University of Pennsylvania: Engineering's Firooz Aflatouni's Electronic-Photonic Innovations
June 23, 2020
June 23, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 23 -- The University of Pennsylvania issued the following news:
The first-ever image of a black hole, published in 2019, was constructed from five petabytes of data. These files were so large that they had to be flown to data analysts in giant stacks of hard drives; a plane ride from Hawaii was faster than the internet. Thankfully, Firooz Aflatouni is improving the fundamentals of data transfer to make sharing information about black holes--or just t . . .
The first-ever image of a black hole, published in 2019, was constructed from five petabytes of data. These files were so large that they had to be flown to data analysts in giant stacks of hard drives; a plane ride from Hawaii was faster than the internet. Thankfully, Firooz Aflatouni is improving the fundamentals of data transfer to make sharing information about black holes--or just t . . .