David F. Bacon

David F. Bacon

David F. Bacon leads the design and evolution of the Spanner storage engine (Ressi) along with the exploitation of new hardware technologies in databases. The team is based in Google's New York City office. David received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1985 and his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1997.

His prior work includes compilation and run-time systems for object-oriented programming, hardware compilation, and real-time garbage collection. He is a Fellow of the ACM, and has served on the governing boards of ACM SIGPLAN and SIGBED.

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    Keynote: Hardware Innovation for Zettabyte-scale Databases
    David Bacon
    (2023)
    Detection and Prevention of Silent Data Corruption in an Exabyte-scale Database System
    David F. Bacon
    The 18th IEEE Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic – System Effects, IEEE (2022)
    Spanner: Becoming a SQL System
    David F. Bacon
    Nathan Bales
    Nico Bruno
    Brian F. Cooper
    Adam Dickinson
    Andrew Fikes
    Campbell Fraser
    Andrey Gubarev
    Milind Joshi
    Eugene Kogan
    Alex Lloyd
    Sergey Melnik
    Rajesh Rao
    Dave Shue
    Chris Taylor
    Marcel van der Holst
    Dale Woodford
    Proc. SIGMOD 2017, pp. 331-343 (to appear)
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