Henry F. Korth
Henry F. Korth is Weiseman Professor and Chair of
the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. He is director of the Systems,
Experimentation, and Analysis Laboratory for Databases (SEAL DB). His publications include three books,
one of which, Database Systems Concepts, is now in its fifth edition; over 100 journal
articles, conference publications and other technical papers; and eight book
chapters. Korth also holds eight patents. Before his arrival at Lehigh, Korth
held positions of leadership with Lucent Technology’s Bell Laboratories in
Murray Hill, N.J. As Director of Database Principles Research, he led teams of
Ph.D. researchers in investigating XML data management, web-based data,
main-memory database systems, real-time systems, parallel systems and other
topics. At Lucent, Korth was a
founding member of the Joint Development and Delivery Center, which managed the
rapid transition of Bell Labs prototypes into marketplace products. He was a
member of two teams that received the Bell Labs President’s Silver Award, in
1998 for the QTM™ aggregation engine and in 1999 for the DataBlitz™ main-memory
storage manager. Korth also led the creation of two other Lucent products: the
Interprenet™ IP Usage Suite, and the WebLightning™ Web Accelerator.
Before joining Lucent, Korth served as vice president of Panasonic Technologies and
director of the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, the leading
computer systems research laboratory for Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. In
this position, Korth conducted research in multidatabase systems, mobile
computing, database user interfaces and multimedia information systems.
Korth is a Fellow
of the Association for Computing Machinery,
(ACM) and a Fellow of the
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holds Ph.D., M.A., and M.S.E degrees from Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, in computer science, and an A.B degree in mathematics
from Williams College, Williamstown,
Massachusetts.