Margo Seltzer

in applied mathematics from Radcliffe College in 1983, where she was teaching assistant under Harry R. Lewis at Harvard University.

[3] In 1992, she received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley,[4] where her dissertation, "File System Performance and Transaction Support", was supervised by Michael Stonebraker.

[5] Her work in log-structured file systems, databases, and wide-scale caching is especially well-known, and she was lead author of the BSD-LFS paper.

From 2005 to 2010, Seltzer was designated a Harvard College Professor in recognition of "particularly distinguished contributions to undergraduate teaching."

[9] Seltzer co-founded Sleepycat Software (developers of the Berkeley DB embedded database) in 1996 and was the CTO until 2006, when the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation.

On Halloween 1982, Harvard professor Harry Lewis ' teach­ing assis­tants appeared at his home in "Harry Lewis" costume, includ­ing his then-trademark mus­tache and pipe. Seltzer is at left. [ 3 ]