2007 Apr 12
Professor Ken Salem has won the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2007 Influential Paper Award. This award is given annually by the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering to any paper that has appeared in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering at least 10 years ago and has been influential in the community. Ken and his co-author Hector Garcia-Molina won this year's award for their paper "Disk Striping," which appeared in the1986 ICDE Conference Proceedings. The award citation noted that "this early paper on disk striping significantly influenced subsequent work on RAID storage."
The essential insight of the paper was to show that major efficiencies could be realized by breaking data requests into pieces, analogous to parallel processing for disks. “We did this work over twenty years ago, when I was a grad student. It’s gratifying to know that it has shown worth over such a long time,” Salem noted in reaction to the award.
Congratulations Ken!
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