Jeff Dean

Jeffrey Adgate Dean is an American computer scientist and software engineer. He is best known for his work at Google, where he was appointed chief scientist following the merger... Wikipedia

• Born:  Hawaii
• Fields:  Computer science
• Institutions:  Google, Digital Equipment Corporation
• Alma mater:  University of Minnesota, B.S. Computer Science and Engineering (1990), University of Washington, Ph.D. Computer Science (1996)
• Thesis:  Whole-program optimization of object-oriented languages (1996)
• Known for:  MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, TensorFlow
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo