Also from Lazowska:
In the interest of balance:
http://www.businessinsider.
From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Subject: Palantir
To: Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>
Palantir is a long-time member of our Affiliates Program.
There was a somewhat creepy article about them in the most recent Business Week:
http://www.businessweek.com/
However, they provide links to some interesting information below.
It’s a cool company, out of PayPal and Stanford.
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Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Business Week
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Thanks, Ed!
It’s certainly an interesting take on what we do. We found it to be a
bit too spook focused and drawing way too many parallels to things
like the Total Information Awareness project, which is really not at
all what we build. The portions about how we’re a different kind of
company were spot on. The article was factually correct, but sort of
made our tech seem magical and fully automated (which it’s not). But
hey, that’s not what sells papers, so it goes.
If you’re interested in a different perspective on what we do, there’s
a couple of short pieces I’d point you to:
http://blog.palantirtech.com/
http://blog.palantir.com/2009/
http://blog.palantir.com/2010/
http://blog.palantir.com/2010/
Also, for your students, we just put together of series of interview
strategies posts that we’re pretty proud of:
http://blog.palantir.com/2011/
http://blog.palantir.com/2011/
http://blog.palantir.com/2011/
http://blog.palantir.com/2011/
Great to hear from you,
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