Theo Härder

Theo Härder (born August 28, 1945 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern.

Theo Härder
Born	(1945-08-28) August 28, 1945 (age 79) Bad Neustadt an der Saale
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Technische Universität Darmstadt
Occupation	Computer scientist
Known for	Work on database, transaction processing systems and parallel and distributed computer systems
Awards	Konrad Zuse Medal
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Technische Universität Darmstadt University of Kaiserslautern
Thesis	Das Zugriffszeitverhalten von Relationalen Datenbanksystemen.  (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Hartmut Wedekind
Doctoral students	Erhard Rahm

Life and career

Theo Härder studied electrical Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, earning his doctorate there in 1975. In 1976 he moved to the IBM Research - Almaden in San Jose, California. In 1977 he returned to TU Darmstadt as a professor at the Department of Computer Science. In 1980 he accepted an appointment at the University of Kaiserslautern in computer science.^[1]

Accomplishments

Härder has received numerous awards for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of databases. He participated in the development of System R, the first relational database management system.

In 1983, he and Andreas Reuter coined the acronym ACID to describe the essential characteristics of a distributed relational database (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability).^[2]

Awards

Konrad Zuse Medal, 2001 Honorary doctorate from Universität Oldenburg, 2002