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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
THE MICHAEL CONRAD MEMORIAL LECTURE
Dr. Avi Silberschatz
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
Yale University
Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Purdy - Kresge Library
Reception: 2:00pm Simons room
Talk: 3:00pm room 110
Next-Generation Information Systems
Next generation information systems will blend leading-edge technologies from networking, storage
systems, and computing. They will seamlessly combine communications, software, and contents.
They will incorporate the best features of today's voice and data networks. They will support fully
distributed secure 7x24 storage systems that utilize IP-based network technology and provide
Quality-of-Service access to multimedia data. They will provide users with support for contentbased retrieval, queries with approximate answers, data mining capabilities, and full data
interoperability.
This talk will present a grand tour of a wide variety of next generation information systems, highlight
their characteristics, and introduce a number of new research projects that address these
challenges.
Bio:
Avi Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer
Science and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Yale
University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the
Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Murray
Hill, New Jersey. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the
Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
His research interests include database systems, operating systems,
network systems, bioscience databases, storage system, and
distributed systems.
Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He
received the 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. In
recognition for his outstanding level of innovation and technical excellence, Professor Silberschatz
was awarded the Bell Laboratories President's Award, 1998 (QTM Project), 1999 (DataBlitz
Project), and 2004 (Net Inventory Project).
Professor Silberschatz has graduated over a dozen Ph.D. students who now hold positions in
academic institutions and industrial research laboratories. His writings have appeared in numerous
ACM and IEEE publications and in other professional conferences and journals. He obtained over
four dozen patents and over two dozen grants. He is a coauthor of two well known textbooks -Operating System Concepts and Database System Concepts
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.
Contact Information: Department of Computer Science
5143 Cass Avenue, Room 431, State Hall Detroit, Michigan 48202
(313) 577-2477 www.cs.wayne.edu