Simon Y. Berkovich Professor Department of Computer Science School of Engineering & Applied Science The George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 Phone: ( 202 )994-8248 E-mail: berkov (at) gwu (dot) edu |
Inventions and Publications | |
30 Patents (16 USSR and 14 US Patents) | |
More than 100 publications | Recent Publications |
32 doctoral students defended their dissertations under my directorship | List of students |
Honors | |
1971 | Awarded the title of Senior Research Fellow by the USSR Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in computer science, particularly, for the invention of a new method for dynamic file construction that become known as B-tree and dynamic hashing |
1983 | Bendix Advanced Technology Center Award: "Best Invention of the Last 12 months" |
2002 | Elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences "for an outstanding contribution to computer science and the development of fundamental computational algorithms" |
Research grants and Enterprises | |
1989-1990 | On-the-fly processing of information flows (DARPA) |
1995-1996 | Retrieval with fuzzy criteria (MatchWare Technologies) |
1997-1998 | Associative access to textual files (Heitmann Company) |
2000-2001 | Searching engine enhancements (SER Systems Engineering) |
2002-2004 | Information system for nuclear physics (NSF) |
2005-2010 | Our US Patent, number 5,619,680, entitled "Methods and Apparatus for Concurrent Execution of Serial Computing Instructions Using Combinatorial Architecture for Program Partitoning" was licensed to SNAPP Technologies |