Database futures panel discussion: Rick Cattell, Don Chamberlin, Daniela Florescu, Jim Gray, Jim Melton (April 23, San Jose)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:34:34 -0800
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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"
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
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
April 23, 12:30-1:30 pm
San Jose Convention Center
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.