Abraham Silberschatz
Avi Silberschatz (born in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli computer scientist and researcher. 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] for contributions to the development of computer systems dealing with the efficient manipulation and processing of information.[3] He received the IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 2002 for " teaching, mentoring, and writing influential textbooks in the operating systems and database systems areas".[4] He was elected an AAAS fellow in 2009.[5] Silberschatz is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.[6]
Avi Silberschatz | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Stony Brook University Yale University |
| Known for | database systems operating systems |
| 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) 2019 VLDB Test of Time Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Bernstein Richard Kieburtz |
| Doctoral students | C. Mohan Raghu Ramakrishnan |
| Website | http://www.cs.yale.edu/~avi/ |
His work has been cited over 34,000 times.[7]
Books Edit
Mainframe operating systems have an acquired dinosaur trope that even their manufacturers recognize.[8] Peter B. Galvin, co-author, notes that the series of books became informally known as the dinosaur book due to the illustrations on the front cover[9] depicting the various operating systems as actual dinosaurs.[10][11]
- —; Galvin, Peter; Gagne, Greg (2019). Operating System Concepts (10th ed.).
- —; Galvin, Peter; Gagne, Greg (2013). Operating System Concepts Essentials (2nd ed.).
- —; Korth, Henry F.; Sudarshan, S. (2020). Database System Concepts (7th ed.).
References Edit
- ^ "Abraham Silberschatz - Award Winner".
- ^ . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Archived from the original on 2011-08-20.
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 2000 | IEEE Communications Society".
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2011-01-10. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
- ^ "AAAS Fellows".
- ^ "Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering".
- ^ Abraham Silberschatz publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Lohr, Steve (May 13, 2003). "TECHNOLOGY; Once Derided For Dinosaur, I.B.M. Shows A T-Rex Bite". The New York Times.
- ^ "Gallery of various covers". OS Book.
- ^ "Operating System Concepts FAQ". OS Book.
Peter Galvin has written up a very nice description
- ^ Galvin, Peter Baer (2018) [2013]. "History of Operating System Concepts Textbook".
External links Edit
- "Abraham Silberschatz". Yale University. Computer Science.