pureXML: Database Technology meets XML

Speaker:	Dr. Akmal B. Chaudhri
		IBM

Title:		"pureXML: Database Technology meets XML"

Date:		Thursday, 8 March 2007

Time:		11:00am - 12 noon

Venue:		Room 1403 (near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

Abstract:

DB2 9 (formerly codenamed "Viper") is the industry's first hybrid data
server providing the fabric for delivering information on demand. DB2 9 is
ideal for building SOA and Web 2.0 solutions using open standards and
development interfaces, including: SQL, XQuery, JDBC, .NET, Ruby on Rails,
and PHP. This presentation will show how to efficiently handle XML and
relational data with ease to build agile applications faster. A customer
case study will also demonstrate the practical benefits of this technology
in the real-world.


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Biography:

Akmal B. Chaudhri has a wonderful job with IBM, travelling the world,
presenting technical briefings and giving away free software. He has been
working with database systems since 1988. He has published and presented
widely on Java, XML and Database-related topics at many international
conferences, including Object World, Object Technology and OOPSLA. He has
also served on the program committees for a number of major conferences
and workshops and has edited or co-edited four books and four workshop
proceedings, including: XML Data Management Addison-Wesley, 2003), Java
and Databases (Hermes Penton Science, 2002), Succeeding with Object
Databases (John Wiley and Sons, 2000), and Object Databases in Practice
(Prentice-Hall, 1998). Previously, he has worked in a variety of roles,
covering development, consultancy and product strategy with Reuters,
Logica, Computer Associates and Informix. He holds a BSc (1st Class Hons)
in Computing and Information Systems, MSc in Business Systems Analysis and
Design and a PhD in Computer Science. He is also a Member of the British
Computer Society (MBCS).