Henry Francis Korth is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and co-director of the Computer Science and Business program at
Lehigh University.
Early life and education
Korth holds an A.B degree in mathematics from
Williams College
Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...
in
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Williamstown is a town in the northern part of Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts, United States. It shares a border with Vermont to the north and New York to the west. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolit ...
. Later he studied at
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
and graduated in 1979 for M.A. and M.S.E. degrees. After that he completed his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981. His dissertation title was "Locking Protocols: General Lock Classes and Deadlock Freedom".
Books
''The Mobile Computing Book'' was published in 1996.
''Database System Concepts'', published in 2011, was co-authored with
Avi Silberschatz and S. Sudarshan. This book is widely used for academic purposes and university curriculum.
His work has been cited over 16,000 times.
Career
Korth served on the faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences at the
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
, 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
Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984),
then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007),
is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...
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.
References
External links
ACM
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University of Texas at Austin faculty
Scientists at Bell Labs
Lehigh University faculty
Princeton University alumni
Williams College alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery