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...available through Morpheus 4.5, NEOnet—created by Gitika Srivastava ’01, Ben B. Wilken ’01 and Francis H.R. Crick ’03—speeds up download time by drastically cutting back the number of computers an individual must search across to locate a particular file...
...Using NEOnet], any particular computer is actually responsible for keeping a piece of the database,” said Crick, whose grandfather and namesake won the Nobel Prize in 1962 with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for discovering the double helix structure...
...There is an amount of redundancy between computers so if one computer is down, you still have a complete database,” Crick added...
NEOnet is the product of SKYRIS Networks, a company Wilken and Srivastava created during their senior year at Harvard. Crick joined them a year later...
SKYRIS eventually sold the technology to Streamcast Networks, the parent company of Morpheus, and Crick and Wilken began to work for Morpheus full-time. Srivastava stayed on as head of SKYRIS under Stirling Bridge, which owns Streamcast...