Rick Snodgrass Speaks Out on Standards, Personal Brands and Science

Abstract

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record’s series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I’m Marianne Winslett, and today we’re in Phoenix, site of the 2012 SIGMOD and PODS conferences. I have here with me Rick Snodgrass, who is a professor of computer science at the University of Arizona. Rick has served as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems, the chair of ACM SIGMOD, the ACM Pubs Board and the ACM History Committee. He has received the SIGMOD Outstanding Contributions Award and ACM Outstanding Contribution Award and he’s an ACM Fellow. Rick’s PhD is from Carnegie-Mellon University.