Héctor García-Molina
Héctor García-Molina (November 15, 1953 – November 25, 2019)[2] was a Mexican-American computer scientist. He was a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was advisor to Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, from 1993 to 1997 when Brin was a computer science student at Stanford.
Héctor García-Molina | |
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| Born | 15 November 1953 |
| Died | 25 November 2019 (aged 66) |
| Nationality | Mexican-American |
| Alma mater | ITESM |
| Known for | Distributed databases |
| Awards | 1999 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral students | Robert Abbott, Sergey Brin, Neil Daswani, Boris Kogan, Narayanan Shivakumar, Mor Naaman |
References
- ↑ "Gio Wiederhold's Website at Stanford University". Retrieved 2006-11-29.
- ↑ "Hector Garcia-Molina, influential database expert, dies at 65". 6 December 2019.
Other websites
- Héctor García-Molina's Personal Web page at Stanford University
- El Universal: El mexicano que asesoró a los creadores de Google Archived 2006-11-18 at the Wayback Machine (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