Database system implementation / Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D.Ullman, Jennifer
Widom, 2000
Information trouvée : Professeur d'informatique à l'université de Stanford, Calif. (en 2000)
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/06/hector-garcia-molina-influential-computer-scientist-database-expert-dies-65/,
2020-06-25
Information trouvée : A gifted scholar, dedicated teacher and caring colleague, Hector Garcia-Molina, a
professor of computer science and of electrical engineering who pioneered some of
the database technologies that underlie modern cloud computing, died of on Nov. 25
2019, on the eve of his 66th birthday. A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Garcia-Molina
came to Stanford in 1975 to study electrical engineering and computer science, and
in 1976 began his PhD studies under the guidance of Gio Wiederhold, now a professor
emeritus of computer science. After earning his PhD in 1979, Garcia-Molina joined
the faculty at Princeton, where he helped develop the foundations for a technology
called RAID – short for Redundant Array of Independent Disks – which improved database
performance by keeping copies of data in locations closer to users while minimizing
data losses by providing backups should one disk crash. Perhaps his most far-reaching
impact as a serious photographer was his long-running course, CS45N, a freshman introductory
seminar on the topic of computers and photography.