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

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.

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

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Post by dualogy » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:26 AM UTC

conroy wrote: post #2

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.ed…

> PRISM is a great name for a project

---or was.

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

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Post by conroy » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:29 AM UTC

dualogy wrote: post #3

conroy wrote: post #2

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.ed…

> 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.

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

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Post by Brock_Lee » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:49 AM UTC

conroy wrote: post #2

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.ed…

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

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

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Post by cldr » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 7:21 AM UTC

> 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.

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

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Post by bparsons » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 7:38 AM UTC

Uhhhhhhhhhh

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 7:58 AM UTC

bparsons wrote: post #7

Uhhhhhhhhhh

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

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Post by davenull » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 7:59 AM UTC

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

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

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Post by wavesounds » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 8:23 AM UTC

conroy wrote: post #2

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.ed…

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.