Rick Hull Speaks Out on Asking the New Question

Abstract

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record’s series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I’m Marianne Winslett, and today we are in Snowbird, Utah, USA, site of the 2014 SIGMOD and PODS conference. I have here with me Rick Hull, who is a researcher at IBM. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Southern California for many years. He also managed a research group at Bell Labs, where he was a Bell Labs Fellow. Rick is an ACM Fellow and a coauthor of the classic database theory book Foundations of Databases. His Ph.D. is from Berkeley. So, Rick, welcome!