Jennifer Widom
Computer Scientist
1960 –
Who is Jennifer Widom?
Jennifer Widom is the chair of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University where she has worked on nontraditional data management. She is the Fletcher Jones Professor in Computer Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She is the daughter of Harold Widom.
Widom has co-authored four academic textbooks, providing students with a beginning and advanced introduction to database systems. These books offer a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, use, and implementation of applications and management systems. The course materials have been utilized at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments.
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- Born
- Oct 20, 1960
Ithaca - Also known as
- Jennifer D. Widom
- Parents
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Cornell University
Computer Science
( - 1987) - Master of Science, Cornell University
Computer Science
( - 1985) - Bachelor of Science, Indiana University Bloomington
Music; Mathematics
( - 1982) - Computer Science
- PhD, Cornell University
- Employment
- IBM
- Computer Science Department Chair, Stanford Computer Science
(2009 - ) - Fletcher Jones Professor, Stanford University
(2008 - ) - Stanford University
(2004 - 2008) - Associate Professor, Stanford University
(1996 - 2004) - Assistant Professor, Stanford University
(1993 - 1996) - Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center
(1988 - 1993) - Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University
(1987 - 1988) - Research Summer Intern, PARC
(1985 - 1985) - Research Summer Intern, PARC
(1984 - 1984)
- Lived in
- California
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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