Randy Howard Katz is a distinguished professor at University of California, Berkeley of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Katz received an A.B. from Cornell University (May 1976), MS from UC Berkeley (June 1978), and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (June 1980) all in computer science. Katz is a fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was awarded the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal in 2010.[1]
Katz, along with David A. Patterson and Garth A. Gibson, developed the redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concept for computer storage in their 1988 SIGMOD Conference paper.
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