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Dr. Ir. J.H. ter Bekke, 20 May 1946, † 19 March 2004

Johan ter Bekke studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), graduated in 1974 and worked during four years as a database researcher at TUE.

He was project leader at the Ministry of Transport from 1978 until 1980. After that he was a lecturer at the Department of Information Systems, Delft University of Technology (TUD) until 1985, later on as an associate professor. He received his Ph.D. at TUD in 1991.

Johan ter Bekke lectured enthusiastically in Database Systems and was leader of the Xplain DBMS project during many years. This project resulted in a small and efficient DBMS based on his semantic principles.

Johan produced many technical papers, articles and books on semantic database technology and had wide experience with data modeling in various application fields.

During the last years his health condition unfortunately decreased and he unexpectedly sudden passed away on 19 March 2004.

is semantic modeling still teached?

in Leiden or somewhere else?

I was trying to contact Bert Bakker at Leiden University, but no luck.

  • By fietske at 2006-06-06 16:05
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teaching semantic data modeling

Hi Fietske,

Semantic data modeling was teached at Delft University of Technology until june 2004.

Regards,
Bert Bakker

  • By bert bakker at 2006-07-12 15:48
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