Back آبراهام سیلبرشاتز AZB Abraham Silberschatz Spanish آبراهام سیلبرشاتز FA אברהם זילברשץ HE Abraham Silberschatz MG
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Avi Silberschatz | |
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| 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.