Jennifer Widom is a Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering Departments 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)
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Sorry about the outdated photos -- these kids grow up so fast it's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.
