Abraham Silberschatz (Ph.D. the State University of New York at Stony Brook) is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice
President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Murray
Hill, New Jersey. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of
Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include
operating systems, database systems, storage systems, network management, and
distributed systems. Prof. Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He is a
member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He received the
2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom
Outstanding Educator Award, the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award, and the
IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper award. He is an author of the textbook
Operating System Concepts. Henry F. Korth (Ph.D. Princeton University) is Weiseman Professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. Before
joining Lehigh, he was Director of Database Principles Research at Bell Laboratories,
Murray Hill, New Jersey. His research interests include database algorithms designed
for modern computing architectures (multicore, multithread, multilevel cache) , large
Web-based data repositories, real-time database systems, and parallel systems. Before
joining Bell Laboratories, Prof. Korth was a Vice President of Panasonic
Technologies, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the
University of Texas at Austin, and a Research Staff Member at IBM Research. Prof.
Korth is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a winner of the VLDB 10-year Award. S. Sudarshan (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he was a Member of Technical
Staff in the Database Research Group at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Prof. Sudarshan is an author of over 75 papers in different areas of database systems,
and holds 13 patents. His current research interests include query processing and
optimization, keyword querying of relational and graph-structured data, and tools for
building and testing database applications. In addition to being the architect of several
software systems dealing with database internals and keyword querying, he has also
been responsible for building and maintaining a variety of database applications used
in IIT Bombay. |