People from around the world can collaborate easily on incredibly projects such as Linux or OpenRISC. Or on closed-source projects as used by FAANG companies.
Hamming and Shannon, provided with lifetime employment and sharing an office, working for an organization that does things like invent the transistor. @FurryRubyProgrammer and @IHuffFarts conversing on a Discord channel. It's exactly the same thing.
It's called "the internet".
People from around the world can collaborate easily on incredibly projects such as Linux or OpenRISC. Or on closed-source projects as used by FAANG companies.
Hamming and Shannon, provided with lifetime employment and sharing an office, working for an organization that does things like invent the transistor. @FurryRubyProgrammer and @IHuffFarts conversing on a Discord channel. It's exactly the same thing.
Prestige AI labs. But for hardware? I am not sure.
Always interesting stuff being worked on at NIST and JILA in Boulder.
There are a few remaining, 3M has one, but much smaller.