Michael Carey
Michael Carey, internationally recognized as a leader in database research, is a Donald Bren Professor in Information and Computer Sciences.
Carey's talk will provide a technical overview of the XQuery language, show how (and why!) it has been successfully used in enterprise infrastructure software such as message-oriented middleware and data integration systems, outline some of the XQuery extensions that are currently in flight, and highlight several of the interesting open research opportunities related to XQuery and related XML-based technologies.
Carey's lecture has been made available here in both Flash and iPod video format (mp4).
This lecture was part of the Department of Computer Science Distinguished Speaker Series held during the 2008-2009 academic year.
A short bio of Carey can be read below.
XQuery is the Answer! (What was the Question?)
Lecture duration: 50 minutes
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Michael Carey is internationally recognized as leader in database research, best known for his work on advanced database systems and database system performance.
His most influential academic projects have been the EXODUS and SHORE database systems, which continue to influence designers and researchers in the field. In industry, he contributed to IBM’s DB2 Universal Database system and played a leadership role for BEA Systems’ data integration and management solutions.
These systems are widely used in the banking, insurance and healthcare industries, and they also have many government applications. Considering the widespread nature of data and their connections to systems that enhance the quality of life, Carey’s work at the Bren School will be critical for the future.
Carey, a National Academy of Engineering member, is acknowledged as one of the 50 most influential computer scientists in the world by a UCLA-maintained Web site that tracks research citations. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and was the 2005 recipient of the association’s SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award.
Carey also has earned two of the most esteemed research publication awards in the database field: the Very Large Data Base (VLDB) Conference’s 10-Year Best Paper Award in 1996, and the 2004 Test of Time Paper Award at the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data’s International Conference (SIGMOD).
He has authored more than 50 publications that have received more than 50 citations – a rare milestone for computer scientists Additionally, 10 of those works have each achieved more than 200 citations.
Carey is the 13th Donald Bren Professor at UCI. Other Bren Professors include Francisco J. Ayala, evolutionary biologist and 2002 National Medal of Science honoree; Thomas J. Carew, a leading researcher in the neurobiological field of learning and memory; F. Sherwood Rowland, atmospheric chemist and 1995 Nobel Laureate in chemistry; and Douglas Wallace, a National Academy of Science member and one of the world’s top geneticists.
Carey fills the fourth of 10 professorships created by Bren’s $20-million gift to the computer science school at UCI that bears his name. Ramesh Jain, a renowned computer scientist focusing on multimedia-information systems, image databases, machine vision and intelligent systems, was named the first Bren Professor in ICS in January 2005. Gary and Judy Olson, pioneers in human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work who also started at UCI on July 1, were named Bren Professors in ICS in April.
Carey comes to UCI from BEA Systems – now Oracle Corporation – in San Jose, where he worked as a senior engineering director and software architect. Before BEA, Carey spent five years at the IBM Almaden Research Center, as well as a year and a half at an Internet start-up company, Propel Software. His distinguished academic career includes more than a decade as a computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the nation’s powerhouses in database research and development.
Carey earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and mathematics and a master’s in electrical engineering (computer engineering) from Carnegie-Mellon University, and he received his doctorate in computer science from UC Berkeley.
