Christian S. Jensen, Professor
Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University

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.