Sam Madden
Sam Madden is a professor of computer science at MIT and the director of big data @CSAIL, an industry-university collaboration to explore issues related to managing data that is too big, too fast or too hard for existing data processing systems to handle.
He is known for contributions to the field of database systems, including widely cited papers on topics related to managing sensor data, column-oriented databases and databases-as-a-service. and was a co-founder of Vertica (acquired by HP).
