Bruce Lindsay speaks out: on System R, benchmarking, life as an IBM fellow, the power of DBAs in the old days, why performance still matters, Heisenbugs, why he still writes code, singing pigs, and more

Authors:
Marianne Winslett
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ACM SIGMOD Record
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we're in San Diego at the 2003 SIGMOD and PODS conferences. I have here with me Bruce Lindsay, a member of the research staff at IBM Almaden Research Center. Bruce is well-known for his work on relational databases, which has been very influential both inside and outside of IBM, starting with his work on the System R project. Bruce is an IBM Fellow and his PhD is from Berkeley. So Bruce, welcome!