| Intro | American computer scientist | ||
| Is | Computer scientist | ||
| From | United States of America | ||
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| Gender | female | ||
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Margo Ilene Seltzer (born in upstate New York) is a professor and researcher in computer systems. She is Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where she is the director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society.
Education and academic career
In 1982 Seltzer was a teaching assistant under Harry R. Lewis at Harvard University. In 1983 she received her A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard/Radcliffe College, and in 1992 her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where her dissertation, “File System Performance and Transaction Support”, was supervised by Michael Stonebraker. Her work in log-structured file systems, databases, and wide-scale caching is especially well known, and she was lead author of the BSD-LFS paper.
Seltzer became an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard in 1992 and an Associate Professor in 1997, and was named Gordon McKay Professor (the first female junior faculty member at Harvard to receive tenure) in 2000; in 2004 she became the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science. From 2005 to 2010 she was designated a Harvard College Professor in recognition of “particularly distinguished contributions to undergraduate teaching”, and from 2002 to 2006 was Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
She is an advisor to the Harvard Undergraduate Women in Computer Science.