The son of two hardware store owners, Abiteboul attended high-school in Romorantin, and Higher School Preparatory Classes in Tours.
10 Facts About Serge Abiteboul
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Serge Abiteboul was admitted to the Telecom Paris engineering school and studied at the Technion in Haifa for a year.
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Serge Abiteboul received his PhD from the University of Southern California under the supervision of Seymour Ginsburg, in 1982.
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Serge Abiteboul is a senior researcher at the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique, the French national research institute focussing on computer science and related areas, and has been a professor of the College de France.
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Serge Abiteboul is known for his many contributions in the areas of finite model theory, database theory, and database systems.
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Serge Abiteboul is known for two books, one on database theory and one on Web data management.
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Serge Abiteboul frequently writes for French newspapers, including Le Monde, Liberation and La Tribune.
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Serge Abiteboul has been critical of virtual assistants and their impact on privacy.
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Serge Abiteboul was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery SIGMOD Test of Time Award in 2004, the Prix EADS in 2007 and the ACM PODS Alberto O Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award.
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Serge Abiteboul was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2008, of the European Academy of Sciences in 2011, and an ACM Fellow in 2011.