Klaus R. Dittrich is a professor in the Department of Information Technology at the University of Zurich, where he heads the Database Technology Research Group. He is the current secretary of the VLDB Endowment Board & has been a member of the ACM SIGMOD Advisory Committee. Professor Dittrich has been nominated as a Distinguished Visitors. He has over 100 scientific publications in the area of database technology &, in particular, has followed & influenced the development of object database technology from its inception.
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