Jeff Dean

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American computer scientist

Mentioned in 10 videos

Born

1968, Hawaii

Nationality

United States

Affiliation

Google, Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq

Field

distributed computing, information retrieval, machine learning

Education

University of Minnesota, University of Washington, University of Washington

Awards

honorary member, ACM Prize in Computing

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Videos Mentioning Jeff Dean

Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?: A Conversation with Mustafa Suleyman (Episode #332)

Sam Harris

Led Google Brain, a parallel AI division at Google.

Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Lex Fridman Podcast #42

Lex Fridman

A prominent computer scientist at Google, used as a benchmark for internal hiring during the company's early days.

Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #35

Lex Fridman

Google's lead of AI, mentioned for stating Google's goal to require 'a thousand times more computation but less people' for AI, which Jeremy Howard disagrees with.

Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131

Lex Fridman

A brilliant engineer at Google, known for being kind, well-meaning, and leading through building technology himself and inspiring others. He still actively programs.

Rajat Monga: TensorFlow | Lex Fridman Podcast #22

Lex Fridman

A key figure at Google Brain, instrumental in the development of deep learning at Google and the inception of TensorFlow.

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman mentions an anecdote where Jeff Dean made a witty remark about P equaling NP.

Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475

Lex Fridman

A key leader at Google DeepMind, credited with the 'incredible team' behind Gemini's progress.

Nuts and Bolts of Applying Deep Learning (Andrew Ng)

Lex Fridman

Mentioned as an example of someone potentially smart enough to learn both HPC and machine learning profoundly, though it's difficult for any single person.

E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update

All-In Podcast

The most important person in charge of Google's AI projects, described as a preeminent technical light and an 'absolute animal' for his work on TensorFlow, MapReduce, BigTable, and Spanner.

Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch | Spring 2026 | Lecture 8: Parallelism

Stanford Online

Mentioned alongside Billy discussing hardware for different workloads.