Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (2012)
wired.comOther companies with projects named PRISM:
Palantir https://docs.palantir.com/metropolisdev/prism-overview.html
Mozilla (inactive) https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/
CriticalBlue http://www.criticalblue.com/prism-technology.html
Goodwill http://www.goodwilltalentbridge.com/tb/projectPrism.aspx
Universities with projects named PRISM:
Texas Tech http://www.texastech.edu/it/prism.aspx
Georgia Tech http://pag.gatech.edu/prism
Princeton http://www.princeton.edu/prism/industry/industrial_affiliate...
While many of these projects have nothing to do with technology, they illustrate a point: PRISM was a great name for a project. The fact that Facebook has a "Project Prism" too is just coincidence.
> PRISM is a great name for a project
---or was.
Agreed, I can't think of any tech company naming a project PRISM again, even if it's internal.
Oh I totally will. Back in the PPro days I called the project to get the workstations cointelpro - and I was just a snippy highschool kid then.
I'm totally going to do this.
Palantir is the one that still sticks out the most though. They work for the CIA and their Prism technology is essentially the same as the one in the slides 'combining databases from different sources.' I know they've denied it and Peter Thiel would never do that and all but thats still one heck of a coincidence.
Also, I doubt that the NSA told Facebook that their surveillance project was called PRISM.
If nothing else, this makes it rather amusing to think of how confused the engineers behind 'Project Prism' must have been when the first PRISM leaks were revealed.
> The result is a platform that can juggle as much as 100 petabytes of data — aka hundreds of millions of gigabytes
No more than 105 million gigabytes actually.
Unfortunate they chose that name for a project involving spanning datacenters with high-speed fiber connection.
Uhhhhhhhhhh