Abraham Silberschatz

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]

Avi Silberschatz
Alma materStony Brook University
Yale University
Known fordatabase systems
operating systems
AwardsACM 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
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsYale University
Doctoral advisorArthur Bernstein
Richard Kieburtz
Doctoral studentsC. Mohan
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Websitehttp://www.cs.yale.edu/~avi/

His work has been cited over 34,000 times.[6]

Books
  • Operating System Concepts, 10th Edition, published in 2019 by Avi Silberschatz, Peter Galvin and Greg Gagne
  • Operating System Concepts Essentials, 2nd Edition, published in 2013 by Avi Silberschatz, Peter Galvin and Greg Gagne
  • Database System Concepts, 7th Edition, published in 2020 by Avi Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth and S.Sudarshan
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References
  1. "Abraham Silberschatz - Award Winner".
  2. "IEEE Fellows". Archived from the original on 2011-08-20.
  3. "IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award".
  4. "AAAS Fellows".
  5. "Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering".
  6. Abraham Silberschatz publications indexed by Google Scholar


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