Toby J. Teorey

Toby Teorey (1942- ) is currently Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Michigan, where he served as Associate Chair for Computer Science & Engineering (1994-1997). He received the BS (1964) and MS (1965) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and a PhD in Computer Science (1972) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He served as an Electronic Data Processing Officer in the U.S. Air Force (1965-1969), including duty as a White House Social Aide for President Lyndon Johnson (1966-1968).

He conducted extensive research and developed software tools for the logical and physical design of relational databases, data warehouse and OLAP design, disk scheduling algorithms, and computer system and network (Ethernet) performance. He has published over 65 critically refereed technical papers and six books. He was general chair of the 1981 ACM SIGMOD Conference and program chair for the 1991 Entity-Relationship Conference. His web page is http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~teorey.