Sanjay Ghemawat
American computer scientist (born 1966) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana)[1] is an Indian 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]
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Born | 1966 (age 57ā58) West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. |
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Thesis | The Modified Object Buffer: A Storage Management Technique for Object-Oriented Databases (1995) |
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Ghemawat was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for contributions to the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems.