Operating System Concepts:8th Edition Wiley Student Edition About the Author About the Author: Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. He served as the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories before joining Yale. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Computer Sciences. He is also a part of IEEE and ACM. He received the ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award in 1997. in 1998, he was awarded the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award and The IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award was awarded to Mr Silberchatz in the 2002. He was awarded the Bell Laboratories President's Award for his innovative technical excellence. Famous in his field of teachings, he also teaches computer networks, distributed systems and software engineering. He also provides workshops to computer science educators and industry professionals. Being a writer, Professor Silberschatz' works have appeared and highlighted in ACM and IEEE publications and several other journals and conferences.