Server: Netscape-Commerce/1.1 Date: Monday, 25-Nov-96 23:28:15 GMT Last-modified: Monday, 25-Nov-96 23:13:02 GMT Content-length: 4760 Content-type: text/html Dr. Patrick C. Fischer

Patrick C. Fischer

Professor of Computer Science

Education

Experience

Dr. Fischer held positions at Harvard, Cornell, the University of Waterloo and the Pennsylvania State University before assuming a professorship at Vanderbilt in 1980, where he also served as Chair of Computer Science for 15 years. He has had visiting positions at the University of British Columbia, University of California at Berkeley, and Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also participated in 3-4 week residencies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Universität Kaiserslautern,, Germany, and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Dr. Fischer is the founder of the ACM Special Interest Group for Algorithms and Computability Theory, and has held a key position in seven national symposia. He has also served the Association for Computing Machinery, in several capacities. He currently holds positions on the editorial boards of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and Computer Languages.

Academic

Dr. Fischer has taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in databases and has taught courses in automata theory, data structures and algorithms, computer architecture, discrete structures and computer programming. This semester (Fall, 1996) he is teaching CS 250 - Algorithms and CS 265 - Database Management Systems . In the Spring, 1997, semester he is teaching CS/Math 212 - Discrete Structures, sections 02 and 03.

Dr. Fischer did research in theoretical computer science until 1972 and has worked primarily in database theory since then. He has been interested in theoretical problems of determining good database design, and in circumventing some of the limitations of flat relational databases. He is also interested in database semantics, including metadata and dealing with incomplete information.

He has published a total of 36 articles in refereed journals, 3 book chapters, 24 papers in refereed conference proceedings, and has been co-editor of one book. Five of his works have been reprinted in translation. He has had five grants from NSF and three grants from the National Research Council of Canada. He has had 15 students receive their Ph.D. degrees under his supervision.


Office and UPS U.S. and Campus Mail
Room 435, Village at Vanderbilt Computer Science Dept.
1500 21st Avenue South Box 1679-B
Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37212 Nashville, TN 37235

Phone: (1-615) 343-7858 Fax: (1-615) 343-5459
E-mail: pcf@vuse.vanderbilt.edu Office Hours: try finger pcf

Updated: November 25, 1996