NEWS RELEASE 09/03/2010
ODBMS.ORG "Best Object Databases Lecture Notes" Award 2010:
Three Selected Finalists Announced.
San Francisco,CA/USA, Frankfurt/Germany. September 3, 2010
- ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of
high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari,
together with a jury of members of the ODBMS.ORG Experts Board,
have selected three finalists for the "Best Object Databases
Lecture Notes" Award 2010
The Awards recognize the most complete and up to date lecture
notes on Object Databases, that have been, or have strong
potential to be, instrumental to the teaching of theory and
practice in the field of objects and databases.
Any Lecture Notes published in ODBMS.ORG during the years
2004-2010 were eligible for the 2010 award.
The selected finalists for the awards include:
"Object Database Tutorial"
by Rick Cattell, Independent Consultant, USA.
"Object-Oriented Databases"
by Michael Grossniklaus and Moira Norrie, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
"Modern Database Techniques"
by Martin Hulin, Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany.
The jury panel was composed by:
Prof. Suad Alagic, University of Southern Maine, USA
Prof. Dr. Alfonso F. Cárdenas, UCLA, USA
Leon Guzenda, Objectivity, USA
John McHugh, Progress Software, USA
Prof. Renzo Orsini, University of Venice, Italy
Prof. Tore J.M. Risch, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Prof. Nicolas Spyratos, University of Paris South, France
Prof. Roberto V. Zicari, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
The Award Ceremony will
be on September 29, 2010 at the
( 3rd International Conference on Objects and Databases (ICOODB 2010)) in Frankfurt.
For the press:
You can download the announcement of the ICOODB Frankfurt conference (.pdf).
About ODBMS.ORG
ODBMS.ORG(www.odbms.org) is a vendor-independent,
not-for-profit educational program on object database technology and the integration between
object-oriented programming and databases started in September 2005.
Designed by Prof. Roberto V. Zicari of Frankfurt University, the program's
goal is to promote and further the use of objects and databases - by offering free resources
for students, faculty and researchers at universities and research centers, as well
as for JAVA and .NET developers in the commercial and the open source world. Content
is provided by a panel of internationally recognized experts, who share research
articles and teaching materials with the community via the organization's Web portal.
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In his ODBMS Industry Watch Blog (www.odbms.org/blog/), editor Prof. Roberto V. Zicari (ODBMS.ORG) muses about latest
trends in the industry.
The blog includes his exclusive series of interviews "On Innovation".
The ODBMS Industry Watch Blog is part of ODBMS.ORG.
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