Henry F. Korth

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Henry F. Korth
NationalityAmerican
EducationPh.D., M.A., M.S.E., and A.B
Alma mater
Awards
  • ACM Fellow [1]
  • IEEE Fellow [2]
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Lehigh University
Thesis Locking Protocols: General Lock Classes and Deadlock Freedom
Doctoral advisor Jeffrey D. Ullman

Henry Francis Korth is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and co-director of the Computer Science and Business program at Lehigh University. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the IEEE. He is one of the coauthors of the university textbook Database System Concepts.

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Early life and education

Korth holds an A.B degree in mathematics from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Later he studied at Princeton University and graduated in 1979 for M.A. and M.S.E. degrees[ citation needed ]. After that he completed his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981. His dissertation title was Locking Protocols: General Lock Classes and Deadlock Freedom. [3]

Career

Korth served on the faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, where he held the rank of associate professor with tenure from 1983 to 1992.

Later, he held positions of leadership with Lucent Technology's Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. As Director of Database Principles Research.

He was Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University from 2003 to 2009.

The Blockchain Lab is currently led by Korth. [4]

Books

Korth published the textbook Database System Concepts with Avi Silberschatz in 1986. [5] As of 2024 it is in its seventh edition. [6] . When he was elected a fellow of the ACM the citation read "For significant and lasting influence to principles and practice of database management. Service to community via a bestseller undergraduate textbook, student mentoring and leadership role in industry." [1]

The Mobile Computing Book was published in 1996. [7]

His work has been cited over 16,000 times. [8] [9]

Awards

Korth was elected a fellow of the ACM in 2000. [1] He became a fellow of the IEEE in 2003 for "contributions to the principles and practice of database management." [2]

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  3. "Hank (Henry) Korth". P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science. 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
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  6. Silberschatz, A.; Korth, H.F.; Sudarshan, S. (2020). Database System Concepts (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN   978-1-260-08450-4.
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