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'''Sanjay Ghemawat''' (born 1966 in [[West Lafayette, Indiana|West Lafayette]], [[Indiana]])<ref name="">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge|title=The Friendship That Made Google Huge|date=2018-12-10|work=New Yorker|access-date=2018-12-10}}</ref> is an [[Indian Americans|Indian American]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.indiawest.com/news/business/google-s-sanjay-ghemawat-co-winner-of-computer-award/article_2b36dac2-2eae-57ae-8a7a-bccde20da719.html|title=Google's Sanjay Ghemawat Co-Winner of Computer Award|date=2013-04-09|work=India West|access-date=2017-12-16|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}</ref> [[computer scientist]] and [[software engineer]]. He is currently a Senior Fellow at [[Google]] in the Systems Infrastructure Group.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/ghemawat_1482280|title=Sanjay Ghemawat – ACM Prize in Computing|last=|first=|date=|website=Award Winners|publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]]|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-12-16}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.infosys.com/newsroom/press-releases/Pages/infosys-foundation-ACM-science-award2012.aspx|title=ACM And Infosys Foundation Honor Google Developers For Innovations That Transformed Internet-Scale Computing|date=|publisher=[[Infosys]]|language=en-us|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-12-16}}</ref> Ghemawat's work at Google, much of it in close collaboration with [[Jeff Dean (computer scientist)|Jeff Dean]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/|title=If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet|last=Metz|first=Cade|date=2012-08-08|work=WIRED|access-date=2017-12-16|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20171207142049/https://www.wired.com/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/|archive-date=2017-12-07|dead-url=no|language=en-US}}</ref> has included [[big data]] processing model [[MapReduce]], the [[Google File System]], and databases [[Bigtable]] and [[Spanner (database)|Spanner]]. [[Wired (magazine)|''Wired'']] have described him as one of the "most important software engineers of the internet age".<ref name=":3" />
'''Sanjay Ghemawat''' (born 1966 in [[West Lafayette, Indiana|West Lafayette]], [[Indiana]])<ref name="">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge|title=The Friendship That Made Google Huge|date=2018-12-10|work=New Yorker|access-date=2018-12-10}}</ref> is an [[Americans|American]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.indiawest.com/news/business/google-s-sanjay-ghemawat-co-winner-of-computer-award/article_2b36dac2-2eae-57ae-8a7a-bccde20da719.html|title=Google's Sanjay Ghemawat Co-Winner of Computer Award|date=2013-04-09|work=India West|access-date=2017-12-16|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}</ref> [[computer scientist]] and [[software engineer]]. He is currently a Senior Fellow at [[Google]] in the Systems Infrastructure Group.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/ghemawat_1482280|title=Sanjay Ghemawat – ACM Prize in Computing|last=|first=|date=|website=Award Winners|publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]]|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-12-16}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.infosys.com/newsroom/press-releases/Pages/infosys-foundation-ACM-science-award2012.aspx|title=ACM And Infosys Foundation Honor Google Developers For Innovations That Transformed Internet-Scale Computing|date=|publisher=[[Infosys]]|language=en-us|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-12-16}}</ref> Ghemawat's work at Google, much of it in close collaboration with [[Jeff Dean (computer scientist)|Jeff Dean]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/|title=If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet|last=Metz|first=Cade|date=2012-08-08|work=WIRED|access-date=2017-12-16|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20171207142049/https://www.wired.com/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/|archive-date=2017-12-07|dead-url=no|language=en-US}}</ref> has included [[big data]] processing model [[MapReduce]], the [[Google File System]], and databases [[Bigtable]] and [[Spanner (database)|Spanner]]. [[Wired (magazine)|''Wired'']] have described him as one of the "most important software engineers of the internet age".<ref name=":3" />


== Education and early career ==
== Education and early career ==

Revision as of 01:32, 1 September 2019

Sanjay Ghemawat
Born1966 (age 58–59)
West Lafayette, Indiana
Education
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisThe Modified Object Buffer: A Storage Management Technique for Object-Oriented Databases (1995)
Doctoral advisors

Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana)[1] is an American[2] computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Google in the Systems Infrastructure Group.[3][4] Ghemawat's work at Google, much of it in close collaboration with Jeff Dean,[5] has included big data processing model MapReduce, the Google File System, and databases Bigtable and Spanner. Wired have described him as one of the "most important software engineers of the internet age".[5]

Education and early career

Ghemawat studied at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[3] He obtained a PhD from MIT in 1995, with a dissertation titled, The Modified Object Buffer: A Storage Management Technique for Object-Oriented Databases. His advisors were Barbara Liskov and Frans Kaashoek.[6]

Before joining Google, Ghemawat worked at the DEC Systems Research Center. There he began his long-time collaboration with Jeff Dean, who worked at another DEC research lab nearby. Their work at DEC included a Java compiler and a system profiling tool.[5]

Career at Google

After DEC was acquired by Compaq, many of its researchers left the company. Dean took a position at the newly founded search engine company Google, and was joined by Ghemawat in 1999. The two began working on Google's core infrastructure, which was having to deal with the search engine's rapid growth in popularity in the early 2000s.[5]

Among others, the projects he's worked on include:

  • MapReduce, a system for large-scale data processing applications.
  • Google File System, is a proprietary distributed file system developed to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware.
  • Spanner, a scalable, multi-version, globally distributed, and synchronously replicated database
  • Bigtable, a large-scale semi-structured storage system.
  • TensorFlow, an open-source machine-learning software library.

Awards and honors

Ghemawat was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009,[2] and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.[7] In 2012, he and Dean received the ACM Prize in Computing for their work on internet infrastructure[2][3][4], and the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award[8].

Selected publications

  • Ghemawat, Sanjay; Gobioff, Howard; Leung, Shun-Tak (2003). "The Google File System". Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. SOSP '03. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 29–43. doi:10.1145/945445.945450. ISBN 1581137575.
  • Dean, Jeffrey; Ghemawat, Sanjay (January 2008). "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters". Commun. ACM. 51 (1): 107–113. doi:10.1145/1327452.1327492. ISSN 0001-0782.
  • Chang, Fay; Dean, Jeffrey; Ghemawat, Sanjay; Hsieh, Wilson C.; Wallach, Deborah A.; Burrows, Mike; Chandra, Tushar; Fikes, Andrew; Gruber, Robert E. (June 2008). "Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data". ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 26 (2): 4:1–4:26. doi:10.1145/1365815.1365816. ISSN 0734-2071.
  • Dean, Jeffrey; Ghemawat, Sanjay (January 2010). "MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool". Commun. ACM. 53 (1): 72–77. doi:10.1145/1629175.1629198. ISSN 0001-0782.
  • Corbett, James C.; Dean, Jeffrey; Epstein, Michael; Fikes, Andrew; Frost, Christopher; Furman, J. J.; Ghemawat, Sanjay; Gubarev, Andrey; Heiser, Christopher (August 2013). "Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database". ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 31 (3): 8:1–8:22. doi:10.1145/2491245 (inactive August 20, 2019). ISSN 0734-2071.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2019 (link)
  • Abadi, Martín; Agarwal, Ashish; Barham, Paul; Brevdo, Eugene; Chen, Zhifeng; Citro, Craig; Corrado, Greg S.; Davis, Andy; Dean, Jeffrey (March 14, 2016). "TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems". arXiv:1603.04467 [cs.DC].

References

  1. ^ "The Friendship That Made Google Huge". New Yorker. December 10, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Google's Sanjay Ghemawat Co-Winner of Computer Award". India West. April 9, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2017. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ a b c "Sanjay Ghemawat – ACM Prize in Computing". Award Winners. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved December 16, 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ a b "ACM And Infosys Foundation Honor Google Developers For Innovations That Transformed Internet-Scale Computing". Infosys. Retrieved December 16, 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ a b c d Metz, Cade (August 8, 2012). "If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet". WIRED. Archived from the original on December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "Sanjay Ghemawat". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University. Retrieved December 16, 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  7. ^ "Membership". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 16, 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ "The Mark Weiser Award". ACM SIGOPS. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
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