What is Héctor García-Molina?
{{Infobox scientist |image = Hector García-Molina (6187523546).jpg |image_size = 150px | name = Héctor García-Molina | birth_date = {{birth date|1953|11|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]], [[Mexico]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|11|25|1953|11|15|df=y}} | residence = | nationality = [[Mexico|Mexican]]-[[United States|American]] | field = [[Computer Science]] | work_institution = [[Stanford University]] | alma_mater = [[ITESM]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Gio Wiederhold]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Gio Wiederhold's Website at Stanford University| url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/gio/personal/students.html|access-date=2006-11-29}}</ref> | doctoral_students = [[Robert Abbott (game designer)|Robert Abbott]], [[Sergey Brin]], [[Neil Daswani]], [[Boris Kogan]], [[Narayanan Shivakumar]], [[Mor Naaman]] | known_for = Distributed databases | prizes = 1999 ACM [[SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award]] | footnotes = }} '''Héctor García-Molina''' (November 15, 1953 – November 25, 2019)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/06/hector-garcia-molina-influential-computer-scientist-database-expert-dies-65/ | title=Hector Garcia-Molina, influential database expert, dies at 65 | date=6 December 2019 }}</ref> was a Mexican-American [[computer scientist]]. He was a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at [[Stanford University]]. He was advisor to [[Sergey Brin]], the co-founder of [[Google]], from 1993 to 1997 when Brin was a computer science student at Stanford. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www-db.stanford.edu/people/hector.html Héctor García-Molina's Personal Web page at Stanford University] *[http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulos/36013.html El Universal: ''El mexicano que asesoró a los creadores de Google''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118072708/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulos/36013.html |date=2006-11-18 }} (in Spanish) *[https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660&org=NSF