Jeff Dean (computer scientist)

Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" Dean (* 1968 ) is an American computer scientist who is one of the leading programmers and software engineers at Google and a senior programmer for Google Brain.

Dean graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1990 in computer science and economics. In 1990/91 he developed statistical software for the WHO program against AIDS. He received his PhD in computer science from Craig Chambers at the University of Washington in 1996 (Whole-program optimization of object-oriented languages). Dean was from 1996 at the Western Research Laboratory of DEC / Compaq in Palo Alto, where he worked on profilers , information retrieval and microprocessor architecture. From mid-1999 he was with Google (at that time still in the initial phase), where he is now a Google Senior Fellow.

He implemented several continuously improved versions of the system of searching documents, answering questions and indexing search results at Google. Dean also developed database technologies ( Spanner , Bigtable , LevelDB) at Google , improving search methods and machine translation (Google Translate) and with Sanjay Ghemawat MapReduce . Since 2011 he has headed the Google Brain Project on Artificial Intelligence Using Deep Learning Techniques, which arose from his collaboration with Andrew Ng from Stanford University and Greg Corrado from Google. One result was the open source program library TensorFlow .

In 2012, he and Sanjay Ghemawat received the ACM Infosys Award for their leadership role in large distributed systems such as the Internet in both research and engineering applications, and in 2012 both received the Mark Weiser Award . He became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2009, the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

With his wife Heidi Hopper, he founded a foundation that finances , among other things, research on diversity in teaching for young people in STEM subjects (STEM) at MIT.

Fonts (selection)

• with Sanjay Ghemawat: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, OSDI'04: Sixth Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (December 2004), Online

Web links

• Website on google

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeff Dean in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ^ Tate Williams, One of Google's Top Programmers Has Made STEM Diversity a Philanthropic Cause , Inside Philanthropy, August 10, 2016