Location Austin, Texas, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
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Professor Miranker arrived at the University of Texas in 1986 after completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Columbia University and his B.S. in Mathematics at MIT. Professor Miranker’s current work concerns applying the Semantic Web to solving relational and biological data integration problems. Particular projects span SPARQL execution on
relational databases and data mining methods that automate data integration. Application subject matter includes both biodiversity and molecular databases.
Professor Miranker is perhaps best known for his early work on the TREAT algorithm; a forward-chaining rule evaluation method originally intended to support the parallel evaluation of rule systems against the contents of a database in a map-reduce like environment. He is coauthor of the 1998 PODS Best Paper, “A Lower Bound Theorem for Indexing Schemes and its Application to Multidimensional Range Queries”. In 1999 he founded a dotcom that survived the bust. The company developed and sold semantic software used in the implementation of B2B marketplaces.
