Jennifer Widom is the Fletcher Jones Professor and Chair of the
Computer Science Department 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 and the American Academy
of Arts & Sciences; she received the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd
Innovations Award in 2007 and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000; she
has served on a variety of program committees, advisory boards, and
editorial boards. Complete CV
here
General Information
Department of Computer Science
Gates Building 4A
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-9040
Phone: 650-723-9745 (chair's office, mornings), 650-723-7690 (regular office, afternoons); 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
getting in on the act: I posted a discussion
and summary of my SIGMOD 2007 Research Principles Revealed
talk.
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".
My current one-hour talk for a general audience is "Principled Research in Database Systems." Here are the slides in PowerPoint and pdf.
The above talk is partly derived from an even more general
half-hour invited talk I gave at the SIGMOD 2007
conference, "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.
Relatively recent one-hour research talks are "Trio: A System for Data,
Uncertainty, and Lineage" (slides in PowerPoint
or pdf), and
"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
