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

wow, some heavy hitters there. Are you *the* Ken North, by the way?

Ken North wrote:

> 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 Fri Mar 15 2002 - 02:11:54 CET