Inauguration talk by Professor Christian S. Jensen
2010.03.22 |
| Date | 2010.05.21 |
| Time | 14:15 — 15:00 |
| Location | 5510.103 (Store Aud Åbogade 15) |
After the talk, the Department of Computer Science will host a reception in the Coffee Lounge (Bush-building).
Abstract:
Department Chair Kurt Jensen told me that I am not allowed to give a
regular research talk. In this lecture, I will then
(1) talk a bit about the digital universe and data management,
(2) give an overview of some of the research in temporal and
spatio-temporal databases I have been involved in during the past
2+ decades,
(3) present thoughts on conducting use-inspired research, and
(4) talk about research-related values I find important and have come
to believe in.
About the speaker:
Christian S. Jensen will start as a Professor of Computer Science at
Aarhus University on August 1, 2010. His research concerns data
management and spans semantics, modeling, and indexing and query
processing. During the past decade, his focus has been on
spatio-temporal data management. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of
the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Danish Academy
of Technical Sciences, the EDBT Endowment, and ERCIM's Board of
Directors. He is vice chair of ACM SIGMOD and a trustee emeritus of
the VLDB Endowment. He received the Ib Henriksen Research Award 2001
for his research in mainly temporal data management and Telenor's
Nordic Research Award 2002 for his research in mobile services.