Christophe Bisciglia
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Christophe Bisciglia | |
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| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) |
| Education | Computer Science and Engineering from University of Washington |
| Known for | Co-founding Cloudera and WibiData |
Christophe Bisciglia (born 1980)[1] is an American entrepreneur known for his work with big data and cloud computing. Known for helping to popularize the programming model MapReduce while working at Google, and in addition he co-founded Cloudera and WibiData.
Bisciglia was born in 1980,[1] and raised primarily in Gig Harbor, Washington. Bisciglia attended the University of Washington from 1999 to 2003 and graduated in 2003 with a bachelor of science degree from the department of Computer Science and Engineering.[2] In 2015 he received an Honorary Doctorate degree from University of Washington.[2]
Computer science
Bisciglia's primary contribution to computer science has been the introduction of hands-on large-scale computing into the undergraduate computer science curriculum originally developed at the University of Washington. In 2008, along with co-authors, Aaron Kimball and Sierra Michels-Slettvet, Bisciglia published a research paper titled "Cluster Computing for Web-Scale Data Processing." This paper details the first MapReduce based large-scale computing course ever offered to undergraduate students, and has provided the foundation for similar courses at Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Tsinghua University.
