Jeff Dean
The Infrastructure
MapReduce, TensorFlow, TPUs and Google Brain
Rating
95Impact score
Domains
Distributed systemsML infrastructureModel training
Scouting report
Built much of the distributed systems layer modern computing runs on — MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner — then co-founded Google Brain and drove DistBelief, TensorFlow and the TPU programme. TensorFlow being released openly in 2015 is a large part of why the deep learning boom was not confined to a handful of labs.
Curator’s note
Open-sourcing TensorFlow did more for the field than most research.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Jeff Dean by Cmichel67, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Jeff Dean en.wikipedia.org
- 02TensorFlow github.com