American computer scientist and software engineer
Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" Dean
(born July 23, 1968) is an American
computer scientist
and
software engineer
. Since 2018, he has been the lead of
Google AI
.
[1]
He was appointed
Alphabet's
chief scientist in 2023 after a reorganization of Alphabet's AI focused groups.
[2]
Education
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Dean received a B.S.,
summa cum laude
, from the
University of Minnesota
in
computer science
and economics in 1990.
[3]
He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of Washington
in 1996, working under
Craig Chambers
on
compilers
[4]
and whole-program optimization techniques for
object-oriented programming languages
.
[5]
He was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering
in 2009, which recognized his work on "the science and engineering of large-scale
distributed computer systems
".
[6]
Career
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Before joining
Google
, Dean worked at
DEC
/
Compaq
's Western Research Laboratory,
[7]
where he worked on profiling tools, microprocessor architecture and information retrieval.
[8]
Much of his work was completed in close collaboration with
Sanjay Ghemawat
.
[9]
[4]
Before graduate school, he worked at the
World Health Organization
's Global Programme on
AIDS
, developing software for
statistical modeling
and forecasting of the
HIV
/
AIDS
pandemic
.
[8]
Dean joined Google in mid-1999, and was appointed the head of its
Artificial Intelligence
division in April 2018.
[10]
While at Google, he designed and implemented large portions of the company's advertising,
crawling
,
indexing
and query serving systems, along with various pieces of the distributed computing infrastructure that underlies most of Google's products.
[4]
At various times, he has also worked on improving search quality,
statistical machine translation
and internal software development tools and has had significant involvement in the engineering hiring process.
The projects Dean has worked on include:
- Original design of
Protocol Buffers
, an open-source data interchange format.
- Spanner
, a scalable, multi-version, globally distributed, and synchronously replicated database
- Some of the production system design and statistical machine translation system for
Google Translate
- Bigtable
, a large-scale semi-structured storage system
[4]
- MapReduce
, a system for large-scale data processing applications
[4]
- LevelDB
, an open-source on-disk key-value store
- DistBelief, a proprietary machine-learning system for deep neural networks that was eventually refactored into TensorFlow
- TensorFlow
, an open-source machine-learning software library
[4]
He was an early member of
Google Brain
,
[4]
a team that studies large-scale artificial neural networks, and he has headed artificial intelligence efforts since they were split from Google Search.
[11]
Dean was the subject of controversy when the ethics in AI researcher,
Timnit Gebru
, challenged Google's research review process, ultimately leading to her departure from the company. Dean responded by publishing a letter on Google's approach to the research process
[12]
that was the subject of further criticism and controversy.
[13]
Philanthropy
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Dean and his wife, Heidi Hopper, started the Hopper-Dean Foundation and began making philanthropic grants in 2011. In 2016, the foundation gave $2 million each to
UC Berkeley
,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
,
University of Washington
,
Stanford University
and
Carnegie Mellon University
to support programs that promote diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (
STEM
).
[14]
Personal life
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Dean is married and has two daughters.
[4]
Awards and honors
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Books
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Dean was interviewed for the 2018 book
Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it
by the American futurist
Martin Ford
.
[18]
Major publications
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See also
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References
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Vincent, James (April 3, 2018).
"Google veteran Jeff Dean takes over as company's AI chief"
.
The Verge
. Retrieved
November 29,
2023
.
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Elias, Jennifer (April 20, 2023).
"Read the internal memo Alphabet sent in merging A.I.-focused groups DeepMind and Google Brain"
.
CNBC
. Retrieved
June 22,
2023
.
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"Jeff Dean"
.
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a
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d
e
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h
"The Friendship That Made Google Huge"
.
The New Yorker
. Retrieved
December 3,
2018
.
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"STANFORD TALKS; Jeff Dean: TensorFlow Overview and Future Directions"
. Stanford University. January 21, 2016
. Retrieved
August 15,
2016
.
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"Jeff Dean elected to National Academy of Engineering"
.
UW CSE News
. University of Washington. February 5, 2009
. Retrieved
August 15,
2016
.
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"Jeffrey A Dean - Award Winner"
. Association for Computing Machinery
. Retrieved
August 15,
2018
.
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Metz, Cade (August 8, 2008).
"If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet"
.
Wired
. Retrieved
August 19,
2016
.
- ^
a
b
"Jeff Dean"
.
Speakerpedia
. Retrieved
August 19,
2016
.
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Metz, Cade (August 8, 2012).
"If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet"
.
Wired
. Retrieved
December 16,
2017
.
- ^
Anmol (May 8, 2018).
"Google Consolidates AI and Machine Learning Research Efforts Under Rebranded Google AI"
.
Beebom
. Retrieved
June 22,
2023
.
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D'Onfro, Jillian (April 2, 2018).
"Google is splitting A.I. into its own business unit and shaking up its search leadership"
.
CNBC
. Retrieved
April 3,
2018
.
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Dean, Jeff (December 3, 2020).
"About Google's approach to research publication"
. Google
. Retrieved
December 5,
2020
– via Twitter.
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Ghaffray, Shirin (December 4, 2020).
"The controversy behind a star Google AI researcher's departure"
.
Vox
. Retrieved
December 5,
2020
.
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"$1M Hopper-Dean Foundation Gift for Diversity in CS"
. UC Berkeley
. Retrieved
January 29,
2019
.
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Williams, Tate (August 10, 2016).
"One of Google's Top Programmers Has Made STEM Diversity a Philanthropic Cause"
.
Inside Philanthropy
. Retrieved
August 15,
2016
.
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"$1 million gift to support diversity in STEM education"
. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. Retrieved
October 25,
2020
.
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ACM-Infosys Foundation Award
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"The Mark Weiser Award"
. ACM SIGOPS
. Retrieved
July 5,
2019
.
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Newly Elected Members
,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
, April 2016
, retrieved
April 20,
2016
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Ford, Marin (2018).
Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it
. Packt Publishing Ltd.
ISBN
9781789131260
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