Abraham Silberschatz

Avi Silberschatz
Alma mater	Stony Brook University Yale University The Hebrew Reali School
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/

Avi Silberschatz (born in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli computer scientist and researcher. He is known for having authored many influential texts in computer science. He finished high school at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, and graduated in 1976 with a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management.

He held a professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught until 1993. He became a professor at Yale University in 2005, where he was the chair of the Computer Science department from 2005 to 2011. Prior to coming to Yale in 2003, Silberschatz worked at the Bell Labs.

Awards and recognition

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]

Books

Mainframe operating systems have an acquired dinosaur trope that even their manufacturers recognize.^[7] 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^[8] depicting the various operating systems as actual dinosaurs.^[9][10]

• Silberschatz, Avi; Galvin, Peter; Gagne, Greg (2019). Operating System Concepts (10th ed.).
• Silberschatz, Avi; Galvin, Peter; Gagne, Greg (2013). Operating System Concepts Essentials (2nd ed.).
• Silberschatz, Avi; Korth, Henry F.; Sudarshan, S. (2020). Database System Concepts (7th ed.).

References

1. "Abraham Silberschatz - Award Winner". Archived from the original on 2013-06-17. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
2. "IEEE Fellows". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Archived from the original on 2011-08-20.
3. "IEEE Fellows 2000 | IEEE Communications Society". Archived from the original on 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
4. "IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award". Archived from the original on 2011-01-10. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
5. "AAAS Fellows". Archived from the original on 2024-06-18. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
6. "Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering". Archived from the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
7. Lohr, Steve (May 13, 2003). "TECHNOLOGY; Once Derided For Dinosaur, I.B.M. Shows A T-Rex Bite". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 5, 2023. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
8. "Gallery of various covers". OS Book. Archived from the original on 2023-06-11. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
9. "Operating System Concepts FAQ". OS Book. Archived from the original on 2023-06-11. Retrieved 2023-05-05. Peter Galvin has written up a very nice description
10. Galvin, Peter Baer (2018) [2013]. "History of Operating System Concepts Textbook". Archived from the original on 2023-05-05. Retrieved 2023-05-05.

External links

• "Abraham Silberschatz". Yale University. Computer Science.