[3] Korth served on the faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, where he held the rank of associate professor with tenure from 1983 to 1992.
Later, he held positions of leadership with Lucent Technology's Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., as Director of Database Principles Research.
For many years, he served as co-director of the Computer Science and Business program at Lehigh University.
[6] When he was elected a fellow of the ACM the citation read "For significant and lasting influence to principles and practice of database management.
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