Patterns for Data-Driven Web Apps

Yannis Papakonstantinou is a full Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and the founder of app2you.com. His research is in the intersection of database and web technologies. Yannis has published over seventy research articles in scientific conferences and journals, given tutorials at major conferences, and served on journal editorial boards and program committees for numerous international conferences and symposiums. He was the co-Chair of the ACM-sponsored WebDB 2002, the General Chair of ACM SIGMOD 2003, the Vice PC Chair for the ``XML, Metadata and Semistructured Data" track of IEEE ICDE 2004 and IEEE ICDE 2006, and the founding co-chair of the ACM-sponsored 1st Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives 2004. In 1998, Yannis received the NSF CAREER award. In 2000 Yannis founded Enosys Software, which built one of the first generally available distributed XQuery processors, along with software for XML-basedintegration of distributed sources, and was sold in 2003 to BEA Systems. In 2006 Yannis founded app2you.com, which commercializes UCSD research. App2you.com is a web service that allows anyone to build within minutes custom, interactive, database-driven applications. Yannis holds a Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (1997).