- Paris Kanellakis
Paris Christos Kanellakis (1953 – 1995) was a
computer scientist .Kanellakis was born in
Greece as the only child of General Eleftherios and Mrs. Argyroula Kanellakis. In 1976, he received a diploma in Electrical Engineering from theNational Technical University of Athens . He continued his studies at the graduate level inElectrical Engineering andComputer Science at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received anMSc degree in 1978 and aPhD degree in 1982. In 1981, he joined the Computer Science Department ofBrown University as anassistant professor ; he obtainedtenure as anassociate professor in 1986, and became a full professor in 1990.He died on
December 23 1995 together with his wife, Maria Teresa Otoya, and their children, Alexandra and Stephanos, aboardAmerican Airlines Flight 965 en route toCali ,Colombia for an annual holiday reunion with his wife's family.His scientific contributions are in the fields of
database theory —comprising work ondeductive database s,object-oriented database s, andconstraint databases—as well as in fault-tolerantdistributed computation and intype theory . He served as an associate editor in a number of respected journals, such asInformation and Computation ,ACM Transactions on Database Systems ,SIAM Journal on Computing , Theoretical Computer Science, andJournal of Logic Programming .Acknowledging Kanellakis's contributions to computer science the
Association for Computing Machinery honored him by instituting the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award.External links
* [http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/pck/home.html Paris Kanellakis web site] at
Brown University .
* [http://www.cs.brown.edu/publications/conduit/conduit_v5n1.pdf Paris C. Kanellakis 1953–1995] .
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