DAMA New England Meeting: 2/18/2010

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Thursday, February 18, 2010, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Meeting

Title:

A Common Class of Business-Oriented Database Applications, subtitled How I Hope to Achieve what Microsoft Access Didn't

Speaker:

Eirik Bakke

Description:

If you've ever used a piece of highly domain-specific business software, chances are it was nothing but a graphical front-end to some database. However, while such systems can be extremely useful to the organizations they are tailored for, they take a very long time to develop relative to their number of potential target users. Even with tools such as FileMaker, 4D, or Microsoft Access, developers must spend time on low-level tasks such as form design, data binding, and hard-coding of common design patterns. Whereas off-the-shelf SQL databases have sufficed as application back-ends for decades, no similar universal component exists to provide the front-end and middle tier.

The speaker will present his ideas for eliminating most of the work involved in developing customized database applications, and demonstrates some of his current progress, including a query language that formalizes database GUIs, a simple automatic layout generator, and a spreadsheet that understands relationships.

Who should attend:

  • database programmers and designers
  • application programmers and designers

Speaker Biography:

Before fleeing to the US, Eirik evaded military service by spending a year as an end-user of an amazingly obscure (and aquatically themed) database system made specifically for the administration of public Norwegian schools of music, theatre, and visual arts. Now safe in the hands of his advisors Professors David Karger and Rob Miller, Eirik is at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) working towards his master's degree and, eventually/hopefully, his PhD.

Cost:

Free and open to the public. No preregistration required.

This is a joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society, GBC/ACM, and DAMA New England

Preregistration:

No preregistration required for this meeting.

Location:

MIT E51-315
corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets and Memorial Dr
Cambridge, MA 02142
 

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Meeting Format:

  • 7:00 - 7:15 p.m. Announcements
  • 7:15 - 9:00 p.m. Presentation
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