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dan suciu university of michigan poughkeepsie , new york 150px computer science hadoop , nutch mike cafarella - ann arbor bowling champion.jpg mike cafarella
 mike cafarella university university of washington , university of edinburgh , brown
mike cafarella

mike cafarella is a computer scientist specializing in database management systems .
he is currently a professor of computer science at university of michigan .
along with doug cutting , he is one of the original co-founders of the hadoop and nutch open-source projects .
cafarella was born in new york city but moved to westwood , ma early in his childhood .
after completing his bachelor 's degree at brown university , he earned a ph.d. specializing in database management system at the university of washington under dan suciu and oren etzioni .
he was also involved in several notable start-ups , including tellme networks .
