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Jeff Dean
Legendary software engineer whose distributed systems enabled planetary-scale AI.
Organizations
Google / Google Brain
Major Achievements
- •Co-invented MapReduce, solving the fundamental software infrastructure challenge for processing 'Big Data'.
- •Co-founded Google Brain and led the development of TensorFlow.
- •His engineering principles enabled data ingestion speeds crucial for modern deep neural networks.
- •Led Google's AI division from 2018 onwards.
Key Papers
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat · Communications of the ACM · 2008
Videos
Jeff Dean: AI isn't as smart as you think -- but it could be | TED
TED
What Happens After A 1,000,000x AI Compute Leap? | Jeff Dean
Two Minute Papers