Randy Howard Katz was born in 1955. He is an American computer scientist. He is a retired professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the department of electrical engineering and computer science.

Biography

Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. He was first exposed to computers in Canarsie High School. After graduating in 1973, Katz received an A.B. from Cornell University (May 1976), where he was a Cornell College Scholar majoring in computer science and mathematics, an M.S. from UC Berkeley (June 1978), under the direction of Larry Rowe, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (June 1980), under the direction of Eugene Wong. He was a member of the Ingres Project.

After working at BBN and CCA in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Katz was 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 was appointed the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor in EECS in 1996. From 1996 to 1999, he served as chair of the EECS Department, the first computer scientist to do so. In 2015, he served as chair of the Department's Computer Science Division. In 2018, he was appointed Berkeley's vice chancellor for research. He retired from the university in December 2021.

Katz is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to computer system design, engineering education, and government service, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2000) for "contributions to high-performance input/output systems, engineering education, and government service."

He has published over 350 refereed technical papers, book chapters, and books. His textbook, Contemporary Logic Design, has sold over 85,000 copies, and has been used at over 200 colleges and universities. His academic recognitions include the Computer Science Division's Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching Award, the Jim and Donna Gray Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Berkeley Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, the ASEE Frederic E. Terman Award, the IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contributor Award, the IEEE Reynolds Johnson Information Storage Award, the Outstanding Alumni Award of the Computer Science Division, the CRA Distinguished Service Award, the United States Department of the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service, and the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat of the Government of Singapore.

Katz, along with David A. Patterson and Garth Gibson, developed the redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) concept for computer storage in their 1988 SIGMOD Conference paper. He also led the effort to connect the White House to the Internet in 1994.

Books

• Contemporary Logic Design – Randy H. Katz. Addison-Wesley/Benjamin-Cummings, first edition (1993). ISBN 978-0805307141.

A textbook used by college students to learn about digital logic design. It includes modern computer tools and examples of real-world applications.

• Contemporary Logic Design, Second Edition – Randy H. Katz and Gaetano Borriello. Pearson/Addison-Wesley (2005). ISBN 978-0321224676.

A newer version of the original book. It adds information about programmable logic, languages used to describe hardware, and methods for designing systems.

Award Publications

• C. Reiss; A. Tumanov; G. R. Ganger; R. H. Katz; M. A. Kozuch. "Heterogeneity and Dynamicity of Clouds at Scale: the Google Trace." Presented at the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing in San Jose, California, in October 2012. It received the 2021 SOCC "Test of Time" Award. DOI: 10.1145/2391229.2391236. Retrieved on December 27, 2021.
• B. Hindman; A. Konwinski; M. Zaharia; A. Ghodsi; A. D. Joseph; R. H. Katz; I. Stoica; S. Shenker. "Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center (PDF)." Presented at the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in Boston, Massachusetts, in March 2011. Pages 295–308. It received the 2021 NSDI "Test of Time" Award. Retrieved on March 25, 2015.
• R. Fonseca; G. Porter; R. H. Katz; S. Shenker; I. Stoica. "X-Trace: A Pervasive Network Tracing Framework (PDF)." Presented at the Fourth USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April 2007. Pages 271–284. It received the 2017 NSDI "Test of Time" Award. Retrieved on December 27, 2021.
• S. Alspaugh; B. Chen; J. Lin; A. Ganapathi; M. Hearst; R. H. Katz. "Analyzing Log Analysis: An Empirical Study of User Log Mining (PDF)." Presented at the USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference in Seattle, Washington, in November 2014. Pages 53–68. It received the Best Student Paper Award. Retrieved on December 27, 2021.
• A. Rabkin; R. H. Katz. "Precomputing Possible Configuration Error Diagnoses." Presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering in Lawrence, Kansas, in November 2011. Pages 193–202. It received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2011.6100053. Retrieved on December 27, 2021.
• A. Ganapathi; Y. Chen; A. Fox; R. H. Katz; D. Patterson. "Statistics-Driven Workload Modeling for the Cloud (PDF)." Presented at the 5th International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems in Long Beach, California, in March 2010. Pages 87–92. It received the Best Paper Award. Retrieved on December 27, 2021.
• Gunho Lee; N. Tolia; P. Ranganathan; R. H. Katz. "Topology-Aware Resource Allocation for Data-Intensive Workloads." Presented at the 1st ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems in New Delhi, India, in August 2010. Pages 120–124. It received the Best Workshop Paper Award. DOI: 10.1145/1851276.1851278.
• F. Yu; T. V. Lakshman; R. H. Katz. "Gigabit Rate Pattern-Matching using TCAM." Presented at the International Conference on Network Protocols in Berlin, Germany, in October 2004. Pages 174–183. It received the Best Paper Award. Retrieved on December 27, 2021.
• F. Yu; R. H. Katz. "Efficient Multi-class Classification using TCAM." Presented at the 12th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects in Stanford, California, in August 2004. Pages 28–34. It received the Best Paper Award. DOI: 10.1109/CONECT.2004.1375197.
• L. Subramanian; V. Roth; I. Stoica; R. H. Katz; S. Shenker. "Listen and Whisper: Security Mechanisms for BGP." Presented at the USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked System Design and Implementation in San Francisco, California, in March 2004. Pages 127–140. It received the Best Student Paper Award. Retrieved on December 27, 2021.
• Z. Mao; R. H. Katz. "A Framework for Universal Service Access using Device Ensembles." Presented at the CRA Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer Science Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, in October 2002. Pages 10–15. It received the Best Student Paper Award. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.57.8669.
• S. D. Gribble; M. Welsh; R. von Behren; E. A. Brewer; D. Culler; N. Borisov; S. Czerwinski; R. Gummadi; J. Hill; A. Joseph; R. H. Katz; Z. M. Mao; S. Ross; B. Zhao (2001). "The Ninja Architecture for Robust Internet-Scale Systems and Services." Published in the Journal of Computer Networks, Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 473–497. DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(00)00179-1. Retrieved on December 27, 2021.
• E. Amir; S. McCanne; R. H. Katz. "An Active Service Framework and its Application to Real-time Multimedia Transcoding." Presented at the ACM SIGCOMM’98 Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 1998. Pages 178–189. It received the Best Paper Award. DOI: 10.114