Memory (BYTE)

Raw Data by Stanford, PRX, and The Sloan Foundation

Sep 26, 201912:23Technology

What exactly is memory? And why is it so important to how our devices work today? Friend of the show and Georgia Tech computing lecturer Kantwon Rogers breaks it down into bits and bytes — and hints at what kinds of clou...

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