Margaret O'Brien If you want the story of how a group of seven PhD students and professors at Berkeley came to co-found a fast-growing data and AI company, then this article is for you. If you just want the list of co-founders of Databricks, then here you are (in alphabetical order): Read on to learn more about … Read more
Did you know that we can trace the origins of Apache Spark back to Google’s published research on distributed processing? But Google didn’t create Spark. This article looks at what came before Spark, how and where the innovative technology was created, and the key individuals involved in its inception. Let’s start at the beginning and … Read more
America’s Social Security Number was not originally meant to be a universal identifier of its citizens. However, it has expanded into federal and commercial use for that purpose. Unfortunately, the SSN system doesn’t meet the requirements of an identification number of a country with a population size of the United States. This article looks into … Read more
It’s easy to think that SSNs have always been with us, but this isn’t true. They have a history that started in the era of the Great Depression. The original goal was not to have a universal identity number for Americans. This article shows you how they started and how they become what we know … Read more