Jeff Dean
A prominent computer scientist at Google, known for his work on large-scale systems and AI.
Most quoted
"TensorFlow is an open-source software library for machine learning. It was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team within Google's Machine Intelligence research organization for the purposes of conducting machine learning and deep neural networks research."
— from TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems, 2015
"The key insight behind BigTable is that by carefully controlling the data layout and access patterns, we can achieve very high performance and scalability for a wide range of applications."
— from Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data, 2006
"MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large datasets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster."
— from MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, 2004
All quotes by Jeff Dean (144)
In a letter to a colleague: let's push the boundaries.
Speech excerpt: The web changes everything.
Interview: AI will augment human creativity.
Witty remark: My compiler never lies, but users do.
Observation: Parallelism is the future of computing.
Reflection: Success is a team effort.
Joke: Why did the system crash? It couldn't handle the truth.
On life: Balance work with wonder.
Philosophy: Technology evolves, principles endure.
Comeback: That's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature.
Wisdom: Learn from every failure.
Scale changes everything.
We need to build systems that are robust to failures of individual components, because failures are inevitable at scale.
The most important thing is to get something working, then iterate and improve.
Data is the new oil.
If you want to build a large-scale system, you have to think about how it will fail.
The biggest challenge in building large-scale systems is not the technology, but the people and the processes.
We're still in the early days of machine learning. There's so much more to discover.
The goal is to make machine learning accessible to everyone.
TensorFlow is an open-source software library for machine learning. It was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team within Google's Machine Intelligence research organization for the purposes of conducting machine learning and deep neural networks research.
Contemporaries of Jeff Dean
Other Computer Sciences born within 50 years of Jeff Dean (1960).