Hector Garcia-Molina
Encyclopedia
Héctor García-Molina is a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering at Stanford University
. He has served at the U.S. President
's
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001, as chairman of the Computer Science Department of Stanford University from January 2001 to December 2004 and has been a member of Oracle Corporation
's Board of Directors since October 2001.
In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM
SIGMOD
Innovations Award.
García-Molina graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESM) and received both a master's degree in Electrical Engineering (1975) and a doctorate in Computer Science (1979) from Stanford University
.
From 1979 to 1991 he worked as a professor of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University
in New Jersey
. In 1992 he joined the faculty of Stanford University
as the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner
Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering and has served as Director of the Computer Systems
Laboratory (August 1994 – December 1997) and as chairman of the Computer Science Department from (January 2001 – December 2004). During 1994 – 1998 he was the Principal Investigator for the Stanford Digital Library Project and the Google
search engine emerged from that project.
García-Molina is also a Fellow member of the Association for Computing Machinery
, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and a member of the National Academy of Engineering
.
He is a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures and ONSET Ventures.
Engineering at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. He has served at the U.S. President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
's
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001, as chairman of the Computer Science Department of Stanford University from January 2001 to December 2004 and has been a member of Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
's Board of Directors since October 2001.
In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
SIGMOD
SIGMOD
SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases....
Innovations Award.
García-Molina graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESM) and received both a master's degree in Electrical Engineering (1975) and a doctorate in Computer Science (1979) from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
.
From 1979 to 1991 he worked as a professor of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
in New Jersey
New Jersey
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. In 1992 he joined the faculty of Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
as the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner
Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering and has served as Director of the Computer Systems
Laboratory (August 1994 – December 1997) and as chairman of the Computer Science Department from (January 2001 – December 2004). During 1994 – 1998 he was the Principal Investigator for the Stanford Digital Library Project and the Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
search engine emerged from that project.
García-Molina is also a Fellow member of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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and a member of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
.
He is a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures and ONSET Ventures.
Recent Awards
- (2010) VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award for the paper entitled "The Evolution of the Web and Implications for an Incremental Crawler" in VLDB 2000.
- (2009) SIGMOD Best Demo Award for the demo entitled "CourseRank: A Social System for Course Planning".
- (2007) ICDE Influential Paper Award for the paper entitled "Disk Striping" in ICDE 1986. Citation: This early paper on disk striping significantly influenced subsequent work on RAIDRAIDRAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit...
storage.
- (2007) Honorary doctorate from ETH ZurichETH ZurichThe Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
. Citation: For his outstanding work in computer science.
External links
- Héctor García-Molina's Personal Web page at Stanford University
- El Universal: El mexicano que asesoró a los creadores de Google (in Spanish)
- → On the Origins of Google
- Videolecture on Web Information Management: Past, Present and Future
- "Excelling Beyond the Spreadsheet" Presentation at the 2008 Yahoo! Research Big Thinkers Series