Title
Katz, Randy oral historyCatalog Number
102792717Type
DocumentDescription
Randy Katz is an American engineer, computer scientist, and university professor. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Cornell University where he was part of the earliest cohort of students to study computer science. For graduate work, he moved to Berkeley where, working under Larry Rowe on databases, he obtained his masters degree. He obtained his PhD in 1980 under the supervision of Eugene Wong.After a postdoctoral year in industry at BB&N, Katz became an Assistant Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1981 to 1983. In 1983, he joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1985 and Full Professor in 1988. He has supervised 52 Ph.D. dissertations and 59 M.S. theses. Along with David A. Patterson and Garth Gibson, he developed the redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) concept for computer storage, which revolutionized the industry. He also led the effort to connect the White House to the Internet in 1994. Katz retired from Berkeley in December 2021.
Date
2022-07-14Contributor
| Katz, Randy, Interviewee |
| Spicer, Dag, Interviewer |
