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02/18/10
(Thu) | 07:00PM - 09:00PM A Common Class of Business-Oriented DB Application
How I Hope to Achieve what Microsoft Access Didn't
If you've ever used a piece of highly domain-specific business
software, chances are it was nothing but a graphical front-end to
some database. However, while such systems can be extremely useful
to the organizations they are tailored for, they take a very long
time to develop relative to their number of potential target
users. Even with tools such as FileMaker, 4D, or Microsoft Access,
developers must spend time on low-level tasks such as form design,
data binding, and hard-coding of common design patterns. Whereas
off-the-shelf SQL databases have sufficed as application back-ends
for decades, no similar universal component exists to provide the
front-end and middle tier.
The speaker will present his ideas for eliminating most of the
work involved in developing customized database applications, and
demonstrates some of his current progress, including a query
language that formalizes database GUIs, a simple automatic layout
generator, and a spreadsheet that understands relationships.
Who should attend: database programmers and designers, application
programmers and designers
Speaker : Eirik Bakke
Before fleeing to the US, Eirik evaded military service by
spending a year as an end-user of an amazingly obscure (and
aquatically themed) database system made specifically for the
administration of public Norwegian schools of music, theatre, and
visual arts. Now safe in the hands of his advisors Professors
David Karger and Rob Miller, Eirik is at MIT's Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) working towards his
master's degree and, eventually/hopefully, his PhD.
Price: Free and open to the public. No preregistration required.
Location: MIT Room E51-315, corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Sts
and Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA
Directions and Parking: available at
www.dama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3563
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03/25/10
(Thu) | 08:00AM NOUG Training Day
Parking Permit
Bentley College
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452 |
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10/20/10
(Wed) | 08:00AM NOUG Training Day
Parking Permit
Bentley College
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452 |
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