Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia Wins ACM Prize for Systems That Underpin Modern AI

The creator of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow receives the ACM Prize — recognition for the unsexy infrastructure that makes large-scale ML possible.

Matei Zaharia, co-founder and CTO of Databricks, has been awarded the ACM Prize in Computing for his contributions to data systems that enable modern AI and machine learning, as announced by @databricks. The award recognizes Zaharia's work on Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow — tools that don't make headlines but are embedded in the training and serving pipelines of virtually every major AI system.

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