Biography:Mike Cafarella
Mike Cafarella | |
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Born | Poughkeepsie, New York |
Alma mater | University of Washington, University of Edinburgh, Brown University |
Known for | Hadoop, Nutch |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan |
Doctoral advisor | Dan Suciu |
Mike Cafarella is a computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is a principal research scientist of computer science at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[1] Before coming to MIT, he was a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan from 2009 to 2020. Along with Doug Cutting, he is one of the original co-founders of the Hadoop and Nutch open-source projects.[2][3] Cafarella was born in New York City but moved to Westwood, MA early in his childhood. After completing his bachelor's degree at Brown University, he earned a Ph.D. specializing in database management systems at the University of Washington under Dan Suciu and Oren Etzioni.[4] He was also involved in several notable start-ups, including Tellme Networks,[5] and co-founder of Lattice Data, which was acquired by Apple in 2017.[6]
Education
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- Ph.D., Computer Science, June 2009. University of Washington.
- M.Sc., Computer Science, 2005. University of Washington.
- M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence, 1997. University of Edinburgh.
- B.S., Computer Science, 1996. Brown University.
References
- ↑ "Michael Cafarella - MIT CSAIL". 2023. https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/michael-cafarella. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ↑ Cafarella, Mike; Cutting, Doug (April 2004). "Building Nutch: Open Source Search". ACM Queue 2 (2): 54–61. doi:10.1145/988392.988408. ISSN 1542-7730.
- ↑ Blankenhorn, Dana (2009). "Cutting out for Cloudera just in time". http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/cutting-out-for-cloudera-just-in-time/4627. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
- ↑ "Michael J. Cafarella Faculty Information". 2013. https://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/etc/fac/facsearchform.cgi?michjc+. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
- ↑ "Michael Cafarella - Tellme Networks". 2002. http://www.yatedo.com/p/Michael+Cafarella/famous/2dfe33ebb25a12c7a4d7436383edb13f. Retrieved 2013-02-09.
- ↑ "Apple acquires AI company Lattice Data, a specialist in unstructured 'dark data', for $200M – TechCrunch" (in en-US). https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/13/apple-acquires-ai-company-lattice-data-a-specialist-in-unstructured-dark-data/.
External links
- Personal web page at MIT
- Profile page at CSAIL
- Personal web page at University of Michigan
- Michigan Database Group home page
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