| Samuel Madden | |
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| Born | August 4, 1976 San Diego, California |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein |
| Known for | TinyDB, C-Store, TelegraphCQ, H-Store |
Samuel R. Madden is a computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is currently an associate professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Madden was born and raised in San Diego, California. After completing bachelors and master's degrees at MIT, he earned a Ph.D. specializing in database management at the University of California under Michael Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein. Before joining MIT as a tenure-track professor, Madden held a post-doc position at Intel's Berkeley Research center.[1]
Before enrolling at MIT and while an undergraduate student there, Madden wrote printer driver software for Palomar Software, a San Diego-area Macintosh software company. Professor Madden is also a co-founder of Vertica Systems. He has been involved in various database research projects, including TinyDB, TelegraphCQ, Aurora/Borealis, C-Store, and H-Store. In 2005, at the age of 29 he was named to the TR35 as one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review magazine.[2][3] Recent projects include CarTel, a distributed wireless platform that monitors traffic and on-board diagnostic conditions in order to generate road surface reports, and Relational Cloud, a project investigating research issues in building a database-as-a-service.