Mike Cafarella
American computer scientist
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::summary American computer scientist ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Mike Cafarella |
| image | Mike Cafarella - Ann Arbor Bowling Champion.jpg |
| image_size | 150px |
| birth_place | Poughkeepsie, New York |
| field | Computer Science |
| work_institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| University of Michigan | |
| alma_mater | University of Washington, University of Edinburgh, Brown University |
| doctoral_advisor | Dan Suciu |
| known_for | Hadoop, Nutch |
| :: |
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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. | url = https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/michael-cafarella | title = Michael Cafarella - MIT CSAIL | year = 2023 | publication-date = 2023-04-21 | accessdate = 2023-05-26 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. | last1 = Cafarella | first1 = Mike | last2 = Cutting | first2 = Doug | title = Building Nutch: Open Source Search | journal = ACM Queue |date=April 2004 | volume = 2 | number = 2 | pages = 54–61 | issn = 1542-7730 | doi=10.1145/988392.988408 | doi-access = free | url = http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/cutting-out-for-cloudera-just-in-time/4627 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100906012903/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/cutting-out-for-cloudera-just-in-time/4627 | url-status = dead | archive-date = September 6, 2010 | title = Cutting out for Cloudera just in time | first = Dana | last = Blankenhorn | website = ZDNet | year = 2009 | publication-date = 2009-08-11 | accessdate = 2013-02-01 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. | url = https://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/etc/fac/facsearchform.cgi?michjc+ | title = Michael J. Cafarella Faculty Information | year = 2013 | accessdate = 2013-02-01 He was also involved in several notable start-ups, including Tellme Networks, | url = http://www.yatedo.com/p/Michael+Cafarella/famous/2dfe33ebb25a12c7a4d7436383edb13f | title = Michael Cafarella - Tellme Networks | year = 2002 | accessdate = 2013-02-09 and co-founder of Lattice Data, which was acquired by Apple in 2017.
Education
- 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.
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