As I predicted, Self-driving cars a reality for 'ordinary people' within 5 years, says Google's Sergey Brin

Link here: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231707/Self_driving_cars_a_reality_for_39_ordinary_people_39_within_5_years_says_Google_39_s_Sergey_Brin

The Google Spanner Paper

Google spanner is a massively distributed database. It needs atomic clocks on each machine to work though... http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf

The Google Dremel Paper

Here is the paper describing Google Dremel, which may replace Hive one day. There does not seem to be anyone working on an open-source version though

Link (PDF)

Update: Apache Drill is the open source version of Dremel (hat tip to Zoltan).

Also, Cloudera's Impala looks simlar.

Self-driving cars: The next revolution

Here is a recent report from KPMG about self-driving cars: http://www.kpmg.com/US/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Documents/self-driving-cars-next-revolution.pdf