Jennifer Widom

Widom earned a bachelor's degree in trumpet performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1982 and a PhD in computer science under David Gries from Cornell University in 1987.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Jennifer Widom|url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/jennifer-widom|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=January 23, 2019|website=|publisher=Stanford University website}}

Widom began her career as a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center and joined Stanford University as a professor in 1993.{{Cite web|title=Dean {{!}} Stanford University School of Engineering|url=https://engineering.stanford.edu/about/dean|access-date=2021-10-19|website=engineering.stanford.edu|language=en}} She was the chair of the Stanford computer science department from 2009 to 2014, and served as senior associate dean for faculty and academic affairs in the School of Engineering from 2014 to 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/|title=Jennifer Widom's Home Page|website=cs.stanford.edu|accessdate=5 March 2022}} In February 2017 she was named Dean of the School of Engineering.{{cite news|date=27 February 2017|title=Computer scientist Jennifer Widom named dean of Stanford School of Engineering|work=Stanford News|agency=Stanford News|url=http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/27/computer-scientist-jennifer-widom-named-dean-stanford-school-engineering/|accessdate=28 February 2017}}

Widom is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2005. In 2015, she won the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award, which honors prominent female computer scientists, for her work in the introduction of fundamental concepts and architectures of active database systems.{{cite web|title=About ACM Athena Lecturer Award|url=http://awards.acm.org/athena/|website=awards.acm.org}} Widom is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/jennifer-widom-elected-to-the-national-academy-of |title=Jennifer Widom elected to the National Academy of Engineering |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611063057/http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/jennifer-widom-elected-to-the-national-academy-of |archive-date=2011-06-11}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Winslett | first1 = M. | authorlink = Marianne Winslett| doi = 10.1145/1168092.1168105 | title = Jennifer Widom Speaks Out | journal = ACM SIGMOD Record | publisher = The Association for Computing Machinery| location = New York, New York, United States| volume = 35 | issue = 3| pages = 57–65| date =September 2006| s2cid = 40706158}}{{Cite web|last1=Stanford|first1=© Stanford University|last2=Notice|first2=California 94305 Copyright Complaints Trademark|date=2009-04-20|title=12 scholars named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences|url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/april22/academy-arts-sciences-fellows-042209.html|access-date=2021-10-19|website=Stanford University|language=en}}

Widom has co-authored four academic textbooks on database systems. These books focus on database design, use, and implementation of applications and management systems. The course materials have been utilized at the junior, senior, and graduate levels in the computer science department.

In late 2011, Widom launched one of the first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), entitled "Introduction to Databases". The course had more than 100,000 enrolled students, and launched at the same time as two other MOOCs by Stanford University School of Engineering faculty.{{cite book|author1=Fiona M. Hollands|author2=Devayani Tirthali|title=MOOCs in Higher Education: Institutional Goals and Paths Forward|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSOaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT26|date=25 September 2015|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-52737-0|pages=26–27}}{{cite book|author=Pethuraja.S|title=Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) For Everyone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaLtCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|date=2 May 2015|publisher=Pethuraja.S|isbn=978-93-5126-246-6|pages=3–4}} In 2018, she won the Erna Hamburger prize from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne -Women in Science and Humanities Foundation for her work with MOOCs.{{Cite web|url=http://www.agefi.com/home/entreprises/detail/edition/online/article/le-prix-erna-hamburger-a-ete-decerne-a-la-chercheuse-americaine-jennifer-widom-qui-a-lance-en-2011-un-des-cours-denseignement-en-ligne-481955.html|title=Le prix Erna Hamburger va à une pionnière des MOOCs|last=SA|first=Agefi|date=2018-10-06|website=www.agefi.com|language=fr|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=}}

Widom is the daughter of Lois Widom and Harold Widom, an American mathematician.{{Cite web |last=Laboratory |first=SLAC National Accelerator |title=SLAC Teams with Stanford to Tackle Exascale Challenges |url=https://cacm.acm.org/careers/202954-slac-teams-with-stanford-to-tackle-exascale-challenges/fulltext |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=cacm.acm.org |language=en}} Her uncle Benjamin Widom is on the Cornell faculty in chemistry.{{Cite web |url=https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/01/widom-in-memoriam.html |title=In Memoriam: Harold Widom (1932–2021) |date=January 26, 2021 |publisher=UC Santa Cruz}} Widom is married to Alex Aiken, former chair of Stanford's computer science department. The couple has a son and a daughter.{{Cite web |last=Mariwala |first=Vibhav |date=February 28, 2017 |title=Widom named dean of School of Engineering |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2017/02/28/widom-named-dean-of-school-of-engineering/ |work=The Stanford Daily}}

• Widom, Jennifer; (with H. Garcia-Molina and J. D. Ullman). Database Systems: The Complete Book, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2002. {{ISBN|978-0-13-031995-1}}
• Widom, Jennifer; (with J. D. Ullman). A First Course in Database Systems, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1997 and 2002. {{ISBN|978-0-13-035300-9}}
• Widom, Jennifer; (with H. Garcia-Molina and J.D. Ullman). Database System Implementation, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0-13-040264-6}}
• Widom, Jennifer; (with S. Ceri). Active Database Systems: Triggers and Rules for Advanced Database Processing, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1996. {{ISBN|978-1-55860-304-2}}

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