Hector Garcia-Molina

Infobox Scientist


image_width = 150px
name = Héctor García-Molina
birth_date =
birth_place = Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
residence = United States
nationality = Mexican
field = Computer Science
work_institution = Stanford University
alma_mater = ITESM
doctoral_advisor = Gio Wiederhold [cite web|title=Gio Wiederhold's Website at Stanford University| url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/gio/personal/students.html|accessdate=2006-11-29]
doctoral_students = Robert Abbott, Bradley Adelberg, Daniel Barbara, Edward Chang, Kevin Chang, Sudarshan Chawathe, Junghoo Cho, Christopher Clifton, Amos Cordon, Neil Daswani, Susan Davidson, Fusun Ertemalp, Luis Gravano, Chi Ming Kao, Jack Kent, Steven Ketchpel, Boris Kogan, Wilburt Labio, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Frank Pittelli, Christos Polyzois, Kenneth Salem, Narayanan Shivakumar, Annemarie Spauster, Carl Staelin, Anthony Tomasic, Tak Yan, Ramana Yerneni, Yue Zhuge
known_for = Distributed databases
prizes = 1999 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
footnotes =

Héctor García-Molina (b. in Monterrey, [Nuevo León] , México] ) is a computer scientist at Stanford University. He served at the U.S. President'sInformation 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.citeweb
author= Oracle Corporation
title= Oracle Board of Directors: Hector Garcia-Molina
url=http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/html/bod_molina.html
accessdate= 2008-03-10|] In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award.citeweb
author= ACM SIGMOD
title=SIGMOD Awards
url = http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/sigmodinfo/awards/
accessdate= 2008-03-10|]

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 LernerProfessor in the Departments of Computer Science and ElectricalEngineering and has served as Director of the Computer SystemsLaboratory (August 1994 – December 1997) and as chairman of the Computer Science Department from (January 2001 – December 2004).

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 currently serves on the Technical Advisory Board of DoCoMo Labs USA and Yahoo! Search & Marketplace. He is a Venture Advisor forDiamondhead Ventures and is a member of the Board of Directors of
Oracle Corporation and Kintera.

García-Molina was also a member of the Special Litigation Committee in the 2003 case In Re Oracle Corp. Derivative Litigation, 824 A.2d 917.

In 1995 he worked with Sergey Brin(Google Co-Founder) in a Project called "COpyright Protection System" or COPS in Stanford University, Computer Science Department

In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich for his outstanding work in computer science.citeweb
author = Swiss Institute of Technology Zurich
title = Ehrungen und Preise am ETH-Tag 2007
url = http://www.ethlife.ethz.ch/archive_articles/071119-ethtagawards/index
language = German
accessdate= 2008-03-10|]

References

External links

* [http://www-db.stanford.edu/people/hector.html Hector García Molina's Personal Web page at Stanford University]
* [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulos/36013.html El Universal: "El mexicano que asesoró a los creadores de Google"] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660&org=NSF → On the Origins of Google]
* [http://videolectures.net/wsdm08_garcia_molina_wim/ Videolecture on Web Information Management: Past, Present and Future]
* [http://research.yahoo.com/node/1975 "Excelling Beyond the Spreadsheet" Presentation at the 2008 Yahoo! Research Big Thinkers Series]