Jennifer Widom is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at
Stanford University. She received her Bachelors degree from the
Indiana University 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, she received the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd
Innovations Award in 2007 and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000, and she
has served on a variety of program committees, advisory boards, and
editorial boards. Complete CV
here
General Information
Jennifer is currently on leave. She
has embarked on a family year off for
travel, June 2007 - August 2008.
Department of Computer Science
Gates Building 4A
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-9040
Phone: 650-723-7690, Fax: 650-725-2588
Email: widom@cs.stanford.edu
Administrator: Marianne Siroker, siroker@cs.stanford.edu, 650-723-0872
Office: Gates Building #422 (directions)
Following the spirit of the times, students in our research
group recently launched a blog, aptly named the InfoBlog. Even faculty are
permitted to post, though I haven't yet.
In a recent interview
(pdf) in SIGMOD
Record, I "speak out on luck, what constitutes success, when to get
out of an area, the importance of choosing the right husband,
outlandish vacations, how hard it is to be an assistant professor, and
more".
At the SIGMOD
2007 conference I gave an invited talk entitled Research Principles
Revealed. Here are the slides in PowerPoint and
pdf.
At the CIDR
2007 conference, two anonymous speakers, "Prof. Short"
and "Dr. Tall", gave a short talk entitled The Blind Leading the
Blind. Here are the slides in PowerPoint and pdf, and a photo.
My current research talks are usually drawn from Trio: A
System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage (slides in PowerPoint or pdf).
I also sometimes talk about The Stanford Data Stream Management
System (slides in PowerPoint or
pdf).
Research Projects
Current project
Trio: A DBMS for
integrated management of data, accuracy, and lineage
Jennifer is married to Alex Aiken. They have
an adorable son Tim (age
10-1/2 as of this photo - spring '06), and a darling daughter Emily
(age 9 as of this photo - spring '06). (Thanks to Hector
"Shutterbug" Garcia-Molina for the excellent portrait work.)
Sorry for the incredibly outdated photos -- these kids grow up so
fast it's hard to keep current. Here are Tim and Emily enjoying some
light reading in their earlier years.
