Mike Cafarella

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Mike Cafarella
Born New York City, New York
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of Michigan
Alma mater University of Washington, University of Edinburgh, Brown University
Doctoral advisor Dan Suciu
Known for Hadoop, Nutch

Mike Cafarella is a computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is currently a professor of computer science at University of Michigan.[1] Along with Doug Cutting, he is one of the original co-founders of the Hadoop and Nutch open-source projects.[2][3] Cafarella was born in New York City but moved to Westwood, MA early in his childhood. After completing his bachelors degree at Brown University, he earned a Ph.D. specializing in database management system at the University of Washington under Dan Suciu and Oren Etzioni.[4] He was also involved in several notable start-ups, including Tellme Networks.[5]

Prof. Cafarella is known for his smooth, baritone speaking voice.[6]

Education

References

  1. ↑ "Biographical Sketch: Michael J. Cafarella" (published 2009-09-14). 2009. Retrieved 2013-02-01. 
  2. ↑ Cafarella, Mike; Cutting, Doug (April 2004). "Building Nutch: Open Source Search". ACM Queue 2 (2): 54–61. ISSN 1542-7730. 
  3. ↑ Blankenhorn, Dana (2009). "Cutting out for Cloudera just in time" (published 2009-08-11). Retrieved 2013-02-01. 
  4. ↑ "Michael J. Cafarella Faculty Information". 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-01. 
  5. ↑ "Michael Cafarella - Tellme Networks". 2002. Retrieved 2013-02-09. 
  6. ↑ "EECSatUM Profile - Prof. Michael Cafarella". 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2013-02-13. 

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