Date Posted: November 16, 2001
Overview
What is ToXgene?
This technology has been retired.
About the technology author(s)
Denilson Barbosa has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary and a CAS Visiting Faculty since January 2005. His main research interests are the management of semistructured data (with emphasis on storage and indexing mechanisms), database and knowledge management systems, data compression, and parallel computing. Dr. Barbosa is a member of the ToX (Toronto XML Engine) project, under development at the Database Group of the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto.
Alberto Mendelzon is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, which he joined in 1980. His research interests are in databases and knowledge bases, including database design theory, query languages, data warehousing and OLAP, database visualization, query processing, belief revision and knowledge base update, and global information systems. Dr. Mendelzon's recent research projects include the the WebSQL and WebOQL query languages for the WWW, TOPIC (the Toronto Page Influence Computation), and ToX (the Toronto XML Engine).
John Keenleyside is a senior software developer at the IBM Toronto Laboratory. He began his career at IBM in 1988 developing the C run time for IBM's compiler on OS/2. Later, he worked on the optimizers and code generators for C/C++ compilers targeting Windows® and AIX®. Recently, Mr. Keenleyside joined the DB2 Advanced Technology and Performance team, where he is exploiting and improving the performance of new technologies such as XML, IA64, and next-generation fabrics.
