Charles Weiss
Charles Weiss is an American software designer who has worked in Operations Research at American Airlines, the Dataquest subsidiary of ACNielsen as VP of Computer Systems, and Oracle Corporation from April 1982 until November 2017. He was issued a trademark for the Oracle Easy*SQL product, one of the first SQL Query Editing tools, and one of Oracle's first utilities. He is also credited with the invention of the DUAL table in the Oracle RDBMS.
The Charles F. and Barbara D. Weiss Directorship of the Information Science Program in Computing and Information Science at Cornell was named in honor of Chuck and his wife.
Chuck attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and received a BS from Cornell University, in the class of 1966, and a MS from Stanford University.