Jeff Dean
Jeff Dean | |
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Spanner, TensorFlow | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Technology |
Institutions | Google; Digital Equipment Corporation |
Thesis | Whole-program optimization of object-oriented languages (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Craig Chambers |
Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" Dean (born July 23, 1968) is an American
Education
Dean received a B.S., summa cum laude, from the
Career
Before joining Google, Dean worked at DEC/Compaq's Western Research Laboratory,[7] where he worked on profiling tools, microprocessor architecture and information retrieval.[8] Much of his work was completed in close collaboration with Sanjay Ghemawat.[9][4]
Before graduate school, he worked at the
Dean joined Google in mid-1999, and was appointed the head of its
The projects Dean has worked on include:
- Original design of Protocol Buffers, an open-source data interchange format.
- Spanner, a scalable, multi-version, globally distributed, and synchronously replicated database
- Some of the production system design and statistical machine translation system for Google Translate
- Bigtable, a large-scale semi-structured storage system[4]
- MapReduce, a system for large-scale data processing applications[4]
- LevelDB, an open-source on-disk key-value store
- DistBelief, a proprietary machine-learning system for deep neural networks that was eventually refactored into TensorFlow
- TensorFlow, an open-source machine-learning software library[4]
He was an early member of Google Brain,[4] a team that studies large-scale artificial neural networks, and he has headed artificial intelligence efforts since they were split from Google Search.[11]
Dean was the subject of controversy when the ethics in AI researcher, Timnit Gebru, challenged Google's research review process, ultimately leading to her departure from the company. Dean responded by publishing a letter on Google's approach to the research process[12] that was the subject of further criticism and controversy.[13]
Philanthropy
Dean and his wife, Heidi Hopper, started the Hopper-Dean Foundation and began making philanthropic grants in 2011. In 2016, the foundation gave $2 million each to
Personal life
Dean is married and has two daughters.[4]
Awards and honors
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2009)
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009)
- ACM-Infosys Foundation Award[15] (2012)
- ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2007)[16]
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)[17]
- Recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2021
Books
Dean was interviewed for the 2018 book Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it by the American futurist Martin Ford.[18]
Major publications
- Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. 2004. MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. OSDI'04: Sixth Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (December 2004)
- Fay Chang, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber. 2006. Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data. OSDI'06: 7th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (October 2006)
See also
References
- ^ Vincent, James (April 3, 2018). "Google veteran Jeff Dean takes over as company's AI chief". The Verge. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- ^ Elias, Jennifer (April 20, 2023). "Read the internal memo Alphabet sent in merging A.I.-focused groups DeepMind and Google Brain". CNBC. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ^ "Jeff Dean".
- ^ a b c d e f g h "The Friendship That Made Google Huge". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
- ^ "STANFORD TALKS; Jeff Dean: TensorFlow Overview and Future Directions". Stanford University. January 21, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
- ^ "Jeff Dean elected to National Academy of Engineering". UW CSE News. University of Washington. February 5, 2009. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
- "Jeffrey A Dean - Award Winner". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved August 15, 2018. - ^ Metz, Cade (August 8, 2008). "If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet". Wired. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
- ^ a b "Jeff Dean". Speakerpedia. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
- ^ Metz, Cade (August 8, 2012). "If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet". Wired. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
- ^ Anmol (May 8, 2018). "Google Consolidates AI and Machine Learning Research Efforts Under Rebranded Google AI". Beebom. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ^ D'Onfro, Jillian (April 2, 2018). "Google is splitting A.I. into its own business unit and shaking up its search leadership". CNBC. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
- ^ Dean, Jeff (December 3, 2020). "About Google's approach to research publication". Google. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via Twitter.
- ^ Ghaffray, Shirin (December 4, 2020). "The controversy behind a star Google AI researcher's departure". Vox. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
- ^ "$1M Hopper-Dean Foundation Gift for Diversity in CS". UC Berkeley. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- Williams, Tate (August 10, 2016). "One of Google's Top Programmers Has Made STEM Diversity a Philanthropic Cause". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
- "$1 million gift to support diversity in STEM education". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved October 25, 2020. - ^ ACM-Infosys Foundation Award
- ^ "The Mark Weiser Award". ACM SIGOPS. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
- ^ Newly Elected Members, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 2016, retrieved April 20, 2016
- ISBN 9781789131260.