{{Short description|American computer scientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Howard Gobioff | image = File:Howard Gobioff.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1971 | birth_place = | death_date = 2008 (aged 36) | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | fields = Computer science | workplaces = Google | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | religion = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | footnotes = }}
'''Howard Gobioff''' (1971 – 2008) was an American computer scientist and software engineer. He was one of the architects of the Google File System and a co-author of the 2003 paper "The Google File System".<ref name="SOSP">{{cite book |date=October 19–22, 2003 |last1=Ghemawat |first1=Sanjay |last2=Gobioff |first2=Howard |last3=Leung |first3=Shun-Tak |title=Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles |chapter=The Google file system |page=29 |doi=10.1145/945445.945450 |isbn=1581137575 |s2cid=221261373 |url=https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf |accessdate=2014-08-09 }}</ref> At Google, he worked on advertising, crawling, and indexing systems, and later led the company's Tokyo research and development center.<ref name="Alumni2">{{cite news |url=http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/People/distinguished-alumni.shtml#2008 |title=PDL People: Distinguished Alumni: 2008: Howard Gobioff |work=Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science |publisher=Carnegie Mellon University |date=n.d. |accessdate=2014-08-10 }}</ref> He died from lymphoma in 2008.<ref name="Remember">{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Brinda |url=http://www.mbhsmagnet.org/news/spring09/gobioff |title=Remembering Howard |work=Magnet Foundation Newsletter |publisher=Montgomery Blair High School Magnet Foundation |date=Spring 2009 |accessdate=2014-08-09 |archive-date=2014-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810024727/http://www.mbhsmagnet.org/news/spring09/gobioff |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Education== Gobioff graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studied computer science and mathematics.<ref name="Alumni">{{cite news |url=https://www.cs.umd.edu/community/alumni/halloffame/15677 |title=Alumni Hall Of Fame: Howard Gobioff |work=cs.umd.edu |publisher=Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland |date=n.d. |accessdate=2014-08-09 }}</ref> He later earned a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked on the Network-Attached Secure Disks project.<ref name="NASD">{{cite news |last=Gibson |first=Garth |url=http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/NASD/ |title=PDL Projects: NASD: Network Attached Secure Disks |work=pdl.cmu.edu |publisher=Parallel Data Lab |date=2012-03-12 |accessdate=2014-08-09 }}</ref><ref name="Alumni" />
==Career== In 1999, Gobioff joined Google, which was then a 40-person startup. As a software engineer, he worked on the company's advertising system and its crawling and indexing systems. In 2004, as an engineering director, he launched and led Google's Tokyo research and development center.<ref name="Alumni2" />
Gobioff was named as a co-inventor on 11 U.S. patents, many of which were related to distributed file systems, data replication, namespace locking, record append operations, garbage collection, and search engine crawling.<ref name="Patents">{{cite web |url=http://www.freepatentsonline.com/result.html?p=1&edit_alert=&srch=xprtsrch&query_txt=IN%2F%22gobioff%2C+howard%22&uspat=on&date_range=all&stemming=on&sort=relevance&search=Search |title=Patents: Inventor: Howard Gobioff |publisher=FreePatentsOnline.com |date=2014 |accessdate=2014-08-15 }}</ref>
===Google File System=== Gobioff was one of the architects of the Google File System, a distributed file system developed by Google for large-scale data processing. With Sanjay Ghemawat and Shun-Tak Leung, he co-authored "The Google File System", a 2003 paper that described the system's design, measurements, and use in production at Google.<ref name="SOSP" />
Apache Hadoop's MapReduce and Hadoop Distributed File System components were originally derived respectively from Google's MapReduce and Google File System papers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hadoop.apache.org/ |title=Hadoop-related projects at |publisher=Hadoop.apache.org |accessdate=2013-10-17}}</ref> Using the Google File System and MapReduce, or the Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, a project can perform a computation over 300 Tbytes of data using 1,000 nodes, which previously would have been unachievable for most projects.<ref name="Case">{{cite journal |title=The Case for Cloud Computing |journal=IT Professional |date=March–April 2009 |last=Grossman |first=Robert L. |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=23–27 |issn=1520-9202 |doi=10.1109/MITP.2009.40 |s2cid=3996655 |url=http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~freetempo/CN2011/hw/hw1/04804045.pdf |accessdate=2014-08-09 |archive-date=2013-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902230252/http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~freetempo/CN2011/hw/hw1/04804045.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ghemawat|first=Sanjay|title=The Google File System Paper|url=https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf|access-date=25 Feb 2022|website=Google Research}}</ref>
== Gobioff Foundation==
Gobioff founded the Gobioff Foundation in 2007. After his death, the foundation continued to support arts and human rights initiatives, including arts microgrants in the Tampa Bay area.<ref name="Foundation">{{cite news |url=https://www.gobioff-foundation.org/ |title=About the Gobioff Foundation |work=Gobioff-Foundation.org |publisher= The Gobioff Foundation |date=2019 |accessdate=2019-03-07 }}</ref><ref name="Think">{{cite news |url=http://www.thinksmalltothinkbig.org/ |title=Innovative Funding for Arts Projects in the Tampa Bay Area |work=thinksmalltothinkbig.org |date=n.d. |accessdate=2014-08-09 |archive-date=2014-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810030526/http://www.thinksmalltothinkbig.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2014, the Gobioff Foundation joined a team of Florida grantmakers led by the Florida Philanthropic Network on Capitol Hill to meet with Florida's congressional delegation to discuss local philanthropic efforts and related legislative and public policy issues. These meetings were part of the annual Foundations on the Hill event organized by the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, in partnership with the Council on Foundations and the Alliance for Charitable Reform.<ref name="Grantmakers">{{cite news |url=http://blog.fpnetwork.org/2014/03/17/why-hill-visits-matter-florida-grantmakers-make-their-voices-heard-in-dc/ |title=Why Hill Visits Matter: Florida Grantmakers Make Their Voices Heard in DC |work=fpnetwork.org |publisher=Florida Philanthropic Network |date=2014-03-17 |accessdate=2014-08-10 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140812025023/http://blog.fpnetwork.org/2014/03/17/why-hill-visits-matter-florida-grantmakers-make-their-voices-heard-in-dc/ |archive-date=2014-08-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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