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Donald Kossmann is a professor for Computer Science at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Kossmann received his MS in 1991 from the University of Karlsruhe and completed his PhD in 1995 at the Technical University of Aachen. He has held positions at the University of Maryland, the IBM Almaden Research Center, the University of Passau, the Technical University of Munich, and the University of Heidelberg. He was a co-founder of i-TV-T, a German company that develops SRM applications. Kossmann is also a co-founder of XQRL Inc. XQRL Inc. was the first company to fully implement the XML Query standard of the W3C. XQRL Inc. was acquired by BEA Systems in 2002 and the XQRL technology is now the foundation for BEA's AquaLogic platform. Donald Kossmann's research is focused on large-scale information systems and Web-based information systems. He has published extensively in these areas. | 