AMPLAB was a

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

lab focused on big data analytics located in Soda Hall. The name stands for the Algorithms, Machines and People Lab. It has been publishing papers since 2008 and was officially launched in 2011. The AMPLab was co-directed by Professor Michael J. Franklin, Michael I. Jordan, and

Ion Stoica Ion Stoica is a Romanian-American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and co-director of AMPLab. He co-fo ...

. While AMPLab has worked on a wide variety of big data projects (known as BDAS, the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack), many know it as the lab that invented

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, and Apache Spark, and Alluxio. Berkeley launched RISELab as the successor to AMPLab in 2017.

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