Prof. Korth elected Fellow of IEEE

Henry Korth, who was appointed chairman of the department of computer science and engineering in January, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE is a non-profit, technical professional organization with more than 380,000 members in 150 countries.

The designation of Fellow is conferred by IEEE's board of directors upon persons with "extraordinary records of accomplishment." Korth was cited "for contributions to the principles and practice of database management." A total of 260 new Fellows were named by IEEE in 2003.

In the past 20 years, Korth has gained renown as an expert in database systems, information systems and distributed systems. His extensive publications include three books, one of which, Database Systems Concepts, is now in its fourth 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 and also of technology assessment, 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. His teams twice received the Bell Labs President's Silver Award, in 1998 for the QTM(tm) aggregation engine and in 1999 for the DataBlitz(tm) main-memory storage manager. Korth also led the creation of two other Lucent products: the Interprenet(tm) IP Usage Suite, and the WebLightning(tm) Web Accelerator.

Before joining Lucent, Korth served as vice president and director of the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, the leading computer systems research laboratory for the company that produces Panasonic, Technics and Quasar products. In this position, Korth conducted research in multi-database systems, mobile computing, database-user interfaces and multimedia information systems.

Korth is also a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. At the 1995 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, a paper he co-authored titled "A Model of CAD Transactions" was chosen as "Most Influential Paper from the Proceedings of Ten Years Ago." Korth has served on the editorial boards of several computing journals, and currently serves on the boards of The VLDB Journal and The International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems.
 
>From 1983 to 1992, Korth served on the faculty of the department of computer sciences at the University of Texas at Austin where he attained the rank of associate professor with tenure. Under his guidance, seven students completed Ph.D.s and eight completed master's degrees.