Database futures panel discussion: Rick Cattell, Don Chamberlin, Daniela Florescu, Jim Gray, Jim Melton (April 23, San Jose)

There will be an important panel discussion on April 23 in San Jose at the Software Development 2002 conference (www.sdexpo.com).

Rick Cattell, Don Chamberlin, Daniela Florescu, Jim Gray and Jim Melton will participate in a futures panel.

"The Future of Software and Databases"
April 23, 12:30-1:30 pm
San Jose Convention Center

Rick Cattell of Sun was the founder and original chair of the group that created the standard for object databases (ODMG). He was also the instigator of "enterprise" Java at Sun -- using Java for something more important than cute, little applets. His efforts as the original enterprise Java architect lead to what is now known as Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Rick is the author of numerous research papers and 6 books.

Jim Gray (Microsoft Research) and Don Chamberlin (IBM Almaden Research Center) were part of the IBM research team that took relational technology from the academic paper stage to a working database system with a query language we know today as SQL. Jim is also the world's foremost authority on transaction processing. Don was co-designer of SQL and two decades later, he
co-authored the W3C XML Query language (XQuery). Gray and Chamberlin are also authors and ACM Fellows (among other awards). Jim Gray is also an ACM Turing Award winner.

Jim Melton (Oracle) is a well-known author who has been the editor of the international SQL standard for 16 years. He's also the coordinator of the SQLX initiative to bring XML and SQL together.

Daniela Florescu (BEA) is the co-designer of the W3C XML Query language and the Quilt query language on which the W3C spec was based. She's the co-author of several W3C specs and has published dozens of academic papers about query languages, query optimization and so on. Received on Thu Mar 14 2002 - 16:34:34 CST