Amr El Abbadi, Professor
Room 3115, Engineering I
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110
Internet:
amr@cs.ucsb.edu
Telephone:(805) 893-4239
Main CS phone:(805) 893-4321
Fax:(805) 893-8553
Research Laboratory (Dstributed Systems Laboratory)
Research interests: My research interests are in the fields of fault-tolerant distributed systems and databases. I have designed several protocols for highly available fault-tolerant systems and have also been involved in designing systems and database support for geographic information systems and collaborative environments. Recently, I have been especially interested in exploring efficient ways for retrieving data in a distributed library as well as content-based searching using multi-dimensional index structures. I am currently involved in several research projects including Alexandria for building a distributed digital library (not to be confused with the ancient library of Alexandria ), an NSF sponsered data summarization project Yangtze , and an NSF sponser project on leveraging advanced hardware for data stream managment Hardware .
Course Related material:
Interesting Web pages: Um Kalthoum , the most famous Egyptian singer in modern times.