Database Technology Certificate
Faculty
- Dan A. Simovici
- Dan is a Professor of Computer Science at UMass Boston and the Director of the Computer Science Graduate Program. His interests are in database design, object-relational databases, and data mining and multiple-valued logic. Dr. Simovici is managing editor of Multiple-Valued Logic - An International Journal and is a coauthor (with Richard Tenney) of the textbook Relational Database Systems, published by Academic Press.
- Elizabeth O’Neil
- Elizabeth has done extensive work, both in the academic world and in industry, on database engine internals. Currently she is working with Patrick O’Neil (with NSF funding) on transactional methodology. Previously, they had developed the LRU-K buffer management algorithm, and she implemented it for Amdahl. She is now doing internals design and implementation as a consultant for Sybase IQ, a group within Sybase with an advanced database indexing product.
- Patrick O’Neil
- Patrick is a Professor of Computer Science at UMass Boston, specializing in database systems. His current research activity is in advanced indexing for queries and in isolation levels for update transactions. He created the Set Query Benchmark, published in The Benchmark Handbook, and has a popular database textbook, Database: Principles, Programming and Performance, from Morgan Kaufmann.
- Richard L. Tenney
- Richard is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UMass Boston. During an academic and scientific career spanning more than twenty-five years, he has lectured internationally, published articles, and coauthored books in the areas of mathematics, logic, computer networks, and relational databases. He is the editor for the International Standard for Estelle (ISO/IEC 9074), a formal description technique for distributed systems.