Name Jennifer Widom Uncles Benjamin Widom Parents Harold Widom | Spouse Alex Aiken Role Computer scientist | |
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Institutions Stanford UniversityIBM Almaden Research CenterCornell UniversityXerox Palo Alto Research Center Thesis Trace-Based Network Proof Systems: Expressiveness and Completeness (1987) Notable awards ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award (2015)American Academy of Arts & Sciences Member (2009)National Academy of Engineering Member (2005)ACM Fellow (2005)Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2000) Books Database Systems: The Complete Book Education Cornell University (1987), Cornell University (1985), Indiana University Bloomington (1982) Similar People Hector Garcia‑Molina, Jeffrey Ullman, Stefano Ceri, Alex Aiken, Yingwei Cui | ||
Magic moments in research and teaching jennifer widom 20160316
Jennifer Widom is the Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She was the chair of the Computer Science Department from 2009 to 2014, and served as a senior associate dean from 2014 to 2016. In February 2017 she was named Dean of the School of Engineering. ACM conferred her with ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award to honor prominent women Computer Scientists for introduction of the fundamental concepts and architectures of active database systems in 2015. This award includes honorarium of $10,000
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She is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She is the daughter of Lois Widom and Harold Widom. Her husband, Alex Aiken, is also a computer science professor at Stanford.
Widom has co-authored four academic textbooks, providing students with a beginning and advanced introduction to database systems. These books offer a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, use, and implementation of applications and management systems. The course materials have been utilized at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments.
In late 2011, Widom launched one of the first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It was entitled "Introduction to databases" and had more than 100,000 enrolled students, launching at the same time as two other MOOCs by Stanford University School of Engineering faculty.