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CSE to host Bay Area Alumni Event, Aug. 13

July 26, 2008

Picture of Jeff Dean accepting the CSE Distinguished Alumni Award

The CSE department and alumnus Jeff Dean (B.S. 1990) will host a Bay Area CSE alumni event in Mountain View, California on Aug. 13, 2008 at the Computer History Museum. Dean, a Google Fellow, will be the event’s featured speaker. Institute of Technology Dean Steven Crouch will also be in attendance.

Dean is the 2007 recipient of the CSE Distinguished Alumni Award. He works at Google in the Systems Infrastructure Group. Dean’s contributions at Google range from low level libraries to high level components and services, all used extensively by various groups and products at Google as building blocks. Dean has helped design and implement five generations of the software to handle searches entered on Google.com, and played important roles in several of Google’s advertising products. Dean has also worked on key pieces of distributed systems infrastructure, including MapReduce and BigTable.

For more information about this event, please contact Anastacia Quinn Davis at aqdavis@umn.edu.