Margo Seltzer
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Margo Ilene Seltzer is a professor and researcher in computer systems. Currently she is the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science and a Harvard College Professor (full professor) in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University
, where she is active in the Systems Research Group.
Dr. Seltzer earned her PhD in 1992 from Berkeley with her dissertation ‘‘File System Performance and Transaction Support,’’ under advisor Michael Stonebraker
. Her work in log-structured file system
s, databases, and wide-scale caching is especially well-known, and she was lead author of the BSD-LFS paper.
She was CTO of Sleepycat Software
(developers of the Berkeley DB
embedded database) prior to that firm's acquisition by Oracle in 2006. She continues to serve as an architect on the Oracle Berkeley DB team, and is a director of the USENIX
association.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, where she is active in the Systems Research Group.
Dr. Seltzer earned her PhD in 1992 from Berkeley with her dissertation ‘‘File System Performance and Transaction Support,’’ under advisor Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker
Michael Ralph Stonebraker is a computer scientist specializing in database research.Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational database systems on the market today...
. Her work in log-structured file system
Log-structured file system
A log-structured filesystem is a file system design first proposed in 1988 by John K. Ousterhout and Fred Douglis. Designed for high write throughput, all updates to data and metadata are written sequentially to a continuous stream, called a log...
s, databases, and wide-scale caching is especially well-known, and she was lead author of the BSD-LFS paper.
She was CTO of Sleepycat Software
Sleepycat Software
Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006.Berkeley DB is a widely used and freely-licensed database software originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley for 4.4BSD Unix, and developers from that...
(developers of the Berkeley DB
Berkeley DB
Berkeley DB is a computer software library that provides a high-performance embedded database for key/value data. Berkeley DB is a programmatic software library written in C with API bindings for C++, PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Smalltalk, and most other programming languages...
embedded database) prior to that firm's acquisition by Oracle in 2006. She continues to serve as an architect on the Oracle Berkeley DB team, and is a director of the USENIX
USENIX
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association.