Laura Haas

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Laura Myers Haas (* 1956 ) is an American computer scientist .

Haas studied applied mathematics and computer science at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and received a PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. From 1981 she was at the IBM Almaden Research Center and then stayed at IBM , where she became an IBM Fellow , was director of the Computer Science department at the Almaden Research Center from 2005 to 2011 and became director of the IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab in 2011. After retiring from IBM in 2017, she became Dean of the College of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst .

In 1992/93 she was a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin .

She developed methods of integrating data from a wide variety of heterogeneous sources that were also manageable for non-programmers. She received the Computer Pioneer Award for pioneering inventions in the architecture of federated databases and the integration of data from diverse, diverse sources (laudation).

In particular, she led the Stardust project of a query processor for databases at IBM, the basis for the DB2 LUW query processor from IBM. She was the principal architect of Garlic Systems and the IBM InfoSphere Federation Server and was generally instrumental in developing the information integration systems market at IBM. In the Clio Project she developed the concept of schema mapping for semi-automatic data integration from different sources and formats.

In 2010 she became a member of the National Academy of Engineering and in 2006 a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2015 she received the EF Codd Award from SIGMOD. She has received several Outstanding Innovation and Technical Achievement Awards from IBM and the IBM Corporate Award for Information Integration Technology, and she received the Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award. For 2019 she received the Computer Pioneer Award . She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2015 .

Fonts (selection)

  • with KM Chandy, J. Misra: Distributed deadlock detection , ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Volume 1, 1983, pp. 144-156
  • with GM Lohman, JC Freytag, H. Pirahesh: Extensible Query Processing in Starburst , ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 18, 1989, pp. 377-388
  • with W. Chang u. a .: Starburst mid-flight: as the dust clears (database project) , IEEE Transactions on knowledge and data engineering, Volume 2, 1990, pp. 143-160
  • with MJ Carey, M. Livny: Tapes hold data, too: challenges of tuples on tertiary store , ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 22, 1993, pp. 413-417
  • with MJ Carey u. a .: Towards heterogeneous multimedia information systems: The Garlic approach , Proceedings RIDE-DOM'95. Fifth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering-Distributed Object Management, 1995, pp. 124-131
  • with D. Kossmann, E. Wimmers, J. Yang: Optimizing queries across diverse data sources , 1997
  • with RJ Miller, MA Hernández: Schema mapping as query discovery , VLDB 2000, pp. 77-88
  • with RJ Miller u. a .: The Clio project: managing heterogeneity , SIGMOD Record, Volume 30, 2001, pp. 78-83
  • with ET Lin, MA Roth: Data Integration through Database Federation , IBM Systems Journal, Volume 41, 2002, pp. 578-596.
  • with Philip A. Bernstein: Information integration in the enterprise , Communications of the ACM, Volume 51, 2008, Issue 9, pp. 72-79

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ for pioneering innovations in the architecture of federated databases and in the integration of data from multiple, heterogeneous sources , Computer Pioneer Award 2019
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haas, Laura Myers (full name); Haas, Laura M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956