Paul Larson
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Paul Larson is a computer scientist
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

. He is most famous for inventing the linear hashing algorithm with Witold Litwin. Paul Larson is currently a senior researcher in the Database Group of Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research
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. He is frequent chair and committee member of conferences such as VLDB
VLDB
VLDB is an annual conference held by the non-profit Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc.. The mission of VLDB is to promote and exchange scholarly work in databases and related fields throughout the world...

, SIGMOD
SIGMOD
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, and ICDE.
In 2004 he was inducted as a Fellow
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 of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
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