Samuel Madden (computer scientist)
{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|08|4}}
| birth_place = San Diego, California, United States
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| field = Computer Science
| work_institution = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| education = Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.Eng., 1999)
UC Berkeley (PhD, 2003)
| doctoral_advisor = Michael J. Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein
| doctoral_students = Daniel Abadi, Alvin Cheung, Ryan Newton, Eugene Wu
| known_for = Cambridge Mobile Telematics, C-Store, Vertica, TinyDB, TelegraphCQ, H-Store
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Samuel R. Madden (born August 4, 1976) is an American computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is currently a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Madden was born and raised in San Diego, California. After completing bachelor's and master's degrees at MIT, he earned a PhD specializing in database management at the University of California Berkeley 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.
Madden has been involved several database research projects, including TinyDB, TelegraphCQ, Aurora/Borealis, C-Store, and H-Store. In 2005, at the age of 29, he was named to the TR35 as one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review magazine. Recent projects include DataHub - a "github for data" platform that provides hosted database storage, versioning, ingest, search, and visualization (commercialized as Instabase), CarTel - a distributed wireless platform that monitors traffic and on-board diagnostic conditions in order to generate road surface reports, and Relational Cloud - a project investigating research issues in building a database-as-a-service.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} Madden has published more than 250 scholarly articles, with more than 59,000 citations, with an h-index of 101.
In addition, Madden is a co-founder of Cambridge Mobile Telematics and Vertica Systems. Before enrolling at MIT and while an undergraduate student there, Madden wrote printer driver software for Palomar Software, a San Diego-area Macintosh software company. He is also a Technology Expert at Omega Venture Partners.
In 2024, he was appointed the faculty head of computer science at MIT.{{cite web |last=Park |first=Terri |date=September 4, 2024 |title=Sam Madden named faculty head of computer science in EECS |url=https://news.mit.edu/2024/sam-madden-named-faculty-head-computer-science-eecs-0904 |website=MIT News}}
Awards and recognitions
Madden won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2004 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.
He received VLDB's best paper award in 2007 and VLDB's test of time award in 2015 for his 2005 paper on C-Store.
He also received a test of time award in SIGMOD 2013 for his 2003 paper The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor for Sensor Networks.
In 2020 he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.{{cite web |title=2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today’s Computing Innovations|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2021/january/fellows-2020
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He received the 2024 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for his contributions to multiple aspects of data management, including column-oriented database systems, high performance transaction processing, and systems for mobile and sensor data.
References
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{{cite web | url=https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ewu/ | title = Eugene Wu Website}}
{{Cite web|title=Alvin Cheung Website|url=https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~akcheung/}}
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Category:American computer scientists
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
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Category:People from San Diego
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Sloan Research Fellows
Category:2020 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery