Ashok K. Chandra (30 July 1948 – 15 November 2014)[2] was a computer scientist at Microsoft Research in Mountain View, California, United States, where he was a general manager at the Internet Services Research Center.[3] Chandra received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, an MS from University of California, Berkeley, and a BTech from IIT Kanpur. He was previously Director of Database and Distributed Systems at IBM Almaden Research Center.
Ashok K. Chandra | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 July 1948 |
| Died | 15 November 2014 (aged 66) |
| Alma mater | Berkeley |
| Known for | Conjunctive queries, alternating Turing machines |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | IBM Research Microsoft Research |
| Doctoral advisor | Zohar Manna[1] |
Chandra co-authored several key papers in theoretical computer science. Among other contributions, he introduced alternating Turing machines in computational complexity (with Dexter Kozen and Larry Stockmeyer),[4][5] conjunctive queries in databases (with Philip M. Merlin),[6] computable queries (with David Harel),[7] and multiparty communication complexity (with Merrick L. Furst and Richard J. Lipton).[8]
He was a founder of the annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science and served as conference chair of the first three conferences, in 1986–8.[9] He was an IEEE Fellow.[10]
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