Dr. Simon Y. Berkovitch

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Department of Computer Science

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Course Director-

Graduate:

• CS 194 Discrete Analysis in Computer Science (3 cr.)
• CS 244 Information Retrieval Systems (3 cr.)
• CS 327 Advanced Information Systems (3 cr.)

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Mailing Address

     Department of Computer Science
     The George Washington University
 Washington DC 20052

Phone/Email:

     Phone:     (202) 994-8248
     FAX:       (202) 994-4875
     Email:     berkov@gwu.edu
 
 
 




 
 

Fall '06 Teaching Schedule and Office Hours-

Teaching Schedule:

    CSci 123-10 T and R               6:10 - 8:40 pm  Stu 208 
  CSci 194-10 R                07:10-09:40 pm Phil 111

Office Hours:

Tuesdays and Thursdays 4 - 6 pm

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Biography

   M.S. 1960    Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, Russia
   Ph.D.1964    Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology, Russia

Faculty member since 1980

Member IEEE Computer Society, APS

Holder of 30 patents 

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Research Areas

• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Associative Processing
• Information Retrieval
• Computer Organization
• Mathematical Modeling

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

1. J.M. Pullen, “An Architecture for a Database Computer Using Associative Pipelining”,

June 1981

2. A.K. Ghahari, “A Design Methodology for On-Line Menu-Driven Information Retrieval

System”, April 1985

3. Y. El-Gamal, “A Computing System for Modeling Large-Scale Markov Chains”, May 1985

4. A. Hegazy, “Searching Large Textual Files for Near-Matching Patterns”, July 1985

5. L. DiMento, “An Analysis of the Image Compression Efficiency of the Binary Tree

Transformation Implemented with Content-Induced Transactions Overlap”, December 1986

6. M. C. Frame, “Automatic Translation of Query Languages in Heterogeneous Database

Management Systems”, January 1987

7. Y. K. Park, “The Design and Analysis of Virtual-Bus Interconnection Network”,

September 1987

8. M. Galal, “Design and Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Clock System”, May 1988

9. C. J. Walter, “Organization of a Distributed Computer System Based on the CITO

Communication Technique”, March 1989

10. E. Myers, “Organization of Associative Processing with Buffered Memory Pipelining”,

May 1990

11. H. Al-Sakran, “Design of a Text Searching Technique to Enhance Database Management

Systems Facilities”, co-director Prof. H Eisner, November 1991

12. M. Mahafzah, “Fault-Tolerant CITO Communication System”, October 1992

13. A. Ozkaya, “Organization of Set Manipulation Operations Using Partial Ordering

Variations”, December 1995

14. E. El-Qawasmeh, “Development and Investigation of Hash Searching Technique

Tolerating Bit-Position Mismatches”, December 1997

15. Lin-ching Chang, “Investigation of Multiprocessor Networks Arranging Replicated Objects

in Combinatorial Designs”, December 1997

16. R. Davis, "Forced Interrupt Microprocessor Pipeline", December 1999

17. M. J. P. Mack, “Evaluation of Cardinalities of Approximate Match Subsets in

Organization of Intelligent Information Retrieval Systems”, March 2001

18. B. Beroukhim, “Fault-Tolerant Indexing and its Application to Dictionary Systems”,

January 2002

19. M. Ameen, “Automatic Region Identification, Representation, and Labeling

for Advanced Image Retrieval Systems”, co-director Dr. Harold Szu, April 2002

20. A.H. Gooda, "Application of the Techniques of Data compression and Near-neighbor

Classification for Information Retrieval”, May 2003

21. A. S. Alhosni, “Using the Lebesgue Space Filling Curve for the Efficient Manipulations of

Two-dimensional Arrays”, April 2004

22. M. Inayatullah, “Investigation and Development of Approximate String Matching

Techniques”, November 2004

23. A. Djebbari, “Construction and Partitioning of Genetic Networks From the Biological

Literature and Microarray Data”, co-director Dr. John Quackenbush, April 2005

24. A. V. Gupte, “Fast Indexing and Retrieval of Color Image Data”, October 2005

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