Title: Matei Zaharia Awarded 2025 ACM Prize in Computing | BestB...
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Published Time: 2026-04-09 04:26:29
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Congratulations to BAIR Faculty @matei_zaharia who has been awarded the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing "for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure, which has enabled large-scale machine learning, analytics, and AI at global scale." awards.acm.org/about/2025-acm…
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BAIR faculty and Spark co-creator Matei Zaharia has been honored with the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing for his contributions to distributed data systems and AI infrastructure.
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Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) announced that faculty member Matei Zaharia has received the prestigious 2025 ACM Prize in Computing. The award recognizes his foundational work in developing distributed data systems and computing infrastructure, which has been instrumental in enabling large-scale machine learning and global AI analytics. Zaharia is widely known as the original creator of Apache Spark and a co-founder of Databricks.
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