Tamer Oezsu Speaks Out On journals, conferences, encyclopedias and technology

摘要

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's Series of Interviews with Distinguished Members of the Database Community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we're in Providence, site of the 2009 SIGMOD and PODS conference. I have here with me Tamer Ozsu, who is a Professor of Computer Science and a University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is also the Director of the David Cheriton School of Computer Science there. Before joining the University of Waterloo, Tamer was at the University of Alberta, also in Canada. Tamer's research interests lie in multimedia databases, distributed data management and XML. Tamer received the SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2006, and he is an ACM Fellow and a former member of the VLDB Endowment board, as well as a former chair of ACM SIGMOD. Tamer's PhD is from The Ohio State University.