Michael
Franklin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University
of Maryland at College Park. His research focuses on the architecture
and performance of distributed and parallel information systems. He
received the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. At
Maryland, Dr. Franklin leads the DIMSUM project to
develop a flexible query processing architecture for local and wide-area
networks. He has also jointly developed the Broadcast Disks
data dissemination paradigm with Stanley Zdonik of Brown University.
Dr. Franklin has been a contributor to several well known research
database systems including the EXODUS and SHORE systems at Wisconsin and
the BUBBA parallel database system at MCC. He has also developed
commercial database systems software and database benchmarking tools.
More recently he has been an Invited Professor at INRIA-Rocquencourt and
has worked with industrial researchers at AT&T Research and Bellcore. He
is the author of the book Client Data Caching: A Foundation for High
Performance Object Database Systems", published by Kluwer in 1996,
Editor-In-Chief of the ACM SIGMOD
Record, and is an Associate Editor of ACM Computing Surveys, and the IEEE Data
Engineering Bulletin. Dr. Franklin is a 1995 recipient of the NSF
CAREER award.
Alberto Mendelzon
is a professor at the University of
Toronto, which he joined in 1980. His research interests are in
databases and knowledge-bases. He has worked on many different aspects of
the field, including database design theory, query languages, database
visualization, belief revision and knowledge-base update, and global
information systems. He led the Hy+ Database Visualization
System project for graph databases, including the applications of
visualization to the exploration of large software systems, debugging of
parallel programs, and network management. His most recent research deals
with the design, analysis, and implementation of query languages for the
World Wide Web (WebSQL).
He has been a visiting scientist at numerous research laboratories;
he has chaired numerous program committees; and he is on the Editorial
Board of the Journal of Digital Libraries.
Dr. Anthony
Tomasic
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