ZFS) for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). There had earlier been a flurry of interest around ZFS and Apple because Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz glibly alluded to Apple making ZFS the file system of Mac OS X. That wasn't exactly true. But ZFS support was present in this early release, although it was read-only. This year at WWDC, Apple pushed ZFS support in OS X a big step forward.Apple has officially announced tha [...]
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:00:00 +0100
Erik Demaine is this year's recipient of the Katyanagi Emerging Leadership Prize. Erik's research interests range from algorithms and data structures for improving web searches, to the computational difficulty of playing games.
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