Patrick O'Neil

For those of a similar name, see Patrick O'Neal (disambiguation) and Patrick O'Neill (disambiguation).

Patrick Eugene O'Neil is an American computer scientist, an expert on databases, and a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.[1]

O'Neil did his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a B.S. in mathematics in 1963. After earning a masters' degree at the University of Chicago, he moved to Rockefeller University, where he earned a Ph.D. in combinatorial mathematics in 1969 under the supervision of Gian-Carlo Rota.[1][2] He was an assistant professor at MIT from 1970 to 1972, but then left academia for industry, returning in 1988 as a member of the UMass/Boston faculty. He became a full professor in 1996.[1]

O'Neil has written highly cited papers on replication in distributed databases,[3] page replacement strategies for databases,[4] SQL isolation,[5] and database indexing strategies.[6] With Elizabeth J. O'Neil, he is the author of the database textbook Database Principles, Programming, and Performance (Morgan Kauffman, 2nd ed., 2000).

References

  1. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2010-11-26.
  2. ^ Patrick Eugene O'Neil at the Mathematics Genealogy Project..
  3. ^ Gray, Jim; Helland, Pat; O'Neil, Patrick; Shasha, Dennis (1996), "The dangers of replication and a solution", Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '96), pp. 173–182, doi:10.1145/233269.233330 .
  4. ^ O'Neil, Elizabeth J.; O'Neil, Patrick E.; Weikum, Gerhard (1993), "The LRU-K page replacement algorithm for database disk buffering", Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '93), pp. 297–306, doi:10.1145/170035.170081 .
  5. ^ Berenson, Hal; Bernstein, Phil; Gray, Jim; Melton, Jim; O'Neil, Elizabeth; O'Neil, Patrick (1995), "A critique of ANSI SQL isolation levels", Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '95), pp. 1–10, doi:10.1145/223784.223785 .
  6. ^ O'Neil, Patrick; Quass, Dallan (1997), "Improved query performance with variant indexes", Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '97), pp. 38–49, doi:10.1145/253260.253268 .