Title
Zloof, Moshe oral history
Catalog Number
102630484
Type
Document
Description
While working at IBM Research in the 1970s, Moshe Zloof developed Query by Example (QBE), a database query method created for use with relational databases. Over the course of his career at IBM Research, Hewlett-Packard, and various startups, Zloof expanded and further developed QBE as well as applications related to the graphical query language. In this interview, recorded at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, on September 27, 2007, Zloof briefly describes his early years in Iraq and Israel, followed by an overview of his years working as a software researcher and his forays into entrepreneurship and tech startups. The discussion includes the reasons QBE was never aggressively pursued as a commercial product and the tech startup climate in Silicon Valley during the dot com crash in the late twentieth century. Zloof concludes with a description of his current work.
Date
2007-09-27
Contributor
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Baltes, Cheryl, editor
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Grad, Burt, Interviewer
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Zloof, Moshe, Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, California
Extent
66 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
Axemplary Software; dBase; Hewlett Packard (HP); IBM; Integration and communication by example; Birnbaum, Joel; Office by Example (OBE); Logic Pluss Plus; Mind Visualizer; MM Zloof Inc; Query By Example (QBE); Krishnamurthy, Ravi; Relational Database Management System (RDMS); Software research; System R; Tech startups
Collection Title
CHM Oral history collection
