George Samaras, Professor

Contact Information:
Mailing address
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus
75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O. Box 537
CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel: + 357-22-892235
Fax: + 357-22-892701
Office: FST 01 113
Email: cssamara[AT]ucy.ac.cy

Biographical Notes:
Undergraduate studies at the University of Athens (B.Sc. in Mathematics,
1982), graduate studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (M.Sc.,
1982, and Ph.D., 1989, in Computer Science). He has worked in the applied
research program of IBM’s Communications and Networks Centre at Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina (1990-1993), and has taught at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Visiting Assistant Professor, 1990-1993). He was
also a member of IBM’s International Standards Committees for issues related to
distributed transaction processing (OSI/TP, XOPEN,OMG ). His research interests
are concerned with relational and object oriented databases, distributed
transaction processing, commit protocols and mobile computing.