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Famous DB Nerds #5 (cont)

Paul Larson

Witold Litwin

   
  • Together, invented linear hashing
  • Litwin: University Paris 9 Dauphine
    • Awarded ACM Fellowship 2001
    • Query processing, distributed databases
    • Recently: secure data in cloud databases
  • Larson: U Waterloo, Microsoft Research
    • Awarded ACM Fellowship 2004
    • Query processing/optimization
    • Recently: SQL server, main-memory databases