Rdbms: From Fantasy To Infrastructure -A Journey Of Innovation

Bruce Lindsay, IBM Almaden

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Dr. Bruce Lindsay, an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, will review the exciting series of innovations that led to the acceptance and deployment of Relational Database Management Systems. From Dr. Ted Codd's seminal papers, through the development of new transaction management technologies and query processing strategies, Dr. Lindsay will describe the technical innovations that were key to the adoption of RDBMS technology in business critical applications.