David Maier (born 2 June 1953) is the Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technologies in the Department of Computer Science at
Portland State University. Born in
Eugene, OR, he has also been a computer science faculty member at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...
(1978–82),
Oregon Graduate Center
The Oregon Graduate Center was a unique, private, postgraduate-only research university in Washington County, Oregon, on the west side of Portland, from 1963 to 2001. The center was renamed the Oregon Graduate Institute in 1989. The Institute me ...
(OGC, 1982–2001),
University of Wisconsin (UW, 1997–98),
Oregon Health & Science University (2001–present) and
National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...
(2012–15). He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Oregon (Honors College, 1974) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from
Princeton University (1978).
Maier has been chairman of the program committee of ACM
SIGMOD. He also served as an associate editor of
ACM Transactions on Database Systems. Maier has consulted with
Tektronix, Inc.,
Servio Corporation, the
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC),
Digital Equipment Corporation,
Altair Engineering,
Honeywell,
Texas Instruments,
IBM,
Microsoft,
Informix,
Oracle Corporation
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,
NCR, and
Object Design
Object Design, Incorporated (often called ODI) was a software company founded by Daniel Weinreb in 1988 which developed and commercialized an object database called ObjectStore.
Object Design was founded by several former Symbolics employees, in ...
, as well as several governmental agencies. He is a founding member of the
Data-Intensive Systems Center (DISC), a joint project of
OGI and
Portland State University. He is the author of books on
relational databases,
logic programming and
object-oriented databases, as well as papers in
database theory, object-oriented technology and scientific databases. He received the
Presidential Young Investigator Award from the
National Science Foundation in 1984 at OGC, and was awarded the 1997
SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award The ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award is a lifetime research achievement award given by the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data, at its yearly flagship conference (also called SIGMOD). According to its homepage, it is given "f ...
for his contributions in objects and databases at UW. He is also an
ACM Fellow.
Maier established some of the earliest results on using the
relational model
The relational model (RM) is an approach to managing data using a Structure (mathematical logic), structure and language consistent with first-order logic, first-order predicate logic, first described in 1969 by English computer scientist Edgar F. ...
. Together with his thesis advisor,
Jeffrey Ullman, and fellow Princeton students, including
Alberto O. Mendelzon
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Life
Alberto Mendelzon was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1973. He then received a Ph.D. degree fr ...
and
Yehoshua Sagiv, he co-authored a number of influential papers that laid out the fundamental issues and approaches for relational databases. In a now-famous paper (Maier, Mendelzon and Sagiv, ACM Trans. Database Syst. 1979), he introduced the chase, a method for testing implication of data dependencies that is now of widespread use in the database theory literature. This work has been highly influential: it is used, directly or indirectly, on an everyday basis by people who design databases, and it is used in commercial systems to reason about the consistency and correctness of a data design. New applications of the chase in meta-data management and data exchange are still being discovered.
He is credited for coining the term
Datalog.
[ Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, ]Victor Vianu
Victor Vianu is a computer scientist, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego. : Foundations of databases. p30
References
* David Maier's homepage: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~maier/
* His database theory book, now available online: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~maier/TheoryBook/TRD.html
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American computer scientists
Database researchers
1998 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Portland State University faculty
Living people
Oregon Graduate Institute people
1953 births