Three Favorite Results
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14:30 15th October 2015 ( week 1, Michaelmas Term 2015 )051
Some recent invitations inspired me to reflect upon the research I've conducted over my career to date. Conventional wisdom says good things come in threes, so I've picked three of my favorite results to talk about. For each one I'll explain the context and motivation, the result itself, and why it ranks as one of my favorites. The three results span foundations, implementation, and user-interface, and they represent three of my favorite research areas: semistructured data, data streams, and uncertain data.
Bio
Jennifer Widom is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
at Stanford University, and the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in Stanford's School of Engineering.
She served as chair of the Computer Science Department from 2009-2014. Jennifer received her Bachelor's degree from the Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music in 1982 and her Computer Science Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987. She was a Research
Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993. Her research interests span many
aspects of nontraditional data management. She is an ACM Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the
American Academy of Arts & Sciences; she received the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award in 2015, the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd
Innovations Award in 2007, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She has served on a variety of program committees, advisory
boards, and editorial boards.