Raghu Ramakrishnan Speaks Out on Deductive Databases, What Lies Beyond Scalability, How He Burned Through $20M Briskly, Why We Should Reach Out to Policymakers, and More

摘要

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have here with me Raghu Ramakrishnan, who is a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Raghu's research currently focuses on data retrieval and integration, analysis, and mining. Raghu was a founder of QUIQ, a company that developed a collaborative customer support facility. Raghu has received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator award, a Packard Fellowship, and a SIGMOD Contributions Award for founding and maintaining DBWorld. Raghu is an ACM Fellow; he is a coauthor of the popular Database Management Systems textbook; and he is also the current chair of ACM SIGMOD. Raghu's PhD is from the University of Texas at Austin. So, Raghu, welcome!