Margo Seltzer
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Professor Margo Seltzer taken in 2012 at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Margo Seltzer in 2012
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| Born | Upstate New York |
| Residence | USA |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer Systems |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Stonebraker |
Margo Ilene Seltzer (born in upstate New York) is a professor and researcher in computer systems. Currently she is the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science (full professor) in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where she is active in the Systems Research Group.[1]
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Education
Seltzer received an A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard/Radcliffe College in 1983. In 1992, she received her Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.[2] Her dissertation was titled ‘‘File System Performance and Transaction Support’’ and was advised by Michael Stonebraker.[3]
Academia
Margo began her path to professorship in 1992 when she became an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard and then an Associate Professor in 1997. She was named Gordon McKay Professor, becoming the first female junior faculty member to be promoted to a position of tenure in 2000. She was featured in a Crimson editorial titled "Seltzer's Deserved Tenure" [4] since only 13% of tenured positions at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are held by women. From 2002 to 2006, she was also Associate Dean. Her work in log-structured file systems, databases, and wide-scale caching is especially well known, and she was lead author of the BSD-LFS paper.[5] This paper however, received some critique.[6][7]
Work
Seltzer was CTO of Sleepycat Software (developers of the Berkeley DB embedded database) prior to that firm's acquisition by Oracle in 2006. She served as an architect on the Oracle Berkeley DB team for a few years before transferring to Oracle Labs where she continues to serve as an architect.
Professional Activities
Seltzer was a director of USENIX for 8 years, vice president for one year and is currently the president of the USENIX association. In 2011 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[8] Seltzer is also an active advisor to the Harvard Undergraduate Women in Computer Science. [9]
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References
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External links
- Margo Seltzer's Harvard Web Page
- Appreciation of Margo Seltzer for Ada Lovelace Day by Aaron Swartz
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- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Women computer scientists
- Women in technology
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Harvard University alumni
- Chief technology officers
