Elizabeth O'Neil

Elizabeth Jean (Betty) O'Neil is an American computer scientist known for her highly cited work in databases, including C-Store, the LRU-K page replacement algorithm, the log-structured merge-tree, and her criticism of the ANSI SQL 92 isolation mechanism. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Education and career

O'Neil is a 1963 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in applied mathematics. She completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1968.[1] Her dissertation was A quasi-linear theory for axially symmetric flows in a stratified rotating fluid.[2] After postdoctoral research at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, and short-term teaching positions at New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1970.[1]

Book

O'Neil is the author, with Patrick O'Neil, of the book Database: Principles, Programming, Performance (Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd ed., 2001).

gollark: Do we REALLY want our AIs to try and be as accurate as possible to *humans*?
gollark: If you value them, you need to stay around to wipe them out.
gollark: However, what about OTHER possible intelligent species (or future humans of some sort)?
gollark: Well, yes, negative utilitarianism bad.
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References
  1. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2019-09-21
  2. WorldCat catalog entry for A quasi-linear theory for axially symmetric flows in a stratified rotating fluid, retrieved 2019-09-21
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