Professional Activities
- Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions
on Database Systems (2001-2007)
- Chair of the ACM Publication
Board (2000-2001)
- Chair of ACM ACM SIGMOD (1997-2001)
- Served on ACM
Council (2000-2001)
and SIG
Governing Board Executive Committee (1998-1999)
- Co-chair (with David S. Wise) of the ACM
History Committee (2004-2008)
- Americas Program Committee Chair
for the 2001 VLDB
Conference
- Program Committee Chair for the
1994 SIGMOD Conference
- Program Committee Chair for the
DARPA/NSF International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal
Databases, Arlington, TX, June 1993.
- Served as an Associate Editor of
- Chair (2011-12) and Member (2009-2011) of the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award Committee
- Chair of
the 2012
Ten-Year VLDB Best Paper Award Committee
- Member of the Advisory Board of ACM
SIGMOD (2001-2010)
- Served as a member of
the steering committees for
- Rebooting Computing Summit, San Francisco, CA, January 2009.
- VLDB International Workshop on Temporal Databases, Zurich, Switzerland, September 1995.
- DARPA/NSF International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases, Arlington, TX, June 1993.
- Served as Vice General Chair of 2012 SIGMOD Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 2012.
- Served on the program committees of
- IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE): 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2005.
- ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD): 2009, 2007, 2006, 2004, 1995, 1993.
- International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB): 2012, 2010, 2005, 1999, 1995, 1994.
- International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT): 2012.
- Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE): 1998.
- International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD'00), Pune, Maharashtra India, December 2000.
- Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT): 1995.
- International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER): 2011, 2010.
- International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD): 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2003.
- International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME): 2008, 2006.
- International Symposium on Environments and Tools for Ada, Washington, D.C., 1992.
- International Conference on Semantics of a Networked World, organized by IFIP WG 2.6, co-located with EDBT'06.
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Temporal Databases, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, June 1997.
- International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management (STDBM'06), co-located with VLDB'06.
- Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management (STDBM'04), co-located with VLDB'04.
More details may be found on his curriculum vitae.