Cloud cuckoo land

The New York Times reports on the new work in 'cloud' computing: "The goal is to advance Internet-scale computing — the proverbial 'cloud', in which more computing chores are delivered to personal computers and cellphones as services, with the heavy computational lifting done remotely in large data centers... Google and IBM announced a big cloud research initiative last fall, pledging to build two large data centers that would be at the disposal of six universities initially: Carnegie Mellon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Washington, the University of Maryland and the University of California at Berkeley."

Rico says he's happy (and not a bit surprised) to see his old alma mater, CMU, on the list; his old high school friend Ted went there before going to Xerox PARC and helping start a bunch of neat stuff there...