Dott. Roberto Zicari is editor of ODBMS.ORG, collection of free materials on object database technology. ODBMS.ORG was created to serve faculty and students at educational and research institutions as well as OO software developers in the open source community or at commercial companies. It is designed to meet the fast-growing need for resources focusing on object database technology and the integration of object-oriented programming and databases. Roberto is Full Professor of Database and Information Systems at Frankfurt University and a representative of the OMG in Europe. Previously, Roberto served as associate professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy; visiting scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center, U.S., and the University of California at Berkeley, U.S.; visiting professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the National University of Mexico City, Mexico and the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
I received several very positive comments about the interview with Bjarne
Stroustrup. People really like it. I re-read the interview, and I wanted to
ask Bjarne two more questions which are interesting to me addressing how
Locations and People relate to Innovaton Here is his reply...
Q. In your professional career you left Denmark and studied in UK and then
immigrated to the USA to do research. What is in your opinion the influence
that a "location" (country/region) plays with respect to the possibility to
be a successful innovator?
I left Denmark to meet people doing more interesting work and having more
interesting "toys" (i.e. advanced computers and software) than I could find
at home. After a while, I found that it was not easy to return. The kind of
work I was doing wasn’t done in Denmark and both industry and academia
seemed closed to the kind of outsider ... (more)
Roberto V. Zicari's ODBMS Industry Watch blog
One of the main driving forces that influenced the introduction of new
generation database systems, such as ODBMS, was object-oriented programming
(OOP). C++ is notably one of the most important. I had the pleasure of
interviewing Bjarne Stroustrup who invented C++.
Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ and the
author of "The C++ Programming Language" and “The Design and Evolution
of C++”. His research interests include distributed systems, design,
programming techniques, software development tool... (more)
Dott. Roberto Zicari is editor of ODBMS.ORG, collection of free materials on object database technology. ODBMS.ORG was created to serve faculty and students at educational and research institutions as well as OO software developers in the open source community or at commercial companies. It is designed to meet the fast-growing need for resources focusing on object database technology and the integration of object-oriented programming and databases. Roberto is Full Professor of Database and Information Systems at Frankfurt University and a representative of the OMG in Europe. Previously, Roberto served as associate professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy; visiting scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center, U.S., and the University of California at Berkeley, U.S.; visiting professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the National University of Mexico City, Mexico and the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
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