‘Google 101’ class at UW inspires first Internet-scale programming courses

A pilot course taught at the University of Washington has been expanded into a national program that shows students how to program using tens, hundreds or thousands of computers. Google and IBM announced an initiative Monday to promote new programming methods that will help students and researchers address the challenges of Internet-scale applications.

"This is a new style of computing in which the focus is on analyzing massive amounts of data, using massive numbers of computers," said Ed Lazowska, a UW computer science and engineering professor. "This has come on the scene fairly recently. Universities haven’t been teaching it in part because the software is really complex, and in part because you need a big rack of computers to support it."

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