Richard T. Snodgrass
Professor
Department of Computer Science
711 Gould Simpson
University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210077
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077
Phone: (520) 621-6370
FAX: (520) 621-4246
Email:
Biography
Rick is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. He joined the Computer Science Department in 1989. He has written or edited six books as well as many journal and conference papers (see his DBLP entry, his ACM author page, and his complete list of publications, including electronic versions of almost all papers). He is an ACM Fellow.
Rick co-chairs the ACM History Committee and is a member of the Advisory Board of ACM SIGMOD. He has chaired the ACM Publications Board and has served on ACM Council. He was Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems from 2001 to 2007 and has served previously as Associate Editor of the International Journal on Very Large Databases and the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He chaired the Americas program committee for the 2001 VLDB Conference and the program committees for the 1994 SIGMOD Conference and the 1993 International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases. In addition, he has served as a vice-chair or member of many program committees.
Rick chaired the ACM SIGMOD Special Interest Group on Management of Data from 1997 to 2001. He received the 2004 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award and the 2002 ACM SIGMOD Outstanding Contributions Award. He has been involved in a number of initiatives.
Rick chaired the TSQL2 Language Design Committee and initiated the SQL/Temporal part of the SQL3 draft standard, which has been partially implemented in Oracle. Other products and design patterns have also included temporal support based in part on these ideas.
He holds a B.A. degree in Physics from Carleton College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
He co-directs TimeCenter, an international center for the support of temporal database applications on traditional and emerging DBMS technologies, as well as the related Science of Databases and TAU projects, an active portion of which considers forensic analysis of database tampering. He greatly enjoys working with the dynamic database group at the University of Arizona.
His research interests include temporal databases, query language design, query optimization and evaluation, storage structures, database design, and the science of computing.
Rick's avocational interests include playing classical guitar, scuba diving, and flying, though not simultaneously!
More details may be found on his curriculum vitae.
Projects
The Science of
Databases
Understanding databases as a general class of computational artifacts
TAU Project
An umbrella project of projects, all with goal of providing to users,
through sophisticated user languages and APIs, facilities to manage
time-oriented data. Includes
τBerkeleyDB,
τDOM,
τXSchema,
τXQuery, and
τZaman.
TimeCenter
An international center for the support of temporal database applications
