期刊名称：Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering
出版年度：2019
卷号：42
期号：3
页码：88-89
出版社：IEEE Computer Society
摘要：I was very happy and humbled to receive this year’s TCDE Impact Award, with the citation “for contributionsto spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal data management.” I would like to thank those who nominated me aswell as the awards’d committee. Conducting research is very much a social, or collaborative, activity, and I haveworked with many excellent colleagues on the three topics mentioned in the citation, and they deserve most of thecredit for the results that I have contributed to achieving. I will mention some of them as I cover aspects of myresearch journey. I started out working on temporal databases and then later transitioned to working on spatialand spatio-temporal databases. To achieve some degree of brevity, I will offer an account of only some of theactivities related to temporal data management. I thus start at the very beginning of my academic life..
