Abraham Silberschatz
| Avi Silberschatz | |
|---|---|
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Alma mater |
Stony Brook University Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Arthur Bernstein Richard Kieburtz |
| Doctoral students |
C. Mohan Raghu Ramakrishnan |
| Known for |
database systems operating systems |
| Notable awards |
ACM Fellow IEEE Fellow AAAS Fellow IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award (2002) ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1998) ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award (1997) |
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Website http://www.cs.yale.edu/~avi/ | |
Avi Silberschatz was born in Haifa, Israel. He graduated in 1976 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. He became the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, USA in 2005. He was the chair of the Computer Science department at Yale from 2005 to 2011. Prior to coming to Yale in 2003, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs. He previously held an endowed professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught until 1993. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management. Silberschatz was elected an ACM Fellow in 1996 and received the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 1998.[1] He was elected an IEEE fellow in 2000[2] and received the IEEE IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 2002 for " teaching, mentoring, and writing influential textbooks in the operating systems and database systems areas".[3] He was elected an AAAS fellow in 2009.[4] Silberschatz is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.[5]
His work has been cited over 23,000 times.[6]
Books
- Operating System Concepts, 9th Edition, published in 2013 by Avi Silberschatz, Peter Galvin and Greg Gagne
- Database System Concepts, 6th Edition, published in 2010 by Avi Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth and S.Sudarshan