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Rakesh Agrawal

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Rakesh Agrawal is a computer scientist who was until recently a Technical Fellow at Microsoft Search Labs. He is known for developing fundamental data mining concepts and technologies and for pioneering key concepts in data privacy, including the Hippocratic Database, Sovereign Information Sharing and Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, developed during a long career at IBM. He earned his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. He received the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2000.

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