Education
Katz received an Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University (May 1976), Mississippi from University of California Berkeley (June 1978), and Doctor of Philosophy from University of California Berkeley (June 1980) all in computer science.
Katz received an Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University (May 1976), Mississippi from University of California Berkeley (June 1978), and Doctor of Philosophy from University of California Berkeley (June 1980) all in computer science.
He has published over 250 refereed technical papers, book chapters, and books His textbook, Contemporary Logic Design, has sold over 85,000 copies, and has been used at over 200 colleges and universities. Katz, along with David A. Patterson and Garth Gibson, developed the redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) concept for computer storage in their 1988 SIGMOD Conference paper.
Katz is a fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and a member of National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers James H. Mulligan, Junior. Education Medal in 2010.