Biography:Paul Larson

Short description: American computer scientist

For the American football player, see Paul Larson (American football). For the Press Your Luck contestant, see Paul Michael Larson.

Paul Larson (Per-Åke Larson) is a computer scientist. He is most famous for inventing the linear hashing algorithm with Witold Litwin. Paul Larson is currently a senior researcher in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. He is frequent chair and committee member of conferences such as VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE. In 2005 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

References

• Larson PA. "Dynamic Hash Tables." Communications of the ACM. April 1988, 31(4):446-57 pdf.

External links

• Paul Larson MSR Page
• UW MSR Summer Institute 2010