Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain • Hacker News Board

Post by chubot » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 9:54 PM UTC

samuell wrote: post #97

chubot wrote: post #60

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Right and Craig Chambers later joined Google. He led/developed Flume [1] (a Java framework on top of MapReduce) and the unfortunately named Cloud Dataflow [2] (which aims at unifying streaming and batch computation) I say unfortunate because pretty much all the big data frameworks could be called "cloud dataflow", including TensorFlow itself. People using Google Cloud might recognize the name of VP Urs Hoezle, who wo…

Wasn't V8 developed by Bak & co in a separate company, which was bought by Google? (Didn't find any source, but based on what I thought I read in the news at that time ...)

v8 wasn't developed by a separate company, but Bak did bring at least one of his colleagues along to Google (I'm pretty sure just as new employees to Google). And he had another company that worked on a SmallTalk VM called OOVM, targeted at embedded devices, right before he joined Google:

https://astares.blogspot.com/2012/04/inside-oovm.html

However it apparently wasn't acquired by Google:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20040727005088/en/Esme...

Other discussion:

http://forum.world.st/OOVM-details-td4561492.html