Héctor García-Molina
{{short description|Mexican computer scientist (1954–2019)}}
{{family name hatnote|García|Molina|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox scientist
|name = Héctor García-Molina
|image = Hector García-Molina (6187523546).jpg
|caption = García-Molina (2011)
|birth_date = 26 November {{birth date text|1954}}
|birth_place = Monterrey, Mexico
|death_date = 25 November {{death year and age|2019|1954}}
|death_place =
|field = Computer science
|work_institution = Stanford University
|education = Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (BS) Stanford University (MS, PhD)
|doctoral_advisor = Gio Wiederhold{{cite web|title=Gio Wiederhold's Website at Stanford University |url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/gio/personal/students.html |access-date=2006-11-29}}
|doctoral_students = Robert Abbott, Sergey Brin, Edward Y. Chang, Neil Daswani, Susan B. Davidson, Boris Kogan, Mor Naaman, Narayanan Shivakumar
|known_for = Distributed databases
|prizes = ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (1999)
}}
Héctor García-Molina (26 November 1954 – 25 November 2019{{cite web|url=https://tec.mx/es/noticias/monterrey/institucion/hector-garcia-molina-1954-2019-legado-de-sabiduria-y-trascendencia|title=Héctor García-Molina (1954-2019): legado de sabiduría y trascendencia]|publisher=Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education|last=González|first=Marlene|date=25 November 2019|access-date=10 January 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/06/hector-garcia-molina-influential-computer-scientist-database-expert-dies-65/|title=Hector Garcia-Molina, influential computer scientist and database expert, dies at 65|publisher=Stanford University|date=6 December 2019|access-date=10 January 2020}}) was a Mexican-American computer scientist and Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was the advisor to Google co-founder Sergey Brin from 1993 to 1997 when Brin was a computer science student at Stanford.
Biography
Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 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, García-Molina 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 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). During 1994–1998, he was Principal Investigator for the Stanford Digital Library Project,{{cite web|author = National Science Foundation |title=The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project|url=http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=9411306| access-date= 2011-07-21}} the project from which the Google search engine emerged.
García-Molina served at the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and was a member of Oracle Corporation's Board of Directors beginning in October 2001 until his death.{{cite web
|author=Oracle Corporation
|title=Oracle Board of Directors: Hector Garcia-Molina
|url=http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/html/bod_molina.html
|access-date=2008-03-10
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724044556/http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/html/bod_molina.html
|archive-date=2008-07-24
}}
García-Molina was 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 was a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures and ONSET Ventures. In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award.
{{cite web|author= ACM SIGMOD
|title=SIGMOD Awards
|url = http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/sigmodinfo/awards/
|access-date= 2008-03-10
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080514034911/http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/sigmodinfo/awards/ |archive-date = 2008-05-14}}
García-Molina died of cancer on the eve of his 65th birthday.{{Cite web|last=University|first=Stanford|date=2019-12-06|title=Hector Garcia-Molina, influential database expert, dies at 65|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/06/hector-garcia-molina-influential-computer-scientist-database-expert-dies-65/|access-date=2022-02-21|website=Stanford News|language=en}}
Awards
- (2010) VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award
{{cite web|author = VLDB 2010
|title = Proceedings: Awards
|url = http://www.vldb2010.org/pro-awards.htm
|access-date= 2011-07-21
}} for the paper entitled "The Evolution of the Web and Implications for an Incremental Crawler"{{cite conference |title= The Evolution of the Web and Implications for an Incremental Crawler |author1=Junghoo Cho |author2=Hector Garcia-Molina |year= 2000 |pages= 200–209 |conference= VLDB |location=Cairo, Egypt}} in VLDB 2000.
{{cite web|author = Stanford InfoLab
|title = CourseRank
|url = http://infolab.stanford.edu/db_pages/courserank/courserank.html
|access-date= 2011-07-21
}} for the demo entitled "CourseRank: A Social System for Course Planning".{{cite conference |title= CourseRank: A Social System for Course Planning |author1=B. Bercovitz |author2=F. Kaliszan |author3=G. Koutrika |author4=H. Liou |author5=Z. Mohammadi Zadeh |author6=H. Garcia-Molina |year= 2009 |pages= 1107–1110 |conference= ACM SIGMOD |location=Providence, Rhode Island, US}}
{{cite web|author = IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering
|title = ICDE Influential Paper Awards
|url = http://tab.computer.org/tcde/icde_inf_paper.html
|access-date= 2011-07-21
}} for the paper entitled "Disk Striping"{{cite conference |title= Disk Striping |author1=Kenneth Salem |author2=Hector Garcia-Molina |year= 1986 |pages= 336–342 |conference= IEEE ICDE| location= Los Angeles, California, US}} in ICDE 1986. This early paper on disk striping significantly influenced subsequent work on RAID storage.
- (2007) Honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich for outstanding work in computer science.
{{cite web|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 = de
|access-date= 2008-03-10
}}
References
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External links
- [http://www-db.stanford.edu/people/hector.html Héctor 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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118072708/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulos/36013.html |date=2006-11-18 }} (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]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080501181609/http://research.yahoo.com/node/1975 "Excelling Beyond the Spreadsheet" Presentation at the 2008 Yahoo! Research Big Thinkers Series]
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