David DeWitt

David J. DeWitt is a computer scientist specializing in database management system research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] Prior to moving to MIT, DeWitt was the John P. Morgridge Professor (Emeritus) of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was also a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, leading the Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab at Madison, Wisconsin. Professor DeWitt received a B.A. degree from Colgate University in 1970, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1976. He then joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison and started the Wisconsin Database Group, which he led for more than 30 years.

David J. DeWitt
Bornc. 1948 (age 71–72)
United States
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materColgate University
University of Michigan
AwardsIEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, Microsoft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Websitepages.cs.wisc.edu/~dewitt/

Professor DeWitt is known for his research in the areas of parallel databases, benchmarking, object-oriented databases, and XML databases. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (1998),[2] and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

He received the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award (now renamed SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award) in 1995 for his contributions to the database systems field. In 2009, ACM recognized the seminal contributions of his Gamma parallel database system project with the ACM Software System Award. Also in 2009, he received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award for his contributions to the database systems field.[3]

The "DeWitt Clause"

Several commercial database vendors include an end-user license agreement provision, known as the DeWitt Clause, that prohibits researchers and scientists from explicitly using the names of their systems in academic papers.[4][5]

In essence, a DeWitt Clause forbids the publication of database benchmarks that the database vendor has not sanctioned. The original DeWitt Clause was established by Oracle at the behest of Larry Ellison. Ellison was displeased with a benchmark study done by David DeWitt in 1982, then an assistant professor, using his new Wisconsin Benchmark, which showed that Oracle's system had poor performance.[6]

References
  1. @davidjdewitt (9 September 2016). "Last day as a MSFT employee. Have moved to Boston and am hanging out with Stonebraker at MIT" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. "NAE Members Directory - Dr. David J. DeWitt". NAE. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
  3. "IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 24, 2010. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
  4. Joseph M. Hellerstein; Michael Stonebraker (7 January 2005). Readings In Database Systems. MIT Press. pp. 96–. ISBN 978-0-262-69314-1. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  5. Moran, Brian (2003). "The Devil's in the DeWitt Clause" (published 2003-04-03). Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  6. Dyck, Timothy (2002). "DB Test Pioneer Makes History" (published 2002-02-04). Retrieved 2012-07-18.
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