Christophe Bisciglia

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Christophe Bisciglia (born December 2nd, 1980) is a senior engineer at Google and a visiting scientist at the University of Washington. He founded and leads Google's Academic Cloud Computing Initiative which provides Google hosted computational resources to facilitate education and research to universities around the world.^[1] In February 2008, the National Science Foundation joined this initiative to distribute Google's computational resources to the national research community.

1 Computer Science
2 Biography
3 Selected publications
4 Notes

[edit] Computer Science

Bisciglia's primary contribution to computer science has been the introduction of hands on large-scale computing into the undergraduate computer science curriculum originally developed at the University of Washington. In 2008, along with co-authors, Aaron Kimball and Sierra Michels-Slettvet, Bisciglia published a paper titled "Cluster Computing for Web-Scale Data Processing." This paper details the first MapReduce based large-scale computing course ever offered to undergraduate students, and has provided the foundation for similar courses at CMU, MIT, and Tsinghua University.

[edit] Biography

Bisciglia attended the University of Washington from 1999 to 2003 and graduated with a B.S. degree from the department of Computer Science and Engineering. During his time at UW, he assisted in teaching classes on introductory programming, data structures, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.

Bisciglia was raised primarily in Gig Harbor, Washington. He was home schooled, ranging between part and full time, for most of his youth which allowed him to raise Icelandic horses and pursue other hobbies.