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Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella

Research Scientist, MIT CSAIL, formerly @Michigan. Cofounder of Nutch, Hadoop, Lattice Data, but the bad ideas are mine alone.

Joined July 2009
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Michael Cafarella retweeted
Hazy Research: Strip Mall AI Research Club
@HazyResearch
29 Mar 2025
The Great American AI Race. I wrote something about how we need a holistic AI effort from academia, industry, and the US government to have the best shot at a freer, better educated, and healthier world in AI. I’m a mega bull on the US and open source AI. Maybe we’re cooking something bigger… stay tuned or contact us.
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A very cool, interesting new paper on how to orchestrate and optimize data processing tasks with LLMs
Liana@lianapatel_
18 Jul 2024
Super excited to share our work on LOTUS, a query engine for reasoning over large corpuses of data with LLMs! Joint work w/ the amazing @sid_jha1, @matei_zaharia & @guestrin Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.11418 Try out the code: github.com/stanford-futureda… 🧵👇
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This project has been a ton of fun to work on. If you think it can solve a problem that's important to you, please get in touch!
Matthew Russo
@RussoMatthew
30 May 2024
Replying to @RussoMatthew
Finally, this work is the product of a great research team: Chunwei Liu (@Tranway), Michael Cafarella (@MikeCafarella), Lei Cao, Peter Chen, Zui Chen (@ZuiChen), Michael Franklin (@franklinmj), Tim Kraska (@tim_kraska), Sam Madden (@samrmadden), Gerardo Vitagliano (@gerarvita)
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Check out the paper, code on GitHub, and colab demo
Matthew Russo
@RussoMatthew
30 May 2024
Replying to @RussoMatthew
If this (very high-level) summary of our work has piqued your interest -- go read our full paper! 📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14696 💻Code: github.com/mitdbg/palimpzest… We would love to hear any feedback, ideas for more use cases, and/or opportunities for collaboration.
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Michael Cafarella retweeted
Matthew Russo
@RussoMatthew
30 May 2024
We’re excited to announce a pre-print and prototype system for Palimpzest: A Declarative System for Optimizing AI Workloads. Check out our full paper, blog post, and demo: - 📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14696 - 📬Blog Post: dsg.csail.mit.edu/projects/p… - 💻Demo: bit.ly/pz-demo
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Michael Cafarella retweeted
Adam Marcus@marcua
7 Feb 2021
I’ve been intrigued by the world of tools that automate what typically takes data practitioners days to weeks of error-prone/not-so-repeatable work. I call this space autodata, and wrote a blog post about it: blog.marcua.net/2021/02/07/a…

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I love Election Day.
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Michael Cafarella retweeted
Marshall Cohen
@MarshallCohen
16 Oct 2020
A photo is circulating online of Trump holding up the New York Post with Hunter Biden on the cover. A White House spokesman told CNN the photo is real. The alleged emails underpinning the NY Post stories may be part of a Russian disinformation campaign. cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/…
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This is a shame
The Michigan Daily@michigandaily
11 Jun 2020
“Sadly, our company has not survived the coronavirus pandemic." Espresso Royale Coffee permanently closes its doors after 33 years. michigandaily.com/section/bu…
Michael Cafarella retweeted
Froyo☆Tam@FroyoTam
6 Jun 2020
Jerry Lawson (1940-2011), the developer of the first interchangeable cartridge video game console with a microprocessor, the Fairchild Channel F (1976). This console predated the Atari 2600 by one year!
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Congrats! Very well deserved
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Daniel Abadi@daniel_abadi
27 May 2020
Very proud that my student @jmfaleiro won this year's ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray award for the top PhD dissertation in the area of data systems. sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/cit… Jose's thesis focused on scalable, multi-core transaction processing.

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Some of the cruelest things I’ve ever seen in print were in a female colleague’s course evaluation.
Aubrey Hirsch@aubreyhirsch
17 May 2020
Are you even a woman in academia if your course evaluations don’t give you feedback about your physical appearance?
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Goodness. I ran the same trends query again. First image is from 11pm eastern on Thursday night. Second image is from 240pm eastern on Friday.
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This seems concerning
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Just saw I'm quoted in Wired article about misuse of open source: wired.com/story/open-source-… Article suggests I think US is somehow non-democratic. My view is extremely the opposite. Biggest problem for open source are non-democratic, non-rules-based govts.

An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm

Open source software can generally be freely copied and reused. One developer wants to impose ethical constraints on the practice.

wired.com
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That said, overall the article is very good.
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Michael Cafarella retweeted
Chris Peikert@ChrisPeikert
21 Sep 2018
This season, Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan has multiple tenure-track positions in all areas, including theory/crypto/security. Please apply and spread the word! cse.umich.edu/cse/jobs/
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Bravo
Aditya Parameswaran
@adityagp
21 Aug 2018
If you’re having database problems I feel bad for you son, they have 99 problems but (almost) everything in this blog post ain’t one. codeburst.io/what-im-telling…
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Michael Cafarella retweeted
Reuters
@Reuters
2 Aug 2018
Cisco to buy cyber-security company Duo for $2.35 billion reut.rs/2vbrwRH
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