Héctor García-Molina
Héctor García-Molina (15 November 1954 – 25 November 2019) 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.
Héctor García-Molina | |
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García-Molina (2011) | |
| Born | 15 November 1954 Monterrey, Mexico |
| Died | 25 November 2019 (aged 64–65) |
| Education | Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (BS) Stanford University (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Distributed databases |
| Awards | ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Gio Wiederhold |
| Doctoral students | Robert Abbott, Sergey Brin, Neil Daswani, Boris Kogan, Narayanan Shivakumar |
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