22.12.1920 - 06.07.1989 (68 years) (Detroit, Michigan, USA )
Paul Larson (Per-Åke Larson) is a computer scientist. 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. He is frequent chair and committee member of conferences such as VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE. In 2005 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.