__NOTOC__ Mike Cafarella is a

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

specializing in

database management system In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and an ...

s. He is a principal

research scientist A scientist is a person who researches to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences. In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, philosophers engaged in the philosophical study of nature ...

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intelligence Lab ...

. Before coming to MIT, he was a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at

the University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Michigan is one of th ...

from 2009 to 2020. Along with

Doug Cutting Douglass Read Cutting is a software designer, advocate for, and creator of open-source search technology. He founded two technology projects, Lucene and Nutch, with Mike Cafarella. The Apache Software Foundation now manages both projects. Cutti ...

, he is one of the original co-founders of the

Hadoop Apache Hadoop () is a collection of Open-source software, open-source software utilities for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. It provides a software framework for Clustered file system, distributed storage and processing of big data usin ...

and

Nutch Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable Open-source license, open source web crawler software project. Features Nutch is coded entirely in the Java (programming language), Java programming language, but data is written in language-ind ...

open-source projects. Cafarella was born in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

but moved to Westwood, MA early in his childhood. After completing his bachelor's degree at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

, he earned a Ph.D. specializing in database management systems at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

under Dan Suciu and

Oren Etzioni Oren Etzioni (born 1964) is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington, and founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). Etzioni is a co-founder oVercept an AI startup. Etzioni is the found ...

. He was also involved in several notable start-ups, including

Tellme Networks Tellme Networks, Inc. was an American company founded in 1999 by Mike McCue and Angus Davis, which specialized in telephone-based applications. Its headquarters were in Mountain View, California. Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft on Mar ...

, and co-founder of Lattice Data, which was acquired by Apple in 2017.

Education

* Ph.D., Computer Science, June 2009.

. * M.Sc., Computer Science, 2005.

. * M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence, 1997.

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

. * B.S., Computer Science, 1996.

References

External links

Personal web page at MIT

Profile page at CSAIL

Personal web page at University of Michigan

Michigan Database Group home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cafarella, Mike Living people American computer scientists Database researchers University of Washington College of Engineering alumni Brown University alumni University of Michigan faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Edinburgh