Tim Mattson

My research:

Data management, graph algorithm frameworks (GraphBLAS), and to make all code parallel code.

My expertise is:

Molecular Scattering, Scientific Computing, Graphs in the language of linear algebra, making music (guitar), and sea kayaking.

A problem I’m grappling with:

I am on a quest to find one algebra to rule them all. Many people think it’s a relational algebra. They are wrong. It’s Linear Algebra over sparse arrays.

I’ve got my eyes on:

Graph databases, sparse array storage engines, machine programming, and making python a high performance language. New languages (e.g. Jullia) hurt us in the long run. Let’s just make Python fast.

I want to know more about:

What everyone else is working on/thinking about… the meaning of life (Monty Python but also philosophically).