Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (2012)

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/facebook-prism/

by jbr • 13 years ago

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conroy2• 13 years ago

Other 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.

dualogy• 13 years ago

PRISM is a great name for a project

---or was.

conroy2• 13 years ago

Agreed, I can't think of any tech company naming a project PRISM again, even if it's internal.

Brock_Lee• 13 years ago

Also, I doubt that the NSA told Facebook that their surveillance project was called PRISM.

wavesounds• 13 years ago

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.

cldr• 13 years ago

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.

bparsons• 13 years ago

Uhhhhhhhhhh

davenull• 13 years ago

Unfortunate they chose that name for a project involving spanning datacenters with high-speed fiber connection.

siddboots• 13 years ago

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.

Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (2012)

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