Samuel Madden (MIT)

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name = Samuel Madden


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birth_date = August 4, 1976
birth_place = San Diego, California
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field = Computer Science
work_institution = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
doctoral_advisor = Michael Franklin
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known_for = TinyDB, C-Store, TelegraphCQ
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Samuel 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. Madden was born and raised in San Diego, California. After completing bachelors and master's degrees at MIT, he earned a PhD 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. [cite web | url = http://www.intel.com/research/network/s_madden.htm | title = Intel Research Berkeley Biography | accessmonthday = August 30 | accessyear = 2008 | author = Intel | date = 2005 ]

Madden has been involved in various database research projects, including TinyDB, TelegraphCQ, and Aurora/Borealis. In 2005, at the age of 29 he was declared one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by the Technology Review magazine. [cite web | url = http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=104 | title = 2005 Young Innovators Under 35 | accessmonthday = August 30 | accessyear = 2008 | author = MIT Technology Review | date = 2005 ] [cite web | url = http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/tr35.html | title = MIT shines in Tech Review's innovators list | accessmonthday = August 30 | accessyear = 2008 | author = Elizabeth A. Thomson | date = 2005 ] Professor Madden's latest project, CarTel, is a distributed wireless platform that monitors traffic and on-board diagnostic conditions in order to generate road surface reports.

Education

* Ph.D., Computer Science, August 2004. University of California Berkeley.
* M.S., Computer Science, 2001. University of California Berkeley.
* B.S., Computer Science, 1999. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

References

External links

* [http://db.lcs.mit.edu/madden/ Personal web page]
* [http://db.lcs.mit.edu/ MIT Database Group home page]