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

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

43 points by jbr 12 years ago | 10 comments

conroy 12 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 12 years ago | |

> PRISM is a great name for a project

---or was.

conroy 12 years ago | | |

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

wavesounds 12 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.

Brock_Lee 12 years ago | |

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

siddboots 12 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.

cldr 12 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.

davenull 12 years ago |

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

bparsons 12 years ago |

Uhhhhhhhhhh