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THE PLUMBER OF THE MACHINE AGE

By Zimbo · October 6, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Six-panel Sunday strip: Jeff Dean as a Minnesota kid studying machines; joining Google in 1999 with a wrench; 2004 MapReduce with Sanjay Ghemawat; 2012 Google Brain herding a stampede of processors; 2015 TensorFlow handing gold keys to a crowd; the lookout finale over a valley of labs and schools.
Jeff Dean: the calm Minnesota engineer who built Google's plumbing — MapReduce, the Brain team's neural nets, TensorFlow — then became chief scientist of its whole AI empire. His life, in six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page
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