Every year, one researcher is invited to give the keynote talk at PODS, as a recognition of his/her outstanding contribution to database theory. Here we provide a list of the PODS keynote speakers since 1992.

1992

Catriel Beeri: New Data Models and Languages - the Challenge

1993

David Maier: A Call to Order

1994

David Harel: Will I be Pretty, Will I be Rich? Some Thoughts on Theory vs. Practice in Systems Engineering

1995

Christos H. Papadimitriou: Database Metatheory: Asking the Big Queries

1996

Alfred V. Aho: Accessing Information from Globally Distributed Knowledge Repositories

1997

Abraham Silberschatz: Multimedia Support for Databases

1998

Ronald Fagin: Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems

1999

Serge Abiteboul: On Views and XML

2000

Prabhakar Raghavan: The Web as a Graph

2001

Victor Vianu: A Web Odyssey: From Codd to XML

2002

Rajeev Motwani: Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems

2003

Richard Hull: E-services: A Look Behind the Curtain

2004

Georg Gottlob: The Lixto Data Extraction Project - Back and Forth between Theory and Practice

2005

Phokion G. Kolaitis: Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management

2006

Alon Y. Halevy: Principles of Dataspace Systems

2007

Dan Suciu: Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges

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