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Sanjay Ghemawat

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Sanjay Ghemawat is an American computer scientist and software engineer, currently a senior fellow at Google in the Systems Infrastructure Group. His work at Google, much of it in close collaboration with Jeff Dean, has included the big data processing model MapReduce, the Google File System, and the databases Bigtable and Spanner; Wired has described him as one of the most important software engineers of the internet age. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for contributions to the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1966 1
Award
ACM Fellow 2
Award
ACM Prize in Computing 2
Award
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2
Connections

In Field

Databases, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Sanjay Ghemawat

Invented

LevelDB, Systems
Source Wikipedia: LevelDB
MapReduce, Concepts

Sanjay Ghemawat co-authored the 2004 paper with Jeff Dean that introduced the MapReduce programming model at Google.

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Nationality

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1. Wikipedia: Sanjay Ghemawat
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born 1966
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2. Wikidata: Sanjay Ghemawat
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Wikipedia: LevelDB
Wikimedia FoundationInvented: LevelDB, Infobox, developer field
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Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Google Inc.
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