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and query serving systems, along with various pieces of the distributed computing infrastructure that underlies most of Google's products. At various times, he has also worked on improving search quality,
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Dean and his wife, Heidi Hopper, started the Hopper-Dean Foundation and began making philanthropic grants in 2011. In 2016, the foundation gave $ 2 million each to
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Fay Chang, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber. 2006.
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DistBelief, a proprietary machine-learning system for deep neural networks that was eventually refactored into TensorFlow
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division in April 2018. While at Google, he designed and implemented large portions of the company's advertising,
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and internal software development tools and has had significant involvement in the engineering hiring process.
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to support programs that promote diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (
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Some of the production system design and statistical machine translation system for
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in 2009, which recognized his work on "the science and engineering of large-scale
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chief scientist in 2023 after a reorganization of Alphabet's AI focused groups.
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Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it
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Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it
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and economics in 1990. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the
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Dean was the subject of controversy when the ethics in AI researcher,
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Dean joined Google in mid-1999, and was appointed the head of its
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University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
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Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
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Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
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2009 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
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Whole-program optimization of object-oriented languages
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University of Washington College of Engineering alumni
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Jeff Dean (computer scientist)
Jeff Dean (musician)

Hawaii
University of Minnesota
University of Washington
MapReduce
Bigtable
Spanner
TensorFlow
Google
Digital Equipment Corporation
Thesis
Whole-program optimization of object-oriented languages
Doctoral advisor
Craig Chambers
computer scientist
software engineer
Google AI
Alphabet's
University of Minnesota
computer science
University of Washington
Craig Chambers
compilers
object-oriented programming languages
National Academy of Engineering
distributed computer systems
Google
DEC

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