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 my interview on innovation with Bjarne Stroustrup. People really like it. I re-read the interview, and I wanted to ask Bjarne two more questions: What is in your opinion the influence that a 'location' (country/region) plays with respect ...
Dec. 25, 2007 03:45 PM EST Reads: 6,816
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++.
