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Klaus.R. Dittrich Memorial Symposium

July 3-4, 2008
University of Zurich, Switzerland

http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/krdsym

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We will hold a Database Symposium as a memorial and tribute to Klaus R.
Dittrich, who passed away last November. With this symposium, we honor a
truly outstanding researcher and wonderful colleague. Klaus R.
Dittrich is
known for many contributions to the database field, in particular his
groundbreaking work on object-oriented databases.
Klaus Dittrich has also contributed a lot in the intersection of
database
technology and software engineering. He was one of the pioneers in the
area of database support for software engineering and throughout his
professional life has been working on the software engineering aspects
of database construction.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA
• Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
• Andreas Geppert, Credit Suisse, Switzerland
• Alfons Kemper, Technical University Munich, Germany
• Peter Lockemann, Prof. emeritus, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
• David Maier, Portland State University, USA
• Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

Other speakers to be annnounced.

Please register at http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/krdsymp

Organizing Committee
Donald Kossmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland