 | Abraham Silberschatz |
Abraham Silberschatz, the newly designated Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science, has focused his research on database systems, operating systems, real-time systems, storage systems, network management and distributed systems.
Silberschatz is the chair of the computer science department. His most recent research has focused on the areas of bioscience database systems, privacy and networking. He has graduated over a dozen Ph.D. students who now hold positions in academic institutions and industrial research laboratories. His writings have appeared in numerous journals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), as well as in other publications. Silberschatz has obtained over four-dozen patents and over two-dozen grants. He is the co-author of two well-known textbooks, "Operating System Concepts" and "Database System Concepts."
At Yale, Silberschatz is also involved in a National Science Foundation-funded project called PORTIA (Privacy, Obligations and Rights in Technologies of Information Assessment). The project aims to design and develop a next generation of computer technology for handling sensitive information, as well as to create a conceptual framework for policymaking and philosophical inquiry into the rights and responsibilities of data subjects, data owners and data users.
An advocate of privacy in the digital world and a supporter of America's regulation of the Internet to ensure it is used in a context of freedom, Silberschatz has written editorials dealing with these and other subjects for the national media.
Silberschatz is a graduate of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he also earned his Ph.D. Prior to coming to Yale in 2003, he was the vice president of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He previously held an endowed professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught 1976-1993.
In addition to his academic and industrial positions, Silberschatz served as a member of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems panel on President Bill Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. He was also an adviser for the National Science Foundation and a consultant for several private-industry companies.
A fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE, Silberschatz received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award and the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award. That same year, he also earned the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper Award for his article "Capability Manager," which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. In recognition of his innovation and technical excellence, Silberschatz has three times been awarded the Bell Laboratories President's Award -- in 1998, 1999 and 2004.
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