David F. Bacon
Other work includes the exploitation of new hardware technologies in databases, securing mission-critical hyper-scale systems against data corruption, and application of artificial intelligence to development of complex software systems. He is a co-founder of the Dagstuhl seminar series on Hardware Support for Cloud Database Systems (2024, 2026).
Prior to Google, he was a Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research, and a visiting professor at Harvard in 2009-2010. His work included compilation and run-time systems for object-oriented programming [1, 2], hardware compilation [1, 2, 3], and real-time garbage collection [1, 2].
David received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1985 and his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1997. He is a Fellow of the ACM, and has served on the governing boards of ACM SIGPLAN and SIGBED.
Publications: DBLP, Google Scholar. Patents: Justia.
