Biography
Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack
and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He
was the chairman of the Computer Science Department from January 2001
to December 2004. From 1997 to 2001 he was a member the President's
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). From August 1994 to
December 1997 he was the Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory at
Stanford. From 1979 to 1991 he was on the faculty of the Computer
Science Department at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. His
research interests include distributed computing systems, digital
libraries and database systems. He received a BS in electrical
engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, in
1974. From Stanford University, Stanford, California, he received in
1975 a MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in computer science in
1979. He holds an honorary PhD from ETH Zurich (2007). Garcia-Molina is
a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering; received the 1999 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award; is on the
Technical Advisory Board of DoCoMo Labs USA, Yahoo Search &
Marketplace; is a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures, and is a
member of the Board of Directors of Oracle and Kintera.