Prolog to the Section on Mass Storage and Data Retrieval
Xiaofang Zhou · Proceedings of the IEEE · 2012
The centenary of the Proceedings of the IEEE is celebrated with achievements in data storage and data retrieval research, development, and application. Masaru Kitsuregawa and his colleagues at The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, are studying data storage and data management for more than three decades, working in parallel database management systems, web-scale applications, and intelligent massive data storage systems. They present a brief history of data storage technology from the precomputer era to the latest trends in this area. They also report their firsthand experiences in archiving the World Wide Web for more than ten years. Mark Sanderson and Bruce Croft give an expert view on the chronicled development in information retrieval.