In Memoriam: Klaus Dittrich (20 November 2007)
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Klaus Dittrich,
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Zürich. His
colleagues in the Zürich Database Technology Research Group have
released the following statement: ``It is with great sorrow that we
need to inform you that our friend and colleague, Klaus R. Dittrich,
has died of a stroke this past Tuesday. We will keep Klaus in our
memories as a good friend and colleague, as a caring and engaged group
head and advisor, and as an outstanding database researcher. He leaves
a void that will be difficult to fill.''
RSC Citation
Klaus Dittrich is an outstanding international leader in
database research and has been a Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Zürich and head of the Database Technology Research
Group since 1989. He was the president of SI (Swiss Computer Science
Society), board member of ICTSwitzerland, and former president of IPEG
(interuniversitdre Partnerschaft für Erdbeobachtung und
Geoinformatik). He is the secretary of the VLDB Endowment. Until 1997
he was a member of the SIGMOD Advisory Committee. He is an editor the
following journals: the VLDB Journal, the Information Systems Journal,
the Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, and the World Wide Web
(Internet and Web Information Systems Journal). Klaus Dittrich has
been nominated as a distinguished speaker of the IEEE Europe
Distinguished Visitor Program.
There will be a fuller tribute to Klaus posted here in due course.
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