• FOSDEM 2017
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• Jim Dowling

Jim Dowling is an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm as well as a Senior Researcher at SICS Swedish ICT. He received his Ph.D. in Distributed Systems from Trinity College Dublin (2005) and worked at MySQL AB (2005-2007). He is lead architect of Hops, a next generation, open-source distribution of Hadoop with support for distributed metadata. He is a regular speaker at Hadoop industry events.

Jim Dowling is an Associate Professor at the School of Information and Communications Technology in the Department of Software and Computer Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as well as a Senior Researcher at SICS Swedish ICT. He received his Ph.D. in Distributed Systems from Trinity College Dublin (2005) and worked at MySQL AB (2005-2007). He is a distributed systems researcher and his research interests are in the area of high-performance, large-scale distributed computer systems. He is lead architect of Hadoop Open Platform-as-a-Service (www.hops.io), a next generation distribution of Hadoop for Humans. He teaches courses on both Deep Learning and peer-to-peer at KTH.

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