Henry Francis Korth is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and co-director of the Computer Science and Business program at

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and was originally affiliated with the Epi ...

Early life and education

Korth holds an A.B degree in mathematics from

Williams College Williams College is a private 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 colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kille ...

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 Metropol ...

. Later he studied at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

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 development, research and scientific developm ...

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.

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ACM

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