, s M, SILBERSCHATZ — hi 3 | GALVIN » GAGNE —Abraham Silberschatz is a Protessor of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Center at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Prior to that, he held a if asl professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Teahati ‘Austin. His research interests include operating systems, database systems, systems, storage systems, network management, and distributed systems. In addition to his academic and industrial positions, Professor Silberschatz served as a member of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Panel on President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, as an advisor for the National Science Foundation, and as a consultant for several private industry companies. Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an TEEE Fellow. He received 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper award for the article "Capability Manager," which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. His writ- ings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications and other professional | conferences and journals. He is a coauthor of the textbook Database System Concepts. Gagne is chair of the Division of Computer Science and Mathematics at Westminster College in Salt Lake City where he has been teaching since 1990. In addition to teaching operating systems, he also teaches computer networks, distrib- luted systems, object-oriented programming, and ‘ata structures. He also provides oun ore to computer science educators and industry profgssincals! Professor distributed computing. Peter Baer Galvin ss the chiet technologist for Corporate Technologies (wwweptech.com). 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