Randy Katz

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Dr. Randy Howard Katz is a distinguished professor at University of California, Berkeley of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Katz received a A.B. from Cornell University (May 1976), MS from UC Berkeley (June 1978), and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (June 1980) all in computer science. Katz is a fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Katz, along with David A. Patterson and Garth A. Gibson, developed the redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concept for computer storage in their 1988 SIGMOD Conference paper.

[edit] Books

• Katz, Randy (1994). Contemporary Logic Design. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company. DOI:10.1016/0026-2692(95)90052-7. ISBN 0-8053-2703-7. 

[edit] Publications

• Patterson, David; Garth A. Gibson, Randy Katz (1988). "A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)". SIGMOD Conference: pp 109–116. 

[edit] External links

• http://bnrg.eecs.berkeley.edu/~randy/ — UC Berkeley web page