I stumbled across this today-- not sure how long it's been out there, but it's a pretty decent slide show of Google's "Map Reduce" programming language, used for distributed calculations at Google. http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html Enjoy/comment. -- Derek
It says To appear in: OSDI'04: Sixth Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, San Francisco, CA, December, 2004, but in fact it was published on the referenced url in early October. Very interesting it was too - Michael