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(photo by Hector Garcia-Molina; actual hair may vary)
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Research |
- Current projects:
- My standard Pig talk slides; video (I've given some version of this talk at Berkeley, CMU, Cornell, Michigan, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, UCSD, UIUC, UMass, Washington, Wisconsin - with various levels of caffeine and hair gel)
- An interview with one of Yahoo!'s most prominent Pig users, including his take on Pig Latin vs. SQL: video
- A recent, anonymous blog comment states that the problem with "database people" is that they think "everything must be done in/with a database." I am a database person and Pig is about processing data outside the context of a database. Note to world: "database people" are really "data people." We love you even if you don't live in our base.
- Publications
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Current and former Ph.D. students |
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Professional activities |
- Editorial board member, Journal on Foundations and Trends in Databases
- Associate editor, Encyclopedia of Database Systems
- Past/present program committee member for: CIDR, ICDE, InfoVis, KDD, SIGIR, SIGMOD, VLDB, WebDB, WSDM, WWW Search Track
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Biographical sketch |
Christopher Olston is a senior research scientist at Yahoo! Research, working in the areas of data management and web search. Olston is occasionally seen behaving as a professor, and has taught undergrad and grad courses at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from Stanford under fellowships from the university and the National Science Foundation. His Bachelor's degree is from Berkeley with highest honors. Olston is an avid Cal fan but likes to rollerblade at Stanford.
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