Samuel R. Madden (born August 4, 1976) is an American

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specializing in

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s. He is currently a

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at the

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Career

Madden was born and raised in

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. After completing bachelor's and master's degrees at

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, he earned a Ph.D. specializing in database management at the

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under Michael Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein. Before joining MIT as a tenure-track professor, Madden held a

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position at Intel's Berkeley Research center. Madden has been involved in a number database research projects, including TinyDB, TelegraphCQ, Aurora/Borealis,

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, and

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. In 2005, at the age of 29 he was named to the

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as one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by

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magazine. Recent projects include DataHub - a "github for data" platform that provides hosted database storage, versioning, ingest, search, and visualization (commercialized as

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), CarTel - a distributed wireless platform that monitors traffic and on-board diagnostic conditions in order to generate road surface reports, and Relational Cloud - a project investigating research issues in building a database-as-a-service. Madden's has published more than 250 scholarly articles, with more than 59,000 citations, with an

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of 101. In addition, Madden is a co-founder of Cambridge Mobile Telematics and Vertica Systems. Before enrolling at MIT and while an undergraduate student there, Madden wrote printer driver software for Palomar Software, a San Diego-area

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software company. He is also a Technology Expert Partner at Omega Venture Partners.

Education

* Ph.D., Computer Science, 2003.

. * M.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.

. * B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.

. * Morse High School, 1994. Samuel F.B. Morse High School.

References

1976 births Living people American computer scientists Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty People from San Diego University of California, Berkeley alumni {{compu-scientist-stub