Roberta Cochrane

Biographical Note

Roberta Cochrane is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 1992. Currently, she is involved in research for technologies to support Business Intelligence in relational database management systems. She has also done extensive research in active database systems. She implemented the Starburst Rule System and led the design and implementation of triggers and constraints for both serial and parallel versions of IBMs DB2 Universal Database System. She played a major role in defining the SQL3 standard for triggers and constraints.

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