Fundamentals of database systems / Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe, 2000
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Information trouvée : Ramez A. Elmasri (20 October 1950 – 14 May 2022[1 was a computer scientist and a noted
researcher in the field of database systems. He was also professor and associate chairman
in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at
Arlington, Arlington, Texas. Elmasri got his degree in B.S. in electrical engineering
(computers and automatic control) from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt in
1972 and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Stanford University,
Stanford, California, in 1980. Elmasri was appointed a faculty member at IFRICS (Institute
for Retraining in Computer Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, where
he taught the database course at the institute from 1984 to 1985. He was also a summer
research fellow at the Rome Air Development Center, Rome Laboratory, Rome, New York,
in 1987. He there conducted research on incorporating databases for distributed real-time
systems. He has also worked as a consultant for Bell Communication Research (now Telcordia
Technologies) at Piscataway, New Jersey, in 1989, where he conducted research on data
models, query languages and indexing techniques for temporal databases. In 1990 he
conducted research on enhancing capabilities of the data cycle architecture. He was
also a visiting professor at The University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, where
he conducted research on active and object-oriented databases in 1991. He was appointed
a faculty associate at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI), The
University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth, Texas.