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Georges Gardarin
Georges Gardarin was born in Riom, France on February 19, 1947. He entered Ecole Normale Superieure de l’Enseignement Technique in 1968. From 1971 to 1978, he was an assistant professor at Paris VI University. During that period, he was also a consultant at Ordoprocessor where he built a computer system, and at Renault, where he designed a new distributed information system. He did his PhD thesis in 1978 on concurrency control in distributed databases at the University of Paris VI. From 1978 to 1980, he was visiting professor at UCLA, California. He published several papers on concurrency control and database integrity, notably with Professor W. Chu and M. Melkanoff. From 1980 to 1990, he was a professor at Paris VI University, teaching databases and distributed systems. He was also chief scientist at INRIA where he headed the Sabre project, which was developing an object-relational parallel DBMS. From 1990 to 2000, he created and developed the PRiSM Research Laboratory at the new University of Versailles Saint-Quentin. He is heading the PRiSM research laboratory, the computer science research laboratory specialized in parallelism, networking, DBMSs and performance modeling. The laboratory now has 40 permanent researchers and more than 60 PHD students. Georges Gardarin has written more than 120 papers in international journal and conferences, and several books in French, some of them being translated in English and Spanish. Georges Gardarin is currently working on federated databases (MIRO-Web project) based on XML and the XMLQL query language, and also on data mining.
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