Héctor García-Molina | |
|---|---|
.jpg) García-Molina (2011) | |
| Born | 26 November 1954 (1954) |
| Died | 25 November 2019 (aged 64–65) |
| Education | Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (BS)Stanford University (MS,PhD) |
| Known for | Distributed databases |
| Awards | ACMSIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Gio Wiederhold[1] |
| Doctoral students | Robert Abbott,Sergey Brin,Edward Y. Chang,Neil Daswani,Susan B. Davidson,Boris Kogan,Mor Naaman,Narayanan Shivakumar,Mayank Bawa |
Héctor García-Molina (26 November 1954 – 25 November 2019[2][3]) was aMexicancomputer scientist and Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering atStanford University. He was the advisor toGoogle co-founderSergey Brin from 1993 to 1997 when Brin was a computer science student at Stanford.
Born inMonterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, García-Molina graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from theMonterrey 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) fromStanford University.
From 1979 to 1991, García-Molina worked as a professor of the Computer Science Department atPrinceton University inNew Jersey. In 1992 he joined the faculty ofStanford 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).[4] During 1994–1998, he was Principal Investigator for the Stanford Digital Library Project,[5] the project from which theGoogle search engine emerged.
García-Molina served at theU.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and was a member ofOracle Corporation's Board of Directors beginning in October 2001 until his death.[4]
García-Molina was also a Fellow member of theAssociation for Computing Machinery, theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of theNational Academy of Engineering. He was a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures and ONSET Ventures. In 1999 he was laureated with theACMSIGMOD Innovations Award.[6]
García-Molina died of cancer on the eve of his 65th birthday.[7]
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