User:Ckg/Sanjay Ghemawat

Sanjay Ghemawat is a research scientist at google who works with MapReduce and other large distributed systems, where is has worked since 1999. Dr Ghemawat previously worked in DEC's Research division in Palo Alto, Ca.

Dr Ghemawat received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1995 with "The Modified Object Buffer: A Storage Management Technique for Object-Oriented Databases". He received his Bachelors from Cornell in 1987 and Masters from MIT in 1990. [dissertation]

Dr Ghemawat is also the author of a popular calendar application, iCal, primarily used in Unix/Linux systems. This application uses Tk Tk_(framework). This application has no relation to Apple's iCal application and does not use the .ics calendar format Ical_(Unix), although John Heidemann of [ISI|http://www.isi.edu] has written a conversion application. Although no longer maintained by Dr Ghemawat, iCal does have significant community maintenance and development projects, and continues to be available as part of many Linux distributions.

Other publications by Dr Ghemawat from his tenure at MIT are available.