Flaviu Cristian
{{Short description|Romanian-American computer scientist (1951–1999)}}
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| name = Flaviu Cristian
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1951|06|25|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Cluj, Romanian People's Republic
| death_date = {{death date and age|1999|04|27|1951|06|25|mf=y}}
| death_place = San Diego, California, United States
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| citizenship = American, Romanian
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| field = Distributed Systems
Computer Science
| work_institution = University of California, San Diego
IBM Almaden Research Center
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
University of Grenoble
| alma_mater = Grenoble Institute of Technology
Grenoble School of Management
University of Grenoble
| known_for = Cristian's algorithm
| prizes = IBM Corporate Award
IEEE Fellow
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Flaviu Cristian (25 June 1951 – 27 April 1999) was a Romanian-American computer scientist noted for his work in distributed systems and, in particular, the development of a method for clock synchronisation which bears his name, Cristian's algorithm.
Biography
He was born in 1951 in Cluj, in the Transylvania region of Romania, the son of Ilie and Rafila Cristian. After graduating from the Nicolae Bălcescu High School in his native city, he went in 1971 to France to study at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. After graduating in 1977 from both the Institute and the Grenoble School of Management,{{cite web|url=https://www.referatele.com/referate/romana/Flaviu-Cristian/index.php|website=www.referatele.com|title=Flaviu Cristian biografia|language=ro|access-date=February 26, 2021}} he pursued his graduate studies in computer science at the University of Grenoble, where he carried out research in operating systems and programming methodology, and received his Ph.D. in 1979.
Cristian went on to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom, where he worked in the area of specification, design, and verification of fault-tolerant software. In 1982 he emigrated to the United States, joining the IBM Research Center in Almaden Valley, in San Jose, California.{{cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/dcca/1999/0284/00/0284v.pdf |title=In memoriam|website=www.computer.org|access-date=February 26, 2021}} In 1991 he joined the University of California, San Diego as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
He died in San Diego in 1999 after a long battle with cancer.
Publications
- {{Citation|last=Cristian|first=Flaviu|title=Exception Handling and Software Fault Tolerance|date=1985|work=Reliable Computer Systems|pages=154–172|editor-last=Shrivastava|editor-first=Santosh Kumar|place=Berlin, Heidelberg|publisher=Springer|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-82470-8_16|isbn=978-3-642-82472-2}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Cristian|first=Flaviu|year=1989|title=Probabilistic clock synchronization|journal=Distributed Computing|volume=3|issue=3|pages=146–158|doi=10.1007/bf01784024|s2cid=3170166 }}
- {{Cite journal| last1=Cristian|first1=Flaviu|last2=Aghili|first2=Houtan|last3=Strong|first3=Ray|last4=Dolev|first4=Danny|title=Atomic broadcast: From simple message diffusion to Byzantine agreement| journal= Information and Computation|volume=118|issue=1 |year=1995|pages=158–179|doi=10.1109/ftcsh.1995.532668}}
- {{Cite journal|last1=Cristian|first1=Flaviu|last2=Fetzer|first2=Christof|year=1999|title=The timed asynchronous distributed system model|journal=IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems|volume=10|issue=6| pages=642–657|doi=10.1109/71.774912|s2cid=16927690 }}
See also
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External links
- [http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/1999/5-04-99.shtml UCSD Jacobs: Flaviu Cristian, Professor and Scientist, Dies at Age 48]
- [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Cristian:Flaviu List of computer science publications by Cristian Flavius]
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Category:Romanian computer scientists
Category:Grenoble Alpes University alumni
Category:University of California, San Diego faculty
Category:Romanian emigrants to the United States
Category:Scientists from Cluj-Napoca
Category:Romanian expatriates in France
Category:Romanian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Category:IBM Research computer scientists
Category:Grenoble Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Deaths from cancer in California
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