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| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) 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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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]
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.
- ^ "The Friendship That Made Google Huge". New Yorker. December 10, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
- ^ "Google's Sanjay Ghemawat Co-Winner of Computer Award". India West. April 9, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
- ^ "Sanjay Ghemawat – ACM Prize in Computing". Award Winners. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
- ^ "ACM And Infosys Foundation Honor Google Developers For Innovations That Transformed Internet-Scale Computing". Infosys. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
- ^ a b Metz, Cade (August 8, 2012). "If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet". WIRED. Archived from the original on December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
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