Héctor García-Molina (26 November 1954 – 25 November 2019 ) was a Mexican-American computer scientist and Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University . He was the advisor to Google co-founder Sergey Brin from 1993 to 1997 when Brin was a computer science student at Stanford.
7-405: The Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP) (also called The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project and The Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project) was a research program run by Hector Garcia-Molina , Terry Winograd , Dan Boneh , and Andreas Paepcke at Stanford University in the mid-1990s to 2004. The team also included librarians Rebecca Wesley and Vicky Reich. The primary goal of
14-732: A doctorate in Computer Science (1979) from Stanford University . From 1979 to 1991, García-Molina worked as a professor of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University in New Jersey . In 1992 he joined the faculty of Stanford University as the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and has served as Director of
21-511: A primary source of funding for Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Brin was also supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship ) during the period they developed the precursors and initial versions of the Google search engine prior to the incorporation of Google as a private entity. It was also while at Stanford working under the SDLP that Larry Page filed his patent for PageRank . The SDLP itself
28-590: The Computer Systems Laboratory (August 1994 – December 1997) and as chairman of the Computer Science Department from (January 2001 – December 2004). During 1994–1998, he was Principal Investigator for the Stanford Digital Library Project, the project from which the Google search engine emerged. García-Molina served at the U.S. President 's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and
35-413: The SDLP project was to "provide an infrastructure that affords interoperability among heterogeneous, and autonomous digital library services." and described elsewhere as "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and "universal" library, proving uniform access to the large number of emerging networked information sources and collections." The SDLP is notable in the history of Google as
42-788: Was a member of Oracle Corporation 's Board of Directors beginning in October 2001 until his death. García-Molina was also a Fellow member of the Association for Computing Machinery , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering . He was a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures and ONSET Ventures. In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award. García-Molina died of cancer on
49-715: Was funded by coalition of federal agencies including the National Science Foundation as well as donations from industry sponsors. Hector Garcia-Molina Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico , García-Molina graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESM) and received both a master's degree in Electrical Engineering (1975) and
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