Jeffrey Dean

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Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.


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instanceOf American person
computer scientist
software engineer
almaMater University of Minnesota
University of Washington
awardReceived ACM Fellow
ACM Prize in Computing
ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award
basedIn California
coAuthor Sanjay Ghemawat
coAuthorOf Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database
TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
The Google File System
degree Bachelor’s degree in computer science
PhD in computer science
doctoralAdvisor Craig Chambers
employer Google
field computer science
distributed systems
information retrieval
parallel computing
influencedField cloud computing
data-intensive computing
large-scale machine learning
knownFor Bigtable
Google File System
Google infrastructure
MapReduce
Spanner
TensorFlow
large-scale distributed systems
web search infrastructure at Google
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Engineering
name Jeffrey Dean
nationality United States of America
notableEmployerBeforeGoogle Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Western Research Laboratory
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
position Head of Google AI
Senior Fellow at Google
thesisTopic optimizing compilers for object-oriented languages
workedOn Bigtable distributed storage system
Google File System (GFS)
Google web search infrastructure
MapReduce programming model
Spanner globally distributed database
TensorFlow machine learning framework

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