Mike Cafarella
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| Alma mater | University of Washington, University of Edinburgh, Brown University |
| Known for | Hadoop, Nutch |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | Dan Suciu |
Mike Cafarella is a computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is a principal research scientistofcomputer scienceatMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[1] Before coming to MIT, he was a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan from 2009 to 2020. 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 bachelor's degree at Brown University, he earned a Ph.D. specializing in database management systems 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] and co-founder of Lattice Data, which was acquired by Apple in 2017.[6]
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