Michael Franklin Speaks Out on Data Science

Abstract

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we're at the 2017 SIGMOD and PODS conference in Chicago. I have here with me Mike Franklin, who is the chair of the Computer Science department at the University of Chicago. Before that, for many years, Mike was a professor at Berkeley where he also served as a chair of the Computer Science division. Mike was a co-founder and director of the Algorithms, Machines, and People Lab, better known as the AMPLab. He is an ACM fellow, a two-time winner of the SIGMOD Ten Year Test of Time Award, and a founder of the successful startup, Truviso. Mike's Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin Madison. So, Mike, welcome!